US States With The Most High and Low Earners – Full 50-State List
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If you didn’t see your state in the top 10 states for high and low earners, you can find how it ranked in this study in the tables below.
Here are the states as ranked by their percentage of taxpayers who earn $1 million or more annually. The figure beside each state represents the percentage of taxpayers who fall into this category.
| 1. | Connecticut | 0.63% |
| 2. | District of Columbia | 0.55% |
| 3. | New York | 0.47% |
| 4. | Massachusetts | 0.42% |
| 5. | New Jersey | 0.40% |
| 6. | North Dakota | 0.35% |
| 7. | California | 0.35% |
| 8. | Texas | 0.32% |
| 9. | Florida | 0.31% |
| 10. | Illinois | 0.31% |
| 11. | Wyoming | 0.30% |
| 12. | Colorado | 0.27% |
| 13. | Maryland | 0.26% |
| 14. | Nevada | 0.26% |
| 15. | South Dakota | 0.26% |
| 16. | Minnesota | 0.25% |
| 17. | Washington | 0.25% |
| 18. | Virginia | 0.24% |
| 19. | Oklahoma | 0.24% |
| 20. | Louisiana | 0.23% |
| 21. | Pennsylvania | 0.22% |
| 22. | Kansas | 0.21% |
| 23. | Nebraska | 0.21% |
| 24. | Utah | 0.21% |
| 25. | New Hampshire | 0.21% |
| 26. | Georgia | 0.20% |
| 27. | Arkansas | 0.19% |
| 28. | Wisconsin | 0.19% |
| 29. | Delaware | 0.19% |
| 30. | Tennessee | 0.18% |
| 31. | Rhode Island | 0.18% |
| 32. | Missouri | 0.18% |
| 33. | Arizona | 0.18% |
| 34. | Michigan | 0.17% |
| 35. | Ohio | 0.17% |
| 36. | Iowa | 0.17% |
| 37. | Montana | 0.16% |
| 38. | North Carolina | 0.16% |
| 39. | Oregon | 0.16% |
| 40. | Idaho | 0.15% |
| 41. | Vermont | 0.15% |
| 42. | Indiana | 0.15% |
| 43. | Alaska | 0.14% |
| 44. | South Carolina | 0.14% |
| 45. | Arkansas | 0.14% |
| 46. | Hawaii | 0.13% |
| 47. | Maine | 0.13% |
| 48. | New Mexico | 0.13% |
| 49. | Kentucky | 0.13% |
| 50. | Mississippi | 0.12% |
| 51. | West Virginia | 0.10% |
And here are the states as ranked by their percentage of taxpayers who earn $25,000 or less annually. Again, the figure beside each state represents the percentage of taxpayers who fall into this category.
| 1. | Mississippi | 48.57% |
| 2. | Florida | 46.52% |
| 3. | New Mexico | 45.07% |
| 4. | Arkansas | 44.96% |
| 5. | Georgia | 44.72% |
| 6. | Alaska | 44.67% |
| 7. | South Carolina | 44.60% |
| 8. | Tennessee | 44.38% |
| 9. | Louisiana | 44.35% |
| 10. | Michigan | 43.92% |
| 11. | West Virginia | 43.43% |
| 12. | Kentucky | 43.38% |
| 13. | Montana | 43.31% |
| 14. | North Carolina | 42.45% |
| 15. | Indiana | 42.26% |
| 16. | Missouri | 42.14% |
| 17. | Idaho | 42.09% |
| 18. | Texas | 41.82% |
| 19. | Arizona | 41.15% |
| 20. | Oklahoma | 40.94% |
| 21. | Maine | 40.75% |
| 22. | New York | 40.71% |
| 23. | Ohio | 40.59% |
| 24. | Nevada | 40.21% |
| 25. | Vermont | 40.14% |
| 26. | South Dakota | 40.09% |
| 27. | California | 39.88% |
| 28. | Oregon | 39.87% |
| 29. | Rhode Island | 39.84% |
| 30. | Pennsylvania | 39.58% |
| 31. | Kansas | 39.45% |
| 32. | Illinois | 39.33% |
| 33. | Wyoming | 39.19% |
| 34. | Wisconsin | 38.93% |
| 35. | Utah | 38.37% |
| 36. | Nebraska | 38.33% |
| 37. | Hawaii | 37.65% |
| 38. | Delaware | 37.39% |
| 39. | Iowa | 36.81% |
| 40. | Alaska | 36.53% |
| 41. | Colorado | 36.45% |
| 42. | New Hampshire | 36.05% |
| 43. | New Jersey | 35.98% |
| 44. | Minnesota | 35.86% |
| 45. | Virginia | 35.46% |
| 46. | North Dakota | 35.03% |
| 47. | Massachusetts | 34.99% |
| 48. | Washington | 34.89% |
| 49. | Connecticut | 34.80% |
| 50. | Maryland | 33.79% |
| 51. | District of Columbia | 32.11% |
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