https://realtimeinequality.org/

Realtime Inequality

Home

COVID

Methodology

|

Dark mode:

Turn on

Who Benefits from Income and Wealth Growth in the United States?

Thomas Blanchet, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman

Department of Economics | University of California, Berkeley

Realtime Inequality provides the first timely statistics on how
economic growth is distributed across groups. When new growth numbers
come out each quarter, we show how each income and wealth group
benefits. Controlling for price inflation, average national income
per adult in the United States increased by 7.6% in 2021, and average
income for the bottom 50% grew by 11.7%. National income is similar
to GDP (which grew slightly less in 2021) and a better indicator of
income earned by US residents. Visit the Methodology page for
complete methodological details.

 
Realtime Inequality

Income Inequality

Wealth Inequality

 
Methodology

Income Inequality

You can adjust the graph with the options below: what the y-axis
displays, the definition of income, the statistical unit, the data
frequency, and the time range. You can also select groups using the
box on the right. All dollar figures are annualized.

Loading Income Data...

Wealth Inequality

You can adjust the graph with the options below: what the y-axis
displays, the definition of income, the statistical unit, the data
frequency, and the time range. You can also select groups using the
box on the right.

Loading Wealth Data...

Realtime Inequality

Providing the first timely statistics on how economic growth is
distributed across groups.

 

realtimeinequality@gmail.com

Attributions

Research conducted by Thomas Blanchet, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel
Zucman.

Website built by Akcan Balkir and James Feng.

More

 

COVID

 

Methodology