Americans got a raise in 2023. Median household income in the U.S. rose to $80,610 in 2023, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. That's a 4% increase from the $77,540 median in 2022.

Americans need a gross annual income of $124,817 to afford a typical home, but the median household income is just $77,719. In 126 U.S. metros, a household needs to earn six figures to afford a ...

Adjusting for inflation, median household income rose 4% from 2022. That's the first increase and meaningful change in median income in recent years. When the median is considerably lower than the ...

The states with the highest income levels aren't the ones you might think. We list the states with the highest (and lowest) ...

By the same measure, San Jose, California, has the highest middle-class income range of the largest U.S. cities. The city's ...