>On a more serious note. It would be interesting to know how many of
>the employed in the US earn between $1 than $200 a month. They
>partly track this through the measure "employed part time for
>economic reasons".
I don't know of that offhand, but there's plenty of data for hourly and yearly earnings at the 10th, 25th, median, 75th, and 90th percentiles, by occupation <http://www.bls.gov/oes/oes_dl.htm>. In Nov 2004 those were, in respective order: $14,990; $19,470; $29,070; $45,640; 69,300.
Hourly, same percentile order: $7.21, $9.36, $13.98, $21.94, $33.32.
Implied hours/week (dividing annual by hourly then by 50): around 41.6.
Doug