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Re:Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to ... by rayiner on Saturday March 26, 2016 @08:55AM (#11365481)
The bar for top 5% is like 90k/year.
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Re:Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to ... by sokoloff on Saturday March 26, 2016 @10:47AM (#11365791)
I believe it's significantly higher than that, though probably still well within the norm for a market-paid, highly skilled, SV SWE.

http://www.kiplinger.com/article/taxes/T054-C000-S001-your-r... suggest that it was ~$180K in 2013 (this is presumably on a per-return basis, which is neither individual nor household income, but likely much closer to the latter).

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Re:Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to ... by freyr on Saturday March 26, 2016 @10:47AM (#11365790)
$90k household income is too 29%.

Top 5% household income is $220k.

As of the 2014 census.

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