Originally Posted by Dude
My understanding is that the "top 0.1%" is more of a measure of wealth than of income. This is an important distinction to make when CEOs can draw a $1 annual salary (taxed at something like 35%) plus whatever stock options they chose to sell (taxed at about 15%). Assuming the CEO holds more stocks than he sells in a given year, his reportable income does not equal his total annual compensation. Wealth becomes a more relevant measure.

This thread is about Income, IQ and the SAT.

You should be posting this to the "Wealth, IQ, and the SAT" thread, instead.

Last edited by JonLaw; 04/06/15 08:37 AM.