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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I'm pretty sure it's a bit higher than $50K. The median personal income in the U.S. if roughly $40K, and the top half of earners in the U.S. alone is more than 1% of the world's total population.
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There are different income statistics and many are limited to people who report that they work full time. I was talking about 1% of the world's population, including people who did not work.
The mean per capita income in the US is $27,334 according to this --
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html. That figure is the total amount of income reported in the US divided by the number of people.