St. Louis ranks 20th for income level
St. Louis Business Journal
Monday, August 17, 2009
by G. Scott Thomas
Seventy-two U.S. markets currently have more than $25 billion in total personal income (TPI), with St. Louis ranking 20th with $116.4 billion.
TPI is defined as the sum of all money received by all residents of a given area in a given year. It encompasses such diverse sources of income as salaries, interest payments, dividends, rental income and government checks.
The New York City area is first in the nation with TPI of $1.031 trillion, based on 2008 figures. It's the only metro to surpass $600 billion, according to an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data released earlier this month.
Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and Houston round out the top five.
The following are the 72 markets with TPI of more than $25 billion:
- New York City, $1.031 trillion
- Los Angeles, $552.5 billion
- Chicago, $433.8 billion
- Washington, $302.8 billion
- Houston, $276.4 billion
- Philadelphia, $274.1 billion
- Dallas-Fort Worth, $267.1 billion
- San Francisco-Oakland, $263.9 billion
- Boston, $248.9 billion
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale, $236.7 billion
- Atlanta, $202.4 billion
- Detroit, $176.1 billion
- Seattle, $168.8 billion
- Minneapolis-St. Paul, $154.6 billion
- Phoenix, $148.5 billion
- San Diego, $136.5 billion
- Baltimore, $126.2 billion
- Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., $119.4 billion
- Denver, $119.1 billion
- St. Louis, $116.4 billion
- San Jose, $107.0 billion
- Tampa-St. Petersburg, $100.9 billion
- Pittsburgh, $100.7 billion
- Portland, Ore., $87.1 billion
- Cincinnati, $83.5 billion
- Cleveland, $83.2 billion
- Sacramento, $82.3 billion
- Kansas City, $80.8 billion
- Bridgeport-Stamford, Conn., $73.6 billion
- Las Vegas, $73.3 billion
- Orlando, $71.4 billion
- San Antonio, $70.8 billion
- Columbus, $67.6 billion
- Indianapolis, $67.4 billion
- Milwaukee, $66.7 billion
- Charlotte, $66.3 billion
- Providence, $64.7 billion
- Virginia Beach-Norfolk, $63.2 billion
- Austin, $62.5 billion
- Nashville, $61.0 billion
- Hartford, $58.5 billion
- Jacksonville, $51.6 billion
- Richmond, $50.3 billion
- New Orleans, $50.1 billion
- Oklahoma City, $49.4 billion
- Memphis, $48.6 billion
- Louisville, $47.4 billion
- Birmingham, $45.1 billion
- Raleigh, $42.7 billion
- Buffalo, $40.9 billion
- Salt Lake City, $40.5 billion
- Tulsa, $39.7 billion
- Rochester, N.Y., $39.5 billion
- Honolulu, $39.4 billion
- New Haven, Conn., $38.3 billion
- Oxnard-Thousand Oaks, Calif., $36.4 billion
- Omaha, $35.8 billion
- Albany, $34.9 billion
- Worcester, Mass., $33.5 billion
- Bradenton-Sarasota, Fla., $33.4 billion
- Tucson, $33.0 billion
- Allentown-Bethlehem, Pa., $30.6 billion
- Dayton, $29.0 billion
- Albuquerque, $29.0 billion
- Baton Rouge, La., $27.6 billion
- Grand Rapids, $26.9 billion
- Akron, Ohio, $26.2 billion
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y., $26.1 billion
- Fresno, Calif., $26.0 billion
- Little Rock, Ark., $25.8 billion
- Springfield, Mass., $25.5 billion
- Columbia, S.C., $25.2 billion
