At one end of the spectrum, based on 2018 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, physicians have a median salary of $200,890 in the United States. In contrast, waiters and waitresses have a median salary of $21,780.
We know when Americans reach $100,000 in savings. We know how much people are saving. But this begs the question: How much should you be saving?
There was a statistic going around that said one in six millennials have at least $100,000 saved. The reactions were mostly confusion and indignation. Is one in six such an impossible statistic? Short answer: No.
One person's long commute is another's dream. Another person's normal might be someone else's nightmare. What counts as a long commute depends on where you live.
The Current Population Survey tracks mobility and migration in the United States. Since 1999, it has asked for the reasons people moved from one place to the other.
Data visualizations show everyone comes from somewhere else in the United States.
The American Time Use Survey, an ongoing survey run by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, interviews thousands of people every year for a sense of how we spend our hours.
Before I had kids, I knew life would be different, but I wasn't prepared for just how different the everyday would be.
The range of household incomes that qualifies as "middle-income" is a lot higher in Massachusetts than it is in Mississippi. Here's how each state breaks down.
Escape, part search engine and part research project from students at the MIT Senseable City Laboratory in Singapore, shows you the cheapest flights out of any given city.
How are couples meeting now, and how has it changed over the years?
"So how'd you two meet?" There's always a story, but the general ways people meet are usually similar. Using the freshly released How Couples Meet and Stay Together dataset, we can see the most common ways.
Some jobs are common nationwide, because they are needed everywhere. Then there are jobs more specific to geography. Use this searchable map grid to see the popularity of your job in each state, compared against the national average.
James Bond may be leading the way with 26 films, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe is quickly gaining.
Many parents stop at two kids. Most are done by three. Still, everyone has their own timelines.
You never see players shoot from this "mid-range" area, but it's actually not off-limits. In fact, people used to shoot these "mid-range' shots.
As I watched Google's CEO Sundar Pichai field questions from the House Judiciary Committee it was hard not to feel like there was a big gap in how the internet works and how that gap may have to do with age.
About 18% of households in the US are single-income households. But the question is, what do the earners in these homes usually do?
Maybe the numbers aren't that high at the individual level, but if you're going to look at it from that angle, it's only fair to step back and scale up.