Unfortunately, most people aren't on track to save a significant amount of money for retirement. Depending on how you do the math, 32-61 year old households averaged around $120,809.40 in retirement savings. Age, of course, matters. Using a very strict definition, households headed by 30-34 year olds averaged $24,254.48 in retirement savings with a median of […]

In 2016, American households headed by someone aged 32-61 averaged $120,809.40 in retirement savings, or $264,453.30 using an expansive calculation. Using the same calculations and definitions, American households have a median of $7,800 and $17,000 saved, respectively. American Retirement Savings in 2016 In 2016, the Economic Policy Institute released a study with an interesting dive […]

We present here estimates for the number of accredited investors by age in the United States for full-year 2016. In our accredited investors in America post, we estimated around 9.86% of households qualify as accredited... and using ages here reveals a very interesting distribution. Our accredited investor estimates range from .52% for householders aged 25-29 […]

We previously showed there isn't a strong correlation of income and net worth in America. While writing that post we posed you a question: if income isn't the best input to describe net worth, what can improve it? To wit, there's a very important factor we should include: let's look at the correlation of income […]

Earlier, we looked at the correlation of income and net worth for all American households in 2016. In this post, we'll look at the correlation for well-off or upper middle class households. What's the correlation of net worth and income for affluent households and millionaires? The correlation of net worth and income for households making […]

On DQYDJ, we often get a simple question: "what is the correlation of income and net worth?". Although the question flows from the conversation around the one percent in net worth and income, it turns out income does not predict wealth well. In 2016 in America, the correlation of income and net worth was only […]

We estimate in 2016 there were 12,417,040 Accredited Investor households in America, 9.86% of all American Households. Further, we calculate Accredited Investor households controlled roughly $65.88 Trillion in wealth in 2016 or 75.8% of all United States private net worth. While being an accredited investor doesn't guarantee access to private deals, it's a necessary condition. […]

Below is a net worth by age percentile calculator for the United States in 2016 (find the newest net worth by age calculator here). Enter net worth and the age of a household's primary earner for a net worth percentile estimate to nearest one percent. Below the tool, see average net worth by age, median […]

This page contains a net worth percentile calculator for the household wealth distribution in the United States in 2016 (2020 wealth calculator is here). Enter a current net worth for a net worth percentile estimate to the closest .5%. After: see percentiles by age in the net worth by age calculator. Prefer income? Try income or […]

In this post, we’ll look at the United States Net Worth Brackets for 2016 (data survey is a snapshot from March, 2016). We include wealth brackets for selected percentiles, average, median, and a special section zooming into the net worth of the top one percent After: check out our net worth percentile calculator and net […]