May 2007

NYTimes: More Than Ever, It Pays to Be the Top Executive

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Other

The New York Times had a graph on executive income for the article More Than Ever, It Pays to Be the Top Executive that shows the growing income gap between chief executives and their top subordinates. The article goes on to mention this “winner take all” behavior can be found in other industries like sports and entertainment. You can see more examples of this in the following graphs:

Highest Paid CEOs
Highest Paid CEOs vs Hedge Fund Managers
US Income Distribution
Highest Paid Athletes
Highest Paid Celebrities
Income/GDP Ratio
Income share going to the top 5%

[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality[/tags]

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Sources of Income for Top 0.01 Percent

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Other

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.

[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality, capital gains, super rich[/tags]

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