$141000/year is a shockingly large income for any broad group of people in the US. According to the ACS, the median earnings for all bachelor's degree holding full time make workers is $61k. That's for the full population, so it should in fact be centered somewhere near age 35-40.

I don't know where the author is getting the $112k number for all men at age 40 is from, but it seems impossible from my knowledge of the ACS statistics. Perhaps the mean drifts that high with super star executive pay? Regardless, it makes me suspicious of the other numbers in this article- anyone have an idea of how the author could get these earnings statistics from ACS data?