Enter your annual income:

You are the X percent.



Ok, so say you make .


You are among the top _ out of American wage earners.


There are _ people who make less than you.



That is an hourly rate of per hour.

The median income is which is an hourly rate of . (click to try)

Your income is times the median. It would take you hours ( work days or years) to make the median annual income.

Try typing in . That is the poverty line. (click to try)

Try typing in (that's a million). (click to try)

Try typing in (that's a billion). (click to try)

The federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour or $15,080 annually. (click to try) Your income is times the federal minimum wage.

It would take someone on this wage hours or days or years to make your income.

This is the actual income distribution in the US.

Read My Blog Post: Which Percent are You? - The Actual Income Distribution in the United States

This is a graph of the actual income distribution in the US. This is split into 35,000 buckets of $100,000, which is what you need to get the full scale of the range. As you can see, the small sliver at 0 is 99.9999% of the US wage earners.


Note that the x-axis in the Social Security Administration buckets are deceptive because they do not use uniform scaling, so greatly misrepresent orders of magnitude.

This graph has uniform scaling. Each bar represents the people up with incomes in the $10k bucket range up to the current x-axis label. The last bucket is the number of people with incomes $200,000 and greater.

This graph has uniform scaling. Each bar represents the people up with incomes in the $50k bucket range up to the current x-axis label. The last bucket is the number of people with incomes $250,000 and greater.


Each bar represents the people up with incomes in the $100k bucket range up to the current x-axis label. The last bucket is the number of people with incomes $500,000 and greater. 92% of the wage earners are $100k or less.

The one thin bar on the left is almost every single American. Each bar represents the people up with incomes in the $100k bucket range up to the current x-axis label. This is the full range and shows you how far away the elite are, which is usually not properly visualized in truncated data-sets. This also doesnt show the full range. This only goes until $50 million, and the graph should really be 20 times longer.

The one thin bar on the left is almost every single American. Each bar represents the people up with incomes in the $100k bucket range up to the current x-axis label. This is the full range and shows you how far away the elite are, which is usually not properly visualized in truncated data-sets. This also doesnt show the full range. This only goes until $50 million, and the graph should really be 20 times longer.

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Read My Blog Post: Which Percent are You? - The Actual Income Distribution in the United States

Sources

I encourage you to go dive in to the underlying data here.

View Data for Underlying Google Spreadsheet
I've organized and compiled a lot of the data into one spreadsheet and formatted it in a consistent way.

Social Security Administration Wage Data from 2014

Income Data from the US Census

Income Data from the US Census, Male data

Income Data from the US Census, Female data

Author

Jeremy Keeshin

@jkeesh on Twitter

Code on GitHub