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Financial advisor · 15 min

Where do your first clients come from?

Registered and ready. Now you need people who trust you with their savings. Who can be your client, how many can you look after, and how long until the fees pay your bills?

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What's the middle family worth?

Line up every family in the US from the poorest to the richest. What is the family in the middle worth: its net worth, what it owns minus what it owes?

$600,000
$0$1M
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  • Federal Reserve Board releases results of the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances (press release, October 9, 2026) · Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2025

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  • $215,900federalreserve.gov ·2025 · Median net worth (what a family owns minus what it owes) of US families in the Federal Reserve's 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, which measures families' finances in 2025.
  • $1.2Mfederalreserve.gov ·2025 · Mean (average) net worth of US families in the Federal Reserve's 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances.
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Financial advisor · 15 min

Where do your first clients come from?

Registered and ready. Now you need people who trust you with their savings. Who can be your client, how many can you look after, and how long until the fees pay your bills?

Ticket 01 · The guess

What's the middle family worth?

Line up every family in the US from the poorest to the richest. What is the family in the middle worth: its net worth, what it owns minus what it owes?

$600,000
$0$1M
Words to know

Spot something wrong?

Tell us what looks off. No name or email needed.

What kind of problem?

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Sources and every number (1)

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  • Federal Reserve Board releases results of the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances (press release, October 9, 2026) · Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2025

Every number

  • $215,900federalreserve.gov ·2025 · Median net worth (what a family owns minus what it owes) of US families in the Federal Reserve's 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, which measures families' finances in 2025.
  • $1.2Mfederalreserve.gov ·2025 · Mean (average) net worth of US families in the Federal Reserve's 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances.
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  3. Financial advisor
  • ·Before this: Who lets you give advice?
  • ·Next: When the market falls
  • ·Free guide: How financial advisors make money