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That's a 60% jump from the $66,400 median income in 1970. While that sounds impressive, it's worth noting that upper-income households saw an even larger increase of 78%, while lower-income ...
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Lower-income households had a median income of $35,300; Upper-income households had a median income of $256,900; Middle-income households fell into a range between those two numbers.
(see "Federal Tax Rate by Income Group" chart) For those with incomes in the top 0.01 percent, overall rates of Federal tax fell from 74.6% in 1970, to 34.7% in 2004 (the reversal of the trend in 2000 with a rise to 40.8% came after the 1993 Clinton deficit reduction tax bill), the next 0.09 percent falling from 59.1% to 34.1%, before leveling ...
Derivation of the Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient for global income in 2011. Data from 2005. Points on the Lorenz curve represent statements such as, "the bottom 20% of all households have 10% of the total income." A perfectly equal income distribution would be one in which every person has the same income.
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Here’s the income you need to be in the top 1%, 5%, and 10% in the US — and 3 essential tips to help you climb higher on the wealth ladder in 2025 Moneywise December 30, 2024 at 12:00 PM
A related class of ratios is "income share", the percentage of the national income received by some specified richest or poorest percentage-segment of the population. The population, but the Lorenz Curve (discussed in the Gini section) graphs the cumulative income of the bottom-income x% of the population, for all x from 0 to 100.