Average Income in the United States (1913-2006)

Published by Catherine on May 4, 2008 in Area Graph, Income - Average, Median, Income - Growth, NBER, Pitketty & Saez, Recessions and United States. 2 Comments

I have updated my most popular graph Average Income in the United States. It now includes data through 2006 (in 2006$). I also added recessions from National Bureau of Economic Research

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Data from Emmanuel Saez’s web site

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Income Inequality: Democratic vs Republican Administrations

Published by Catherine on April 27, 2008 in Income - Growth, Income - Inequality, Distribution, Line Graph, US Census and United States. 0 Comments

Found the top graph via Paul Krugman’s blog. It is from a paper by Larry Bartels, professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University.

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I found a second graph in the same paper, showing the income inequality year to year (the 80/20 ratio measures the income inequality by dividing the income earned by someone at the 80th percentile by someone at the 20th percentile). Additionally, Bartels has highlighted the years Democrats and Republicans held the White House. Like a number of graphs on my site, you can see the increase in income inequality since the early 70s.

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Data in the graphs are calculated from the Historical Income Inequality Tables compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Addendum

5/2/08 Fix my definition of 80/20 income ratio

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Does Higher Income Increases Happiness?

Published by Catherine on April 17, 2008 in Choropleth Map, GDP per Capita, Income - Average, Median, Income - Inequality, Distribution, Scatter plot and World. 2 Comments

From the New York Times

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Top 400 Taxpayers: Sources of Income 1992-2005

Published by Catherine on April 6, 2008 in Area Graph, IRS, Income - High, Income - Types of and United States. 0 Comments

This graph shows the different types of income of the “Top 400″ from 1992-2005. Number one source of income is Capital Gains, which accounts for more than 50% of their income in 2005.

The “Top 400″ are the 400 tax returns with the highest adjusted gross income reported to the IRS.

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Data from the IRS via Wall Street Journal’s Tax Report

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Top 400 Taxpayers: Income and Taxes Paid 1992-2005

Published by Catherine on March 30, 2008 in Area Graph, IRS, Income - Average, Median, Income - High, Line Graph, Tax Rates, Tax collection and United States. 4 Comments

This graph shows the average income reported to the IRS and the average taxes paid by the top 400, i.e. the 400 taxes returns with the highest adjusted gross income from 1992-2005. This does not represent not gains in the wealth of people like Bill Gates but instead shows the annual income of the superrich reported to the IRS. They accounted for 1.15% of total income reported in 2005, more than twice as large as their 0.49% share in 1995.

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Data from the IRS via Wall Street Journal’s Tax Report

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