Archive for October, 2006

Income by Number of Earners

Published by Catherine on October 29, 2006 in Income - Average, Median, Line Graph, US Census and United States. 3 Comments

I was poking around the Census site and discovered another historical income series: median income by number of earners in the family. What caught my attention was that around the late 60s/early 70s the income for a single earner family flattens while the other income series (from no earner to 4 earner families) continue to grow.

I copied the data used in this graph into a Google spreadsheet Family Income by Earners. It can be viewed by anyone with a Google Account.

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Share of GDP: 99th 95th 90th

Published by Catherine on October 17, 2006 in Bureau of Economic Analysis, GDP, Income - High, Income - Share of, Line Graph, Pitketty & Saez and United States. 2 Comments

In my earlier post, I graphed the share of GDP going to the bottom 90% and top 10%. In this graph I am comparing the bottom 99th, 95th and 90th Income/GDP ratios (including capital gains). The same pattern appears: the decline in GDP share occurring in the 70s for each percentile.

Based on some comments on other graphs I posted I have added a few new items. First I am displaying recessions (via the gray bands) along with timeline of wars and presidential terms in order to provide some historical context. Second, I copied the data used in this graph into a Google spreadsheet which can be viewed by anyone with a Google Account.

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Income/GDP Ratio

Published by Catherine on October 1, 2006 in Bureau of Economic Analysis, GDP, Income - High, Income - Share of, Line Graph, Pitketty & Saez and United States. 5 Comments

I created these graphs show the change in the share of GDP going to the top 10% as compared to the bottom 90% since 1929. I have two versions: one with capital gains and one without.

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You can see the sudden drop in the share going to the top 10% (the effect of WWII). Later the slow decline in the share going to the bottom 90% during the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

In 2004 you had to make around $95,000 to make the top 10%.

Data from the IRS found on Emmanuel Saez’s web site

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