Picture U.S. wealth as stacks of $100 bills: the median household’s is about 9 inches tall. The average top-1% household’s is 145 feet, and it keeps getting taller and taller…. Something went wrong starting the scrolling graph: a slow connection, a browser extension, or an older browser. household wealth drawn to scale, where one pixel is $5,000 and the top 1% is so far up you have to scroll for minutes to.