Income threshold of top 1% and top .01%, and average income of top .01%, U.S. and by state and region, 2013

Rank (from highest to lowest threshold) State/region Income threshold of top 1% Income threshold of top .01% Average income of top .01%
1 Connecticut $659,979 $18,725,678 $69,539,454
2 New Jersey $547,737 $9,902,751 $27,543,511
3 Massachusetts $539,055 $12,718,018 $43,377,857
4 New York $517,557 $15,788,964 $61,569,466
5 North Dakota $481,492 $8,604,082 $23,092,316
6 California $453,772 $10,484,559 $34,842,377
7 Texas $424,507 $9,548,502 $30,570,824
8 Maryland $421,188 $6,473,201 $16,448,445
9 Illinois $416,319 $8,634,123 $26,432,216
10 Minnesota $411,022 $6,772,630 $18,115,219
11 Colorado $410,716 $7,517,480 $21,284,001
12 Virginia $406,412 $6,244,774 $15,852,268
13 Washington $387,854 $7,805,465 $24,270,450
14 South Dakota $386,622 $6,946,192 $19,931,296
15 Florida $385,410 $9,503,505 $31,300,153
16 Wyoming $368,468 $16,294,136 $97,682,655
17 Alaska $365,332 $4,781,020 $10,498,675
18 Pennsylvania $360,343 $6,125,315 $16,789,403
19 New Hampshire $359,844 $7,123,629 $22,258,520
20 Kansas $351,497 $6,867,921 $21,256,272
21 Nebraska $346,252 $5,704,685 $15,473,263
22 Georgia $345,876 $5,435,322 $13,716,343
23 Delaware $342,699 $4,402,704 $9,720,082
24 Rhode Island $336,625 $5,958,482 $17,125,434
25 Utah $333,775 $6,606,832 $19,579,787
26 North Carolina $327,549 $4,402,239 $10,452,087
27 Louisiana $325,163 $5,717,205 $15,290,710
28 Oklahoma $324,935 $6,545,212 $19,289,705
29 Iowa $317,234 $4,190,419 $10,051,656
30 Ohio $317,124 $4,610,782 $11,421,990
31 Oregon $312,839 $4,727,899 $12,280,193
32 Wisconsin $312,375 $6,245,825 $18,879,234
33 Nevada $311,977 $10,930,356 $51,576,310
34 Arizona $309,102 $5,090,195 $13,474,023
35 Tennessee $308,834 $5,517,447 $15,788,156
36 Michigan $306,740 $5,705,460 $16,869,663
37 Missouri $305,471 $5,715,368 $16,849,759
38 Vermont $299,259 $4,657,840 $12,055,549
39 Montana $297,689 $4,628,105 $12,429,047
40 Indiana $296,640 $4,448,865 $11,072,021
41 Idaho $292,324 $4,768,525 $12,463,428
42 South Carolina $288,042 $3,988,813 $9,403,004
43 Alabama $283,899 $3,992,394 $9,549,052
44 Maine $282,474 $3,435,796 $7,756,897
45 Hawaii $281,620 $4,357,613 $11,873,650
46 Kentucky $267,635 $3,716,230 $9,130,603
47 Mississippi $264,952 $3,279,541 $7,669,070
48 West Virginia $244,879 $2,522,272 $5,312,294
49 Arkansas $237,428 $5,323,445 $20,606,219
50 New Mexico $231,276 $3,853,057 $10,579,317
2* District of Columbia $554,719 $10,349,151 $27,941,032
United States $389,436 $8,325,378 $26,106,656
Northeast $476,408 $11,835,549 $40,855,345
Midwest $343,059 $6,187,048 $17,580,287
South $352,341 $6,897,923 $20,221,280
West $393,416 $8,685,268 $28,227,857

* Rank of the District of Columbia if it were ranked with the 50 states.

Note: Incomes are in 2014 dollars. Data are for tax units.

Source: Authors’ analysis of state-level tax data from Sommeiller (2006) extended to 2013 using state-level data from the Internal Revenue Service SOI Tax Stats (various years), and Piketty and Saez (2012)

View the underlying data on epi.org.