The New York Times had a graph on executive income for the article More Than Ever, It Pays to Be the Top Executive that shows the growing income gap between chief executives and their top subordinates. The article goes on to mention this “winner take all” behavior can be found in other industries like sports and entertainment. You can see more examples of this in the following graphs:
Highest Paid CEOs
Highest Paid CEOs vs Hedge Fund Managers
US Income Distribution
Highest Paid Athletes
Highest Paid Celebrities
Income/GDP Ratio
Income share going to the top 5%
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I added 2 new graphs to my Swivel group Income and Wealth comparing the top 13 highest paid Dead Celebrities in 2006 vs the top 13 highest paid Dead Celebrities in 2001. Eight of the names on the list in 2001 will still be there in 2006, in part, due to their estates making money from their work and the rights to use their name and likenesses on merchandise and marketing campaigns.
See Also: Highest Paid Celebrities 2006
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A couple of Swivel graphs, comparing the top 5 highest paid CEOs vs the top 5 highest paid Hedge Fund Managers. It turns out the highest paid CEO, Steve Jobs, made less than Steven Cohen who was the 5th ranked hedge fund manager.
Here is the total income of the top 5 CEOs vs the top 5 Hedge Fund Managers:
I added the graphs to my Income and Wealth on Swivel group.
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In my earlier post on Sources of Income of the super rich I plotted the percentage of income that comes from wages, entrepreneurial income, dividend income, interest income, and rental income for the Top 0.01 percent; but this did not include capital gains. In 2005 capital gains was 18% of the income of the super rich (if you exclude capital gains when determining the Top 0.01 percent).
In the graphs below, I have plotted the all 6 income sources for Top 0.01% (this time including capital gains as one of the income sources).
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The income data can be found on Emmanuel Saez’s web site.
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