This is how much you need to earn to join your state's top 1 percent

It takes around $385,000 of annual income to get into the US's top 1 percent. But if you really want to count yourself among the 1 percent in some way, you could always move to Arkansas. There, it takes only $228,000.

A new report from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute illustrates what inequality looks like from state to state. Perhaps not surprisingly, it takes a lot to get into the top 1 percent in the area near Wall Street — Connecticut has the highest bar to getting into the top, at $678,000. New York and New Jersey are close behind.

Here's what it takes to be in the top 1 percent in your state:

(Economic Policy Institute)

Of course, a high (or low) threshold for entering the top 1 percent doesn't say much about how far those rich people are from the rest of the state. Here's what the ratio of the average 1 percenter's income to the bottom 99 percent looked like in each state in 2012.

Different though they may be, the states are largely united on one thing: the richest citizens in most places are overwhelmingly receiving the largest share of economic boosts. In 39 states, the top 1 percent captured between half and 100 percent of all income growth from 2009 to 2012, according to EPI's analysis of IRS data.

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