Median Income

We have been traveling in the countries listed below. The numbers show the median income by country. As you can see, Eastern Europe has it very tough. 


Their lower income results in many differences from the more affluent west. Prices are of course lower. There is a lot of unemployment and underemployment. There is live music in many restaurants - we have mostly lost this in the US since our folks earn more in conventional jobs. 


Median Income 


31, 111       US 
25,168        UK           
21,241        Germnay 
12,596        Czech   
  9,071        Slovakia 
  8,531        Hungary 
  9,113        Poland 


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Wealth in the United States - Concentrated in the Northeast

At the county level, America is a tremendously unequal place. The median household income in the poorest county (Wilcox County, Alabama) was $22,126 in 2012. In Falls Church, Virginia, where highly educated defense contractors and federal government workers cluster, the median income last year was $121,250, more than five times higher.

What's most startling, though, in new local income and poverty data released this week by the Census Bureau, is the way these opposing poles of poverty and wealth in America concentrate geographically. The Census map below shows median household income data from 2012 for every county in the country:

2012 Median household income by county.

There are more than 3,000 counties in the U.S. Of the 75 with the highest incomes, 44 are located in the Northeast, including Maryland and Virginia. The corridor of metropolitan statistical areas that runs from Washington, D.C., through Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston includes 37 of these top-earning counties (where the median family takes home at least $75,000 a year). Zoom in to the region, and it shows a kind of wealth belt unmatched even on the West Coast.

Poverty is similarly concentrated in the American South. Seventy-nine percent of the poorest counties in the country (where the median family makes less than $35,437) are located in the South:

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Median Household Income

The United States is still near the top of median household income, according to Wikapedia.

Median household income for selected countries is shown in the table below. The data for each country has been converted to U.S. dollars using purchasing power parity (PPP) (obtained from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development).^[4]

Annual median equivalised disposable household income

This is what a each equivalent adult in a household in the middle of the income distribution earns in a year.

Data are in United States dollars at current prices and current PPPs for the reference year.

Rank	Country	2007[5]
1	Luxembourg	34,407
2	United States	31,111
3	Norway	31,011
4	Iceland	28,166
5	Australia	26,915
6	Switzerland	26,844
7	Canada	25,363
8	United Kingdom	25,168
9	Ireland	24,677
10	Austria	24,114
11	Netherlands	24,024
12	Sweden	22,889
13	Denmark	22,461
14	Belgium	21,532
15	Germany	21,241
16	Finland	20,875
17	New Zealand	20,679
18	France	19,615
19	Japan	19,432
20	South Korea	19,179
21	Slovenia	18,860
22	Spain	18,391
23	Italy	16,866
24	Greece	15,758
25	Israel	14,055
26	Czech Republic	12,596
27	Portugal	12,515
28	Estonia	9,836
29	Poland	9,113
30	Slovak Republic	9,071
31	Hungary	8,531
32	Chile	7,851
33	Turkey	5,940
34	Mexico	4,689
—	OECD	19,229

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income