Income – High

Highest Paying Jobs in the US: 2005

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Fun Facts!, Income by Occupation, Incomes of the Super Rich, VE Infographics

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)

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Where are the billionaires?

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Other

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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Income of the Superrich in 2005

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Incomes of the Super Rich, VE Infographics

ADDED NEW VERSION 2/10/2009

Recently the CBO published a supplement to their Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates: 1979 to 2005 report to include a breakdown of top 1% into smaller percentiles. I took the data for income and created this visualization. It is comparing the minimum income for each percentile to the average income in that percentile.

UPDATED VERSION {Click on the image to take a closer look}

ORIGINAL VERSION {Click on the image to take a closer look}

Data from Congressional Budget Office

[tags]United States, High Income[/tags]

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Top 400 Taxpayers: Sources of Income 1992-2005

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Incomes of the Super Rich, VE Infographics

This graph shows the different types of income of the “Top 400″ from 1992-2005. Number one source of income is Capital Gains, which accounts for more than 50% of their income in 2005.

The “Top 400″ are the 400 tax returns with the highest adjusted gross income reported to the IRS.