Income Percentiles by Occupation and Education Level

Military, Rank Not Specified

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Income Percentile Results

Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 54.1th and 65.9th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 309,144 Military, Rank Not Specified.

50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $50,991
75th Percentile: $76,931
95th Percentile: $137,786
99th Percentile: $203,211

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Income Percentile Stats

  • To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $203,211 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
  • To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $137,786 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.

Income of Military, Rank Not Specified by Highest Education Level

Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:
  • Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 25th and 43th percentiles.
  • Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 21.4th and 25.2th percentiles.
  • Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 17.6th and 25th percentiles.
  • Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 33.1th and 46.9th percentiles.
  • Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 74.7th and 83.8th percentiles.

Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level

Highest Level of Education for Military, Rank Not Specified:
  • Other (N/A or Less than HS): 1.3%
  • HS Diploma / GED: 26.8%
  • Associates Degree and Some College: 45.1%
  • Bachelors Degree: 18%
  • Masters Degree: 7.3%
  • Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 0.8%
  • Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 0.7%

Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors

  • For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 28.9th and 41.5th percentiles.
  • For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 37.9th and 50.7th percentiles.
  • For Engineering undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 29th and 40.6th percentiles.
  • For Criminal Justice and Fire Protection undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 37.2th and 49th percentiles.
  • For Computer and Information Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 22.9th and 39.8th percentiles.
  • For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 43.2th and 58.2th percentiles.
  • For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 38th and 68.4th percentiles.
  • For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 49.8th and 55.2th percentiles.
  • For Physical Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 39.8th and 51.2th percentiles.
  • For History undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 20.8th and 36.2th percentiles.
Note: The source data only records undergraduate degree majors, even if a person continues to study.

Treemap of Undergraduate Majors

Methodology and Assumptions

This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2017-2022. These results represent 309,144 Military, Rank Not Specified. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 9830 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).

Exclusions and Filters Applied:
  • Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
  • High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
  • Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can.
  • The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
  • All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
  • There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
    • Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
    • Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
    • Doctoral Degree: PHd