Americans are earning more than their parents

• What Americans earn

  Median weekly earnings in the U.S. for wage and salary workers were $775 at the end of 2012.
  But just how much you make depends on a number of factors, including your race and gender,
  CNNMoney gives you a snapshot into what Americans earn:

  The more schooling you have, the more you get in your paycheck.

  And your profession has a big impact:

  It's well-known that women make less than men...but the size of the MORE

  Tami Luhby - Jan 23, 2013 9:43 AM ET
  Posted in: bureau of labor statistics, earnings, income, weekly earnings

• Health care premiums rise by an average of 62% since 2003

  Average health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored family coverage soared 62% between 2003 and 2011, far outpacing the rise in wages, a new study found.

  By 2011, there were 35 states in which the annual premium equaled 20% or more of income, according to a study issued Wednesday by The Commonwealth Fund. This compares to just one state in 2003.

  Premiums in the south and south-central United States were the highest relative to MORE

  Tami Luhby - Dec 12, 2012 12:16 PM ET
  Posted in: health, health care, health care premiums, health insurance, income, premiums

• The poor more likely to live with the poor

  More and more Americans are living in neighborhoods surrounded by people who earn about as much as them ... whether they are rich or poor.

  Segregation by income is growing, according to a Pew Research Center analysis released Wednesday.

  Some 28% of low-income households lived in low-income neighborhoods in 2010, up from 23% three decades earlier. And the number of upper-income households living in upper-income neighborhoods doubled to 18% over that period.

  Pew MORE

  Tami Luhby - Aug 1, 2012 12:01 PM ET
  Posted in: census, cnnmoney, economy, high-income, income, income inequality, low-income, middle class, pew, pew research center, segregation

• Million dollar incomes on the rise again

  The number of millionaires in the U.S. is moving on up.

  There were nearly 268,000 tax filers who reported more than $1 million in adjusted gross income in 2010, according to a Tax Foundation analysis of Internal Revenue Service data.

  That's about 31,000 more than the previous year, but is still lower than the boom times. Between 2005 and 2008, the number of millionaires topped 300,000 annually.

  The vast majority of millionaire taxpayers MORE

  Tami Luhby - Jun 18, 2012 7:53 AM ET
  Posted in: income, internal revenue service, IRS, millionaires, tax foundation, wealth

• Who's got the money?

  Who makes the big bucks in America?

  Middle-aged white couples.

  We all know that income is concentrated in the United States, but Sentier Research has crunched the data to show just who has the money.

  Take a look at the breakdown by race:

  White households have an aggregate income of $6.2 trillion, while Hispanics have an aggregate income of $710 billion and blacks $641 billion. Asians, meanwhile, have $419 billion.

  To be sure, there are MORE

  Tami Luhby - May 31, 2012 2:00 PM ET
  Posted in: asian, black, california, census, hispanic, income, Sentier Research, wealth, white

• Economy improves...incomes don't

  Even though the national economy is on the upswing, many Americans haven't been reaping the benefits.

  In fact, the median household income in January was $50,020, or 5.4% lower than it was in June 2009, the beginning of the economic recovery, according to a new estimate from Sentier Research, based on Census data.

  This decline in income comes despite improvements in the job market. The unemployment rate stood to 8.3% in January, MORE

  Tami Luhby - Mar 6, 2012 12:16 PM ET
  Posted in: economic recovery, Great Recession, income, median household income, Sentier Research