Tuesday, October 26, 2010  Stat of the day  Well, it's actually
"stats" of the day dealing with those individuals breathing the
rarefied air at the tippy top of our income pyramid in the US.
We're talking about people making over $50 million/year. I
assume this includes Spielberg, Howard Stern, Oprah, Tiger and a
bunch of guys on Wall Street you've never heard of (sadly for
yours truly, many of them were former colleagues and
competitors. Wall Street has been berry, berry good to them).
Courtesy of tax.com:   The first thing that strikes me there is
that only 74 people in the entire US make over $50 million. I
know many people take equity as pay instead of a salary so it's
hard to actually cross that threshold after deductions, but
still $50 million seems like it would be doable for more than 74
people, but I digress.  "But that’s only part of the story. The
average wage in this top category increased from $91.2 million
in 2008 to an astonishing $518.8 million in 2009.  That’s nearly
$10 million in weekly pay