Income Calculator Pew Research
In 2016 when the calculator was written 52 of adults lived in middle income households 29 in lower income households and 19 in upper income households.
Income calculator pew research. And it takes virtually all the countries of the world and their currencies into consideration. To find out use the calculator below courtesy of. Poor low middle upper middle and high. The pew research center s income class calculator can be used to determine whether a given household income is in the lower income middle income or upper income class.
So it has global application. The pew research calculator uses 2018 data to find which group people belong to compared with other adults in a metropolitan area and overall. 52 of americans are classified as middle income while 19 are upper income. Pew research center designed this calculator as a way for users to see based on the center s analysis where they appear in the distribution of u s.
For example the calculator shows estimated daily incomes of both 9 90 and 10 30 as 10 per day but the income bracket will be reported as low income in the former case and as middle income in the latter one of the limitations of the calculator is that it only works for the 111 countries covered in the pew research study. What is middle class.