Income percentile calculator

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Where you stand
Top 39%

you earn more than 61% of adults in the United States

The median adult $56.9k half of the United States earns less than this
MEDIAN $56.9k Bottom 10%$10.5kTop 10%$187.6kTop 1%$628.4k You, $75k MEDIAN $56.9k Top 1%$628.4k You, $75k

Adults by pre-tax income in the United States (2026, log scale); your percentile is the share of the curve left of the marker.

In the United States the median adult earns $56.9k a year before tax and the top 1% starts at $628k. Your $75.0k is the top 39%.

How to use this, and the parts people get wrong
  • Enter your gross salary: the yearly figure before tax, for one person, not a household.
  • Pick the country first. It swaps the whole distribution, not just the currency sign.
  • Your percentile is the share of adults at or below your figure, so top 10% means ninety in a hundred earn less.

Where you sit

On $75.0k a year in the United States you earn more than 61% of adults. The next line up, the top 25%, is $32.9k away.

$56.9kthe median adult income in the United States
$628kwhere the top 1% begins there

The income ladder

The income at each line in the United States, in USD. The next line up from you is marked.

The lineIncome at it
Bottom 10%$10.5k
Bottom 25%$27.4k
Median$56.9k
Top 25%$108k
Top 10%$188k
Top 5%$272k
Top 1%$628k
Top 0.1%$2.4m

Median for the United States: adjusted for the informal economy.

Questions people ask

What income percentile am I in?
Enter your gross yearly income above and the page places you on your country's income curve. In the United States, $75,000 a year is the top 39% of adults: it is above roughly 61% of them on pre-tax income (2026 data). The same calculation runs for 216 countries, each in its own currency.
What is the average income in the United States?
The median American adult earns $56,851 a year before tax, so half of adults earn less than that. The top 10% starts at $187,589 and the top 1% at $628,435. "Average" is usually meant as this midpoint rather than the arithmetic mean, which sits higher because the largest incomes pull it up.
Is this individual or household income?
Individual, per adult, with couples' income split equally: that is how the underlying distributions are measured. The household income percentile tool on this site answers the household version.
Before or after tax?
Before tax. Take-home differs by country; the take-home pay calculator here applies the OECD model to your gross.
Why does my country's median look different from what I have seen?
Some countries' figures carry an informal-economy adjustment, and the page names which median it prints. Survey medians and adjusted medians are different numbers, and attributing one to the other's source would be wrong.
Where do the figures come from?
Fitted national income distributions built on the World Inequality Database, in each country's own currency; your percentile is read off the same curve the chart draws.

Method and sources

  • World Inequality DatabasePer-adult pre-tax income distributions
The computation

Each country's income distribution is a lognormal body joined to a Pareto tail, fitted to its published percentile points. Your percentile is the share of the curve to the left of your income, and the chart is the same curve drawn, so the answer and the picture cannot disagree.

What these figures do not cover
  • Per-adult pre-tax income, couples split equally; household and take-home figures are different questions with their own tools here.
  • Below each country's lowest published point the curve is an extrapolation and the page says so.
  • Informal-economy adjustments are named where applied.

Last updated July 2026.

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