income

Here’s household income by number of earners in the household, based on data from the 2022 Current Population Survey.

The rich continue to get richer, and everyone else either only kind of earns more or stays where they’re at.

Median income only tells you where the middle is. The distributions of income are a lot more interesting.

Divorce rates are tied to job security, age, and occupation, so it should make sense that we see a pattern when we plot divorce rates against income.

A dollar might not buy you as much in one state as it does in the other.

Salaries vary across occupations. Here are some charts that show by how much for 800 of them.

What percentage of households fall into lower-, middle-, and upper-income levels when you adjust for household size?

The meaning of “middle-income” changes a lot depending on where you live and your household size.

About 18 percent of couple households are single-income. I wanted to know what the earner in these homes usually do.