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What is considered rich by age?

Here's the net worth each generation says you need to be considered wealthy in 2021: Millennials (ages 24 to 39): $1.4 million. Gen X (ages 40 to 55): $1.9 million. Baby boomers (ages 56 to 74): $2.5 million.

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Here's the net worth each generation says you need to be considered wealthy in 2021: Wealth expectations also varied by generation, with younger Americans saying they felt that lower net worths could be considered wealthy. That's less than the net worth of $2.6 million Americans cited as the threshold to be considered wealthy in 2020, according to Schwab's 2021 Modern Wealth Survey. Most Americans say that to be considered "wealthy" in the U.S. in 2021, you need to have a net worth of nearly $2 million — $1.9 million to be exact. The drop in the net worth expectations could be due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Schwab. Over half of Schwab's 1,000 survey respondents, 53%, reported that they were financially impacted in some way by the pandemic. About 1 in 5 say they were laid off or furloughed, while about 26% report their salary was cut or their hours were reduced. A drop in income can impact net worth, which is essentially a calculation of all of a person's assets — including cash in checking and savings accounts, financial investments and the value of any real estate or vehicles owned — minus all their debt, including credit card balances, student loans and mortgages. Still, even before the pandemic affected employment, most Americans had nowhere near a net worth of $1.9 million. Prior to the pandemic, U.S. households had an average net worth of $748,800, according to The Federal Reserve's 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances. The median, or midpoint, net worth of all U.S. households was much lower, just $121,700 in 2019. It's also worth noting that to be considered part of the top 1%, households need a net worth of over $11 million. Not everyone's finances were negatively impacted by the global health and economic crisis. Thanks to stimulus payments and reduced spending, some Americans actually increased their savings levels during the pandemic.

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