Originally Posted by Bostonian
Do you think the correlation between IQ and income is well less than 0.4-0.5 in the U.S.?

Of course not.

The correlation of the top 0.1% in IQ is well above 0.4-0.5 in terms of people who make the top 0.1% in terms of income.

It's almost to the point where having an IQ in the top 0.1% effectively guarantees that you will never drop below $1,000,000 in annual salary.