Net worth for people aged 30–33 in the U.S.

shoobiedoo

But the stock market lines keep going up...

Fripplebubby

I find this to be an incredibly irritating way to present this data. Why the obsession with finding out where I fall in the distribution? Why prompt me to sign up for email? Do you have anything to say, or is this like a BuzzFeed quiz?

jdw64

If I think about why these differences show up across generations, in the end what matters seems to be whether or not you can be at the forefront of a new field in a new era's industry. In the case of today's younger generation, there simply isn't such a new industry. But this site looks like GPT made it, doesn't it? I can see GPT's characteristic green button UI and beige color scheme. GPT 6.1 tends to use a green-toned UI.

oefrha

This is a generic comment of course, but anyone else feeling immediate distrust when data is presented in an obvious vibe design (I have "built" sites with that exact font combo and general vibe ffs). Ideally one should distrust any data on random websites to begin with, but at least my human psychology deducted many extra points here.

slopinthebag

the economy is essentially completely broken at this point and the youth are getting angrier and more checked-out. i think recent events in france are indicative of the future for most western nations in the next few years, especially as things continue to collapse and governments realise they cannot just keep kicking the debt-can down the road.

etothepii

Are student loans excluded from this data? Can't imagine that the 10% line is only at -$10k in that scenario.

robertclaus

Ugh. "This page is the cohort. An account puts you on it."

anubistheta

Households is an interesting metric to choose. If fewer people get married, then average household would have fewer people. But I don't see data for 2022 on the page? I searched for "2022" and found nothing? What makes it odd to me is that real median incomes for both individuals and households rose 6.2% over that period. That includes all people, but what I can find specifically on younger people is even more optimistic. https://fortune.com/2026/09/22/gen-z-wealth-income-vs-boomer... https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/mehoinusa672n# https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N Edit: someone linked the data below. Seems like 2022 was an outlier. All numbers in 2025 dollars. 2019 17.8k 2022 42.7k 2025 32.8k So from 2019 to 2025, median net wealth for people under 35 increased by 84%. https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart...

jongjong

The median is actually surprisingly high. How did someone who is in their early 30s and has been in the workforce for only about 10 years and presumably has university debt, manage to accumulate $68k? That's $7k per year, which they have to save from the surplus after paying their rents, groceries, healthcare, university debts and everything else.

consensus1

I don't see the headline claim in the linked page. Also seems implausible that net worth would drop that much over a 3 year period when stock markets are rising.

irjustin

One thing it doens't do is account for cost of living for a given city. Sure it looks nice that NYC, SF is higher than everyone else but I'm sure there's a very large group living in LCL areas that have far less stress compared to the bigger cities when it comes to budgeting.

subtextminer

I'm in Austin and money goes seriously far compared to the seven cities above it. There's a 2015-built home on Zillow for $199,000 1346 sq ft just 2 miles from the Tesla factory.

ph4rsikal

I suppose that's what happens if demand goes up for external reasons while supply doesn't follow.

thatonehack

“Kids these days” are lazy and entitled. Can’t blame them; they grew up with a screen in front of their face all the time. Their attention span is limited and their critical thinking skills are lacking. However, even with these major disadvantages, I still believe a young’n could make a great living if they just put their head dow, gain a skill, become knowledgeable (no short cuts) and then try hard. Great recipe but most don’t want to actually do work.