Income year 2024
How much wage income sits above the Social Security tax cap?
A birth-year view of survey-estimated 2024 wage and salary income above the $168,600 taxable maximum.
These are weighted CPS estimates, not payroll records. Birth year is approximated as 2025 minus age at the March 2025 survey. Combined-income variants are diagnostic because CPS and OASDI concepts differ.
Birth-year estimates
Wages above the cap
Displayed through estimated birth year 2010. The complete analytical dataset remains available from the Evidence menu.
| Birth year | Approx. age | Above-cap workers | Wage excess | 90% interval | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 14 | 3,837 | $0.1B | $0.0B–$0.3B | Low |
| 2009 | 15 | 1,139 | $0.0B | $0.0B–$0.1B | Low |
| 2008 | 16 | 12,099 | $4.7B | $0.0B–$11.2B | Low |
| 2007 | 17 | 5,543 | $0.5B | $0.0B–$1.1B | Low |
| 2006 | 18 | 0 | $0.0B | $0.0B–$0.0B | N/A |
| 2005 | 19 | 0 | $0.0B | $0.0B–$0.0B | N/A |
| 2004 | 20 | 9,958 | $0.6B | $0.0B–$1.4B | Low |
| 2003 | 21 | 18,592 | $0.4B | $0.1B–$0.8B | Low |
| 2002 | 22 | 35,510 | $7.3B | $0.0B–$15.0B | Low |
| 2001 | 23 | 45,522 | $0.9B | $0.4B–$1.5B | Low |
| 2000 | 24 | 51,746 | $5.4B | $0.9B–$9.8B | Low |
| 1999 | 25 | 45,601 | $4.2B | $0.2B–$8.1B | Low |
| 1998 | 26 | 91,913 | $7.3B | $3.4B–$11.2B | Low |
| 1997 | 27 | 128,335 | $17.4B | $10.1B–$24.8B | Med |
| 1996 | 28 | 155,948 | $29.7B | $16.4B–$42.9B | Med |
| 1995 | 29 | 141,671 | $16.3B | $8.6B–$23.9B | Med |
| 1994 | 30 | 170,364 | $22.5B | $7.6B–$37.4B | Low |
| 1993 | 31 | 152,914 | $21.1B | $10.9B–$31.3B | Med |
| 1992 | 32 | 244,437 | $23.0B | $16.1B–$29.8B | Med |
| 1991 | 33 | 253,460 | $26.2B | $17.1B–$35.3B | Med |
| 1990 | 34 | 318,280 | $39.5B | $28.4B–$50.6B | Med |
| 1989 | 35 | 321,610 | $43.5B | $30.2B–$56.7B | Med |
| 1988 | 36 | 327,146 | $46.7B | $35.7B–$57.7B | High |
| 1987 | 37 | 304,034 | $31.1B | $23.4B–$38.7B | High |
| 1986 | 38 | 323,742 | $43.4B | $31.6B–$55.3B | Med |
| 1985 | 39 | 338,376 | $47.2B | $33.3B–$61.2B | Med |
| 1984 | 40 | 345,837 | $50.0B | $36.3B–$63.8B | Med |
| 1983 | 41 | 330,125 | $41.5B | $29.1B–$53.9B | Med |
| 1982 | 42 | 300,876 | $46.4B | $33.3B–$59.4B | Med |
| 1981 | 43 | 310,443 | $37.6B | $26.0B–$49.2B | Med |
| 1980 | 44 | 314,307 | $45.8B | $33.0B–$58.6B | Med |
| 1979 | 45 | 261,644 | $38.6B | $26.1B–$51.1B | Med |
| 1978 | 46 | 336,937 | $50.8B | $36.8B–$64.9B | Med |
| 1977 | 47 | 338,357 | $42.2B | $29.0B–$55.4B | Med |
| 1976 | 48 | 265,619 | $42.2B | $29.5B–$55.0B | Med |
| 1975 | 49 | 369,020 | $39.6B | $30.0B–$49.3B | High |
| 1974 | 50 | 287,804 | $31.7B | $22.6B–$40.8B | Med |
| 1973 | 51 | 309,230 | $38.6B | $26.1B–$51.0B | Med |
| 1972 | 52 | 332,961 | $47.4B | $32.2B–$62.5B | Med |
| 1971 | 53 | 289,970 | $50.3B | $31.3B–$69.3B | Med |
| 1970 | 54 | 223,780 | $34.1B | $24.5B–$43.7B | Med |
| 1969 | 55 | 291,202 | $41.9B | $26.9B–$56.9B | Med |
| 1968 | 56 | 249,573 | $41.5B | $26.7B–$56.2B | Med |
| 1967 | 57 | 278,773 | $52.7B | $34.4B–$71.1B | Med |
| 1966 | 58 | 269,473 | $58.9B | $38.3B–$79.4B | Med |
| 1965 | 59 | 200,008 | $36.8B | $23.5B–$50.2B | Med |
| 1964 | 60 | 218,373 | $31.9B | $19.1B–$44.8B | Med |
| 1963 | 61 | 220,987 | $35.0B | $21.9B–$48.2B | Med |
| 1962 | 62 | 226,968 | $37.1B | $22.4B–$51.7B | Med |
| 1961 | 63 | 156,085 | $20.3B | $12.1B–$28.5B | Med |
| 1960 | 64 | 146,960 | $28.6B | $16.3B–$40.9B | Med |
| 1959 | 65 | 85,894 | $13.3B | $6.1B–$20.6B | Low |
| 1958 | 66 | 77,170 | $15.3B | $6.1B–$24.4B | Low |
| 1957 | 67 | 86,683 | $13.0B | $6.3B–$19.7B | Low |
| 1956 | 68 | 65,002 | $11.0B | $2.6B–$19.4B | Low |
| 1955 | 69 | 40,888 | $3.2B | $0.8B–$5.6B | Low |
| 1954 | 70 | 68,107 | $9.2B | $2.1B–$16.3B | Low |
| 1953 | 71 | 44,824 | $8.5B | $2.0B–$14.9B | Low |
| 1952 | 72 | 13,968 | $1.5B | $0.2B–$2.8B | Low |
| 1951 | 73 | 16,939 | $8.1B | $0.3B–$15.8B | Low |
| 1950 | 74 | 22,821 | $1.2B | $0.0B–$2.5B | Low |
| 1949 | 75 | 7,699 | $0.9B | $0.0B–$1.9B | Low |
| 1948 | 76 | 7,660 | $0.3B | $0.0B–$0.6B | Low |
| 1947 | 77 | 14,062 | $0.5B | $0.1B–$1.0B | Low |
| 1946 | 78 | 10,392 | $3.0B | $0.0B–$6.5B | Low |
| 1945 | 79 | 37,620 | $3.1B | $1.2B–$5.1B | Low |
| 1940 | 84 | 14,324 | $7.3B | $0.0B–$16.0B | Low |