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“The U.S. Census Bureau lists the annual real median personal income at $35,977 in 2019”

Calling it $30k is wrong, but not very wrong.

Also note: “The U.S. Census Bureau also reports the median income for each family. In 2019, it was $86,011.”

(Note I didn’t double check numbers above, they were just the first I found from Google results).



Note that “family” for income statistics means a household of two or more people who have relations from specified set between members, so that median family income is kind of like median household income, except that it excludes all single-member households as well as multimember non-family households (who are typically living together to save money), so it is biased strongly upward compared to similar household stats.


$35k includes children, retirees and other people who don't work for whatever reason.


Are you sure children are included? “The Census calculates per capita income by taking the total income for the previous year for everyone 15 years and older.” - https://www.thebalance.com/income-per-capita-calculation-and...

The census specifically doesn’t ask for income for children below 15, so perhaps that is the meaning of the sentence above, and per capita calculation does include kids as $0 income for calculating median - although that would be weird IMHO. Unclear, and I got bored looking for exact details, so gave up quickly!


Median full-time worker weekly pay projected on an annual (52 week) basis for Q3 2021 is $52,156 (52 × $1,003).




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