Millennials came of age during a tough economic time: Student debt has reached an all-time high, and the job market is more competitive than ever. As a result, young people today aren’t earning as much money as their parents did when they were young. So how much are they making?
Using data from the Minnesota Population Center’s 2014 “American Community Survey” in the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, we found the median annual total personal income for employed millennials. We used the Pew Research Center’s definition of millennials: Americans born between 1981 and 1997.
The medians ranged between a low of $18,000 per year in Montana and a high of $43,000 in the District of Columbia. How do you stack up?
Note that the youngest millennials are college-aged and may only be working part-time, which may skew the median downwards.
Below, we included the median annual personal income by state for all employees over age 17, also from the Minnesota Population Center's 2014 "American Community Survey" in the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.
Read on to see how millennials compare to earners of all ages:
Kathleen Elkins contributed to an earlier version of this post.
Alabama
- Mobile Bay, Alabama.
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- Flickr / mmblawyer
Median personal income for all employees: $31,100
Median income for millennials: $20,000
Alaska
- Anchorage, Alaska.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$44,000
Median income for millennials: $27,500
Arizona
- Sedona, Arizona.
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- Shutterstock/Josemaria Toscano
Median personal income for all employees:$33,000
Median income for millennials: $20,800
Arkansas
- Little Rock, Arkansas.
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- iStock / benkrut
Median personal income for all employees:$30,000
Median income for millennials: $20,000
California
- San Francisco, California.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$35,000
Median income for millennials: $21,900
Colorado
- Denver, Colorado.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$38,000
Median income for millennials: $24,000
Connecticut
- Hartford, Connecticut.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$44,000
Median income for millennials: $23,300
Delaware
- Wilmington, Delaware.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$38,000
Median income for millennials: $25,000
District of Columbia
- Washington, DC.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$55,000
Median income for millennials: $43,000
Florida
- Miami, Florida.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$30,000
Median income for millennials: $20,000
Georgia
- Atlanta, Georgia.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$33,000
Median income for millennials: $20,000
Hawaii
- Honolulu, Hawaii.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$37,000
Median income for millennials: $25,900
Idaho
- Sun Valley, Idaho.
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- Flickr/Thomas Hawk
Median personal income for all employees:$30,000
Median income for millennials: $19,000
Illinois
- Chicago, Illinois.
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- Flickr/giuseppemilo
Median personal income for all employees:$37,500
Median income for millennials: $23,000
Indiana
- Indianapolis, Indiana.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$33,000
Median income for millennials: $20,000
Iowa
- Des Moines, Iowa.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$35,000
Median income for millennials: $23,000
Kansas
- The Kansas state capitol building.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$35,000
Median income for millennials: $21,000
Kentucky
- Louisville, Kentucky.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$31,000
Median income for millennials: $20,000
Louisiana
- New Orleans, Louisiana.
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- Flickr/expressmonorail
Median personal income for all employees:$33,000
Median income for millennials: $22,000
Maine
- Acadia National Park, Maine.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$33,400
Median income for millennials: $19,200
Maryland
- Baltimore, Maryland.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$45,000
Median income for millennials: $26,000
Massachusetts
- Boston, Massachusetts.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$44,000
Median income for millennials: $25,000
Michigan
- Detroit, Michigan.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$33,700
Median income for millennials: $19,300
Minnesota
- Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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- WIkimedia Commons
Median personal income for all employees:$39,000
Median income for millennials: $24,000
Mississippi
- Mississippi State Capitol.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$30,000
Median income for millennials: $19,400
Missouri
- St. Louis, Missouri.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$32,900
Median income for millennials: $20,000
Montana
- Montana's Glacier National Park.
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- Flickr/Mark Smith
Median personal income for all employees:$30,000
Median income for millennials: $18,000
Nebraska
- Omaha, Nebraska.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$34,400
Median income for millennials: $23,000
Nevada
- Las Vegas, Nevada.
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- littleny/Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$33,000
Median income for millennials: $24,000
New Hampshire
- Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$40,000
Median income for millennials: $21,000
New Jersey
- Hoboken, New Jersey.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$44,000
Median income for millennials: $25,000
New Mexico
- Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$30,000
Median income for millennials: $19,200
New York
- New York, New York.
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- Shutterstock/turtix
Median personal income for all employees:$40,000
Median income for millennials: $25,000
North Carolina
- Charlotte, North Carolina.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$31,900
Median income for millennials: $20,000
North Dakota
- North Dakota.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$36,000
Median income for millennials: $25,000
Ohio
- Cincinnati, Ohio.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$35,000
Median income for millennials: $20,000
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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- iStock
Median personal income for all employees:$32,000
Median income for millennials: $22,000
Oregon
- Portland, Oregon.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$32,000
Median income for millennials: $20,000
Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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- Shutterstock/Jon Bilous
Median personal income for all employees:$36,000
Median income for millennials: $23,400
Rhode Island
- Providence, Rhode Island.
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- Flickr / tenchiro
Median personal income for all employees:$37,200
Median income for millennials: $20,000
South Carolina
- Charleston, South Carolina.
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- Shutterstock / Sean Pavone
Median personal income for all employees:$30,000
Median income for millennials: $19,700
South Dakota
- Badlands National Park in South Dakota.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$32,200
Median income for millennials: $21,000
Tennessee
- Nashville, Tennessee.
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- iStock
Median personal income for all employees:$31,000
Median income for millennials: $20,000
Texas
- Austin, Texas.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$34,000
Median income for millennials: $22,000
Utah
- Salt Lake City, Utah.
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- Garrett/Creative Commons
Median personal income for all employees:$31,000
Median income for millennials: $20,000
Vermont
- Stowe, Vermont.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$35,500
Median income for millennials: $24,000
Virginia
- Richmond, Virginia.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$40,000
Median income for millennials: $25,000
Washington
- Seattle, Washington.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$40,000
Median income for millennials: $24,000
West Virginia
- New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$31,000
Median income for millennials: $19,000
Wisconsin
- Madison, Wisconsin.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$35,000
Median income for millennials: $20,000
Wyoming
- Leigh Lake in Wyoming.
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- Shutterstock
Median personal income for all employees:$37,000
Median income for millennials: $24,400
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