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Top 1%: $1,199,812 As you can see, you need an income well over three times the national average to crack the top 10%. It takes another $140,000 on top of that to make the top 5%.
After the Great Recession which started in 2007, the share of total wealth owned by the top 1% of the population grew from 34.6% to 37.1%, and that owned by the top 20% of Americans grew from 85% to 87.7%. The Great Recession also caused a drop of 36.1% in median household wealth but a drop of only 11.1% for the top 1%. [55] [53]
Here's What It Really Takes To Be In The Top 1% Spoiler: it's not pocket change. According to Kiplinger data, to be in the top 1% of wealth in the U.S. in 2024, one must have a net worth of about ...
• The top 1% of earners comprise more than 26% of the nation's total income. • Meanwhile, the bottom 50% – half the country – share just 10.4% of the total income.
This is a list of U.S. states, territories, and Washington, D.C. by income.Data is given according to the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates, except for the American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, for which the data comes from 2010, as ACS does not operate in these areas.
Federal Reserve data indicates that as of Q4 2021, the top 1% of households in the United States held 30.9% of the country's wealth, while the bottom 50% held 2.6%. [7] From 1989 to 2019, wealth became increasingly concentrated in the top 1% and top 10% due in large part to corporate stock ownership concentration in those segments of the ...
And what about the top 1%? Their wages jumped an astounding 20% between 2009 and 2019, and they pulled down an average of $819,324 in 2021, up 9.4% from the previous year.
The American upper class is a social group within the United States consisting of people who have the highest social rank, due to economic wealth, lineage, and typically educational attainment. [2] [3] The American upper class is estimated to be the richest 1% of the population.