What is the Median Income Per State and Who are the One Percent?

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Editor: we have updated this data after the most recent CPS, and created the Income by State Calculator. You can choose household or individual income.

In this article, we'll look at the individual income per state (and Washington, D.C.) for 2016 CPS data.  We've broken down the income earned by those in the workforce for the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th and 99th percentile.  Data is included for all 50 states and the District of Columbia in choropleths, a table, and a downloadable spreadsheet.

Note that the income data comes from the ASEC, a March survey, so is accounting for full year January to December 2015 data.

What is the Median Income Per State?

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We also have the data on every income percentile from 1% to 99% in every state and D.C.  Of course, it's (much) harder to visualize and we didn't want to drown you in visual data.  You can find the raw CSV here:

state_by_percentile

If you do use the data, we'd love a heads up.  Be sure to credit IPUMS-CPS as well with whatever you create!