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Global context, not just your bubble
Percentiles show where you sit in the wider population across countries, markets, and systems, so local assumptions do not hide the bigger picture.
Track where you stand across every percentile.
Search for a percentile tool. If it exists, open it instantly. Income is featured below as the first live example.
Available now: income, height, bmi, weight, waist-size, hand-size, inequality-coefficient, blood-pressure, etc...
Available percentile tools
Featured live example: income
Individual Income
All US workers age 15+ with any earnings (Census CPS ASEC).
$
Your percentile
$50.2K50.0%
You out-earn 499 of 1,000 Americans · 500 earn more.
Mean$73.5KMedian$50.2KSD$90K
vs. Median
1.00× median+$0
You are effectively right at the median income.
vs. Average
-0.26 σ68%
of the U.S. average ($73,472). You're within one standard deviation, a typical range.
Standard deviation $90K · z-score -0.26
Source: US Census Bureau CPS ASEC 2024 (PINC-01) · IPUMS CPS. Anchors interpolated; tail above the 99th percentile is fit with a Pareto distribution.
Percentiles explained
What a percentile is, and why it changes how you see the numbers
A percentile ranks you against a group. If you are at the 80th percentile, you are above 80% of that group and below the top 20%. It is a simple lens that turns raw figures into relative position, which helps with real decisions, not just curiosity.
Example: 80th percentile income is higher than 80% of the reference population in that dataset.
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