Net worth increase 2022 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)

[mpav]

First Post!
First year fully employed, saving 28% to 401k.
$9,700 to $58,500 net worth
I will be maxing out the 401k in future

[MM_MG]

Have a few more days until 12/31/16 but here is the total of our Vanguard retirement accounts.   As I previously posted, this isn't net worth, but a fun little snapshot of our progress.

$51,225.09    12/31/05
$80,038.12    12/31/06
$106,744.13  12/31/07
$103,123.87  12/31/08
$162,172.69  12/31/09
$218,666.31  12/31/10
$249,987.31  12/31/11
$320,336.60  12/31/12
$435,649.50  12/31/13
$518,275.26  12/31/14
$593,962.10  12/31/15
$746,482.89  12/31/16

Pretty happy with a ~$153K increase this year! 

Edit: corrected for 12/31/16 numbers

[Heckler]

Net savings rate 64%, increased investments value by $115,589 since Jan 1, 2016 - $17,000 ahead of plan!

Also paid off the mortgage after 13 years in a HCOL area in February, which really helped out in those investments.  Thanks MMM for not letting me buy a Porsche!

[WerKater]

My target number for FIRE is currently 300 k€.

My net worth:
2016-01-01   131.7 k€
2016-12-30   170.2 k€

That is an increase of 38.5 k€ or 29%. This makes it my financially best year ever (by a significant margin).
I earned about 36 k€ this year (after all taxes) from my job. So I could say that I would not actually have had to work this year :-)

[SeattleStache]

January 2016: $177,235
December 2016: $269,089
+$91,854 NW for 2016. A good chunk of that (maybe $30k) is my condo's appreciation but sill not a bad increase for 12 months.

[SCUBAstache]

I went from ~$490k to $640k, so pretty happy with that +$150k increase! I don't expect that kind of increase again anytime soon, though.

[Chaplin]

This is so neat! How did you make it?

Sorry, I hadn't been back to this thread in a bit. Gathering the data is the hard part. A few years ago I went through piles of folders with investment statements and recorded ending balances for each year in a spreadsheet. I was able to go back to about 2004 for some accounts, but have good numbers for everything since about 2007. I gradually added information about our mortgage balance and home value at the end of each year, then I added information our contributions so I could distinguish between market gains and new money. After several years of tinkering with the file, I happened to ask myself what has contributed to our net worth growth and I had the data to answer that question. Unfortunately, the short answer is "luck," but the long answer is a neat chart.

[McStache]

2013 - $10,000? (records aren't great back then)
2014 - $49,193
2015 - $101,290
2016 - $179,734

I like this trend!  Though I think it will be more of a linear increase next year instead of this nice upward curve.

[startingsmall]

38 years old, married with a 4 year old, only discovered MMM two years ago so still kind of new and amazed at my progress. First started tracking net worth in July 2015.

July 2015 - $132,045
December 31, 2015 - $169,554
December 30, 2016 - $248,939

2016 Net Worth Increase = $79,385

A decent bit of that is market gains and real estate appreciation, but given that our household income is only around $140k (which I consider high, but seems kind of low compared to many on here) I'm pretty pleased with our progress!!

[Mormon Money Mustache]

2012 negative
2013 negative
2014 16k
2015 135k
2016 348k

55% savings rates for 2016
Wife and 4 kids and a couple major surgery/hospital bills

[minority_finance_mo]

Dec 2014: $554
Dec 2015: $32.2K
Dec 2016: $100.7K (!)

Just broke 6 figures! :D

[Zikoris]

Well, it looks like we cracked the 75K increase barrier - we finished the year with an increase of $75,121, from $169,220 to $244,341! Not bad on a combined income of only around 80K.

[dividendsplease]

end of 2015: 27,013
end of 2016: 91,178

[overwhelmed]

I started tracking in March 2016

Net Worth month end 3/16 -   $267,710.13
Net Worth month end 12/16 - $367,434.95

Single parent w/2 teenagers - I'll take it :)

[Roots&Wings]

Fun way to close out the year, and to see compounding at work.

2012:  $219k  (salary $78k)
2013:  $315k  (salary $75k)
2014:  $420k  (salary $80k)
2015:  $475k  (salary $86k)
2016:  $601k  (salary $90k) - hit $500k in April

Financial goals: a paid off house + $1.3M stash to support a conservative 3% withdrawal rate via ~75% savings rate, 90/10 asset allocation.

Looking at 6-10 years out. Spent $20.5k in 2016. My FIRE budget ($36k) has a substantial cushion because of unknown health care costs, and other fluff that could be cut if necessary. To many here, this is irrationally conservative...and reckless to many Bogleheads :)

Onwards and enjoy!

[aspiringnomad]

12/2015: 48% increase
12/2016: 32% increase

Less as a percentage of my stash, but the same $ number.

[Al1961]

I FIREd in mid 2014, DW FIREd at the end of November this year.

Net worth increase was $105,044, net of withdrawals.

Includes:
$12,012 increase in home equity from mortgage principal payments,
$16,804 in other savings
$111,738 increase in market value of investments
($18,706 35,510) net withdrawals to fund expenses. (2.1% WR)

Excludes:
Real estate market value adjustments, if any
Value of DB Pension and employee/employer pension contributions.

