Income of the Population 55 or Older, 2008
Appendix: Supplemental Table 3.A5 with 2006 Data
Retirement benefits | All units | Married couples | Nonmarried persons | ||||||||||||
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Total | Earnings | Income from assets | Total | Earnings | Income from assets | Total | Earnings | Income from assets | |||||||
Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||||
Number of recipient units (thousands) | |||||||||||||||
Total | 27,421 | 6,757 | 20,664 | 15,066 | 12,355 | 11,298 | 4,294 | 7,004 | 7,427 | 3,872 | 16,122 | 2,463 | 13,659 | 7,639 | 8,483 |
No benefit | 2,376 | 1,130 | 1,246 | 757 | 1,619 | 887 | 604 | 282 | 404 | 482 | 1,489 | 526 | 964 | 352 | 1,137 |
One benefit type | 14,464 | 3,409 | 11,055 | 6,896 | 7,567 | 5,095 | 2,049 | 3,046 | 2,997 | 2,098 | 9,369 | 1,360 | 8,009 | 3,899 | 5,469 |
Social Security only a | 13,729 | 3,224 | 10,505 | 6,436 | 7,294 | 4,796 | 1,929 | 2,867 | 2,776 | 2,020 | 8,933 | 1,296 | 7,638 | 3,659 | 5,274 |
Private pension or annuity only | 298 | 87 | 211 | 185 | 113 | 140 | 55 | 85 | 94 | 46 | 158 | 31 | 126 | 90 | 67 |
Government employee pension only b | 374 | 93 | 280 | 253 | 120 | 136 | 61 | 75 | 113 | 24 | 238 | 32 | 206 | 141 | 97 |
Railroad Retirement only | 63 | 5 | 58 | 23 | 40 | 23 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 40 | 1 | 39 | 9 | 31 |
Two benefit types | 10,068 | 2,110 | 7,958 | 6,998 | 3,070 | 4,939 | 1,541 | 3,398 | 3,715 | 1,224 | 5,129 | 569 | 4,559 | 3,283 | 1,846 |
Social Security and federal pension only a | 634 | 103 | 531 | 462 | 173 | 264 | 76 | 189 | 216 | 48 | 370 | 27 | 343 | 245 | 125 |
Social Security and Railroad Retirement, state, local, or military pension only a | 2,180 | 515 | 1,665 | 1,544 | 636 | 1,031 | 350 | 680 | 786 | 245 | 1,149 | 165 | 985 | 758 | 391 |
Social Security and private pension only a | 7,124 | 1,454 | 5,670 | 4,886 | 2,238 | 3,577 | 1,089 | 2,488 | 2,657 | 919 | 3,548 | 366 | 3,182 | 2,229 | 1,318 |
Other combination | 129 | 38 | 91 | 106 | 23 | 67 | 26 | 41 | 56 | 11 | 62 | 12 | 50 | 50 | 12 |
Three or more benefit types | 513 | 108 | 406 | 415 | 98 | 378 | 100 | 278 | 310 | 67 | 136 | 8 | 128 | 105 | 31 |
Median total money income (dollars) | |||||||||||||||
Total | 23,194 | 47,604 | 18,600 | 32,604 | 15,006 | 38,304 | 60,270 | 30,190 | 46,478 | 25,906 | 15,928 | 32,242 | 14,328 | 22,070 | 12,000 |
No benefit | 10,272 | 43,886 | 0 | 45,802 | 6,900 | 36,396 | 60,000 | 6 | 72,739 | 16,320 | 6,900 | 30,484 | 0 | 24,800 | 4,800 |
One benefit type | 16,740 | 42,760 | 14,004 | 24,733 | 13,062 | 28,800 | 56,180 | 22,540 | 37,462 | 21,788 | 13,072 | 29,978 | 12,088 | 17,348 | 11,262 |
Social Security only a | 16,527 | 41,250 | 13,770 | 23,882 | 13,062 | 28,362 | 54,244 | 22,302 | 36,262 | 21,862 | 13,062 | 29,062 | 12,000 | 16,917 | 11,142 |
Private pension or annuity only | 18,724 | 68,532 | 13,920 | 26,772 | 13,920 | 33,300 | c | 16,200 | 54,014 | c | 13,200 | c | 9,840 | 18,000 | c |
Government employee pension only b | 41,000 | 74,426 | 33,420 | 59,627 | 20,724 | 62,889 | c | c | 72,010 | c | 33,561 | c | 30,106 | 44,100 | 20,100 |
Railroad Retirement only | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c |
Two benefit types | 33,262 | 56,654 | 29,600 | 38,583 | 24,850 | 44,339 | 65,024 | 39,438 | 48,604 | 34,248 | 23,907 | 37,693 | 22,496 | 27,618 | 19,122 |
Social Security and federal pension only a | 33,918 | 62,052 | 30,804 | 38,523 | 21,210 | 45,928 | 77,088 | 39,925 | 46,824 | c | 24,862 | c | 24,600 | 28,941 | 17,622 |
Social Security and Railroad Retirement, state, local, or military pension only a | 39,364 | 68,724 | 35,110 | 45,420 | 27,454 | 52,786 | 77,112 | 44,924 | 58,418 | 39,612 | 29,200 | 39,870 | 27,014 | 33,612 | 21,834 |
Social Security and private pension only a | 31,227 | 51,851 | 28,262 | 36,278 | 24,062 | 41,972 | 58,952 | 37,669 | 45,536 | 33,790 | 22,338 | 34,716 | 21,559 | 25,279 | 19,002 |
Other combination | 51,862 | c | 50,464 | 54,704 | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c |
Three or more benefit types | 51,798 | 72,289 | 45,476 | 55,700 | 42,082 | 59,910 | 73,864 | 54,707 | 64,616 | c | 37,662 | c | 37,662 | 39,445 | c |
NOTE: When Income of the Population 55 or Older was revised in the 2004 expanded edition, Table 3.6 was removed. Beginning with this 2008 edition, it has been reintroduced as Table 3.A5. We include a copy of Table 3.A5 here with 2006 data for continuity with prior editions. | |||||||||||||||
a. Social Security includes retired-worker benefits, dependents' or survivors' benefits, disability benefits, transitionally insured benefits, and special age-72 benefits. | |||||||||||||||
b. Includes federal, state, local, and military pensions. | |||||||||||||||
c. Fewer than 75,000 weighted cases. |