It all comes down to families who emphasize education and all the values that are associated with it (knowledge accumulation, work ethic, etc).
42% of asians making more than 150k is insane. is this house hold or individual?
Note this is all pre-tax. Had to look it up in the census report OP linked.
This chart also has a geographic bias to it. Asians are more likely to be in the west coast and urban areas; that in itself represents a meaningful delta.
Black people living in rural Alabama don’t make as much regardless of other circumstances
Is Multiracial also including Indians and Mid Easteners or are they present in Asia? I mean they are also asians. So what would count here as Multiracial? South America and Africa?
Yet the elimination of DEI would solely benefit the white males, MAGA said.
Is it asian supremacy? Asking for a firend.
Why do they not separate East Asians from South Asians? It would be better if they did.
You should look up the crime rates in ethnic enclaves—it’ll scare the hell out of you.
Seems high for some groups. But maybe has to do with the people who take the time to fill out the census generally are more well off?
It’s crazy being all of the top 4 and not making 4x this /s
I am pretty on par with multicultural though
I think this would be more useful if it was weighted for localized cost of living. At the end of the day it’s more about the lifestyle you can afford vs the actual dollar amount.
I would like to see it broken down by household type too ie., dual income, kids no kids etc.
Out of wedlock and single mom is higher in black community. If they would be married household income wouldn’t be as drastic.
1/4th over $150k, y’all Americans are loaded
I’m not sure how this was made because interracial households exist.
A lot of people failing to realize the poor and penniless East Asians that immigrated in the 70s to early 90s have grown adult children that became educated IN the US and are solidly in the middle class and higher. Implying that the data is skewed because of tech worker immigration is reductive. An entire generation was raised with the cultural goal of “doctor, lawyer, engineer”. Computer science was barely introduced as a career goal for Asians until at least the turn of the century. In fact, comp sci was literally a meme in my HS and those taking the class were known for slacking off and cheating on exams. A handful of those made it into careers.
Intrigued by the Native American numbers. Just because so many reservations are extremely poor places and a lot of native communities struggle with extreme poverty
Let’s do one for Non-MAGA and MAGA.
Just a thought: An Asian household is probably way bigger than that of the others (children move out in a later age). Is there any Data on that?
Since it’s from the census bureau , is it safe to assume Middle Easterners , North Africans and “some” Indians are still classified as “white”? When I did census volunteer work that was the case previously. Iirc it’s a legal thing from decades ago
Non American here, have two questions
Does Asian include everyone who has Asian continent ancestry or only East Asians?
Do white Hispanics get categorized with the Hispanic or white category or does it depend?
From the 1950s through the 2000s, Asian business owners would use family members and children as unpaid laborers. I am not judging that practice at all.
I used to help a friend in high school whose parents immigrated from Vietnam and had a small grocery store. Whenever I would be around they would have me stock the shelves. Teaching your children to work is one way to advance economically. It is also easier to build wealth when you don’t have to pay your workers nor pay taxes on those workers. My mom had no objection or an opinion to me spending 30 minutes to an hour before seeing a movie stocking shelves. My dad thought this was wrong and that I should get paid for it. That difference in opinion really makes all the difference in the world to wear you end up in life.
I didn’t care. Because, my friend and I would just joke around the whole time.
My point is, there is more to this than just race/ethnicity. There are cultural factors that advance the average member in a group. In his family, working was just something expected. The return from working wasn’t. The fact they fled Vietnam on a pirate boat and moved to a country they didn’t speak the language also was a factor to their economic frugality.
Jewish people are forced to go through a process where they learn another language and have to stand in front of a group of people and recite text. There are very distinct cultural differences. And these cultural differences change the futures of the next generation.
If you want to know why one family succeeds or fails… you have to actually talk to them individually. My family fled Europe before WWII. It’s not really honest to compare my family’s wealth/income to someone who had been in the US in the 19th century during the land lotteries. But, that is all economics ever does. Look at the surface and ignore everything else.
By the way, my friends mom would have been a world class Mario Brothers speed racer is such a thing existed at the time.
