<p>Income distribution is a&#xa0;core dimension of social inequality. Household income largely shapes a&#xa0;person’s standard of living, and there are many connections between income and a&#xa0;person’s subjective well-being as well as his or her attitudes. We can therefore expect an effect of income on political support. However, there are still only few articles that explicitly study how income is related to trust in political actors and institutions. The few studies on this topic that do exist come to rather different conclusions. This research gap is the starting point for our article. Our main research question is to what extent income position influences political trust and how these influences can be explained. We expect income to have an indirect effect on political trust. In our analyses we include material deprivation, economic insecurity, the fear of social decline, and income satisfaction as mediating factors, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to conduct multiple regression analyses. Our results clearly show that the higher a person’s income, the greater their political trust. Satisfaction with household income proves to be an important mediating mechanism across all income classes. Material deprivation partly explains the effect of income for lower-income classes. Our results indicate the crucial role that individual economic position plays for a&#xa0;person’s democratic integration. By showing this, our study allows us to better understand how social structure, subjective economic well-being, and political attitudes are intertwined.</p>