In 2024, the median household income in the United States was 83,730 U.S. dollars. This reflected an increase from the previous year. Household income The median household income depicts the income of households, including the income of the householder and all other individuals aged 15 years or over living in the household. Income includes wages and salaries, unemployment insurance, disability payments, child support payments received, regular rental receipts, as well as any personal business, investment, or other kinds of income received routinely. The median household income in the United States varied from state to state. In 2024, Massachusetts recorded the highest median household income in the country, at 113,900 U.S. dollars. On the other hand, Mississippi, recorded the lowest, at 55,980 U.S. dollars.Household income is also used to determine the poverty rate in the United States. In 2024, 10.6 percent of the U.S. population was living below the national poverty line. This was the lowest level since 2019. Similarly, the child poverty rate, which represents people under the age of 18 living in poverty, reached a three-decade low of 14.3 percent of the children. The state with the widest gap between the rich and the poor was New York, with a Gini coefficient score of 0.52 in 2024. The Gini coefficient is calculated by looking at average income rates. A score of zero would reflect perfect income equality, while a score of one indicates complete inequality.

This table contains data on the living wage and the percent of families with incomes below the living wage for California, its counties, regions and cities/towns. Living wage is the wage needed to cover basic family expenses (basic needs budget) plus all relevant taxes; it does not include publicly provided income or housing assistance. The percent of families below the living wage was calculated using data from the Living Wage Calculator and the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. The table is part of a series of indicators in the Healthy Communities Data and Indicators Project of the Office of Health Equity. The living wage is the wage or annual income that covers the cost of the bare necessities of life for a worker and his/her family. These necessities include housing, transportation, food, childcare, health care, and payment of taxes. Low income populations and non-white race/ethnic have disproportionately lower wages, poorer housing, and higher levels of food insecurity. More information about the data table and a data dictionary can be found in the About/Attachments section.

The median family income in the United States grew to 100,800 U.S. dollars in 2023, an increase on the previous year. Family income is the total income earned by all family members who have been living in the household for at least one year and are at least 14 years old.

Families of tax filers; Single-earner and dual-earner census families by number of children (final T1 Family File; T1FF).

In the United States, the median income in 2023 was at 112,800 U.S. dollars for Asian households. This is a large increase from 2002 when the median income for Asian households was 84,770 U.S. dollars (in 2023 U.S. dollars).

The median income in 2023 was at 56,490 U.S. dollars for Black households. In 1990, the median income among Black households was 38,360 U.S. dollars (In 2023 U.S. dollars).

This table presents income shares, thresholds, tax shares, and total counts of individual Canadian tax filers, with a focus on high income individuals (95% income threshold, 99% threshold, etc.). Income thresholds are geography-specific; for example, the number of Nova Scotians in the top 1% will be calculated as the number of taxfiling Nova Scotians whose total income exceeded the 99% income threshold of Nova Scotian tax filers. Different definitions of income are available in the table namely market, total, and after-tax income, both with and without capital gains.

In the United States, the median income in 2023 was at 65,540 U.S. dollars for Hispanic households. This is a large increase from 1990 when the median income was 47,600 U.S. dollars for Hispanic households (in 2023 U.S. dollars).

A dataset listing the richest zip codes in Mississippi per the most current US Census data, including information on rank and average income.

