johnfield

does anyone know the average income for the deaf. I do not know if this is possible to find out? Thanks in advance

Deafness

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kalboy

thats hard to say.. I would say its the same as the average US general population income.

deafdyke

No, I think it would be different......a) health care costs....a lot of us have to pay out of pocket for things like hearing aids and b) education....a lot of us don't graduate from college, or otherwise don't have really good education.

kalboy

your income is not influenced by the health care cost. Unless you are talking about "cost of living"

I would say that there are more than 80% of deaf/hoh people don't sign, went to mainstream schools and received decent education.

Endymion

It depends on your sample. If you consider only a working deaf population, you'll probably be closer to the grand mean.

If you consider the entire deaf population, remember that a significant number of deaf people are subsidized by the federal government, and those SSI checks don't come close to the average income.

Then you also have to define deaf (do you include people with 10 dB loss?). And the mean (arithmetic, geometric).

But for a short easy answer, let's go with the answer in the second paragraph.

AnotherDeafGuy

Define "decent education". I went to a mainstream school and I must say the education I received was not close to being decent!

~M~

sequoias

The average annual wages in the US is about $36,000 a year for the general population. I roughly estimate that deaf average income is about $20,000 a year due to many deaf people are on SSI or similar. There are also many successful deaf people who work with a career income. So I think it's about $20,000 a year average sounds right.

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