Released May 28, 2013 - Trends in Household Income: April 2013

This report provides estimates of median household income for March 2013. It includes a time series of the Household Income Index (HII) covering January 2000 to March 2013. Download Report
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Released August 23, 2012 - Changes in Household Income During the Economic Recovery: June 2009 to June 2012

This report provides an analysis of changes in household income during the recession and the post-recessionary period from June 2009 to June 2012. Included in the report are estimates of median household income across selected demographic, social, and economic characteristics. The report also provides a discussion of our Household Income Index(HII) covering the period from March 2000 to June 2012. Download Press Release

Released May 31, 2012 - Who's Got the Money and Where It's Located

This report examines shares of household income by focusing on which combinations of demographics, work effort, and level of education generate the largest amounts of income. It emphasizes the interplay between number of households, mean household income, and share of income and how these vary by presence of children, marital status of the household head, and age, work effort, and education of the head and spouse. In addition, the report presents estimates for a broad array of household characteristics including home ownership, presence of mortgages, numbers of children, changes in residence (movers), median and mean incomes, etc. for a selected group of 300 metropolitan areas and 375 counties. Download Press Release

Released March 1, 2012 - Changes in Household Income for Regions,Divisions,States and Metropolitan Areas: 2007 to 2010

This report is based on data obtained by the U.S. Census Bureau from its American Community Survey (ACS). Using two data files from the ACS, each based on 3.5 million interviewed households, we compare the level of household income for the three-year time period before the recent recession (2005-2007) with the three-year time period during and after the recession (2008-2010). The comparisons are made for the four regions, the nine divisions, the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and 297 individual metropolitan areas It includes numbers of households, median household income, and the income level defining the top 1-percent. Download Press Release

Released December 19, 2011 - Effects of Reductions in the Social Security Payroll Tax Rate for 2011 and Proposals for 2012

Sentier Research has prepared a bulletin containing an analysis of the effects of the current and proposed Social Security tax rate reductions. The bulletin contains estimates of the level of savings acheived by households under the current reduction in place (4.2 percent from 6.2 percent) and the proposed further reduction to 3.1 percent. It includes estimates of payments and saving by household income deciles and by selected household characteristics. Download Report

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