Looking forward to next year. Expenses should drop considerably as we simplify our housing situation (two houses currently) and move to a lower COL area.

Edit: Oops, missed some of DW's gains, and changed to net withdrawals.

[Cherry Lane]

I'm up 13% in 2016, leaving me only $6k short of my "bare-bones" FI target and $206k short of "comfortable" FI.  Planning to RE in 15 months, when I expect to be somewhere in between those numbers.

[pancakes]

Our household net worth:

Dec 2014 $150k
Dec 2015 $195k
Nov 2016 $246k
Dec 2016 $256k

+ $61k feels great.

[Half Stached]

We're up 31%: from 820K to 1.08M. We saved 186K and saw passive gains of 73K. This worked out to a return of about 7.5% on the year, which lagged the VTSAX by about 3% due to one bad investment. Overall, reasonably happy with the progress as we estimated a year ago to be at 1.03M now.

[plainjane]

Invested assets increased by 25% (more than my pre-tax salary).
Paid off the house.

[jengod]

We haven't recorded this annually, but this thread inspired me to check our general "household finances" spreadsheet, and I discovered I "mislaid" six figures because I accidentally shorted a sum by one row. So that sure looked like a nice jump in addition to be *being* a nice jump.

[soccerluvof4]

+198k . Good Year!

[stacheasaurus]

December 2015: 2.6k
December 2016: 31.1k

+28.1k!
Savings rate: 43%!

[NinetyFour]

My NW increased by 24% this year.

Nice work, everyone!  Hope 2017 is a great year in every way!

[letired]

Oh man, this thread is really a kick in the pants! I'm up a paltry 12%, partially due to a lack of focus and partially due to shifting a lot of things around to purchase a house.

Here's to 2016 being much more focused!

Revisiting the 2015 numbers, turns out I shorted myself a percent. That said, I did much better this year with a NW increase of 21.7%!

[del84]

Dec 2015: $1,025,000
Dec 2016: $1,127,000

+$102,000
9.95% increase

[Wile E. Coyote]

I little over 200k over the last 12 months.

Not quite as good this year at $180k. Saved more, but my investments didn't do nearly as well.

Up a ridiculous $660K this year, but a lot of that is inflated Zillow values.  Investments were up $241K.

[minority_finance_mo]

I little over 200k over the last 12 months.

Not quite as good this year at $180k. Saved more, but my investments didn't do nearly as well.

Up a ridiculous $660K this year, but a lot of that is inflated Zillow values.  Investments were up $241K.

WOW! Congrats!

[marty998]

I little over 200k over the last 12 months.

Not quite as good this year at $180k. Saved more, but my investments didn't do nearly as well.

Up a ridiculous $660K this year, but a lot of that is inflated Zillow values.  Investments were up $241K.

Even if it is inflated, there has to be some substance behind it... if that's the market, then that's the market.

If shares were trading at ridiculously high P/E ratios would you discount the value? Or would you take the market price as fair value?

(Congrats regardless, phenomenal effort)

[Faramir]

Household combined figures converted to US$

end 2012: $130K
end 2013: $221K   +$91K on combined salaries totaling $76K
end 2014: $318K   +$97K on combined salaries totaling $80K
end 2015: $362K   +$44K on combined salaries totaling $80K 
end 2016: $486K   +124K on combined salaries totaling $85K   

[Sailor Sam]

I want to play!

31 Dec 2010: $85,203
31 Dec 2011: $106,303   (Δ $21,100)
31 Dec 2012: $144,111   (Δ $37,808)
31 Dec 2013: $212,510   (Δ $68,399)
31 Dec 2014: $264,836   (Δ $52,326)
31 Dec 2015: $299,579   (Δ $34,743)
31 Dec 2016: $371,611   (Δ $72,032)

[FrugalByChance]

Net Worth:
1 Jan 2016: € 269 365.45   ( USD 282 402.74)
31 Dec 2016: € 299 761.46   ( USD 314 191.98)

Growth: € 30 396.01 ( USD 31 862.62)

ER Stash
1 Jan 2016:€ 58 970.75   ( USD 61 821.99)
31 Dec 2016: € 84 056.56   ( USD 88 112.29)

Growth: € 25 085.81  ( USD 26 296.20)

[Apples]

December 2013:  $43,800
December 2014:  $70,200
December 2015:  $107,700

Goal for next year:  $150,000 if we stretch for it.

December 2016:  $153,950  Woohoo!  We hit our stretch goal and then some!  And it felt like we were spending well above our budget, but actually stayed a bit under once the year was done.  Net worth went up 43% with a 46% savings rate (lower than the previous year) and a 10% increase in take-home pay, all due to my DH getting awesome, deserved raises.  Goal of $200,000 by the end of 2017 with a stretch goal of $210,000.

[Gunny]

We are up 9% in our portfolio based on compounded growth only.  No additional contributions as we are FIREd.  We are down 10% in our cash account due to a lot of travel in 2016.  But this was a planned draw down.

