(1) Families include one-person units.
(2) Includes checking, savings and money market deposit accounts; money market mutual funds; and call accounts at brokerages.
(3) Covers only those stocks and bonds that are directly held by families outside mutual funds, retirement accounts and other managed assets.
(4) Excludes money market mutual funds and funds held through retirement accounts or other managed assets.
(5) Covers IRAs, Keogh accounts and employer-provided pension plans. Employer-sponsored accounts are those from current jobs (restricted to those in which loans or withdrawals can be made, such as 401(k) accounts) held by the family head and that person's spouse or partner as well as those from past jobs held by either or both of them. Accounts from past jobs are restricted to those from which the family expects to receive the account balance in the future.
(6) Cash value.
(7) Includes personal annuities and trusts with an equity interest, managed investment accounts and miscellaneous assets.
(8) Includes other types of financial assets, not shown separately.
(9) Ten or fewer observations.
(10) Ranges represent percentiles rather than income levels. A percentile is a statistical ranking point. The 50th percentile represents the midpoint of all values. For example, at the 50th percentile half of the families in the ranking fall above this income level, and half fall below.

Note: Latest data available. Based on surveys conducted every three years.

Source: Survey of Consumer Finances, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.