Edit: No, that doesn’t seem to be the case. I’m seeing multiple sources (go banking, bankrate, Princeton) all corroborating the lack of savings. It looks like bankrate does the surveys annually too: www.bankrate.com/…/emergency-savings-report
Bankrate doesn’t ask the savings number directly so that’s maybe what you were seeing, but go banking does:
“Methodology: GOBankingRates surveyed 1,002 Americans aged 18 and older from across the country on between January 30 and February 1, 2023, asking six different questions: (1) How much savings do you have?; …”
Over half of Americans say they're not even close to financial freedom ( scrippsnews.com )
About 36% of U.S. adults say they have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts....