Two decades of American incomes
How much 38 million people reported earning in the 2000–2022 American Community Surveys, by sector of employment, scrubbed year by year.
The sectors where people earn most have shifted over two decades
Drag the year. The x-axis and the sector colours are pinned across every year, so what moves is the distribution itself rather than the frame around it. Sectors are ranked by mean income in 2022 and that ranking is held fixed — otherwise the chart would recolour under your hand and the shift would be impossible to see.
Data and code
- Data: American Community Survey, U.S. Census Bureau, 2000–2022 public use microdata samples, inflation-adjusted.
- Transform: income-histogram-with-sector-historical-inflation-adjusted-industry-mapped.sql.