Net worth percentile in United States

The median adult
$124k

Half of United States holds less; assets minus debts

Top 10% begins at
$1.4m
One adult in ten holds more
Top 1% begins at
$9.2m
74× the median adult
0255075100$10k$100k$1m$10m SHARE OF ADULTS AT OR BELOW Bottom 10%$13.7kTop 10%$1.4mTop 1%$9.2m Median, $124k 050100$10k$1m$10m Top 1%$9.2m Median, $124k

Share of adults at or below each net worth in United States (2026 figures, log scale), the median marked. Type your own number into the full tool to place yourself.

In United States the median adult holds $124k in net worth, the top 10% begins at $1.4m and the top 1% at $9.2m.

The ladder in United States

The median adult in United States holds $124k; reaching the top 10% takes $1.4m, and the top 1% begins at $9.2m; a gap of 74× between the middle and the top line.

74× the medianhow far the top 1% line sits above the middle
#14 of 30where this median ranks among measured countries, at held rates

The full ladder

Every published line for United States, in USD.

The lineIn USD
Bottom 10%$13.7k
Bottom 25%$40.7k
Median$136k
Top 25%$458k
Top 10%$1.4m
Top 5%$2.6m
Top 1%$9.2m
Top 0.1%$55.5m

Peers by median

Converted to USD at held rates, so the four nearest countries sit on one scale.

Italy$124k Singapore$114k Spain$126k Ireland$106k

Questions people ask

What is the median net worth in United States?
About $124k per adult (2026 figures, published by UBS): assets minus debts, couples split equally. Half of adults hold less.
What net worth puts you in the top 10% in United States?
About $1.4m per adult. The top 1% begins at $9.2m, roughly 74 times the median adult's holding in United States.
Is this household or individual wealth?
Individual, per adult, couples split equally: household figures run higher. The calculator places any number you type on this same curve.
Where do the figures come from?
The fitted national wealth distribution (lognormal body, Pareto tail) built on the World Inequality Database, published by UBS for the median. The full tool draws the same curve for 216 countries.

Method and sources

  • World Inequality DatabasePer-adult net wealth distributions
  • UBS Global Wealth ReportPublished medians, where available
The computation

The same fitted distribution the net worth percentile tool draws for United States, read at the published percentile points; the median is published by UBS.

What these figures do not cover
  • Per-adult wealth, couples split equally.
  • Figures in USD. 2026 figures, indexed from the 2024 measured base with published per-country growth.

Last updated July 2026.

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