Inflation-adjusted median U.S. household income rose 2.6% to a record $87,460 in 2025 from $85,210 in 2024, while the official poverty rate edged down for a third consecutive year to 10.2%, or about 34.5 million people. The gains were uneven: income for the top 10% of households increased 1.7%, but the bottom 10% recorded no statistically significant change. Households at the 90th percentile earned about $261,300, more than 13 times the roughly $20,010 earned at the 10th percentile, and the highest-income fifth received 52.4% of household income. The Gini index, a broad measure of income inequality, was not significantly different from 2024. The Supplemental Poverty Measure remained at 13.1%, nearly 3 percentage points above the official measure, with medical expenses pushing an estimated 7.7 million additional people below that threshold. The figures largely precede major safety-net reductions under President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, making the 2025 data a benchmark for assessing their effects on income, poverty and health coverage.