The calculator was designed as “a companion to our research on the size and well-being of the global middle class,” says Rakesh Kochhar, the senior researcher.

What does it mean to be middle class, and are you a part of it? To help bring some clarity, the Pew Research Center has developed a calculator that can tell you if your income puts you in the ...

The data used in this calculator was provided by the Brookings Institution from its analysis of the global middle class, covering 97 percent of the world’s population. All data is for 2016.

Americans can calculate if they are lower, middle or upper class by using Pew Research Center’s updated calculator. The interactive asks for state, metropolitan area, household income before ...