Income Percentiles

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Compare an income against U.S. percentile rank, median, average, and z-score with interactive chart scrubbing.

Individual Income

All US workers age 15+ with any earnings (Census CPS ASEC).

Your income

Your percentile

$50.2K

50.0%

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 σ

68%

of the U.S. average ($73,472). You're within one standard deviation, a typical range.

Standard deviation $90K · z-score -0.26

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Source: US Census Bureau CPS ASEC 2024 (PINC-01) · IPUMS CPS. Anchors interpolated; tail above the 99th percentile is fit with a Pareto distribution.