Top 9% nationally, but only top 23% locally. It’s really freaking expensive here (DC/MD/VA outside metro areas), and incomes reflect that. Neither my husband nor I would get paid anything like what we get paid here anywhere else in the country. If it were just my own income, though, top 39% nationally, and bottom 31% locally. So yay, marriage!
Check out where you’d stand in Stamford, CT. It’s the only area I could find with even higher incomes than here.
ETA: besides SF, which you already mentioned.
Bottom 38% where I live. Which isn’t a poll option.
Almost anywhere else it would put me in the top half.
By the way, are we supposed to put taxable income, after deductions, or pre-deductions?
Top 5% nationally. I’m in the DC metro area, but the figures for this area all so “outside of metro areas”. In that case, I’m top 12%. I’m having a hard time guessing for the metro area.
I am only in the top 25% nationally, but in the top 10% locally. What’s sad is that before government started killing IT wages I was closer to top 5%. My income level has pretty much stayed flat over the last 12 years, while most costs (save housing) have risen.
Top 4% both locally and nationally.
Top 19% nationally, 24% locally.
Canuck, bottom 32%. But I am a one person household!
We drop to top 21%. Damn, I feel so inadequate! 
Shouldn’t equity figure into this as well? Relying solely on yearly income, without considering investments in 401k’s, stocks/bonds, mortgages, and so on would seem to provide a misleading conclusion.
Top 14% nationally, 20% locally.
Bottom 44% nationally, top 43% as locally as I can get it. Can’t really vote in the poll.
Top 39% in US/Top 33% in California/Bottom 38% in San Jose
We were in the top 6% when we were working. Now in the top 36% as retirees. It’s comfortable.
Household income alone seems like a silly and inaccurate metric.
My parents have no household income but they are probably in the top 5-10% based on equity.
We were in the top 20% in my area (NY, NJ) until I lost my job. Now we’re top 50. If only hubby could take his job to Michigan. We’d be RICH!
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Single person living alone - bottom 37% for my area. Still, no debt besides my mortgage, enough in the bank to pay off that. I’m doing better than a lot of people who make more.
StG
The converse can be true as well, believe me.
Top 5% nationally. Top 12% locally (Central NJ).