你的收入如果在 $35,000, 那么你就比全美国 %50 的纳税人赚的多。

如果收入在 $ 70，000 的话， 你就比 75% 的纳税人赚的多。

如果收入在 11 万多的话， 你就进入 top 10% 了。

如果在 41 万多一点的话， 你就进入 top 1% 了。



这个是根据 IRS 2007 年的 tax return 分析的结果。


又一年就要过去了， 媒体也在开始讨论 tax return 方面的东西了。







http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/108460/how-your-income-stacks-up?mod=career-salary_negotiation


How Your Income Stacks Up


by Kevin McCormally
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
provided by

Where do you rank as a taxpayer? You may not feel rich earning $35,000 a year, but you're in the top half of taxpayers. Make $70,000, and you earn more than 75 percent of fellow taxpayers.



Even as the Great Recession ends, we know the economic wounds it inflicted will take years to heal. The national unemployment rate has breached 10 percent, and unemployment is higher than 12 percent in California and above 15 percent in Michigan. A new study from the Department of Agriculture found that nearly 50 million Americans struggled at some point in 2008 to get enough to eat.

More than 40 million Americans are officially living in poverty. And you might be surprised at how little income it takes to not be considered poor by the federal government. For 2008, the poverty threshold for a single person under age 65 was an income of $11,201, or less than $1,000 a month. For a family of four, the threshold was $21,834. For a family of six, $28,769.

With that perspective, you may wonder just how your income stacks up against that of your fellow citizens. New statistics from the IRS provide an answer. The numbers here come from an analysis of 2007 tax returns, the most recent ones that have been studied.


The data show that an income of $32,879 or more puts you in the top half of taxpayers. Earning a bit more than twice that much -- $66,532 -- earns you a spot among the top 25 percent of all earners. You crack the elite top 10 percent if you earn more than $113,018.

And $410,096 buys top bragging rights: Earn that much or more and you're among the top 1 percent of all American earners.

Kiplinger has developed an online calculator to quickly show you -- based on your personal adjusted gross income -- into which income category you fall and, as a bonus, what percentage of the nation's tax burden is borne collectively by you and your fellow citizens who are in that income category. The following table shows the income categories and the percentage of income earned and tax burden paid by each category.




Copyrighted, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc.

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• 估计哼哼的收入在top 5%之内。 -房崇- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 19:36:08

• 5%? 我看要top 1%了。:-) -金色风铃- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:21:28

• 那是我不开眼了？穷人无法想像富人的日子呀！ -房崇- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:26:12

• he should be among the 1%, or very close -Doc40- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:36:14

• top 1% is > 300k -johndoe23- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 21:43:50

• Depends where you stay -doc40- ♂ (158 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 19:50:43

• 生活费用的地区差别是非常大的，不过工资的地区差别可没有那么大。 -HenryLi- ♂ (75 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:01:59

• true, in general -Doc40- ♂ (600 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:22:31

• get you。 -HenryLi- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:34:45

• chances are aboudant in big city -Doc40- ♂ (233 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:40:46

• IC -HenryLi- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:43:29

• 就我们皮肤病理的 business 来说， 最好的地区是 -HenryLi- ♂ (105 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:45:50

• yes, brother -Doc40- ♂ (238 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:52:26

• 噢， 我记得 African American 的 kidney disorder比例特别高， -HenryLi- ♂ (138 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 21:00:10

• Overall 30% diabetics will go to kidney failure, -Doc40- ♂ (350 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 21:09:23

• man, you are right, -Doc40- ♂ (103 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 21:17:07

• no -Doc40- ♂ (81 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 21:26:33

• yes, that what I means -Doc40- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 21:32:24

• Not necessarily. We are busy on weekdays except for -handyman- ♂ (129 bytes) () 12/29/2009 postreply 00:34:32

• 回复：回复：yes, brother -Doc40- ♂ (173 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 21:21:29

• concept of busy is diff -Doc40- ♂ (112 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 21:31:30

• 我觉得这个 $35,000是报到IRS的收入，并不是实际收入。 -laoyangdelp- ♀ (143 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 19:56:33

• IRS is not moron -Doc40- ♂ (23 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 19:59:39

• Is not? -Apricotseed- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:00:37

• 回复：Is not? -Doc40- ♂ (165 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:06:57

• Not deductions, lot of works paid by cash. -Apricotseed- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:10:00

• cash is the best. -Doc40- ♂ (56 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:34:21

• Is your 2nd job W2 or 1099? How can you deduct furniture -handyman- ♂ (17 bytes) () 12/29/2009 postreply 00:41:39

• home business first floor furniture. -pretty_woman2- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/29/2009 postreply 02:11:21

• 所以我特别指明这是根据 IRS tax return 分析出来的， 跟 -HenryLi- ♂ (24 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:04:45

• 是，不管怎样，美国人还是有些家底，我们都是白手起家。 -心晴-- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 21:42:37

• I agree. some business owners ex restuant owners their tax retur -pretty_woman2- ♀ (227 bytes) () 12/29/2009 postreply 02:15:50

• 这里的兄弟姐妹过得好because they work very hard. -Apricotseed- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:19:20

• 哈哈，相信我，你的病人里拿Medicaid的可能比你吃餐馆吃的多。 -Apricotseed- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:29:57

• 俺知足，觉得生活如此美好哈。 -专家建议- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:19:51

• 你就拿俺开心吧，过圣诞节俺只有吃农家饭，哪像你家，哼！ -专家建议- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:32:37

• 我也是这个意思， 呵呵 -HenryLi- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:20:30

• 你们姐弟俩都是5%之内的，当然知足了。有人说家坛都是富人所以不敢来。 -房崇- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:23:41

• 家坛的情况本来大多数就是已经 established 了的中国人家庭， -HenryLi- ♂ (255 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:55:32

• 好象有这种感觉，但好象大部分都WORK　HARDER　THAN　AMERICAN。 -katies- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:22:27

• 除了 WORK　HARDER， 还有就是我们这些第一代移民大多数都是 -HenryLi- ♂ (18 bytes) () 12/28/2009 postreply 20:37:53

• Yes. Hard work without professional knowledge might -handyman- ♂ (440 bytes) () 12/29/2009 postreply 01:29:37

• 这个贴挺安慰人的，让人知足常乐。 -田园乐- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/29/2009 postreply 05:42:08