[NorCal]

12/31/ 2015: $769K
12/31/2016: $1,063K

Total Increase: $294K

2017 Probably won't be as good.  2016 included an incredibly generous bonus for my wife, as well as unintended over-withholding on taxes of about $10K.  It was also a pretty good year for market appreciation.

[Vertical Mode]

I track mine quarterly, so at the close of:

Q4 2015: $99.5k
Q4 2016: $146.5k

My own contributions still propel this steamship forward mostly, but the tailwind of dividends and growth is picking up!

[jorjor]

12/31/2014: $132,000
12/31/2015: $257,000
12/31/2016: $403,000

It was a good year.

[jmutt]

Happy New Year All! 

31 DEC 2016 - 562k for a grand total of 100k!  Good year for the market, plus about a 50% pre-tax savings rate. 
31 DEC 2015 - 462k
31 DEC 2014 - 395k
31 DEC 2013 - 330k
31 DEC 2012 - 244k

[Etlav5]

Love this thread

dec 2015: - 36k
dec 2016: - 17 k


Just started to have a salary a little more than a year ago. (approx. 40 000$ net). The remaining dept is a student loan that is free of interest for the next 3.5 years (until I finish my residency) so i will be starting to invest in 2017.
Objective for 2017: 0 net worth !

[TheFirstMan]

Just found this thread! I found MMM in mid-2014, but I have been on the right track for a long time.

- Net worth up 219K, from 200K to 419K, 110%!
- Assets up 204K, from 350K to 554K, up 58%!
- Investments up 84K, from 183 to 267, 46%!
- Debt down 11K to 140K, down 7%!
- Income on the year: 80K (not counting auto deposits to 403Bs, I think)

Income in 2016: 92K in pocket, 36K in 403Bs, plus taxes and other deductions, so about 135K total.

2016 results:

The major factor in 2016 was drawing about 50K of home equity out and spending 52K on major improvements to our home...

- Net worth up from 419K to 440K, up 5%

- Assets up 86K, from 554K to 640K, up 15%! (Home equity up about 35K)

- Investments and liquid assets up 95K, from 267K to 362K, 36%!

- Debt up 60K, from 140K to 200K, which is 43%

[Wile E. Coyote]

I little over 200k over the last 12 months.

Not quite as good this year at $180k. Saved more, but my investments didn't do nearly as well.

Up a ridiculous $660K this year, but a lot of that is inflated Zillow values.  Investments were up $241K.

Even if it is inflated, there has to be some substance behind it... if that's the market, then that's the market.

If shares were trading at ridiculously high P/E ratios would you discount the value? Or would you take the market price as fair value?

(Congrats regardless, phenomenal effort)

Thanks!  I do think the real estate has gone up in value, but 35% in one year seems a bit high.  I would say it is about half of that.  I pay pretty close attention to what is going on in my town, and I am fairly certain that it would not sell for what Zillow thinks it would.  It's all just theoretical since we don't plan on selling any time soon.

[Longwaytogo]

Jan 2, 2013  -($33,302) 
Jan 2, 2014 -($20,162)    +13,140
Jan 2, 2015    $2,833       +22,995
Jan 2, 2016    $13,330     +10,497
Jan 2, 2017    $75,494     +62,164

$20K from property value increase along with about $9,000 in market gains.

But the rest was $4,700 in retirement contributions and $28,464 of debt reduction.

Pretty pumped that my 2016 efforts exceeded the previous 3 years combined :)

[SingleMomDebt]

Jan 2, 2013  -($33,302) 
Jan 2, 2014 -($20,162)    +13,140
Jan 2, 2015    $2,833       +22,995
Jan 2, 2016    $13,330     +10,497
Jan 2, 2017    $75,494     +62,164

$20K from property value increase along with about $9,000 in market gains.

But the rest was $4,700 in retirement contributions and $28,464 of debt reduction.

Pretty pumped that my 2016 efforts exceeded the previous 3 years combined :)

Nice job on the debt reduction LWTG!

[NinetyFour]

Jan 2, 2013  -($33,302) 
Jan 2, 2014 -($20,162)    +13,140
Jan 2, 2015    $2,833       +22,995
Jan 2, 2016    $13,330     +10,497
Jan 2, 2017    $75,494     +62,164

$20K from property value increase along with about $9,000 in market gains.

But the rest was $4,700 in retirement contributions and $28,464 of debt reduction.

Pretty pumped that my 2016 efforts exceeded the previous 3 years combined :)

Nice job on the debt reduction LWTG!

+100!  That is excellent!

[Polish_Hammer]

2015 yr end 885,632
2016 yr end 1,050,182

Increase of 164,550. (Best ever)

[mbk]

Very impressive numbers all around.

We started the year with ~147k. Ended with anywhere between 200-224k depending on the hypothetical sale value of some real estate.

[tarheeldan]

Congrats all!

My net worth ended up $41k higher on gross earnings of $71k. Great year!

[boarder42]

NW was up almost 200k and investmented NW was up around 150k.

[sw1tch]

What a great year:

1/2016 - $275,600
1/2017 - $400,014