# Income Percentile Calculator for the United States

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Below is an individual income percentile calculator for the United States. It contains the most recent data through 2021. Enter pre-tax, gross income earned in full-year 2019 – January to December – to compare to the US individual income distribution.

(For a complete picture, see the household income calculator).

(Math and methodology in our average, median, and top 1% individual income post)

After try our income percentile by state and income percentile by city calculators. Or, switch to the household income calculator.

## Individual Income Percentiles for the US Income Distribution in 2020

In this graph we developed for the average individual income post, we compare single-person earnings between 2020 and 2019.

(2019 numbers are CPI adjusted.)

7,812,507 workers – 44.3% of the workforce – made $50,000 or more. That's up from 41.7% of workers in 2019. ### How many people made$100,000 or more in 2020?

28,092,101 workers, or 15.9% of all individual workers, made a six-figure income.

### How many people made $250,000 or more in 2020? 3,942,367 workers, or 2.23% of the workforce, made a quarter million or more in income. ### How many people made$500,000 or more in 2020?

.6% of workers, or around 1053529 people in the United States, made a half million or more in income in 2020. That's much higher than the 801,705 people who earned it in 2019.

### How many people made $1,000,000 or more in 2020? Somewhere around 357,464 people made a seven figure income in 2020. I estimate around .2% of the workforce had that large an income. (Talking about millionaires is usually more appropriate for net worth.) ### What is considered a good individual income? A good income in the United States started around$52,200 in 2020. That's the median individual income for a person who typically worked 40 or more hours per week. A better income – depending where you live – is \$86,505, which started the 75th percentile of earnings for 40+ hour workers. Additionally, you may prefer to only look at salary – see the salary percentile calculator here.

These numbers are obviously very location dependent. In most of the country, they would provide you with a very good income. See our income by city post as income ranges vary widely by geography. (We also have income by state.)

## Source and Methodology on the 2020 Individual Income Percentile Calculator

Sarah Flood, Miriam King, Renae Rodgers, Steven Ruggles and J. Robert Warren. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Current Population Survey: Version 7.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2020. https://doi.org/10.18128/D030.V7.0

For methodology, see the individual income bracket post. The only additional screens in this calculator were for workers reporting 30+ and 40+ hours a week or work, respectively – you can choose which one you like better for "full-time".

Want to see changes over time? Try our calculators from years past:

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