What's Your Net Worth Grade?

I was curious about what the average net worth is at my particular age to see how I'm performing. The wonder of the web, is that if we want it we can probably find it. I found it. CNN Money has a nifty little calculator to give you an idea. You plug in your age and income and it will give you some stats. For example, I plugged in 40 years old with annual income of 70K, here's what I found out:

Median Net Worth For Your Age Is: $44,875

Median Net Worth For Your Income Is: $109,975

OK, that was cool. I now have an idea of how I'm doing against some national averages. Surely I could find more stats. But, of course. Here's another good site, NetworthIQ.com, you can browse for stats on age ranges and it looks like more details if you register. Here it looks like you browse data of actual members. A quick browse through all data for ages 40-44 shows a median of about 324K. Hard to tell how accurate this is and how inflated the data may be.

I kept searching and found that Free Money Finance did some digging in one of their posts Median Net Worths - Are You Ahead or Behind? I liked this one, as I found I'm doing ok:

Age: 20-29
Median Net Worth: $7,900
Top 25%: $36,000
Top 10%: $119,300
Age: 30-39
Median Net Worth: $44,200
Top 25%: $128,100
Top 10%: $317,800
Age: 40-49
Median Net Worth: $117,800
Top 25%: $338,100
Top 10%: $719,800
Age: 50-59
Median Net Worth: $182,300
Top 25%: $563,800
Top 10%: $1,187,600
Age: 60-69
Median Net Worth: $209,200
Top 25%: $647,200
Top 10%: $1,429,500

Free Money Finance, warns you about how you might read and interpret these numbers:

If you're above these levels for your age, it doesn't mean you're doing well. Just because you're 65 and have a net worth of $300,000 (almost 50% higher than the median) doesn't mean you're in good financial shape. In fact, it's more of a reflection on how little everyone else has saved

Well, I feel ok about where I am. There's always something comforting about knowing that you're doing better than 50% or more of the rest of the folks out there. but, as Free Money Finance warns, don't mistake this for being ahead of the game. Get to work and build some wealth!

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