Estimates of the so-called Great Wealth Transfer vary, reaching as high as $124 trillion. But millennials and Gen Xers with great expectations for inheriting that wealth may be setting themselves up for great disappointment. A similar dynamic applies to the great wealth transfer.” For the Great Wealth Transfer, Visa calculated that boomers will pass on $36 trillion of their $93 trillion in wealth, translating to about $515,000 per inheriting household. Indeed, nearly 75% of people inheriting money from the wealth transfer are in the top 2%-10%.