成為最富裕的1%人？你每年都得掙這么多錢

美國最富有的1%的納稅人的收入水平在2017年上升了7.2%，這是現在可以查到的最新數據。美國國稅局的新數據顯示，這一群體的收入門檻為每年515,371美元。

這個數字比前50%的納稅人調整后的收入門檻的10倍還要多，后者的收入為41,740美元。（根據美國國稅局的數據，97%的稅是這些人繳納的。）

即使在富人中，也有上層階級。在那1%的人中，還有最頂端的0.1%。要在2017年躋身這0.1%，你必須賺到240萬美元——比2011年增長了38% ，那一年是“占領華爾街”抗議活動的核心，那一年“那1%”成為美國大眾詞匯的一部分。

收入不平等是今年民主黨總統候選人經常討論的一個話題，尤其是伯尼·桑德斯。今年早些時候，加州大學伯克利分校的經濟學教授加布里埃爾·祖克曼的一篇論文發現，美國的收入不平等已經達到大蕭條開始之前那幾年的水平。（財富中文網）

譯者：Agatha

The income levels of the top 1% of taxpayers in the U.S. were up 7.2% in 2017, the most recent numbers available. New data from the Internal Revenue Service puts the entry mark at $515,371 per year.

That’s more than 10 times as high as the adjusted gross income of the benchmark to be part of the top 50% of taxpayers, who take home $41,740 or more. (That group pays 97% of taxes, according to the IRS.)

Even among the rich, there’s an upper echelon. For the 1%, that’s the top 0.1%. To reach that milestone in 2017, you’d have had to earn $2.4 million—a 38% increase since 2011, the heart of the Occupy Wall Street protests, when “the 1%” became part of our national vocabulary.

Income inequality has been a topic frequently discussed by the Democratic presidential candidates this year, especially Bernie Sanders. Earlier this year, a paper authored by UC Berkeley economics professor Gabriel Zucman found that income inequality in the U.S. has reached levels last seen in the years just before the Great Depression.