[lbo-talk] Income cutoffs

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Tue Oct 11 17:47:34 PDT 2011


isn't it based on household income Doug? Which means that it could well be that the $100,000 and up incomes are the product of two income earners?


> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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