What Is the Average Income Needed to Be Healthy Across a Lifetime?

Data is sourced from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Health Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, years 2018-2019. Values plotted represent the average of the income ranges for healthy living in each decade. Note that for 20- to 30-year-olds, we found that there was no income threshold that separated healthy from unhealthy individuals; the threshold is indicated on this graph as $0.