What Is Russian Citizen Edward Snowden Salary & Net Worth: Wife And Children

At his peak, Russian citizen Edward Snowden made a salary of $200,000. But that is what the former US citizen said.

Booz Allen later revealed his actual salary of $122,000. Nonetheless, the man had everything with him before giving them up.

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Edward Snowden has assets worth $500,000. The whistleblower, earlier this month, was ready to give up $5 million worth of his earnings from his book and speeches.

Many believe Snowden highly inflated the number to make it look like he had given up a lot of money to become a hero to the common people.

In 2019, the man who faces espionage charges published his book Permanent Record without the approval of the US government. The autobiography caused a huge stir which led the man to further political dance with the US authorities.

It is reported that Snowden charges $18,000 for an average speaking fee and, in total, to date, has made $1.03 million from his speeches.

Lindsay Mills, Edward Snowden’s wife, is an American acrobat and blogger. Little did she know how her whole life was going to be flipped around in a matter of few days in 2013.

Lindsay had been in a relationship with Snowden for the past four years before his 2013 incident. The couple met on the website HotOrNot.com and decided to meet each other in real life. The couple tied the knot eight years later.

Before moving in with Snowden in Hawaii, where he was transferred for work by the CIA, the couple had previously lived together in Baltimore and Japan. The Maryland Institute graduate is a dancing acrobat and used to extensively blog about her life on the website L’s Journey.

The last post on her website was titled Adrift, which was later deleted. In the post, Lindsay talked about her husband’s situation in misty terms. And she included a YouTube video of herself performing titled Fish Out of Water.

She also has a Twitter account where she constantly updates her followers with pictures of her husband and their two sons.

Ballerina and a member of a local acrobatics troupe, Lindsay didn’t muse about political matters. But when the time came without a single word, Lindsay chaperoned with her husband to Russia in 2013, leaving her family behind.

Edward Snowden has two children with his wife Lindsay Mills. The couple had their first child, a baby boy, in December 2020.

The whistleblower, with his wife, welcomed home a baby boy in Christmas of 2020. Lindsay shade the exciting news on her Instagram account and her blog Lsjourney.

She captioned the post: “Happy Holidays from our newly expanded family.”

Only a month before the birth of his first son, Snowden was granted permanent residency in Russia and had seemed for dual US-Russian citizenship.

Then only a year after the birth of their first child, the couple, on December 27, 2021, announced the birth of their second son.

In the photo shared by Lindsay, the ballerina and Snowden were wearing the same clothes and striking the same pose, but this time around, they had their first son, who gave a light kiss to her baby bump.

And on Mother’s day, on May 8, 2022, Lindsay shared an Instagram post of their lovely family with their second child. Though the family was living a life of exile in Russia, they still found ways to enjoy their time in tough situations.

Edward Snowden’s family consisted of his parents and his little sister. His parents, Lonnie Snowden and Wendy Snowden, raised him in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, along with his sister Jessica Snowden.

Despite the lack of formal education, Edward managed to reach an esteemed position with the US Government, and that also at a relatively young age.

After his son was exiled in 2013, Lonnie Snowden said that the FBI persuaded him to fly to Moscow to bring Edward back to the US lands. And though he traveled to Moscow and met his son, Edward didn’t return with his father.

Lonnie Snowden, a Coast Guard officer has always defended his son’s actions. On Today Show, the father of two proudly said that his son was not a traitor, though he betrayed his government.

His wife, Wendy, shares the same views about her son and was last seen in 2016 taking their dog for a walk.

Edward Snowden left the US after he leaked thousands of classified information about the United States government.

In 2013, taking advantage of his position as a CIA contractor, Snowden gave out vast information about how the National Security Agency collected private information about millions of people in the USA and around the globe.

After the grand reveal, the public knew how the agency had been exploring its data, prompting outrage from the common man’s home to the desks of Congress.

Since that day, Edward Snowden has been living in Moscow, Russia, and on the run from American charges. The former US presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump had ordered the whistleblower to come to the US lands. The latter even threatened an execution.

But the man stood his ground and has continued to live in Russia with his wife and two kids. Many call him a hero, and New York Times even said that the man had done his country a great service.

And now, with Russia handing him citizenship, it will be more than difficult for the US government to seize him.

Edward Snowden, age 39, stands at a height of 5 ft 9 inches. At first glance, Edward Snowden looks like a fragile man, but the work he did does not describe his physical appearance.

To go against the government of your country, which is also the most powerful nation in the world, is something many would not want to do. But Snowden did what he thought was correct, and despite being called espionage, he won the hearts of millions worldwide.

After dropping out of high school, Edward Snowden studied in a community college between 1999 and 2005. At 21, Snowden later joined the special forces in 2004 but was discharged four months later.

In 2007, Edward received a top clearance, was hired by the CIA, and posted to Geneva. He left the CIA for NSA in 2009 and gathered information about the secret surveillance programs during his time with NSA.

And at 29, he was exiled from his country for leaking the classified information of the NSA to the public and has since been living in Russia.