# What Percent Are You? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882 "2012-01-18T05:41:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/1 "2012-01-18T05:41:01Z")
Enter your household income and see how you rank in 344 zones across the country. See [What Percent Are You? - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-percent-map.html) Once you have your score, now complete the poll. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/2 "2012-01-18T05:45:20Z")
Bottom 34%. ☹ OTOH…could be worse! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/3 "2012-01-18T05:50:43Z")
Top 10%, although I’ll note that in Michigan we rocket to the top 3%. I wonder how this would translate in Canada where I actually live and I believe the cost of living is higher? ---
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_Jackal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Clockwork\_Jackal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_Jackal)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/4 "2012-01-18T05:56:46Z")
Wait, do you count the score country wide? Or in the region we live in? Because I get different numbers for each. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/5 "2012-01-18T06:00:51Z")
Dangit! I thought this was pretty I was. I voted in top 10%. Because, well, the girl who turned me down last night said I was. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/6 "2012-01-18T06:12:39Z")
> [@Clockwork\_Jackal](#): > > Wait, do you count the score country wide? Or in the region we live in? Because I get different numbers for each. I suggest using the national numbers. Se the map legend. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/7 "2012-01-18T11:32:07Z")
Bottom 41%. A little over 3 years ago I was in the bottom 17% (working full time) so I’m not complaining. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/8 "2012-01-18T11:40:14Z")
Nationally, top 5%, Locally (Texas) top 7%. This surprised me, I would’ve expected the reverse. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/9 "2012-01-18T11:45:28Z")
Top 25% nationally, but I know it’s much less for my area. I can’t get it to work locally to confirm my suspicions, though. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/10 "2012-01-18T11:48:39Z")
Bottom 44% nationally. Bottom 39% in my area. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/11 "2012-01-18T12:31:51Z")
Bottom 36% with the currency converted, but that probably puts me a lot lower in Europe. I think? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/12 "2012-01-18T12:54:59Z")
I’ve been in the bottom 10% for the last three years, but now that things are looking better, we’re moving on up to the bottom 29%! Woo-hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/13 "2012-01-18T13:04:24Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > Bottom 34%. It looks like there isn’t a poll option for that. How is someone who’s in the bottom half but not the bottom 25% supposed to vote? ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/14 "2012-01-18T13:07:40Z")
Bottom 46%. But there doesn’t appear to be a poll option for that. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/15 "2012-01-18T13:10:29Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > It looks like there isn’t a poll option for that. How is someone who’s in the bottom half but not the bottom 25% supposed to vote? Psst. If you are not in the top 1%, it doesn’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/16 "2012-01-18T13:16:47Z")
I picked Top 50% above, but it comes out more around Top 35% for Maryland. I’d drop down into the Bottom 50%, however, if I moved closer to downtown DC. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/17 "2012-01-18T14:33:40Z")
Top 10% regionally, top 7% nationally. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/18 "2012-01-18T14:48:25Z")
Top 4% nationally, top 8% in my metro area. The only way we could do worse is if we moved to San Francisco, where we’d be top 12%. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/19 "2012-01-18T14:51:25Z")
Top 25% nationally, top 15% in Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882/20 "2012-01-18T15:06:51Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > Top 4% nationally, top 8% in my metro area. The only way we could do worse is if we moved to San Francisco, where we’d be top 12%. Correction, we’d also take a hit in DC, where we’d be in the top 10% [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percent-are-you/609882.md?page=2)