CNBC Make It: Your Money Survey Finds Majority of Americans Don’t Need Millions to Feel Financially Stable
Research conducted by CNBC Make It in partnership with Momentive finds that most Americans say they’d be comfortable earning less than $100,000 annually
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., and SAN MATEO, CA, December 12, 2022 – CNBC Make It, the financial wellness website that helps young professionals to be smarter and more successful with their money, work and lives, today announced the results of the CNBC Make It: Your Money Survey. The national survey, conducted in partnership with Momentive (NASDAQ: MNTV, the maker of SurveyMonkey, examined how inflation is impacting people’s financial behavior by surveying more than 5,120 Americans ages 18 and up.
According to the findings, 80% of those surveyed say they need to earn at least $100K a year to feel rich – including 22% who say they’d need to earn at least $1 million.
However, the vast majority of adults don’t need millions to feel financially stable. Just 3% of those surveyed say they’d need to earn an annual income of $1 million to feel financially secure and more than half (54%) of respondents say they’d be comfortable earning less than $100K annually, including 18% who say they’d be financially comfortable earning less than $50K a year.
Additional findings from the CNBC Make It: Your Money Survey include:
“With inflation, layoffs, and a potential recession all top of mind for Americans, financial stability is more important than ever,” said Laura Wronski, director of research at Momentive. “And what Americans are overwhelmingly saying is they don’t need to be millionaires to feel financially stable. The research also shows that Americans aren’t interested in taking risks at this particular moment in time, as seen in the flat interest in cryptocurrency and the uptick in seeing the crypto space as a high risk.”
Results from the survey will be featured during the CNBC Make It: Your Money livestream, taking place on December 13 at 12pm ET. The event, which will be available on the CNBC Make It YouTube channel, will offer attendees the tools and actionable information to level up their earning power.
Methodology:
This Momentive online poll was conducted November 29-December 5, 2022 among a national sample of 5,122 adults. Respondents for this survey were selected from the more than 2 million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day. The modeled error estimate for this survey is plus or minus 2.0 percentage points. Data have been weighted for age, race, sex, education, and geography using the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to reflect the demographic composition of the United States age 18 and over.
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