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This list of members of the United States Congress by wealth includes the fifty richest members of Congress as of 2018. It displays the net worth (the difference between assets and liabilities ) for the member and their immediate family, such as a spouse or dependent children.
The two charts in this section show the average net worth of individuals in the top 1%, top 10%, 50th to 90th percentile, and bottom half of the population from 1962 to 2021. As of 2021, the average person in the top 10% is a HNWI, while the average person in the top 1% is a VHNWI.
The top 10% of Americans by net worth had a median retirement account balance of $900,000 as of 2022. Note this is the median, not the average, which can be skewed by particularly high or low numbers.
One 2009 empirical analysis analyzed an estimated 15–27% of the individuals in the top 0.1% of adjusted gross income (AGI), including top executives, asset managers, law firm partners, professional athletes and celebrities, and highly compensated employees of investment banks. [27]
The top 10% of American households by net worth had an average of $1.29 million in their retirement accounts in 2022, according to the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances.
“You live in a new environment where the bottom 2% in terms of income in the United States, the bottom 5% … The top 1% all live better than John D Rockefeller was living when I was six years ...
The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. [1] As of March 2023, there were 735 billionaires in the United States. [ 2 ]
Category. Total cohort wealth (share) Wealth per household. Average wealth. $154.39 trillion (100 percent) $1.17 million. Average wealth of bottom 50 percent