It’s crazy how high salaries are in the US compared to my country, I’m always shocked
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Source: [US Census Bureau ](https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-286.pdf)
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It all comes down to families who emphasize education and all the values that are associated with it (knowledge accumulation, work ethic, etc).
42% of asians making more than 150k is insane. is this house hold or individual?
Note this is all pre-tax. Had to look it up in the census report OP linked.
This chart also has a geographic bias to it. Asians are more likely to be in the west coast and urban areas; that in itself represents a meaningful delta.
Black people living in rural Alabama don’t make as much regardless of other circumstances
Is Multiracial also including Indians and Mid Easteners or are they present in Asia? I mean they are also asians. So what would count here as Multiracial? South America and Africa?
Yet the elimination of DEI would solely benefit the white males, MAGA said.
Is it asian supremacy? Asking for a firend.
Why do they not separate East Asians from South Asians? It would be better if they did.
You should look up the crime rates in ethnic enclaves—it’ll scare the hell out of you.
Seems high for some groups. But maybe has to do with the people who take the time to fill out the census generally are more well off?
It’s crazy being all of the top 4 and not making 4x this /s
I am pretty on par with multicultural though
I think this would be more useful if it was weighted for localized cost of living. At the end of the day it’s more about the lifestyle you can afford vs the actual dollar amount.
I would like to see it broken down by household type too ie., dual income, kids no kids etc.
Out of wedlock and single mom is higher in black community. If they would be married household income wouldn’t be as drastic.
1/4th over $150k, y’all Americans are loaded
I’m not sure how this was made because interracial households exist.
A lot of people failing to realize the poor and penniless East Asians that immigrated in the 70s to early 90s have grown adult children that became educated IN the US and are solidly in the middle class and higher. Implying that the data is skewed because of tech worker immigration is reductive. An entire generation was raised with the cultural goal of “doctor, lawyer, engineer”. Computer science was barely introduced as a career goal for Asians until at least the turn of the century. In fact, comp sci was literally a meme in my HS and those taking the class were known for slacking off and cheating on exams. A handful of those made it into careers.
Intrigued by the Native American numbers. Just because so many reservations are extremely poor places and a lot of native communities struggle with extreme poverty
Let’s do one for Non-MAGA and MAGA.
Just a thought: An Asian household is probably way bigger than that of the others (children move out in a later age). Is there any Data on that?
Since it’s from the census bureau , is it safe to assume Middle Easterners , North Africans and “some” Indians are still classified as “white”? When I did census volunteer work that was the case previously. Iirc it’s a legal thing from decades ago
Non American here, have two questions
Does Asian include everyone who has Asian continent ancestry or only East Asians?
Do white Hispanics get categorized with the Hispanic or white category or does it depend?
From the 1950s through the 2000s, Asian business owners would use family members and children as unpaid laborers. I am not judging that practice at all.
I used to help a friend in high school whose parents immigrated from Vietnam and had a small grocery store. Whenever I would be around they would have me stock the shelves. Teaching your children to work is one way to advance economically. It is also easier to build wealth when you don’t have to pay your workers nor pay taxes on those workers. My mom had no objection or an opinion to me spending 30 minutes to an hour before seeing a movie stocking shelves. My dad thought this was wrong and that I should get paid for it. That difference in opinion really makes all the difference in the world to wear you end up in life.
I didn’t care. Because, my friend and I would just joke around the whole time.
My point is, there is more to this than just race/ethnicity. There are cultural factors that advance the average member in a group. In his family, working was just something expected. The return from working wasn’t. The fact they fled Vietnam on a pirate boat and moved to a country they didn’t speak the language also was a factor to their economic frugality.
Jewish people are forced to go through a process where they learn another language and have to stand in front of a group of people and recite text. There are very distinct cultural differences. And these cultural differences change the futures of the next generation.
If you want to know why one family succeeds or fails… you have to actually talk to them individually. My family fled Europe before WWII. It’s not really honest to compare my family’s wealth/income to someone who had been in the US in the 19th century during the land lotteries. But, that is all economics ever does. Look at the surface and ignore everything else.
By the way, my friends mom would have been a world class Mario Brothers speed racer is such a thing existed at the time.
It’s crazy how high salaries are in the US compared to my country, I’m always shocked
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