[lbo-talk] Income cutoffs

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These numbers tell you something; but not everything. Making 100K in NYC or SF is very different from making 100K in a small town in upstate NY.

Joanna

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From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>

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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