Map & Data Resources

Data from W-2's allow closer look at income higher on the wage scale

Map & Data Resources | By Mike Alberti |

On this chart, we show the factor by which the percentage of income in the band exceeds the percentage of workers. To accommodate the $50 million and up category, the vertical scale is compressed. Thus, for example, the multiple in 1997 for the $200,000 to $249,999 band is a factor of 8, but is barely discernable because of the rise that begins to accelerate in earnest at the $2,000,000 level (percentage of income 84 times percentage of workers), and culminates in the $50 million and up level (a factor of 2, 912).

 

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