Millionaire's paradise Australia had 2.18 million US-dollar millionaires in 2021, or 3.5 per cent of the global total.
Australia had over 176 thousand millionaires in 2020, an increase in the number of millionaires from the previous year. This was estimated to grow to over 215 thousand millionaires in the country by 2025.
Australians are the richest people in the world and were typically worth $410,000 at the end of last year, a new report has revealed. But 390,000 Aussies reached the lofty heights of millionaire status after assets soared in price in 2021.
For the youngest generation, $428,474 is needed to classify yourself as rich. That's more than six times greater than the median personal income of $52,338, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
On a mean wealth basis, Australia was the fourth-richest country in 2021 behind Switzerland, the US and Hong Kong. The average Australian adult was worth $US550,110 at the end of last year, after enjoying a $US66,350 annual increase in wealth.
A net-worth millionaire is someone who has a net worth of at least $1,000,000. Net worth is a fancy way to say 'what you own minus what you owe. ' If that amount ends up being $1,000,000+, you're a net-worth millionaire."
What does it take to make the 1%? So according to the report, one would need an annual income of at least $350,000 to be in the top 1% of income earners in the country.
Wealthy Individuals within Australia are generally deemed to be those with net investible assets (NIA) over $1M (or net of over $2.5M including the family home) and earning more than $250,000 per annum. Having said this, the ATO categorise 'Wealthy Individuals' as those who control a net wealth of $5M or more.
It then goes on to describe those middle income Australians as individuals earning between $120,000 and $160,000 a year.
Household wealth inequality
The study found that household wealth in Australia is very unequally divided. The highest 10 per cent of households by wealth has an average of $6.1 million or 46 per cent of all wealth. The next 30 per cent has an average of $1.7 million or 38 per cent.
The ASFA Retirement Standard Explainer says a comfortable retirement lifestyle would need $640,000 in super for a couple, or $545,000 for a single person.
8.8 % of U.S. adults are millionaires. 33% of U.S. millionaires are women. Having $1 million puts you in the top 10% of wealth in the U.S. There are about 62.5 million millionaires globally, a 11.4% increase from 2020.
The average Australian savings account balance varies depending on your age. According to a Westpac survey released in December 2021, the average customer has $22,020 in their savings account.
At $200,000 a year, you are considered upper middle class in expensive coastal cities and rich in lower cost areas of the country. After $19,000 in retirement contributions to your 401(k), you are left with $181,000 in gross income, leaving you with roughly $126,700 in after tax income using a 30% effective tax rate.
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Wealthy Individuals within Australia are generally deemed to be those with net investible assets (NIA) over $1M (or net of over $2.5M including the family home) and earning more than $250,000 per annum. Having said this, the ATO categorise 'Wealthy Individuals' as those who control a net wealth of $5M or more.
Commonwealth, Westpac, ANZ and National Australia Bank were all in the top 10, paying a combined $8.3 billion in tax. Woolworths won the supermarket wars in 2021, paying $636 million in tax off the back of higher revenue than rival Coles, which paid $445 million.
According to a recent study by personal finance website SmartAsset, an American family needed to earn $597,815 in 2021 to be in the top 1% nationally.
We can get an idea of how lonely it is at the top by examining the top 1 per cent, those Australians with a taxable income of greater than $350,134. There aren't many of them, just 110,613 — 82,258 men and 28,355 women.
How much money do you need to be considered rich? Well, according to Schwab's 2021 Modern Wealth Survey (opens in new tab), Americans believe it takes a net worth of $1.9 million to qualify a person as being wealthy. (Net worth is the sum of your assets less your liabilities.)
A millionaire is somebody with a net worth of one million dollars. It's a simple math formula based on your net worth. When what you own (your assets) minus what you owe (your liabilities) equals more than a million dollars, you're a millionaire. That's it!
The 56 million millionaires around the globe account for just 1.1% of the world's adult population and 46% of the world's wealth. The nearly 22 million millionaires in the U.S. account for 8.8% of the country's adult population and over 39% of millionaires worldwide.