Here, find a United States income percentile by sex calculator for male income percentile and female income percentile in the United States in 2025 (income is earned in full year 2024).
You'll also find an average, median, and top 1% income breakdown by sex.
Income by Sex: Selected 2025 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 (or more) a week, or default to all workers.
What was the median and average individual income in 2025 for women and men?
In 2025, the median male earned $60,110 while the median female earned $47,000 The average male earned $89,730 while the average female made $64,340.
For men who worked 30 or more hours a week, median income was $69,147. The median female who worked 30+ hours made $55,000. Men who worked 30 or more hours weekly averaged $98,350 in earnings and women averaged $74,168.
Men who worked 40+ hours had median income of $71,000. Women who worked 40+ hours had a median income of $59,004. Respectively, the averages were $101,285 and $78,292.
What Were the Cutoffs for the Top 10%, Top 5%, and Top 1% of Male and Female Incomes?
In full-year 2024 (the ASEC asks for earnings in the year before, this survey was taken in 2025), the cutoffs for the top percentiles were as follows for all workers/any hours:
| Men | Women | |
| Top 10% | $179,201 | $127,600 |
| Top 5% | $250,005 | $173,011 |
| Top 1% | $542,180 | $324,200 |
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 2025 ASEC.
| Men Samples | Men Workforce | Women Samples | Women in Workforce | |
| Any Hours | 38,983 | 96,042,478 | 36,251 | 87,132,423 |
| 30+ Hours Weekly | 31,891 | 78,165,486 | 27,155 | 64,948,116 |
| 40+ Hours Weekly | 29,590 | 72,204,417 | 22,953 | 54,857,387 |
The Income Gap Between Men and Women in 2025
As you can see, when comparing medians or averages there is an unadjusted income gap between men and women. However, that isn't the entire story.
A full, adjusted 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 would see if you compiled those numbers, there is also a gap when you account for those measures.
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 that I'm aware of finds that adjusting for various factors eliminates the gap in earnings between men and women.
Accounting for the confounding variables, there is somewhere around 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 2025 Income by Sex
Sarah Flood, Miriam King, Renae Rodgers, Steven Ruggles, J. Robert Warren, Daniel Backman, Etienne Breton, Grace Cooper, Julia A. Rivera Drew, Stephanie Richards, David Van Riper, and Kari C.W. Williams. IPUMS CPS: Version 13.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2025. https://doi.org/10.18128/D030.V13.0
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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