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-17.1% 25,200 New York City, New York: 95 Coca-Cola: Beverage 45,754 6.4% 79,100 Atlanta, Georgia: 96 TIAA: Financials 45,735 11.8% 16,023 New York City, New York: 97 CHS: Agriculture cooperative 45,590 -4.6% 10,609 Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota: 98 Bristol-Myers Squibb: Pharmaceutical industry 45,006 -2.5% 34,100 New York City, New York: 99 ...
According to the IRS, the top 1% of income earners for 2008 paid 38% of income tax revenue, while earning 20% of the income reported. [114] The top 5% of income earners paid 59% of the total income tax revenue, while earning 35% of the income reported. [114] The top 10% paid 70%, earning 46% and the top 25% paid 86%, earning 67%.
It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets by Forbes and by data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. [1]
Here are the household income thresholds for the top 10%, 5%, and 1%: Top 10%: $248,610. Top 5%: $390,209. Top 1%: $1,199,812. As you can see, you need an income well over three times the national ...
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896 (2003). Brooks, David. Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2010) Burt, Nathaniel. The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy (1999).
However, the top 1% income fell from 2007 to 2016, due to both the Great Recession and tax hikes on upper incomes during the Obama Administration. [2] [36] Share of U.S. income earned by top 1% households in 1979 (blue), 2007 (orange), and 2016 (green) (CBO data). The first date 1979 reflects the more egalitarian pre-1980 period, 2007 was the ...
Piketty and Saez plotted the percentage share of total income accrued by the top 1%, top 5%, and the top 10% of wage earners in the United States from 1913-2008. According to their data, the top 1% controlled 10% of the total income while the top 5% owned approximately 13% and the top 10% possessed around 12% of total income.
During the same time period, the 60% of Americans in the middle of the income scale saw their income rise by 40%. From 1992 to 2007 the top 400 income earners in the U.S. saw their income increase 392% and their average tax rate reduced by 37%. [33] In 2009, the average income of the top 1% was $960,000 with a minimum income of $343,927. [34 ...