This Is The Income Needed To Join The Top 1% In Every US State

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This Is The Income Needed To Join The Top 1% In Every US State

What does it take to join the top 1% of income earners in America?

Well, it depends on where you live. In some states, your annual income needs to crack $1 million to be among the state’s income elite—in others, it takes less than half of that to make the cut.

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, illustrates the income needed to be in the top 1% of earners in each state.

The data was compiled by SmartAsset as of June 2024.

SmartAsset analyzed 2021 IRS data for individual tax filers.

Figures were adjusted to June 2024 dollars using the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average series for all items, not seasonally adjusted.

Key Takeaways

  • Nationwide, it takes an income of $787,712 to be in the top 1% of earners.

  • The median U.S. income is approximately $75,000, with half of Americans earning less.

  • Earning over $1 million annually is required to join the top 1% in three states. Connecticut leads with the highest threshold at $1.2 million, followed by Massachusetts at $1.11 million, and California at $1.04 million. Meanwhile, in West Virginia, the threshold is almost a third of Connecticut’s at $420,000.

Rank State Income of the top 1%
1 Connecticut $1,152,254
2 Massachusetts $1,113,662
3 California $1,035,673
4 Washington $989,649
5 New Jersey $975,645
6 New York $965,645
7 Colorado $865,700
8 Florida $852,206
9 Wyoming $843,121
10 New Hampshire $811,098
11 Utah $784,233
12 Illinois $783,340
13 Nevada $777,180
14 Texas $762,090
15 Virginia $760,610
16 Maryland $741,501
17 Minnesota $730,096
18 South Dakota $727,168
19 Montana $715,899
20 Idaho $703,997
21 Georgia $700,544
22 Pennsylvania $696,192
23 Arizona $688,934
24 North Dakota $684,124
25 Oregon $683,170
26 Tennessee $678,956
27 North Carolina $665,021
28 Kansas $651,226
29 Rhode Island $650,914
30 Nebraska $629,413
31 Vermont $623,244
32 Alaska $620,783
33 Delaware $618,488
34 South Carolina $611,219
35 Wisconsin $610,435
36 Hawaii $609,846
37 Michigan $603,834
38 Missouri $590,001
39 Maine $588,394
40 Louisiana $587,399
41 Ohio $581,161
42 Iowa $571,730
43 Alabama $557,334
44 Indiana $552,877
45 Oklahoma $540,879
46 Arkansas $531,692
47 Kentucky $513,865
48 New Mexico $476,196
49 Mississippi $440,744
50 West Virginia $420,453

On a global basis, the average salary to hit the top 1% is quite a bit lower: an annual salary of about $65,000 does the trick.

If you enjoyed this post, be sure to check out this graphic, which ranks the income a family needs to live comfortably in every U.S. state.

Tyler Durden
Tue, 12/31/2024 – 12:40

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