Median Income By Ethnic Groups in America (based on Census Data)

[King Harlem]

9. African - $48,000
8. Native - $54,000
7. Hispanic - $57,000
6. White - $75,000
5. Korean - $91,000
4. Japanese - $94,000
3. Chinese - $102,000
2. Filipino - $109,000
1. Indian - $152,000

Thought this was interesting. Not exactly a fan of separating Chinese, Filipino & Indian rather than combining them into Asian American, while combining White, Hispanic, & African as ethnic categories.

 

[richaveli83]

I thought Native American would be much lower.

 

[At30wecashout]

For the first time ever, I am ashamed to be at parity with white people

 

[lowkey0z]

Thought this was interesting. Not exactly a fan of separating Chinese, Filipino & Indian rather than combining them into Asian American, while combining White, Hispanic, & African as ethnic categories.

did some research of my own just because of this

Median Income of Non-Hispanic White Households Increased While Asian, Black and Hispanic Median Household Income Did Not Change

Non-Hispanic White households were the only group with higher incomes in 2023. Asian household median income remained the highest among all groups.

www.census.gov

 

[IIVI]

I’m not surprised by the top 2. Everyone knows about Tech and Indians. Knew it wouldn’t even be close.

Then here in Cali Filipinos basically dominate traditional Engineering (especially Electrical) and Nursing. Don’t know their population in other states. If they’re mainly in Cali those salaries are going to be really high. Surprised Korean wasn’t top 3.

Factoring in location matters for all these groups. Mexicans from Cali probably make a lot more than Southern Mexicans for example. Not a lot of the Asian groups are going to move to the South or Midwest.

All that said, a big problem is that Indians are insanely bias to favor hiring more Indians. Straight nepotism.

 

[LadyJ2]

I’m trans Filipino

Want to be Indian tho

Gotta get my money up!

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Why exactly would you combine Chinese, Filipino & Indian into Asian America?


Definition of ethnicity:

Ethnicity is a way to describe a group of people who share a common culture, ancestry, language, practices, and beliefs.

Those groups don't share anything.....And it wouldn't make much of a difference anyway, their median income would still be over $100k

 

[SNG]

One thing too consider is that the top 4 groups have the lowest divorce rates and a lot of them own businesses.

 

[GetSomeMoney]

Would have been interesting to see him break out African and Carribean immigrants

 

[RickyDiBiase]

I thought Native American would be much lower.

This shyt is flawed. I got a cousin who works as a nurse on them reservations out in AZ and NM, and poverty out there is borderline absurd.

Like motherfukkers drink mouthwash and rubbing alcohol to get drunk poverty.

And if they're counting them Casinos, that's a huge asterisk cause that money is usually for a select amount of members of each tribe, if not just a family in of itself.

Not to mention they barely around 2% out of 300 million people, not saying they all crying poverty, but one thing I have a handle on is raw numbers.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Median household income is an interesting metric, but not the most useful.

Latinos will often have 2+ working adults in the home.

They cherry picked the higher earning Asians but left out Samoans/Tongans, Hmong, Vietnamese etc.

Blacks probably have fewer working adults per household, so our numbers will always be lower.

The Indian number seems a bit high. Most of them are either married or grown adults living with their parents while making 6-figs.

Whites are tricky because they have a lot of well-off people that skew their numbers. Big city whites (what most Blacks see) usually do OK. Small-town whites be on the gubmint assistance.

The Black number looks like one person's income while the others look more like 1.5 to 2+ adult incomes. Filipinos are legit. They usually make good money but on the lowlow.

 

[capt_saveahoe]

Being below Native Americans is embarrassing. I initially thought maybe Native Americans have a significantly high unemployment rate than blacks, which will effectively remove potential low income worker from the data set but their unemployment rate is only 2-3% higher than ours.

 

[King Harlem]

Why exactly would you combine Chinese, Filipino & Indian into Asian America?


Definition of ethnicity:


Those groups don't share anything.....And it wouldn't make much of a difference anyway, their median income would still be over $100k

You could make the same argument about Black Americans, Nigerians, Kenyans, Haitians, etc. all being categorized as Africans.
Or Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Salvadorians, Cubans, etc. all being categorized as Hispanics.
Just pointing out the list combined other groups into broad categories.

 

[SNG]

Median household income is an interesting metric, but not the most useful.

Latinos will often have 2+ working adults in the home.

They cherry picked the higher earning Asians but left out Samoans/Tongans, Hmong, Vietnamese etc.

Blacks probably have fewer working adults per household, so our numbers will always be lower.

The Indian number seems a bit high. Most of them are either married or grown adults living with their parents while making 6-figs.

Whites are tricky because they have a lot of well-off people that skew their numbers. Big city whites (what most Blacks see) usually do OK. Small-town whites be on the gubmint assistance.

The Black number looks like one person's income while the others look more like 1.5 to 2+ adult incomes. Filipinos are legit. They usually make good money but on the lowlow.

I mean for blacks there’s a lot of single parent homes so the median income would take a hit.

 

[Bushmaster69]

This isn't an ethnic break down. This is a racial/ethnic breakdown.

How can you compare all Black people and cacs to Philipinos, indians, japanese, etc...

Shyt doesn't make sense