I'm in the 1%....as are about a quarter of those on this board.

[Abin Sur]

What, you thought I was speaking of one's position in the US economy? By that measure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States

I'm only in the top 21%. Let's not be so provincial. Let's take the test at:
http://www.globalrichlist.com/index.php

I am the 57,087,865 richest person in the world...which puts me in the top 0.95%...which means I've made it! Yay me! :party:

[rdking647]

1. Im in the top 1/2 of 1%

[Firebrand Gary]

2. Awesome link!

[Turborama]

3. K&R but stayed at 0

:wtf:

Thanks a lot for the link, though.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. I am not are rich as you, but since this is based on world population,

I am pretty damned rich. Top 1.42% in the world. Kinda puts it in perspective, doesn't it?

[geckosfeet]

5. I don't know. That only accounts for gross income.

[Abin Sur]

8. Granted, but taking benefits and net wealth into account would make it *much* more complicated.

In my case, it might bump me up another quarter to half percentage point on the world income rating.

[RKP5637]

6. Amazing, absolutely amazing. Really gives one a perspective, doesn't it, on world wealth. n/t

[spanone]

7. $600 dollars gets you a quarter of the way up the scale

[Journeyman]

9. $47,466 seems to be the threshold for the top 1%. . .

[rfranklin]

10. You just published your income...

$55,000.

[Abin Sur]

13. I'm a public employee, it's not a secret.

Pssst...wanna hear a *real* secret?

Abin Sur's not my real name.

(keep it under your hat, m'kay?)

[RB TexLa]

11. And that is what the world sees when they see us. The haves and have mores

fighting while totally blind to them.

[Tsiyu]

21. +1

:blush:

[bullwinkle428]

24. Ah, the old "the poor have refrigerators" meme. It didn't work when

Fox News was pushing it, and it won't work here. At least with me.

[rbixby]

12. whoa! tie for same rank!

I challenge you to a duel!

[Abin Sur]

15. As the one challenged, I choose the weapons.

Comic book trivia at 10 paces.

[rbixby]

27. Damn, you win!

NT

[Fuzz]

14. Wow, 250k makes you the 107,565 richest in the world

[ProfessorGAC]

26. I Find That Hard To Believe

I thought i remember when it became official that there were a million millionaires. So, there's something very odd in this test.
GAC

[Glassunion]

28. It is all based on the following assumptions

"The Global Rich List calculations are based on figures from the World Bank Development Research Group. To calculate the most accurate position for each individual we assume that the world's total population is 6 billion¹ and the average worldwide annual income is $5,000²."

[ProfessorGAC]

32. I Get It

I thought they were talking net worth. If this is income, this makes sense.
GAC

[localroger]

16. This is a bit disingenuous

I too am in the top 1%, but I am trapped by my livelihood in a place where the cost of living is pretty high compared to, say, any place in central America. If I could move to Costa Rica and keep my American salary I could live like a king. But here the rents are vastly higher, food prices are higher, almost everything is far more expensive (which is the main reason Americans vacation and retire in central America). And it gets worse -- I live in a pretty cheap US city. If I lived in San Francisco instead of New Orleans but had the same salary, I'd be scraping to make ends meet. This kind of cheap analysis really does nobody any favors, because it glosses over all the barriers that exist in first world countries to making a way for yourself if you can't do it conventionally. In the Third World you can build a hovel out of pallets and expand it into a functional house as opportunity allows; in the US zoning and building codes pretty much make that impossible. It might be better to require buildings to be built well, but if the cost of that is someone living in a cardboard box because if they did anything better it would be knocked down by the government, that's not a good thing.

[diane in sf]

17. There's an almost infinite distance between the upper 1% and the upper .01%

and the upper 1/10 of 1% is the group causing our problems.

[kestrel91316]

18. I am a 12%er.

[Rabblevox]

19. Interseting. My unemployment check puts me in the top 12%, but I doubt if...

many of them are paying $500/month to keep a roof over their head. (and an extremely fucking modest and small roof at that).

[chemp]

20. This year 103,478,261 top 1.72%

Last year 107,565 0.001%

amazing what unemployment does to your income...

[Gin]

23. Interesting link.....I am in the top 10%....

[trackfan]

22. You are the 625,685,742 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 10.42% nt

[tama]

25. top 10 or top 90

Finnish social security gross 1100+ euros, after rent, taxes etc. net 200 for basic living. Average "middle class" income on global terms I guess, somewhere between top and bottom 10%... :)

[stevenleser]

29. Top 1% refers to wealth, not income in a given year. And it refers to the country you are in, not

the world.

[Hutzpa]

30. woopeee, let's all just pack up and head on home

what a misleading post.

Unrec.

[lumberjack_jeff]

31. I wish we could get our definitions right

"Rich" = high net worth.
"High income" = what both links in the OP discuss.