by THOMAS BLANCHET, EMMANUEL SAEZ, & GABRIEL ZUCMAN
Realtime Inequality provides the first timely statistics on how economic growth is distributed across groups. When new growth numbers come out each quarter, we show how each income and wealth group benefits. Controlling for price inflation, average national income per adult in the United States increased at an annualized rate of 0.5% in the first quarter of 2022, and average income for the bottom 50% grew by 5.2%. National income is similar to GDP and a better indicator of income earned by US residents. Visit the Methodology page for complete methodological details.
Income Inequality
You can adjust the graph with the options below: what the y-axis displays, the definition of income, the statistical unit, the data frequency, and the time range. You can also select groups using the box on the right. All dollar figures are annualized and adjusted for price inflation to June 2022 dollars.
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