Median wealth rose by nearly 400 percent between 1999 and 2020. The richest 10 percent reduced their share of total wealth from 67 to 57 percent. The share of adults with no net wealth fell from 21 to 16 percent.
Every generation over the past six decades has had higher income than the previous one. American millennials aged 36β40 had a median household income 20 percent higher than Generation X. The increase happened without more work hours β earlier generations' growth was partly driven by increased work.