Enter your age and annual personal income to see a percentile range for U.S. adults in your five-year age group. The calculation uses 2024 Census person records, and it reports a range because the source model stores income in $5,000 brackets rather than exact ranks.
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Use annual personal income before tax. This is not household income or salary alone. Your entries stay in this browser.
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Choose the right income number
Start with your own annual income before tax. The Census variable here is total personal income, which covers more than pay from a job and can include earnings and other income sources. Leave out the combined income of everyone in your home, because household income is gathered over a different crowd and would give a different comparison.
The 2024 survey asked about income received during the previous 12 months, and we adjust those records to 2024 dollars using the factor supplied with each person record. If you enter your current 2026 income, the tool does not adjust it for inflation. For a closer year match, use your income for the survey period, or read the result as a rough comparison with a snapshot from 2024.
A person with no income still belongs in the room. The model includes people with zero or negative personal income in the denominator, which is the full group behind each percentage. The input starts at $0 because the model's first published bracket groups all amounts below $5,000, so it cannot rank a negative amount separately.
Read the result as a bracket
The calculator places an amount you enter in a $5,000 income bracket. It then shows the share of your age group below the bracket's lower edge and the share below its upper edge, and your rank lies somewhere between those two estimates. The grouped model cannot place you any more precisely than that.
Picture someone who enters $62,000. That amount falls in the $60,000 to $64,999 bracket, and the tool uses the counts at $60,000 and $65,000 to give the two percentile bounds. The percentiles themselves depend on the age group, so enter an age above to see the matching crowd.
For $250,000 or more, the source model has no higher threshold, so the tool can show a lower percentile bound and no upper one. Read that lower bound as a floor rather than an exact rank. Sample uncertainty sits outside both displayed bounds, so small differences cannot show that two people rank differently.
What the age groups mean
The source model includes ages 20 through 69. We combine neighboring single ages into five-year groups, such as 30 to 34 and 35 to 39, which gives each comparison a larger survey group and keeps the tool simple. It also means a 34-year-old and a 35-year-old are compared with different crowds, so a jump at that birthday reflects the move between groups while the person's income stays the same.
The table lists the income bracket that contains each selected percentile point; it does not list exact cutoff dollars. A median shown as $50,000 to $54,999, for example, means the weighted halfway point falls somewhere inside that bracket, and the source model cannot locate it more closely. Read across one age row at a time, and keep the rows separate, since adding or averaging them would mix different crowds.
These are national estimates. A state, occupation, hours worked, household size, or education level can change what an income feels like, and the table does not adjust for any of them. It offers one clear national age comparison and does not score anyone's personal finances.
How we calculated the brackets
We use the 2024 American Community Survey one-year Public Use Microdata Sample person files. The site's data manifest records a prior source-archive reproduction check for the generated model. For the brackets here, we add the model's counts of men and women for each single age into five-year groups, and we do not apply the site's education or marital-status filters.
The full group for each row is every weighted person record in that age group, including people with no or negative income. PWGTP is the Census person weight. The model's first count is the full group, and later counts are income at or above $5,000 through $250,000, in $5,000 steps. The share below a later threshold is the weighted group total minus the count at or above that threshold, divided by the weighted group total.
The Census also supplies replicate weights to estimate sampling error, and we have not calculated a margin of error from them. The displayed bracket bounds reflect the $5,000 data grouping only, so they cannot be read as a confidence interval. Use the numbers for broad context, especially when two brackets or age rows look close.
Use this with the dating-pool calculator
The income comparison counts adults of similar age. It cannot tell you how many of those adults are single, looking to date, or compatible with you. If that is your question, use the dating-pool calculator, which applies age and minimum-income filters to the same Census person records and then combines other stated sources for other filters. Read how those filters work before you compare the two results.
A high income percentile and a dating-pool result answer different questions, because each one gathers a different crowd. The income comparison includes all adults in an age group, while the dating-pool result applies the filters you choose. Neither result predicts a match, a date, or a relationship.
Income percentile brackets by age
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| Age group | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile | 90th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20–24 | Below $5,000 | $15,000–$19,999 | $30,000–$34,999 | $50,000–$54,999 |
| 25–29 | $15,000–$19,999 | $35,000–$39,999 | $60,000–$64,999 | $90,000–$94,999 |
| 30–34 | $20,000–$24,999 | $45,000–$49,999 | $75,000–$79,999 | $115,000–$119,999 |
| 35–39 | $20,000–$24,999 | $50,000–$54,999 | $85,000–$89,999 | $140,000–$144,999 |
| 40–44 | $20,000–$24,999 | $50,000–$54,999 | $90,000–$94,999 | $150,000–$154,999 |
| 45–49 | $20,000–$24,999 | $50,000–$54,999 | $95,000–$99,999 | $155,000–$159,999 |
| 50–54 | $20,000–$24,999 | $50,000–$54,999 | $95,000–$99,999 | $155,000–$159,999 |
| 55–59 | $15,000–$19,999 | $45,000–$49,999 | $90,000–$94,999 | $150,000–$154,999 |
| 60–64 | $10,000–$14,999 | $40,000–$44,999 | $75,000–$79,999 | $135,000–$139,999 |
| 65–69 | $10,000–$14,999 | $30,000–$34,999 | $65,000–$69,999 | $115,000–$119,999 |
Who is counted? All U.S. person records ages 20 to 69 in the selected five-year group, with person weights. The group includes zero and negative income.
How to read it: Find your age row, then read a cell as a bracket containing a percentile point. The $5,000 brackets and unmeasured survey error limit precision.
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