In 2002 the FBI estimated that the Mafia earns $50–$90 billion a year - This is for the US mob.
That can't possibly be true. I imagine combined net profits for all made guys and associates is probably about $1 billion. That would work out an average annual income for every member and associate of about $100,000 - and that's for a very high end estimate of 10,000 members and associates combined (i.e., 10-15 associates for every made guy). And I wouldn't be surprised if it were a fair bit less than that.
Ralph Vito Perna – capo in the Jersey crew. Was arrested in December 2007 with Joseph DiNapoli and Matthew Madonna. The Jersey crew ran an illegal gambling operation that earned approximately $2.2 billion overa 15-month period. The crew also worked with New Jersey correction officers and members of Nine Trey Gangster, a set, or subgroup, of the Bloods street gang. The Jersey crew used Bloods members to smuggle illegal drugs and prepaid cell phones into the New Jersey state prisons
