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2023 Poverty Guidelines Computations

Computations for the 2023 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia

(1)
Persons in family or household
(2)
Poverty thresholds for 2021 — published Sep. 2022a
(3)
Column 2 multiplied by 1.080 price inflatorb
(4)
Difference between successive Column 3 entries
(5)
Average difference in Column 4c
(6)
January 2022 poverty guidelines
(7)
January 2023 poverty guidelines
1 $13,788 $14,891   Rounded to nearest $20 $13,590 $14,580
2 $17,529 $18,932 $4,040 $5,140 $18,310 $19,720
3 $21,559 $23,284 $4,353 $5,140 $23,030 $24,860
4 $27,740 $29,960 $6,676 $5,140 $27,750 $30,000
5 $32,865 $35,495 $5,535 $5,140 $32,470 $35,140
6 $37,161 $40,135 $4,640 $5,140 $37,190 $40,280
7 $42,156 $45,530 $5,395 $5,140 $41,910 $45,420
8 $47,093 $50,862 $5,332 $5,140 $46,630 $50,560

Notes:

a Column 2 entries are weighted average poverty thresholds from U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United

b The Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) for all items was 270.97 for calendar year 2021 and 292.66 for calendar year 2022, an increase of 8.00 percent.

c The arithmetic average of Column 4 entries, rounded to the nearest multiple of $20.