Income Comparison
Understanding how your income measures up can offer valuable insights into your financial standing and help set realistic financial goals. Our Income Comparison Tool allows you to see where your earnings rank within your selected region, providing a clearer picture of your income in context.
Simply enter your yearly income and select your desired scope to see how you compare. Your information remains completely private and is not stored - we only use it to generate your immediate comparison results.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Income percentile indicates the position of an individual's income relative to the rest of the population. For example, if your income is at the 70th percentile, it means you earn more than 70% of the population.
Income data is typically gathered through surveys conducted by government agencies, such as the Current Population Survey (CPS) by the U.S. Census Bureau. This data is then analyzed to determine income distributions and percentiles.
The data for this tool came from World Inequality Database.
Variations in income percentiles can result from differences in occupation, education, experience, geographic location, and economic conditions.
Yes, individual income percentiles consider personal earnings, while household income percentiles account for the combined income of all members within a household, leading to different percentile rankings.