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The Rachel Cruze Show

7 Signs You Are WAY Above Average (Shocking Money Stats!)

The Rachel Cruze Show

Ramsey Network

Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

What if I told you that you're already doing better with money than you think you are?

0:10.1

So when you're hyper-focused on your financial goals, it's really easy to feel like, oh my gosh,

0:14.4

I just have to go to this next thing and you don't realize how much you've accomplished.

0:18.1

So here are seven signs that you're doing better financially

0:20.9

than the average American. And let me know in the comments where you fall, because I'm

0:24.8

curious. And make sure to like, subscribe, and share this video with a friend. All right, the first

0:28.9

sign that you're doing better than the average American is that you're living without debt

0:32.5

or you're actively trying to pay it off. Recent data says that the average U.S.

0:37.4

adult owes $66,702 in debt, and 77% of American households

0:44.5

carry at least some type of debt.

0:47.2

So when you are debt-free, you are obviously weird because you're not part of the majority,

0:53.8

and that means you have your

0:55.1

income which is your largest wealth-building tool to use for you you're not using it for banks

1:00.5

and to pay back you know Ford motor company and like car payments and all the things right like

1:06.0

this is for you so if you are debt-free you are doing better than the average American. So if you're not,

1:12.1

start working on paying it off. And the most effective way to do that is to list out all of

1:16.8

your debt smallest to largest, regardless of the interest rate, pay minimum payments on everything,

1:21.3

and pay off the smallest one first. All right. The second sign is that you have savings. So as of 2022, the median savings balance for

1:32.6

Americans, 35 and younger was about $5,400. The median savings balance for Americans ages 35 to 64 fall somewhere

1:43.9

between 7,500 and 8,700. So listen, if you have the ability

1:49.3

to have margin with your money and your income, which means you're probably debt-free,

1:55.5

then you have the ability to save. And when you can save and you have money at your disposal,

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