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What is your net worth

50,000
21
6%
100,000
14
4%
250,000
29
9%
500,000
31
9%
1,000,000
63
19%
2,000,000
86
26%
5,000,000
63
19%
10,000,000
17
5%
20,000,000
3
1%
50,000,000
2
1%
100,000,000
1
0%
100 million plus
7
2%
 
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What is your net worth

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I am not looking for a reply, just a poll response. Pick the number that you are under. If your net worth, assets-liabilities (include home equity and mortgage) is 300,000 you would choose the 500K option.
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Been done in much more detail already. See this thread for details.
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Did the January thread come with instructions like a 1040? Some people must have a lotta time on their hands - or accountants?
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Less than yours. Feel better?
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Everyone knows that the Bogleheads who have the highest number of posts have the highest net worth.
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If we're in between numbers should we round up or round down?
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Grt2bOutdoors wrote:If we're in between numbers should we round up or round down?
Which numbers are you in between? The 0 and the 1 or the two 0s? :oops:
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Negative. Now I'm depressed.
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Bustoff wrote:Everyone knows that the Bogleheads who have the highest number of posts have the highest net worth.
If only it were that easy. :)
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Aw man, I'm just below one of the options. A couple more pay periods with positive returns and I would have been significantly wealthier according to this poll. :D
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pennstater2005 wrote:Negative. Now I'm depressed.

I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the results this poll. There are some mega wealthy people on here :D .

Don't be depressed about it. Many roads to Dublin as they say :beer
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I question the folks who selected 50m and 100m.
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The serious thread on 2014 Net Worth is the other one, with the big spreadsheet, by bobblehead and bigfoot.
This thread is just for joking around...
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InvestorNewb wrote:I question the folks who selected 50m and 100m.
It's Bogle and Larimore, in that order !
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From the 2014 Bogleheads net worth survey
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pennstater2005 wrote:Negative. Now I'm depressed.
I'm with you. I only recently have moved into positive territory. The distance between my current position and financial freedom is almost too wide to fathom.
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Another big swinging wallets thread......

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would the poll have more relevance if it included age as well as net worth to put things in perspective?

knowing at what point others reached or surpassed my number might be a bit depressing yet informative!
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sscritic wrote:
Bustoff wrote:Everyone knows that the Bogleheads who have the highest number of posts have the highest net worth.
If only it were that easy. :)
Try to sell your posts.

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The Wizard wrote:The serious thread on 2014 Net Worth is the other one, with the big spreadsheet, by bobblehead and bigfoot.
This thread is just for joking around...
This thread has produced a beautiful normal distribution, and we all know that normal distribution is not a joke.

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1530jesup wrote:would the poll have more relevance if it included age as well as net worth to put things in perspective?

knowing at what point others reached or surpassed my number might be a bit depressing yet informative!
Download the spreadsheet from the net worth survey thread. You can then chart age against net worth.
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Is this for singles or for couples? My wife has saved more than I have, so this would make a difference of two buttons for me.
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Yea, if it is for each person in a couple, I'd do much worse than H, because he has most of our retirement assets, plus he inherited a significant amount from his relatives. Doesn't seem quite right that the net worth of couples is treated the same as the net worth of a single--maybe cut the net worth of a couple in half? Also, for us, it made a huge difference of before or after paying for college tuition for the kids and other major expenses, how close one is to retirement, and whether and how to factor in defined benefit pension.

How does one value a defined benefit pension that includes COLA anyway? It's tough to find a good calculator that is able to give a present day value on one which includes a 55% survivorship benefit.
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I chose 100 million plus because, as the OP states, my net worth is under this amount.
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IMD801 wrote:I chose 100 million plus because, as the OP states, my net worth is under this amount.
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Bustoff wrote:Everyone knows that the Bogleheads who have the highest number of posts have the highest net worth.
I'm going to hit up Livesoft for a "loan".
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Lots of million dollar plus babies.
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2000000
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5 voted 100 Million plus. :shock: It may be a coincidence but I was recently looking for someone new to call uncle.
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ofcmetz wrote:5 voted 100 Million plus. :shock: It may be a coincidence but I was recently looking for someone new to call uncle.
I need an Auntie and Uncle in Bel Air.
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IMD801 wrote:I chose 100 million plus because, as the OP states, my net worth is under this amount.
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So what direction do we think the response selection bias is in a poll like this? Are lower wealth types more likely to respond because they have less to lose from revealing their net worth in a semi-secure forum, or are higher wealth types more likely to respond because they can't help showing off?
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tainted-meat wrote:
pennstater2005 wrote:Negative. Now I'm depressed.

I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the results this poll. There are some mega wealthy people on here :D .

Don't be depressed about it. Many roads to Dublin as they say :beer
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LH wrote:I am not looking for a reply, just a poll response. Pick the number that you are under. If your net worth, assets-liabilities (include home equity and mortgage) is 300,000 you would choose the 500K option.
shoot, screwed it up. I picked the one I was closest to. Oh well.
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I'm waiting for the $1 Billion option.

Is it being added soon?
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Holy cash Batman!!
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