What's a typical retirement balance in the US?
Median is $50,000. Most people fall between $12,000 and $180,000. Above $500,000 is top-10%.
What's a typical retirement balance?
The median US adult lands at $50,000 for retirement balance. The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from $12,000 to $180,000. Below $2,500 you're in the bottom 10%; above $500,000 you're in the top 10%.
How we computed this
We anchor at p1, p5, p10, p25, p50, p75, p90, p95, and p99 from public-data sources and linearly interpolate between them. See methodology for the full chain.