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Here's what the top incomes look like for different age groups. Income of the top 10% by age If you're under 35, you can break into the top 10% with an income of $146,000.
In 2022, families in America's top 10% held 60% of all wealth, up from 56% in 1989. Families in the top 1% held 23% of the nation's wealth in 1989, which has now grown to 27%.
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]
Landing in the top 10% can be a fairly attainable goal for upwardly mobile Americans. A study published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in 2022 found that the average earnings of those in ...
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]
Of those individuals with income who were older than 15 years of age, approximately 50% had incomes below $30,000 while the top 10% had incomes exceeding $95,000 a year in 2015. [1] The distribution of income among individuals differs substantially from household incomes as 39% of all households had two or more income earners.
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 top 3.65%, with incomes over $200,000, earned 17.5%.
Just 32% of top earners in their 20s also have a net worth high enough to put them in the top 5%. That number climbs to a little more than half for people in their 30s and 40s, and climbs even ...