Trends: Census Bureau
Median Annual Earnings by Age and Sex
In 2025, median annual earnings of full-time, year-round workers were $66,620 ($72,380 for men, $60,760 for women, a female-to-male ratio of 0.839), and $52,770 across all 175,300 thousand people with earnings, in 2025 dollars, as published in Census Bureau report P60-289 Table 11 on September 15, 2026. The tables below give the sex and age rows for both groups.
All people with earnings: median annual earnings by sex and age
| Characteristic | Workers, 2025 (thousands) | Median earnings, 2024 | Median earnings, 2025 | Margin of error, 2025 (±) | Change in median, 2025 less 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 91,590 | $61,610 | $61,170 | $347 | -0.7% |
| Female | 83,690 | $46,380 | $47,410 | $493 | +2.2% |
| Age | |||||
| Under 65 years | 160,700 | $53,020 | $54,680 | $985 | +3.1% |
| 15 to 24 years | 22,510 | $20,810 | $20,250 | $492 | -2.7% |
| 25 to 34 years | 38,800 | $52,690 | $52,450 | $1,032 | -0.5% |
| 35 to 44 years | 38,140 | $63,240 | $65,800 | $845 | +4.0% |
| 45 to 54 years | 33,000 | $65,840 | $66,380 | $880 | +0.8% |
| 55 to 64 years | 28,280 | $61,580 | $61,690 | $562 | +0.2% |
| 65 years and older | 14,550 | $42,070 | $42,430 | $2,660 | +0.8% |
Full-time, year-round workers: median annual earnings by sex and age
| Characteristic | Workers, 2025 (thousands) | Median earnings, 2024 | Median earnings, 2025 | Margin of error, 2025 (±) | Change in median, 2025 less 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 69,210 | $73,070 | $72,380 | $1,213 | -0.9% |
| Female | 54,750 | $58,860 | $60,760 | $320 | +3.2% |
| Female-to-male earnings ratio | – | 0.806 | 0.839 | 0.0131 | +4.2% |
| Age | |||||
| Under 65 years | 116,900 | $65,030 | $66,550 | $492 | +2.3% |
| 15 to 24 years | 8,323 | $39,760 | $40,580 | $614 | +2.1% |
| 25 to 34 years | 29,760 | $62,000 | $61,020 | $483 | -1.6% |
| 35 to 44 years | 30,470 | $73,000 | $74,910 | $2,289 | +2.6% |
| 45 to 54 years | 26,660 | $75,380 | $75,500 | $748 | +0.2% |
| 55 to 64 years | 21,660 | $71,750 | $71,500 | $727 | -0.3% |
| 65 years and older | 7,093 | $67,440 | $68,240 | $3,867 | +1.2% |
Reading these tables
The figures are from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC), conducted each spring and asking about the previous calendar year. Earnings are wages, salary and self-employment income before taxes. People with earnings includes everyone aged 15 and over with any earnings in the year, part-time and part-year workers included; full-time, year-round workers worked 35 hours or more a week for 50 or more weeks, so their medians are higher and closer to a full-time pay rate. Both 2024 and 2025 figures are in 2025 dollars, adjusted with the C-CPI-U as the Census note states, so the change column is a real change.
The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval half-width; a change smaller than the margins involved is not statistically different from zero, and Census marks significant changes with an asterisk in the original. The female-to-male earnings ratio is the women's median divided by the men's median among full-time, year-round workers. Age groups are the ages at the time of the survey; the differences between age rows describe different people at one time, not the path of any individual's earnings. These are annual figures and differ in concept from the BLS weekly medians on the weekly earnings pages; the long series of the ratio is on its own page.
Source, release and next release
- Table: Table 11. Earnings Summary Measures by Selected Characteristics: 2024 and 2025, fetched (SHA-256 497522e65696…).
- Publication: Income in the United States: 2025 (P60-289), released September 15, 2026; the next P60 income report is published each September.
- Census note: (Earnings in 2025 dollars, adjusted using the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) (2000-2025) and Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers Retroactive Series (R-CPI-U-RS) (pre-2000). More information on inflation adjustment is available in Appendix A of "Income in the United States: 2025" at <https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2026/demo/p60-289.pdf>. People 15 years and older, as of March of the following year, with earnings. Information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions is available at <https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/techdocs/cpsmar26.pdf>)
- *An asterisk preceding an estimate indicates change is statistically different from zero at the 90 percent confidence level.
- 1 Estimates for 2024 may not match those published last year due to the implementation of Vintage 2025 population controls.
- 2 A margin of error (MOE) is a measure of an estimate's variability. The larger the MOE in relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate. This number, when added to and subtracted from the estimate, forms the 90 percent confidence interval. MOEs shown in this table are based on standard errors calculated using replicate weights.
- Note: Median income estimates are calculated using linear interpolation and $2,500 intervals.
- Figures are shown as published; this site does not seasonally adjust, deflate, interpolate or extend any series.