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Income by Occupation

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Income Tax Return from 1913

by Catherine on February 28, 2010

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Day 28 of 28 Days of Tax Data

From Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Tax return from 1913 (the first year of income tax was assessed in the United States)

Tagged as: IRS, tax system, United States

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How Much Do You Earn? (2000)

by Catherine on May 12, 2009

in Distribution of Income, Income by Occupation, VE Infographics

A look at the relationship between occupation and income. From a poster I created in 2004.

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Tagged as: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Distribution of Income, Histogram, United States, US Census

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Highest Paid Hedge Fund Managers 2007

by Catherine on June 29, 2008

in Income by Occupation, Incomes of the Super Rich

The pay scale in the graph is in US$ millions therefore the top hedge fund manager, John Paulson, had an income in 2007 of $3.7 billion ($3,700,000,000).

Data from Institutional Investor’s Alpha Magazine via Telegraph.co.uk.

Tagged as: Income - High, Income - Individual

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Highest Paid American Athletes 2007

by Catherine on February 3, 2008

in Income by Occupation, Incomes of the Super Rich

In honor of the the Super Bowl, I am posting Sports Illustrated’s Fortunate 50 top-earning American athletes (earnings include salary, winnings, bonuses, and endorsements). However, only one of the players in today’s game made the list, Tom Brady of the New England Patriots, Rank: 47.

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I found a nice table of this data on SportsColumn.com. Salaries are based on current or most recently completed seasons (exception: 2007 for NFL). For winnings-based sports (auto racing, golf, tennis), 2006 calendar year amounts used.

[tags]athletes, income, endorsements[/tags]

Tagged as: Athletes, Bar Chart, Blog, China, CIA, Income - Individual, India, Indonesia, Japan, United States

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Highest Paid Hip-Hop Artists 2006

by Catherine on August 20, 2007

in Income by Occupation, Incomes of the Super Rich

Forbes has introduced a new ranking this year for Hip-Hop Cash Kings. I assume this means their Highest Paid Celebrities list is very popular since they are branching out into other subgenera. So what make someone a Hip-Hop Cash King? Sources of income include: running their own record labels; producing tracks and beats for other artists; endorsement deals; selling apparel, ringtones, video games and a line of fiction.

I added the graph to my Income and Wealth Swivel group.

[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality, Hip-Hop[/tags]

Tagged as: Bar Chart, BEA, Celebrities, Forbes, Income - Individual, Video

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Forbes 500 Female CEO Pay 2006

by Catherine on August 1, 2007

in Income by Occupation, Incomes of the Super Rich

Forbes’ ranking of CEO pay includes the 12 women running a Forbes 500 company. Unlike the highest paid female executives graph I posted earlier this one is not necessarily the highest paid female CEOs just women who are CEOs of companies in the Forbes 500.