Building on our previous data visualization exercise, we've now gone the extra mile and built a tool you can use to estimate what your percentile income ranking is for your age group! Just enter your ...

If you asked most people what income makes you upper class, you'd probably hear numbers like $250,000 or $500,000. The data says otherwise. In 2026, upper class is primarily a percentile definition.

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders now have the highest income inequality of any racial or ethnic group in the U.S.; Asian-American and Pacific Islander adults in the 90th income percentile earn ...

The Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) collects data from roughly 60,000 U.S. households each month, representing about 110,000 individuals aged 15 and older. The surveys are administered ...

A new research study on economic mobility from the Equality of Opportunity Project has the remarkable finding that absolute economic mobility—the likelihood that children will out-earn their ...

Sixty-two percent of Americans identify as middle class, but what that means can vary widely by geographic location — for example, $100,000 goes a lot further in Lee County, Kentucky than in San ...