Not necessarily.  According to a sibling commenter, upper end of the range is set at double the median income.  If it&#x27;s dropping, it indicates that the inflation-adjusted median income is dropping.  One explanation for that is a contracting economy, but another one is simply that income is becoming more concentrated in the upper end of the distribution.  Shift a large number of dollars from the bottom half of the income distribution to the upper half and the mean will stay the same, but the median will fall.<p>Given the other findings in this infographic and general zeitgeist around income statistics, I think the latter explanation is a lot more likely.