I’ve written numerous times about generational wealth on this blog. My biggest post was one comparing different generations using the Fed’s Distributional Financial Accounts back in September 2021. I’ve posted several updates to that post as new the quarterly data was released, but this post contains a major update. I’ll explain in great detail below about the updates, but first let me present the latest version of the chart (through 2023q3):

Regular readers will notice a few differences compared with past charts. The big one is that young people have a lot more wealth than it appeared in past versions of this chart! You’ll also notice that I have relabeled this line “Millennials & Gen Z (18+)” and shifted that line over to the left a few years to account for the fact that this isn’t just the wealth of Millennials, and therefore the median age of this group is lower than in my past charts. The two dollar figures I highlighted are at the median age of 30 for these age cohorts (unfortunately we don’t have data for Boomers at that age).

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