For various occupations, the difference between the person who makes the most and the one who makes the least can be significant.
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Shifting Incomes for American Jobs
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Who Earned a Higher Salary Than You
Work changed over the years. Salaries changed over the years. I was curious: If you compared your personal income from present day, how would it compare to the distribution of salaries in previous decades?
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Compare your curve to reality for income versus college attendance
Those who grow up in poorer families are less likely to go to…
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Upward mobility and the potential for a better life
An analysis by Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Nathaniel Hendren of NBER…
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Wealth inequality explained in charts
Wealth inequality is a real thing that is complex and a result of…
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LEGO explainer: Taxes and income inequality
LEGOs make everything better. David Wessel for Brookings Institution explains how federal taxes…
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Top 1% earners versus bottom 90%
Quoctrung Bui for Planet Money plotted average income for the top one percent…
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Shrinking middle class
The Upshot has a detailed, chart-filled summary of the shrinking middle class, categorized…
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Basic chart, wrong conclusions
A short post on Bloomberg from 2013 describes the fall of U.S. mens’…
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Household incomes rise
Since the recession, it’s taken a while for household incomes to come back…
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Your income versus what it feels like →
Incomes and the cost of living vary across the country. Some areas might…
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Climbing the income ladder →
In a study conducted by researchers at Harvard and UC Berkeley, data shows…
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Income inequality, real and personal
In a different take on the income inequality issue, the Economic Policy Institute,…
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Income inequality seen in satellite images from Google Earth
Researchers Pengyu Zhua and Yaoqi Zhang noted in their 2008 paper that “the…
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