Monthly Archive for June, 2007

Highest Paid Celebrities 2006

Published on June 22, 2007 in Bar Chart, Celebrities, Forbes and Income - Individual. 2 Comments

Forbes just came out with a new Celebrity 100 list. Here are the top 25 ranked by pay:

Highest Paid Celebrities in 2006I added the graph to my Income and Wealth Swivel group.

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NYTimes: Calculating America’s Wealth

Published on June 15, 2007 in Area Graph, Income - High, Income - Low and Income - Middle. Closed

The New York Times had an interactive graph that calculated income for different demographic groups. I have plotted people who dropped out of high school (bottom) with people who graduated college (top). It is important to note that the data is adjusted for inflation. What interested me is that not only has the advantages for getting a college degree increased but that the range of income for people with college degrees has increased.

Income Sources of top 0.01 percent

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Slideshow of 17 Income Graphs

Published on June 9, 2007 in Blog. Closed

I have compiled together 17 income graphs that I created over the past 10 months and posted them to Slideshare.net (not including the graphs I posted to my Swivel group Income and Wealth).

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All Sources of Income for Top 0.01 Percent

Published on June 3, 2007 in Area Graph, Income - High, Income - Share of, Pitketty & Saez and United States. 1 Comment

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, rental income, and capital gains for the Top 0.01 percent. Here I am posting the same data but this time all income sources are on the same graph.

{Click on the graph to take a closer look} magnafing glass

All Income Sources of top 0.01 percent

A few items that caught my attention: the decline (starting in the 1930s) of the importance of Dividend income which was replaced in part by “Entrepreneurial” income then Capitals Gains and finally in the 60s by Wages. Also in the 70s and 80s Interest income becomes more important no doubt due to the high interest rates during those decades.

The income data can be found on Emmanuel Saez’s web site.

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