Median income versus Pew median income of middle class

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Note: Based on author’s calculations. Inflation-adjusted dollars using CPI-U-RS. Adjusted to 3-person household equivalence using the square-root method.

Source: Source: Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey; and “The American middle class is stable in size, but losing ground financially to upper-income families” from Pew Research Center Get the data