Does the Character Wealth per Level table, as presented on page 135 of the DMG, reflect the wealth that should be owned by a single PC on each level, or by the party as a whole?
Example: there is a 9th level party.
Is it assumed that each individual player has access to 36,000 gold pieces of wealth, or should this be the total wealth of the entire party, meaning that each player of a 5-man party at level 9 would, on average, have a personal wealth of 7,200 gold pieces?