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)

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