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    What Percent of Americans Earn Your Salary?

    Enter an annual income to see where it ranks among US earners - and which jobs actually pay it.

    Income Percentile Calculator

    Individual income, not household

    Top 25% of US earners

    $100,000 ranks at about the 83rd percentile of all US individual earners. Roughly 16.8% of earners make at least this much.

    83rd
    Percentile among all individual earners
    78th
    Percentile among full-time, year-round workers

    The two figures differ because the full-time cut excludes part-time and part-year earnings. Quoting one without the other is the most common reason two people cite different percentiles for the same salary.

    US Income Percentile Reference Table

    PercentileAll earnersFull-time, year-round
    10th$15,000$28,000
    25th$28,000$40,000
    50th (median)$45,000$61,000
    75th$75,000$92,000
    90th$125,000$150,000
    95th$175,000$200,000
    99th$400,000$450,000

    Individual pre-tax earnings, 2024 Census Current Population Survey tables. Household income is a separate distribution and is not shown here.

    Income reality check

    This income of $100,000 falls in the Comfortable band of this framework - roughly ~12% of the U.S. population and ~7% of the global population sit in this band.

    StatusAnnualUS
    PoorUnder $18K~10%
    Low-income$18K-$36K~18%
    Stably paid$36K-$54K~12%
    Middle class$54K-$72K~10%
    Comfortable$72K-$108K~12%
    Upper-middle class$108K-$144K~13%
    Wealthy$144K-$300K~18%
    Rich$300K-$1M~6.5%

    Illustrative relative standing for education only - this ladder is a simplified framework, not an official Census, BLS, or World Bank statistical series. Salary figures on Wage Atlas come from official BLS OEWS data.

    How This Is Calculated

    Your percentile is estimated by linear interpolation between published Census Current Population Survey earnings breakpoints for 2024. Two distributions are shown: all individual earners, and full-time year-round workers only.

    This is a different question from the one BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics answers. OEWS tells you where you rank among people doing your job in your state; this page tells you where you rank among all earners. A salary can comfortably be top 10% nationally while sitting below the median for its own occupation, which is why the two should be read together rather than interchangeably.

    The occupations listed above come from BLS OEWS national data and are real jobs whose average pay falls close to the income entered. Follow any of them through to see the full wage distribution and state-by-state breakdown.

    Income percentiles cover pre-tax individual income. Household income counts every earner in a home and produces a materially lower percentile for the same dollar figure.

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