The top 1 percent of earners take home 19.7 percent of all the income in Washington.

That top 1 percent also make 24.2 times more than the bottom 99 percent in the state.

That’s according to a recent Economic Policy Institute report on income inequality.

The institute, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based think tank, reports that income inequality has risen in every state since the 1970s, and, in most states, it has grown in the post-Great Recession era.

“There has been vast and widespread growth in income inequality in every corner of the country,” the study said.

The institute said that from 2009-15, the incomes of the top 1 percent grew faster than the incomes of the bottom 99 percent in 43 states and the District of Columbia.

The top 1 percent captured half or more of all income growth in nine states. In 2015, a family in the top 1 percent nationally received, on average, 26.3 times as much income as a family in the bottom 99 percent.

How does Washington compare with the rest of the country?

Washington ranks No. 10 of the 50 states in income inequality, based on the ratio of top 1 percent to bottom 99 percent income.

The minimum annual income to be included in the top 1 percent is $421,926.

The average annual income of the top 1 percent is more than $1.3 million.

The average annual income of the bottom 99 percent is $50,107.

In Washington state, the average annual income of the bottom 99 percent is $57,100.

In Benton County, the average income of the top 1 percent is $666,395 and the average income of the bottom 99 percent is $53,285.

In Franklin County, the average income of the top 1 percent is $653,273 and the average income of the bottom 99 percent is $47,838.

The study reports that the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area is the most unequal metro area in Washington, with the top 1 percent making 24.7 times more than the bottom 99 percent. The average annual income of the top 1 percent comes in at more than $1.7 million; and the average income of the bottom 99 percent at $69,383.

San Juan County is the most unequal county in the state, the report said.