the United States · Income · 2022 data
Am I rich in the United States?
Enter your household income after tax. See your percentile — and what it actually means.
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Data: OECD Income Distribution Database (IDD) — based on U.S. Census CPS ASEC microdata, equivalised with square-root scale · income year 2022, survey wave 2023
Income distribution in the United States
Each bar is a slice of the United States households. The cyan marker shows where you sit; the threshold flags below mark the median, top 10% and top 1%.
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What the numbers actually say
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To join the top 10%, earn about 2.3× the median.
About 2.3× the typical household in the United States.
60% of the United States lives between $24,200 and $82,300.
If you're in this band, you're 'normal' — by the data.
The top 1% earn 5.7× the typical household.
It's a gulf, not a gap.
Cross $139,000 and you've outearned 95% of the United States.
The top 5% starts here.
The average ($57,500) sits well above the median.
A few very high earners pull the mean up — the median is the truer middle.
A top-10% household earns 6.0× the bottom 10%.
The full spread of the United States, in one number.
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