Share of overall income growth captured by the top 1% and bottom 99% in pre- and post-1980 expansions
| Rank (by share of overall income growth captured by top 1% in post-1980 expansions) | State/region | Share of total growth captured by top 1% | Share of total growth captured by bottom 99% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-1980 expansions | Post-1980 expansions | Pre-1980 expansions | Post-1980 expansions | ||
| 1 | Nevada | 11.6% | 130.1% | 88.4% | -30.1% |
| 2 | Missouri | 8.4% | 115.7% | 91.6% | -15.7% |
| 3 | New York | -6.4% | 94.4% | 106.4% | 5.6% |
| 4 | Wyoming | 3.0% | 87.2% | 97.0% | 12.8% |
| 5 | North Carolina | 11.0% | 81.8% | 89.0% | 18.2% |
| 6 | Connecticut | 16.5% | 79.8% | 83.5% | 20.2% |
| 7 | Washington | 10.8% | 79.1% | 89.2% | 20.9% |
| 8 | California | 9.2% | 74.6% | 90.8% | 25.4% |
| 9 | New Jersey | 14.0% | 72.9% | 86.0% | 27.1% |
| 10 | Oregon | 6.6% | 62.0% | 93.4% | 38.0% |
| 11 | Florida | 15.2% | 61.0% | 84.8% | 39.0% |
| 12 | Colorado | 6.4% | 58.9% | 93.6% | 41.1% |
| 13 | Arizona | 11.1% | 58.7% | 88.9% | 41.3% |
| 14 | Texas | 11.0% | 57.2% | 89.0% | 42.8% |
| 15 | Illinois | 12.3% | 56.6% | 87.7% | 43.4% |
| 16 | Georgia | 11.1% | 56.2% | 88.9% | 43.8% |
| 17 | Massachusetts | 20.1% | 55.4% | 79.9% | 44.6% |
| 18 | South Carolina | 10.5% | 55.3% | 89.5% | 44.7% |
| 19 | Utah | 7.9% | 53.1% | 92.1% | 46.9% |
| 20 | Pennsylvania | 7.1% | 52.1% | 92.9% | 47.9% |
| 21 | Tennessee | 8.6% | 51.8% | 91.4% | 48.2% |
| 22 | Michigan | 7.7% | 50.6% | 92.3% | 49.4% |
| 23 | Delaware | -8.1% | 47.4% | 108.1% | 52.6% |
| 24 | Kansas | 10.3% | 44.3% | 89.7% | 55.7% |
| 25 | Hawaii | 6.0% | 41.6% | 94.0% | 58.4% |
| 26 | Alaska | 14.1% | 38.8% | 85.9% | 61.2% |
| 27 | Kentucky | 7.0% | 37.9% | 93.0% | 62.1% |
| 28 | Idaho | 6.5% | 36.7% | 93.5% | 63.3% |
| 29 | Oklahoma | 10.0% | 36.5% | 90.0% | 63.5% |
| 30 | Ohio | 8.7% | 36.0% | 91.3% | 64.0% |
| 31 | Wisconsin | 9.0% | 34.9% | 91.0% | 65.1% |
| 32 | Rhode Island | 16.7% | 34.5% | 83.3% | 65.5% |
| 33 | Minnesota | 10.0% | 34.4% | 90.0% | 65.6% |
| 34 | New Hampshire | 6.4% | 34.3% | 93.6% | 65.7% |
| 35 | Indiana | 7.4% | 34.2% | 92.6% | 65.8% |
| 36 | Nebraska | 13.9% | 33.3% | 86.1% | 66.7% |
| 37 | Maryland | 7.1% | 33.0% | 92.9% | 67.0% |
| 38 | Vermont | 7.6% | 32.6% | 92.4% | 67.4% |
| 39 | South Dakota | 5.8% | 32.3% | 94.2% | 67.7% |
| 40 | Alabama | 7.8% | 31.1% | 92.2% | 68.9% |
| 41 | Virginia | 7.3% | 29.7% | 92.7% | 70.3% |
| 42 | Maine | 6.8% | 28.6% | 93.2% | 71.4% |
| 43 | Arkansas | 4.6% | 27.8% | 95.4% | 72.2% |
| 44 | Iowa | 9.2% | 26.6% | 90.8% | 73.4% |
| 45 | Mississippi | 9.5% | 22.2% | 90.5% | 77.8% |
| 46 | Montana | 6.1% | 21.2% | 93.9% | 78.8% |
| 47 | North Dakota | -7.8% | 20.3% | 107.8% | 79.7% |
| 48 | Louisiana | 14.3% | 19.4% | 85.7% | 80.6% |
| 49 | West Virginia | 3.9% | 11.5% | 96.1% | 88.5% |
| 50 | New Mexico | 10.0% | 0.9% | 90.0% | 99.1% |
| 23* | District of Columbia | 11.5% | 47.7% | 88.5% | 52.3% |
| United States | 9.5% | 58.9% | 90.5% | 41.1% | |
| Northeast | 13.9% | 68.0% | 86.1% | 32.0% | |
| Midwest | 8.8% | 43.6% | 91.2% | 56.4% | |
| South | 10.4% | 58.5% | 89.6% | 41.5% | |
| West | 8.7% | 71.4% | 91.3% | 28.6% | |
* Rank of the District of Columbia if it were ranked with the 50 states
Note: The analysis in Table 9 was performed after excluding 26 state expansions. See endnote 9 for more detail.
Source: Authors’ analysis of state-level tax data from Sommeiller (2006) extended to 2013 using state-level data from the Internal Revenue Service SOI Tax Stats (various years), and Piketty and Saez (2012)