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In 2022, families in America's top 10% held 60% of all wealth, up from 56% in 1989. Families in the top 1% held 23% of the nation's wealth in 1989, which has now grown to 27%.
More than one-quarter of all household wealth, 26.5%, belongs to the super rich, and their wealth is growing. The top 1% of American earners now own more wealth than the entire middle class Skip ...
The average wealth of households in the top 1 percent was about $35.5 million. In the top 0.1 percent, the average household had wealth of more than $158.6 million.
High Society: The History of America's Upper Class, (Assouline, 2008) ISBN 2759402886; Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstle, eds. Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy, Harvard UP, 2005, ISBN 0-674-01747-1; Ghent, Jocelyn Maynard, and Frederic Cople Jaher. "The Chicago Business Elite: 1830–1930. A Collective Biography."
The top 1% held 27% of all wealth in 2022, up from 23% in 1989. ... which found that household wealth in America swelled at a record pace during the pandemic. From 2019 to 2022, the median net ...
It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets by Forbes and by data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. 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]
The percentage share of total income owned by the top 1% fell to 16% during the post-9/11 recession but then re-rose to its 1998 level by 2008. In 2008, the wealth gap in terms of percentage of total income in the United States between the top 1% and 5% was 7% and the gap between the top 1% and top 10% was 9%.
The top 1% of Americans have around $11 million in net worth at a minimum, according to Forbes. Some of these high-net-worth individuals acquired their wealth through inheritance, while others have...