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Average and median household income by age group. In 2007, the top 20% of the wealthiest Americans possessed 80% of all financial assets. [14] In 2007 the richest 1% of the American population owned 35% of the country's total wealth, and the next 19% owned 51%.
After the Great Recession which started in 2007, the share of total wealth owned by the top 1% of the population grew from 34.6% to 37.1%, and that owned by the top 20% of Americans grew from 85% to 87.7%. The Great Recession also caused a drop of 36.1% in median household wealth but a drop of only 11.1% for the top 1%. [55] [53]
The Pareto distribution gives 52.8% owned by the upper 1%. According to the OECD in 2012 the top 0.6% of world population (consisting of adults with more than US$1 million in assets) or the 42 million richest people in the world held 39.3% of world wealth. The next 4.4% (311 million people) held 32.3% of world wealth.
And what about the top 1%? Their wages jumped an astounding 20% between 2009 and 2019, and they pulled down an average of $819,324 in 2021, up 9.4% from the previous year.
It's a pretty nice view from the top. Here’s what being ‘super wealthy’ in retirement really means — plus how does your nest egg stack up against the top 1%, 5% and 10% of US retirees?
Nearly half the top 1% by income were also in the top 1% by wealth. [279] In 2010, the wealthiest 5% of households owned approximately 72% of financial wealth, while the bottom 80% of households had 5%. [280] The top 1% controlled 38.6% of the country's wealth in 2016. [281] Much of the wealth gain came to those in the top 1%.
The following median household income data are retrieved from American Community Survey 2021 1-year estimates. In this survey, the nationwide population was 331,893,745 in 2021. [2] The median household income in 2021 across the general population (all races and ethnicities included) was $69,717. [2]
In 2018, the total personal income earned in the United States was $17.6 trillion. [ 37 ] In 2008, all households in the United States earned roughly $12,442.2 billion. [ 37 ] One half, 49.98%, of all income in the US was earned by households with an income over $100,000, the top twenty percent.