average yearly income in america
National Averages. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average salary for all Americans was $51,017 in 2012, down very slightly from 2011's mean of $51,100. That is still 8.7 percent below the average salary in 2007.
The top 1 percent of earners in the United States had an average income of $1,153,298 in 2013 compared to an average of $45,567 for the other 99 percent, according to a recent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. The minimum income to be in the top 1 percent was $389,436, the EPI study said.