Did households around age 35 have more money left after ordinary costs?
A same-age comparison of income after all personal taxes, paycheck-like deductions, household costs, flexible spending and transfers, and remaining cash in 1989, 2007, and 2022.
Saved views and editorial analysis
Key Comparisons
Shareable answers to specific household-finance questions, built from saved explorer views and explained in plain English.
Each key comparison starts with a defined explorer view: one age, household structure, housing tenure, metric, and set of survey years. The page preserves that configuration, states what the estimate can establish, and documents the usual arguments, definitions, sources, and limitations around it.