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What are the annual wages of top earners?
Want to know how much you need to earn to be in the top income brackets in the US?
The following table shows the average yearly wages of the highest earners in the country.
These statistics were taken from Social Security Administration data (per the EPI report) and reflect annual wages, as opposed to income as a whole.
Those in the higher earnings brackets typically accrue wealth more rapidly than low earners. EPI research shows that between 1979 and 2018, wages of the top 1% grew by 179%. That figure was 389% for the top 0.1%.
In contrast, wages for the bottom 90% only grew 28% in that period.
