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In One Chart: Here’s how much you’d have to earn in 2017 to crack the U.S.’s richest 1%

Posted by: Market Watch in Market News October 17, 2019

According to the latest IRS data cited by Bloomberg, it took earnings of $515,371 in 2017 to crack into the top 1%, a rise of 7.2% from the year prior, even after adjusting for inflation. Since 2011, when the Occupy Wall Street protests were raging, the threshold to break out of the 99% has risen an inflation-adjusted 33%.

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