Here, find a United States income percentile by sex calculator for male income percentile and female income percentile in the United States in 2024 (income is earned in full year 2023, the survey was taken in 2024).
You'll also find an average, median, and top 1% income breakdown by sex.
Income by Sex: Selected 2024 Statistics
We divided results in this post to separate earnings for males and females. I've normalized earnings for hours worked with two of the filters – you can choose to only show men and women who worked 30 or 40 hours at a minimum per week. (Then you can visualize the nominal gender wage gap for your choice of "full-time" workers.)
What was the median and average individual income in 2024 for women and men?
In 2024, the median male earned $60,000 while the median female earned $45,001 The average male earned $84,189 while the average female made $61,602.
For men who worked 30 or more hours a week, median income was $65,305. The median female who worked 30+ hours made $52,000. Men who worked 30 or more hours weekly averaged $92,467 in earnings and women averaged $70,967.
Men who worked 40+ hours had median income of $69,000. Women who worked 40+ hours had a median income of $55,010. Respectively, the averages were $95,233 and $74,676.
What Were the Cutoffs for the Top 10%, Top 5%, and Top 1% of Male and Female Incomes?
In full-year 2023 (the ASEC asks for earnings in the year before), the cutoffs for the top percentiles were as follows (for all workers, I'm not using any hour screen):
| Men | Women | |
| Top 10% | $170,600 | $124,300 |
| Top 5% | $232,451 | $168,504 |
| Top 1% | $515,511 | $327,060 |
This next table shows my estimate for the number of male and female workers in each "hours per week" category. It includes the number of data points used to come up with the numbers from the 2024 ASEC.
| Men Samples | Men Workforce | Women Samples | Women in Workforce | |
| Any Hours | 39,676 | 94,791,831 | 36,626 | 85,596,190 |
| 30+ Hours Weekly | 32,499 | 77,275,828 | 27,439 | 63,995,396 |
| 40+ Hours Weekly | 30,084 | 71,249,650 | 23,293 | 54,345,921 |
The Income Gap Between Men and Women in 2024
As you can see, when comparing medians or averages there is a significant unadjusted income gap between men and women – but that isn't the full story, even if that's the extent of the common talking points.
An appropriate measurement also includes weekly hours worked (an adjustment we made for the "full-time" categories) and other adjustments for types of jobs worked or career gaps. But, as you can quickly see, there is also a gap when you account for those measures.
Before coming to any conclusions, note the following: controlling for career choice, weekly hours worked, and gaps in work history reduces the income gap between men and women. No research finds that it fully eliminates the gap in earnings between men and women.
Accounting for the confounding variables, there is still a 3% to 8% unexplained gap between men's and women's earnings in the United States.
See here, here, and here for studies attempting to account for the gap.
Again, note there is a real gender income gap even if you normalize known factors across men and women.
Source and Methodology on 2024 Income by Sex
Sarah Flood, Miriam King, Renae Rodgers, Steven Ruggles, J. Robert Warren, Daniel Backman, Annie Chen, Grace Cooper, Stephanie Richards, Megan Schouweiler, and Michael Westberry. IPUMS CPS: Version 11.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2023. https://doi.org/10.18128/D030.V11.0
Find my screen for "worker" in the income percentile for individual workers post. This post also layers on top the weekly hours worked variable.
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