This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Christina Deloney and I were talking about this the other day.

There's several pieces of research out there that talk about that married people, people who are married versus single or versus

shacken up, have a financial advantage.

And the researchers have always called it the marriage advantage.

That they tend to build more wealth than any other category.

And also tend to move as a category, not a, it's a generalization, but I mean, in other

words, there's exceptions within each category, but they also tend to move faster in their

incomes and their careers.

And researchers have long tried to figure out what is causing that exactly, but they call it the marriage advantage.

That it's to your advantage statistically as far as wealth goes, income and wealth in general to be married.

Wall Street Journal comes out today with yet another study.

Moving in together doesn't match the financial benefits of marriage,

but why?

A walk down the aisle can be a route to greater wealth and prosperity for couples in the U.S.

Married people have higher net worths and are more likely to be homeowners

than their unmarried

counterparts their age as of 2019 the median net worth for cohabitating

checking up couples age 25 to 34 was 17,000 a quarter of that of 68,000

that married couples of exactly the same age range.

So 25% the net worth of a married couple on average, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis for singles is $7,300.

Over the past two decades, Americans are moving in together at higher rates and the share of U.S. adults who are currently married, steadily declined from close to 60% in the 90s to half, to under half in 2019, according to Pew, who did the research.

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