Mere moments ago, I was complaining that the CBPP’s chart showing percentile income gains for different income quintiles actually understated the situation, as 10 percent of a small salary and 10 percent of a huge salary are not the same amount of money. Turns out that the CBPP also tabulated the data in dollars. They’ve even got a fancy table:
To normalize the numbers a bit, the increase for the top percentile was 256 percent, or $863,200. But if the incomes of the lowest quintile had increased by $863,200, that would’ve been income grown on the order of 5,700 percent.
