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The average includes many people with no money at all. If you worked all your life at a professional job, and saved and invested, you can be much higher.


2 posted on 02/06/2026 4:05:08 AM PST by proxy_user
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The average is $1.6 million, but the median is $335,000


40 posted on 02/06/2026 6:02:11 AM PST by Cronos
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The two best things we did were pick up acreage north of Atlanta in the path of growth and invest in PM 20 years ago and hold it.


51 posted on 02/06/2026 6:24:50 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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The average includes many people with no money at all. If you worked all your life at a professional job, and saved and invested, you can be much higher.

The average also includes people with literally billions of dollars which pull the average way, way up.

The median number is probably a better indicator.
78 posted on 02/06/2026 8:29:59 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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