This statistic shows the per capita personal income in the United States from 1990 to 2023. In 2023, the per capita personal income was 68,531 U.S. dollars. Personal income is the income that is received by persons from all sources.

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Residents of the District of Columbia had the highest personal income per capita in 2023, at 100,909 U.S. dollars. Mississippi residents, on the other hand, had the lowest personal income per capita, at 48,110 U.S. dollars. What is personal income? Personal income is the income that a worker receives from all sources, including salary, wages, bonuses, income from self-employment, dividends from investments, and receipts from real estate investments. Because of this, total personal income is different from the average wage, as personal income takes more factors into account than just salary and compensation. Income in the United States Wages and salaries in the United States can vary greatly depending on the profession a person is in, and the rise (or fall) of wages is seen as a key economic indicator as to the financial health of the country’s residents. In recent years, the increasing gap between CEO compensation and the compensation of the average worker has brought the issue of stagnating wages to the forefront of the national conversation.

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Key information about US Household Income per Capita

• United States Annual Household Income per Capita reached 40,722.000 USD in Dec 2023, compared with the previous value of 39,167.917 USD in Dec 2022.
• US Annual Household Income per Capita data is updated yearly, available from Dec 1984 to Dec 2023, with an averaged value of 21,116.200 USD.
• The data reached an all-time high of 40,722.000 USD in Dec 2023 and a record low of 9,024.615 USD in Dec 1984.
• In the latest reports, Retail Sales of US grew 0.967 % YoY in May 2023.

CEIC calculates Annual Household Income per Capita from annual Household Income and Average Household Size. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides Household Income and Average Household Size.

Graph and download economic data for Personal income per capita (A792RC0Q052SBEA) from Q1 1947 to Q1 2025 about personal income, per capita, personal, income, GDP, and USA.

United States - Personal income per capita was 74350.00000 $ in January of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Personal income per capita reached a record high of 74350.00000 in January of 2025 and a record low of 1319.00000 in April of 1947. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Personal income per capita - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.

This statistic shows per capita disposable personal income in the United States from 2000 to 2023. Per capita, Americans had 50,871 U.S. chained 2017 dollars of disposable personal income in 2023. The total disposable personal income for the nation was 17.05 trillion chained 2017 dollars in 2023.

In 2023, the per capita personal income in Texas was 66,252 U.S. dollars. Per capita personal income is calculated as the personal income of the residents of a given area divided by the resident population of the area.

In 2021, the per capita income in San Francisco city was at 80,383 U.S. dollars. San Francisco was followed in this regard by Seattle and Washington, D.C. The most populated cities in the U.S. are ranked by per capita income in this statistic. While New York, New York had the highest population, San Francisco had the highest per capita income in 2021. The median household income in San Francisco in 2020 was 119,136 dollars, the highest among the most populated cities in the United States.

Graph and download economic data for Disposable personal income: Per capita (A229RC0Q052SBEA) from Q1 1947 to Q1 2025 about disposable, personal income, per capita, personal, income, GDP, and USA.

In 2023, the national per capita disposable personal income was ****** U.S. dollars. In the same year, the total per capita disposable personal income in the state of Connecticut was ****** U.S. dollars.

Historical chart and dataset showing U.S. GDP per capita by year from 1960 to 2023.

The Gross Domestic Product per capita in the United States was last recorded at 65875.18 US dollars in 2023. The GDP per Capita in the United States is equivalent to 522 percent of the world's average. This dataset provides - United States GDP per capita - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

In 2023, the per capita personal income in New Jersey was 82,103 U.S. dollars. Per capita personal income is calculated as the personal income of the residents of a given area divided by the resident population of the area.

In 2023, the per capita personal income in Virginia was 73,841 U.S. dollars. Per capita personal income is calculated as the personal income of the residents of a given area divided by the resident population of the area.

In 2023, the per capita personal income in New England was 84,340 U.S. dollars. Per capita personal income is calculated as the personal income of the residents of a given area divided by the resident population of the area.

In 2023, the per capita personal income in California was 81,255 U.S. dollars. Personal income is the income that is received by persons from all sources. This measure of income is calculated as the personal income of the residents of a given area divided by the resident population of the area.

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In 2023, four Caribbean nations were the countries with the highest gross national income per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean. On average, the national gross income amounted to around 31,990 U.S. dollars per person in the Bahamas, an island country which also had one of the highest gross domestic product per capita in this region. Outside the Caribbean Excluding the Caribbean, the economies with the highest national income per capita are generally located in South America, with the exceptions of Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico. Guyana leads among continental states with a national income of around 20.360 U.S. dollars per person. Gross national income (GNI) is the aggregated sum of the value added by residents in an economy, plus net taxes (minus subsidies) and net receipts of primary income from abroad. The biggest economies Brazil and Mexico are still miles ahead in the race for the biggest economy of Latin America. As of 2023, both nations exceeded the two trillion U.S. dollars mark in their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While Argentina's GDP, third place, slightly surpassed the 600 billion U.S. dollars. Nonetheless, both nations also ranked as the most populated by far in the region.