Income Inequality In The United States 2024 Income. New york (.5102), connecticut (.4947), louisiana (.4903), california (.4880), and florida (.4852). Billionaires hold a combined $6.22 trillion in wealth.

Piketty, saez, and zucman estimate that the top 1 percent earned 9.1 percent of national income in 1960, rising dramatically to 15.1 percent by 2019. From 2019 to 2022, the most recent years in which the federal reserve’s survey of consumer finances collected household wealth data, the mean gap in net worth between.