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<p>Jacob WadeAugust 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM</p>
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<p>Even if you have money, sometimes it's hard to feel like you're rich with the cost of living skyrocketing or factors linked to lifestyle creep. However, if you make a healthy six figures, you might be in the top 1% of wage earners in the United States.</p>
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<p>Obviously, this is a great money-making group to be a part of, but depending on where you live, you could still miss the mark and fall into an extremely comfortable category — but not the top 1%.</p>
<p>Here's how much you need to make in salary alone to be part of the 1% in America, plus how much you need to make to be in the top 5% and top 10% of wage earners.</p>
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<p>How Much Does the Top 1% Make?</p>
<p>According to data from the Social Security Administration, you need to make $794,129 annually to be in the top 1% of wage earners in the U.S. This is based on an analysis of the most recently available wage data.</p>
<p>To break this down further, you'd need to earn about $66,178 per month, or about $15,272 per week, to be in the top 1% of income earners.</p>
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<p>How Much Do the Top 5% and Top 10% Make?</p>
<p>If you're not making over $750,000 per year, you might not be part of the 1%. But if you make six figures, there's a chance you're in the top 10% of wage earners in the U.S. — or even the top 5%.</p>
<p>Here's how much you need to make to be in the top 5% and the top 10% in America:</p>
<p>Top 5% income threshold: $352,773</p>
<p>Top 10% income threshold: $148,812</p>
<p>As you can see, earning just under $150,000 puts you in the top 10% of all wage earners in the U.S. This doesn't put you in the elite class of top 1% earners, but you make more, on average, than 90% of American households.</p>
<p>If you make just more than double that amount, you'll be in the top 5% of American household income.</p>
<p>The Top 1% Income Varies by State</p>
<p>Being a top 1% income earner in the U.S. doesn't necessarily make you part of the top 1% wage earners in your state. In fact, the salary for the top 1% of earners varies quite a bit — depending on where you live.</p>
<p>GOBankingRates recently crunched the numbers on location-specific data, showing how much you would need to have earned last year to be part of the 1% in your state.</p>
<p>Here's the salary required to be part of the 1% in the top 10 states:</p>
<p>Connecticut: $1,192,947</p>
<p>Massachusetts: $1,152,992</p>
<p>California: $1,072,248</p>
<p>Washington: $1,024,599</p>
<p>New Jersey: $1,010,101</p>
<p>New York: $999,747</p>
<p>Colorado: $896,273</p>
<p>Florida: $882,302</p>
<p>Wyoming: $872,896</p>
<p>New Hampshire: $839,742</p>
<p>As you can see, the numbers vary by more than $350,000 from Connecticut to New Hampshire.</p>
<p>Here's the data for the 10 lowest-earning states:</p>
<p>Ohio: $601,685</p>
<p>Iowa: $591,921</p>
<p>Alabama: $577,017</p>
<p>Indiana: $572,403</p>
<p>Oklahoma: $559,981</p>
<p>Arkansas: $550,469</p>
<p>Kentucky: $532,013</p>
<p>New Mexico: $493,013</p>
<p>Mississippi: $456,309</p>
<p>West Virginia: $435,302</p>
<p>The difference between the top 1% wage earners in Connecticut and West Virginia is over $750,000 per year!</p>
<p>Caitlyn Moorhead contributed to the reporting for this article.</p>
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