Top 32 Earners in Different Sports

The Wall Street Journal made this great graph which gives an overview of what the top 32 players make in a few selected sports. Baseball has the highest earning individuals, with baseball en (U.S.) football following closely. Also note that the difference for tennis players between the first and the 32nd highest earners is especially large. Unfortunately European football is not included.

Wall Street Journal

World Income Growth By Income Distribution (1988-2008)

I found this great graph at the website of the Financial Times. It is from a paper of Branko Milanovic. It shows the real income growth for each percentile of the income distribution, for 1988-2008. As you can expect there is convergence: people with lower incomes saw higher increases in their incomes than people at the end of the distribution. Yet there is an exception, at the total right, the people with the highest incomes also saw high growth. The reason for this is probably that their income consisted for a big part of capital gains, which as Piketty shows tend to grow faster than GDP.

FT

Labor As a Share of Total Income; Decling Trend in the U.S.

This graph shows the share of labor income in the United States as a share of total income. There are two sources of data for the labor income, the NIPA data and the BLS data. As you can see both data have been declining structurally since the beginning of the 2000's. Will this trend continue?

Lukas Daalder

World GDP Density

This graph shows the GDP per capita in the world. Besides Europe, especially notice west and east coasts of the U.S. and the coast of China, the oil states, the Nile, east Australia and Moscow.

Clearly there are a lot of physical determiants of GDP. Cold in the North and warm in the middle, forests. mountains and ofcourse the sea.

Econbrowser

EU Regions: GDP Per Capita

Following on my previous post here I show the GDP per capita (2008). First per country as you can see in the next table. Germany, France and the U.K. are not in the top, while they have the highest number of inhabitants. Norway, Switzerland and Denmark are the top three (besides Luxembourg). Bulgaria, Romania and Poland have the lowest GDP per capita.

In the next graph you can see the GDP per capita on the regional level. Again England, the Netherlands, West-Germany, Switzerland and North Italy stand out.

Eurostat

The World's One Percent

You can see that half of the world's richest 1 percent live in the United States! Four live in Germany, three in France, Italy and the United Kingdom. To be part of the world's richest one percent you 'only' need to make 136.000 dollars as a household of four (including two children).

CNN Money

OECD Countries: How much does the one percent earn?

The one chart which the global occupy-er needs.

In this chart you can see what share of total income the one percent of earners have in several countries. The light blue is the share which it was in 1990. The dark blue is the share which it was in 2007. The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Finland and Ireland saw the biggest increases in inequality.

Off The Charts

As you can see the United States has by far the highest inequality among OECD countries.

The next chart shows which occupation the richest 0,1 percent (not the 1 percent) in the United States have.

This chart shows the change in occupation in the total 0,1 percent richest earners. You can see that finance increased dramatically.

EconomPic

The Great Prosterity (1947-79) VS. Great Deregulation (80-now) In The U.S.

This infographic compares the two economic periods after the Second World War in the United States. The Great Prosperity on the one hand, which lasted from 1947-79 and The Great Regression, which I called the Great Deregulation, which lasted from 1980 till now. Especially notice the differences in the connection between productivity growth and income growth and the wealth held by the top 1 percent earners.

Click on the picture for a bigger version.

Child Poverty in Developed World

This chart shows the percentage of total children that are in poverty in twenty-one rich nations at the turn of the century.

Source: Zero Hedge

Income Inequality in the United States

This chart shows the income growth per income class in the United States between 1969 and 2008. You can see that almost all income growth was taken by the top 1% of the earners in the United States.

Source: State Of Working America

Income inequality in the world.

In this picture with data from the CIA world factbook the gini coeficient has been calculated for allmost the countries in the world. The gini coefficient measures the income equality by comparing a complete equal distribution with the actual income distribution in a country. The higher the gini coefficient the higher the income inequality.

Source: Digg

Compare Salaries in the United States

Check this chart from the Wall Street Journal to compare salaries of a lot of jobs in the United States.

Check it here:

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/05/18/most-common-jobs-among-lowest-paid/tab/interactive/



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