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 February 5, 2010
Day 5 of 28 Days of Tax Data
Created by Ross Crooks found on Mint
There is a lot going on in this graphic. First, keep in mind that a “Tax unit” is either a single person, two people married filling jointly, or head of household (for example a single person with dependent child).
The gray dashed bars are the tax units that don’t owe any taxes to the Federal Government. What struck me was that these people can be found at all income levels.
by Catherine Mulbrandon on July 8, 2009
Some more data visualization goodies…
Two methods for presenting the source for the 1.2 trillion dollar US federal deficit:
From the New York Times
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