>>Michael Pollak wrote:
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>>>Just out of curiousity: what's the average annual salary in the 81st
>>>percentile?
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>>For total household income in 2001, the upper limit of the fourth
>>quintile was $83,500, and the bottom of the top 5% was $150,499
>><http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/h01.html>.
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>This is for households, right? That is, single individuals are
>omitted from this tabulation, completely? (That's a question...)
Right. That's households. Here are the Economic Policy Institute's figures on average hourly wages by percentile for 2001. I've multiplied the hourly wage by 2000 to give some idea of what a yearly earnings distribution would look like - but the wage figures include part-time workers, so that's a bit misleading. But close enough for the internet.
Doug
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average hourly wage yearly, @ 2000 hrs
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all male female all male female 10 6.51 7.16 6.23 13,010 14,310 12,456 20 7.85 8.90 7.49 15,693 17,795 14,972 30 9.36 10.42 8.72 18,728 20,841 17,431 40 10.73 12.39 9.98 21,454 24,771 19,951 50 12.52 14.61 11.40 25,039 29,224 22,807 60 14.65 17.07 13.20 29,303 34,140 26,407 70 17.46 19.99 15.56 34,912 39,971 31,127 80 21.14 24.25 18.90 42,289 48,493 37,800 90 28.25 32.96 24.84 56,505 65,914 49,686