Job types changed over the years, because there were these things called computers that created occupations and shifted others. How did income change for different jobs, relative to everyone else?
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Occupation and Salary Rankings, Each Decade Since 1970
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Common Millionaire Household
The status of seven figures is maybe not as rare as it seems.
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Young Money
We often associate high income with older people, but young people can also earn higher incomes. Let’s see what those people studied and what they do for a living.
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How much more income people need to be happy
For the Wall Street Journal, Joe Pinsker reports on income and happiness, or…
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Jobs with Higher Income and Fewer Hours
So people earn a six-figure income without working all the time. What do they do?
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Most Common Jobs, by Income Group
These are income ranges for the ten most common jobs at different income levels.
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Rising to Top Net Worth, by Age
With the most recent release from the Survey of Consumer Finances, see how your household’s net worth compares against others’.
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Data on net worth, income, and savings
Data for the 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances, from the Federal Reserve Board,…
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See if you are middle class
What counts as middle class depends on who and where you’re asking. Even…
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How little we save for retirement
Saving for retirement is a slow process with an end goal that can…
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Income Sources
Most people have a job and receive wages in return, but that starts to change when you get into the higher income groups.
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More Dual Income, No Kids
People are waiting longer to have kids or not having kids at all, which leads to more dual income households with no kids.
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Multiple Income Households
Here’s household income by number of earners in the household, based on data from the 2022 Current Population Survey.
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Wealthy Percentiles Rising
The rich continue to get richer, and everyone else either only kind of earns more or stays where they’re at.
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Stripper earnings tracked over four years
Reddit user nerdydancing tracked her earnings on each shift for four years. If…
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Slow internet for the same price as fast internet
When you pay for internet, it seems like a reasonable expectation that if…
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More friendships between rich and poor might mean less poverty
Recently published in Nature, research by Chetty, R., Jackson, M.O., Kuchler, T. et…
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Income ladder for the children of immigrants
You’ve probably seen the moving bubbles that show how something changes over time.…
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Shrinking middle-class
Income distribution continues to stretch on the high end and squish on the…
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Comparing rich people incomes and the taxes they pay
Based on leaked IRS data for the 400 wealthiest Americans, ProPublica provides a…