[lbo-talk] Income cutoffs

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 11 14:59:34 PDT 2011


On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:


> Doug, I'm sure you listed this somewhere, but I can't find it: what are the most recent income cutoffs for the top
>
> 20%
> 10%
> 1%
> 0.1%
> 0.01%

Mixing sources here - 20th and 80th from the Census Bureau, rest from Piketty-Saez, all for 2008 and rounded (note that the Census 80 isn't much below P-S's 90):

20th percentile: $20,000 80th percentile: $100,000 90th: $110,000 95th: $153,000 99th: $368,000 99.9th: $1,695,000 99.99th: $9,141,000



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