ADDED NEW VERSION 2/10/2009
Recently the CBO published a supplement to their Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates: 1979 to 2005 report to include a breakdown of top 1% into smaller percentiles. I took the data for income and created this visualization. It is comparing the minimum income for each percentile to the average income in that percentile.
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ORIGINAL VERSION {Click on the image to take a closer look}
Data from Congressional Budget Office
[tags]United States, High Income[/tags]
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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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This graph shows the different types of income of the “Top 400″ from 1992-2005. Number one source of income is Capital Gains, which accounts for more than 50% of their income in 2005.
The “Top 400″ are the 400 tax returns with the highest adjusted gross income reported to the IRS.
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Data from the IRS via Wall Street Journal’s Tax Report
[tags]Tax Rates, United States, Income tax, IRS[/tags]
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This graph shows the average income reported to the IRS and the average taxes paid by the top 400, i.e. the 400 taxes returns with the highest adjusted gross income from 1992-2005. This does not represent not gains in the wealth of people like Bill Gates but instead shows the annual income of the superrich reported to the IRS. They accounted for 1.15% of total income reported in 2005, more than twice as large as their 0.49% share in 1995.
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Data from the IRS via Wall Street Journal’s Tax Report
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Reading the Wealth Report I stumbled across The $3 Billion Payday
…hedge-funder John Paulson, who made somewhere between $3 billion and $4 billion last year. That’s right, between $3 billion and $4 billion. In one year.To put that in perspective, Mr. Paulson’s salary equals the incomes of 62,500 Americans earning the national median income of $48,000 a year. It also puts him instantly among the top 150 richest Americans, as measured by Forbes. Mr. Paulson made more in one year than The Donald has made in a lifetime.
I have tried to graph hedge fund manager income in the past but it is difficult to compare income of $50,000 with $3 billion on the same graph. Alternatively, I have compared CEO and hedge fund managers.
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A recent NY Times article included a graph showing the amount of taxes paid to the federal government based on income groups. While I like the graph it does not explain what the income thresholds are for each income group. However, I was able to pull out of the original journal article that the average income for the highest earning 0.01% was $18,113,612.
See also: What does Top 1%, Top 0.1%, Top 0.01% mean?
2005 US Income Distribution part 3
[tags]NYTimes, Taxes, income inequality, wealth, income distribution, superrich[/tags]
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