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Average Income: PreTax vs AfterTax 2005

Published by Catherine on March 16, 2008 in Bar Chart, Congressional Budget Office, Income - Average, Median, Income - Share of, Tax Rates, Tax collection and United States. 3 Comments

I created this graph showing the average income for different household percentiles, comparing pretax income and aftertax income. The minimum income threshold for each percentile is noted in the graph.

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Data from Congressional Budget Office

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Gross Domestic Product by Industry: Winners & Losers

Published by Catherine on July 2, 2007 in Area Graph, GDP, Income - Share of and United States. 1 Comment

Looking at the Industry Sectors of the US economy can help illuminate why, over the last 30 years, someone working in a growing industry (like Finance) may have done better than someone working in a shrinking industry (like Manufacture). Note: the data measures value-added; for example the services provided by a doctor is counted under Heath Care but the production of medical equipment would be found in Manufacture.

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Gross Domestic Product by Industry

The Industry Sectors data can be found at Economic Report of the President 2007 Report Spreadsheets Table B-12.

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All Sources of Income for Top 0.01 Percent

Published by Catherine on June 3, 2007 in Area Graph, Income - High, Income - Share of, Pitketty & Saez and United States. 0 Comments

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.

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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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Sources of Income for Top 0.01 Percent

Published by Catherine on May 6, 2007 in Area Graph, Income - Share of, Income - Types 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, 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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Income Sources of top 0.01 percent

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

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