Average Monthly Social Security Benefits, 1940–2011

Below you will find data for the average monthly social security of retired and disabled workers as well as widow(er)s.

Year	Retired workers			Disabled workers			Non- disabled widow(er)s
Year	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women	Non- disabled widow(er)s
1940	$22.71	$23.26	$18.38	—	—	—	$20.36
1945	25.11	25.71	19.99	—	—	—	20.17
1950¹	29.03	30.16	22.98	—	—	—	21.65
1955	69.74	75.86	56.05	—	—	—	49.68
1960	81.73	92.03	63.26	$91.16	$94.02	$78.91	62.12
1965¹	82.69	90.89	68.78	93.26	97.89	80.27	73.81
1970	123.82	136.80	103.67	139.79	148.39	115.74	106.95
1975²	196.42	220.35	160.50	220.60	241.48	175.27	185.34
1980²	321.10	374.00	244.90	352.10	388.80	269.70	277.50
1985³	432.00	509.60	322.20	459.20	514.00	345.00	431.10
1990³	550.50	654.60	403.30	566.90	637.80	438.90	541.10
1995³	671.70	794.30	505.80	675.70	767.30	546.00	662.50
1998³	744.70	882.10	577.10	737.00	841.50	610.60	716.70
1999	757.71	904.62	697.50	754.12	846.48	629.63	776.07
2000	844.60	951.50	729.60	787.00	883.00	661.10	811.80
2001	874.50	984.90	755.90	814.90	913.80	688.70	840.80
2002	895.00	1,007.81	774.90	834.32	935.60	708.63	861.09
2003	922.10	1,038.90	797.50	861.70	965.90	734.40	888.30
2004	954.90	1,076.10	826.10	894.10	1,002.20	765.00	920.20
2006	1,044.00	—	—	978.00	—	—	1,008.00
2011⁴	1,183.50	—	—	1,070.70	—
—	1,114.80