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics–Social, Health, and Economic Longitudinal File (PSID-SHELF) provides an easy-to-use and harmonized longitudinal file for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the longest-running nationally representative household panel survey in the world.The first major benefit of PSID-SHELF is that it provides users with a longitudinal data file that features the complete sample of the PSID's multigenerational panel. The current version of PSID-SHELF includes 42 waves of survey data, ranging from 1968 to 2021. Every individual who has ever been observed in the PSID Main Study is included in PSID-SHELF. There are over 8,000 sample families, comprising more than 900,000 observations from roughly 53,000 sample members (and an additional 30,000 nonsample individuals who have ever lived in a PSID family unit). The second major benefit of PSID-SHELF is that it features a novel set of harmonized measures on a wide range of substantive topics, including: (1) social characteristics (e.g., demographics, family type, education, race and ethnicity); (2) health characteristics (e.g., chronic conditions, COVID-19, dementia, disability); (3) economic characteristics (e.g., earnings, family income, occupations, wealth)—as well as a list of the PSID's essential administrative variables (e.g., survey identifiers, panel status, sample weights, household relationship records). Consequently, PSID-SHELF covers some of the most central variables in the PSID that have been collected for up to five decades.PSID-SHELF can be used as a standalone data file, or it can easily be merged with other PSID data products to add additional public-use variables, by linking variables to a participant’s individual and family unit identifiers. The harmonized longitudinal file accentuates the PSID's strengths through its household panel structure that follows the same families over multiple decades and its multigenerational genealogical design that follows the descendants of PSID families that were originally sampled in 1968, with immigrant refresher samples in 1997–1999 and 2017–2019.Although the PSID strives to ensure longitudinally consistent measurement, there are a number of variables that have changed across waves (e.g., because of new code frames, top-codes, question splitting, or other changes to the survey interview). But data harmonization, by necessity, involves analytic decisions that users may or may not agree with. These decisions are described at a high level in the PSID-SHELF User Guide and Codebook, but only a close review of the construction files that were used to generate PSID-SHELF can fully reveal each analytic decision. The Stata code underlying PSID-SHELF is publicly available not only to allow for such review but also to encourage users, as they become more comfortable with PSID, to use and alter the full code or selected code snippets for their own analytic purposes.Despite multiple code reviews, it is possible that the files used to produce PSID-SHELF contain errors. As such, we encourage users to review the code carefully. If identified, please report any mistakes or errors to us (psidshelf.help@umich.edu). The authors wish to underscore that PSID-SHELF is currently being shared as a data product, in beta, and users are responsible for any errors arising from the provided code and files. Current Version 2025-01 (data release number).Permanent DOIDOI:10.3886/E194322 (data).DOI:10.7302/25205 (documentation).Recommended CitationsPlease cite PSID-SHELF in any product that makes use of the data or documentation. Anyone who uses PSID-SHELF should cite the data or the PSID-SHELF User Guide and Codebook—and, as required by the PSID user agreement, the PSID Main Study.PSID-SHELF data:Pfeffer, Fabian T., Davis Daumler, and Esther Friedman. PSID-SHELF, 1968–2021: The PSID’s Social, Health, and Economic Longitudinal File (PSID-SHELF), Beta Release. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor],

The median annual earnings in the United Kingdom was 39,039 British pounds per year in 2025. Annual earnings varied significantly by region, ranging from 49,692 pounds in London to 34,403 pounds in the North East. Along with London, only South East England and Scotland had earnings above the UK average, at 39,983 pounds and 39,719 pounds respectively. Regional Inequality in the UK Various other indicators highlight the degree of regional inequality in the UK, especially between London and the rest of the country. Productivity in London, as measured by output per hour, was 26.2 percent higher than the UK average. By comparison, every other UK region, except the South East, fell below the UK average for productivity. In gross domestic product per head, London was also an outlier. The average GDP per head in the UK was just over 37,000 pounds in 2023, but for London it was almost 64,000 pounds. Again, the South East's GDP per head was slightly above the UK average, with every other region below it. Within London itself, there is also a great degree of inequality. In 2023, for example, the average earnings in Kensington and Chelsea were 964 pounds per week, compared with 675 pounds in Barking and Dagenham. Wages continue to grow in 2025 In March 2025, weekly wages in the UK were growing by around 5.6 percent, or 1.8 percent when adjusted for inflation. For almost two years, wages have grown faster than inflation after a long period where prices were rising faster than wages between 2021 and 2023. This was due to a sustained period of high inflation in the UK, which peaked in October 2022 at 11.1 percent. Although inflation started to slow the following month, it wasn't until June 2023 that wages started to outpace inflation. By this point, the damage caused by high energy and food inflation had led to the the worst Cost of Living Crisis in the UK for a generation.

In 2023, the median household income in Michigan amounted to 76,960 U.S. dollars. This is a slight increase from the previous year, when the median household income amounted to 68,990 U.S. dollars. The household median income of the United States can be accessed here.