To be in the top 1% in the United States, you need to make $480K/year

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Aug 13, 2019
5:37:53pm

donnerstag All-American

To be in the top 1% in the United States, you need to make $480K/year

based on taxpayers reported incomes. The website is way way off.

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donnerstag

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Last login: Jun 18, 2024
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Messages

Author

Time

Are you a "one-percenter" of the world?

dezzy

8/13/19 4:49pm

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8/13/19 4:50pm

It’s saying my negative 6 figure net worth is in the top 5% of Global Wealth

jrob30

8/13/19 4:54pm

This doesn't seem accurate. It shows $150k as the 3,457,947 richest person on

Thrill

8/13/19 4:55pm

Nowhere close to being accurate

Skeptical Optimist

8/13/19 5:01pm

150k after taxes and for a single person sounds possibly right.

Creekster

8/13/19 5:06pm

How could a single guy with that income stay single?

TNT

8/13/19 5:07pm

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immacougar

8/13/19 4:57pm

No sir (without even checking it)

TNT

8/13/19 5:01pm

Apparently $56k (US median) is the 13 millionth richest...yea....don’t think so

2018grad

8/13/19 5:08pm

In the world? Yes.

RugbyCoug

8/13/19 5:24pm

Determining how “rich” someone is based on their income, without considering

garyfan

8/13/19 5:27pm

Especially when they consider student loans income

Skeptical Optimist

8/13/19 5:41pm

This site is actually using sound logic

Dissenter

8/13/19 5:33pm

Even if it’s accurate, it has no practical meaning.

garyfan

8/13/19 5:55pm

Dang, my yearly salary of $1,750,866,167 has me a mere dollar short of #1

Dissenter

8/13/19 5:37pm

To be in the top 1% in the United States, you need to make $480K/year

donnerstag

8/13/19 5:37pm

how does that prove the website is wrong?

Dissenter

8/13/19 5:39pm

It doesn't disprove their metric, but it doesn't match up with GDPs

donnerstag

8/13/19 5:54pm

Bigger pool of poorer people. I’m no math guy, but seems right to me.

Natedog916

8/13/19 5:50pm

They would need to filter out the kids, students, and old people to get to

donnerstag

8/13/19 5:57pm

Dangit. I wanted to be a one percenter.

Natedog916

8/13/19 6:02pm

It says the average laborer in Ghana makes 8 cents/hour. No way that’s right.

BYUCLA

8/13/19 6:28pm

No

Squeegee

8/13/19 6:28pm

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