Making the “Invisible Hand” Visible
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
I added the graph to my Income and Wealth Swivel group.
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Department for Work and Pensions: Statistics for Households Below Average Income and Income Inequality in the United Kingdom
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Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
Smashing Magazine listed what they considered the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools.
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InflationData.com has a lot of information about inflation as well as historical data for the US, including estimates for Confederate Inflation Rates (1861 - 1865)
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Economagic.com: Economic Time Series Page
List of government web sites. This site also has charts and excel files which you can browse with a subscription.
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Infoplease.com has a selection of data tables and articles on Poverty and Income in the United States. For example: Distribution of Household Income by Race
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