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Top 1% Wealth Share
Share of US net worth held by the wealthiest 1% of households.
31.9%
Percent of total net worth · latest, Oct 2025
vs prior quarter ▲ 0.2 pp
vs year ago ▲ 0.9 pp
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Source: FRED · WFRBST01134 · series · Jul 1989 to Oct 2025
· latest-revised
Reading it. Wealth, not income or wages: total assets minus debts, a stock not a flow. From the Fed's Distributional Financial Accounts (quarterly since 1989). A share of the whole, so the wealth groups sum to 100%.
About the bands. Shaded spans are NBER-dated US recessions, drawn as factual overlays. They mark when the economy contracted, not why. Lining an event or policy up with a move on this chart is not evidence that it caused the move.