by Catherine Mulbrandon on December 29, 2010
While athletes, movie stars and other celebrities can earn very high incomes, the majority (61%) of very high-income people (> $1,246,000) work as corporate executives or in the finance industry.
When you account for all taxpayers with income greater than 1.2 million a year, the list includes: Lawyers; Medical jobs; Real estate jobs; Entrepreneurs; Business operations; Computer, math, engineering, technical jobs; Skilled sales; Professors and scientists; Farmers & ranchers
Data source: Jobs and Income Growth of Top Earners and the Causes of Changing Income Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Tax Return Data (pdf)
by Catherine Mulbrandon on July 27, 2010
From Planet Money’s blog
I have been enjoying a series of podcasts by Plant Money’s team in which they bought toxic asset which has more than 2,000 mortgages. They paid $1,000 for a piece that used to be worth around $75,000.
Their interactive graphic shows how this asset was created with mortgages across the country, how many payments they have received from it, and how it has been losing value.
In the beginning Dec 2006, “Toxie” was a little sick
But by July 2010, “Toxie” was a almost dead…
by Catherine Mulbrandon on July 23, 2010
Posters and book created by Jeremy Christopher found via Datavisualization.ch
The poster is one of several which explain the history, value, and composition of the FTSE 100. It is rare that I see basic financial data visualized with this much attention to the aesthetics of the design.
The book pages layer to create the center color circles which represent the sectors weightings which I though was clever.
by Catherine Mulbrandon on July 21, 2010
Found via FastCoDesign
Each circle represents a billionaire but when appropriate the company that they associated with is labeled. And of course United States leads the way with number of billionaires. I liked seeing the data presented on a map; having a geographic distribution shows off the number of non-US billionaires. It would have been nice to see their net worth included in the infographic.
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