Table 1
Change in wage groups' shares of total wages, 1979–2013
| Share of wages | Long-term change | Great Recession | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wage group | 1979 | 2007 | 2009 | 2012 | 2013 | 1979–2007 | 1979–2013 | 2007–2009 | 2009–2013 | 2012–2013 | 2007–2013 |
| Bottom 90% | 69.8% | 61.1% | 62.3% | 60.6% | 61.0% | -8.8 | -8.8 | 1.3 | -1.3 | 0.4 | -0.1 |
| Top 90th to 99th | 22.8% | 24.9% | 25.5% | 25.6% | 25.8% | 2.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 |
| 90th–95th | 10.8 | 10.8 | 11.2 | 11.1 | 11.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| 95th–99th | 12.1 | 14.1 | 14.3 | 14.5 | 14.6 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
| Upper 1% | 7.3% | 14.1% | 12.2% | 13.8% | 13.2% | 6.7 | 5.9 | -1.9 | 1.0 | -0.6 | -0.9 |
| 99.0%–99.9% | 5.7 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 2.7 | 2.7 | -0.5 | 0.5 | -0.1 | 0.0 |
| 99.9%– 100% | 1.6 | 5.7 | 4.3 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 3.2 | -1.4 | 0.5 | -0.5 | -0.8 |
Source: EPI analysis of Kopczuk, Saez and Song (2010) and Social Security Administration wage statistics
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