U.S. Median Household Income

Context:
- It can range from being a Raw U.S. Median Household Income to being an Inflation-Adjusted U.S. Median Household Income.
- It can range from (typically) being an Annual U.S. Median Household Income, to being a Monthly U.S. Median Household Income.
- It can be related by a U.S. Median Income Change Rate.
- It can be drawn from a U.S. Household Income Distribution [1].
Example(s):
- in 2013 is was $51,939
Counter-Example(s):
- Canada Median Household Income, Germany Median Household Income, China Median Household Income, ...
- U.S. per Capita GDP.
See: U.S. Average Household Income.

References

David Leonhardt. (2015). “The Great 21st-Century Wage Slowdown." The Upshot. JAN. 17, 2015
- FIGURE: Change in inflation-adjusted median family income, over previous 15 years
- QUOTE: ... There is little modern precedent for a period of income stagnation lasting as long as this one. ... The great wage slowdown has several main causes: globalization, which has forced Americans to compete with hundreds of millions of poorer workers from around the world; technological change, which allows machines to replace human labor in new ways; the slowdown in American educational attainment, even as the rest of the world has continued to become more educated and more highly skilled; and the shifting balance of economic power, away from workers and toward companies and their executives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States#Before_2010
- The following table shows the evolution of US household income at the 20th, 50th, 80th and 95th percentile from 1967 to 2011, in 2011 constant (CPI-U-RS adjusted) dollars.^[1] The final column shows the average change per year from 1976 to 2011.

Percentile	2011	2009	2006	2003	2000	1997	1994	1991	1988
20th	$20,262	$21,446	$22,349	$21,992	$23,404	$21,517	$20,148	$20,227	$20,794
50th	$50,054	$52,195	$53,768	$52,973	$54,841	$51,704	$48,418	$48,516	$49,737
80th	$101,582	$104,857	$108,239	$106,228	$106,790	$99,900	$94,304	$91,407	$92,427
95th	$186,000	$188,744	$194,111	$188,470	$189,665	$176,817	$164,806	$155,246	$156,454

Percentile	1985	1982	1979	1976	1973	1970	1967	Per Year
20th	$19,816	$18,798	$20,211	$19,426	$19,895	$19,063	$17,663	.12%
50th	$47,079	$45,139	$47,527	$45,595	NA	NA	NA	.27%
80th	$86,867	$81,456	$83,730	$79,322	$81,498	$75,783	$69,710	.71%
95th	$143,530	$134,461	$135,296	$125,794	$130,989	$119,792	$111,866	1.12%

(DeNavas-Walt & Proctor, 2013) ⇒ Carmen DeNavas-Walt, and Bernadette D. Proctor. (2013). “Income and Poverty in the United States: 2013." U.S. Census Bureau, Report Number: P60-249
- Median household income was $51,939 in 2013, not statistically different in real terms from the 2012 median. ...