What do you have to make in a year to be in the top 1% of your state?

[True Earthling]

While there are plentiful data examining the fortunes of the top 1 percent at the national level, this report uses the latest available data to examine how the top 1 percent in each state have fared over 1917–2012, with an emphasis on trends over 1928–2012 (data for additional percentiles spanning 1917–2012 are available at go.epi.org/topincomes1917to2012). In so doing, this analysis finds that all 50 states have experienced widening income inequality in recent decades.

http://www.epi.org/publication/income-inequality-by-state-1917-to-2012/

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[Rex]

1. Compare that to the 80 people that own half the worlds wealth.

We are being sold out for pretty cheap if you ask me.

[yeoman6987]

9. Lord I may not even be in the top 40 percent in Maryland with $117K a year

Sheesh that is a ton of money some make in Maryland. I always thought I was the poorest in the neighborhood. I said in jest but now I think it may be true.

[krispos42]

2. $680k for my state

Well I'm only off my an order of magnitude or so.


Damn, I wonder how much Greenwich skews the ratings.

[Old Codger]

3. it is all

Obscene

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. Damn ... Mrs.1SBM and I have to clock just a little more, next year. n/t

[Logical]

5. North Dakota? Farming? Nt

[brooklynite]

7. Fracking...

[Brother Buzz]

8. The North Dakota oil boom

The Bakken bust might suggest the numbers have taken a downturn.

[WillowTree]

6. More than I make.