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The top quintile in personal income in 2019 was $103,012 [2] (included in the chart below). The differences between household and personal income are considerable, since 61% of households now have two or more income earners. [3]
The top 5% of households, three quarters of whom had two income earners, had incomes of $166,200 (about 10 times the 2009 US minimum wage, for one income earner, and about 5 times the 2009 US minimum wage for two income earners) or higher, [15] with the top 10% having incomes well in excess of $100,000. [17]
In 2008, all households in the United States earned roughly $12,442.2 billion. [37] One half, 49.98%, of all income in the US was earned by households with an income over $100,000, the top twenty percent. Over one quarter, 28.5%, of all income was earned by the top 8%, those households earning more than $150,000 a year.
The chart below depicts the 100 highest income counties in the United States by median household income according to the 2020 United States census. [2] Virginia has the most counties in the top 100 with 18 followed by California with 11; Maryland with 10; New Jersey with nine; New York and Texas with six each; Illinois with five; Colorado, Massachusetts, and Minnesota with four each; Ohio and ...
Annual tax burden for top 10% earners: $9,555 South Dakota rounds out the top six, with a zero-income-tax policy and a moderate 4.5% sales tax. Property taxes at 1.2% lead to a total annual tax of ...
New Jersey's top earners face a double whammy of high taxes. Learn how much they pay in taxes and how it compares to other states. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help ...
In 2005 roughly half of all those with graduate degrees were among the nation's top 15% of income earners. Among different demographics (gender, marital status, ethnicity) for those over the age of 18, median personal income ranged from $3,317 for an unemployed, married Asian American female [ 4 ] to $55,935 for a full-time, year-round employed ...
The top .1% owned approximately 22% of the wealth in 2012, versus 7% in 1978. The top 1% share of wealth was at or below 10% from 1950 to 1987. [81] [169] A conflicting estimate found that they held some 15%. [29] The top 400 Americans had net worth of $2 trillion in 2013, more than the bottom 50%. Their average net worth was $5 billion. [277]