60M
adults worldwide hold over $1M — 1.6% of sampled adults (UBS, end-2024)
How much money does it take to be rich?
In the US, it takes a household net worth of $13,666,778 to crack the top 1%.1
That figure is the 2022 minimum threshold from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. The median US family holds $192,900; the average is $1,063,700. Worldwide, about 60 million adults are millionaires. Where do you land?
Find my percentile →1 DQYDJ analysis of Fed SCF 2022 microdata (nominal dollars). See methodology.
Net-worth percentile calculator estimate
Enter your household net worth and see where it lands against verified thresholds. Results are rough estimates — brackets sit between published data points.
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Compared against US thresholds from the 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances.
Compared against World Inequality Report 2021 thresholds in PPP euros — enter your net worth as a raw number and treat the result as a rough estimate (no currency conversion applied).
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US figures only. Net worth uses the same thresholds as the calculator above — see how net worth is calculated.
Top-1% net worth by year
Two different measures, shown as two separate charts — they are not one continuous series.
Chart A: mean (average) net worth of the top 1%, in inflation-adjusted 2010 dollars — Edward Wolff series.
Chart B: minimum household net worth to enter the top 1%, in nominal dollars — DQYDJ analysis of Fed SCF microdata. Means and entry thresholds measure different things.
Source: Edward Wolff (NBER w18559)
Billionaire index
Forbes 2026 annual list — live refresh pending
| Rank | Name | Net worth |
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Source: Forbes via BusinessWire. Figures change constantly; see methodology for the refresh process.
What counts as rich where you live
The minimum income to enter the top 1% in each US state, against the national median household income of $83,730 (Census, real 2024 dollars). State data: SmartAsset 2025 study of IRS 2022 individual-tax-filer data, adjusted to May 2025 dollars.
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| State | Top-1% income floor ▼ | × median income |
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National average: $731,492. Washington, D.C. is not included in the SmartAsset table. City-level thresholds are not published from a current citable source, so this table covers states only.
The big picture
$226.47T
held by those millionaires — 48.1% of sampled global wealth (UBS, end-2024)
+684,000
new millionaires in 2024 alone, +1.2% (UBS)
34.78%
of US household wealth sits with the top 1% (WID, 2024)
36.44%
of global household wealth sits with the top 1% (WID, 2024)
$192,900
median US family net worth vs $1,063,700 mean — the gap that shows how skewed wealth is (Fed SCF 2022)
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