Do you make more then $34,000 after taxes?
 

If so, welcome to the 1% of the world's richest people! :thumbsup

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/mone...icle-1.1001565

Good to know...

Realy?I mean that is 2883$ monthly without taxes salary,that data cant be correct.

I make more than $35k a year under the table. Hell, even my wife makes $34k a year.

going to tell my mom

World is the keyword guys. Not 1% in the US.

Thank you for the hot tip. :winkwink:

Well they should make Usa/europe average,no sense to put data in of countries where average salary is 100$ monthly.

very true but it wouldnt feed the agenda of trying to make everyone feel like they are the 1 percent.

World is da shit, Swiss bank account are richer

There's billions of people that don't even make $100 a year much less a month. :upsidedow

I'm part of the 1% of people that don't even make $100 a year :2 cents::pimp

I'll send you a food parcel. :thumbsup

Here's the US stats

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Househo..._United_States

Used to be in the top tier. :thumbsup

I call bullshit on this :2 cents:

$34k after taxes is about a salary of $48,000 a year. So this report is saying anyone making $48k/year is in the top 1%? :1orglaugh bullshit, you can make that at almost any company within 5 years starting from the ground floor. Shit, even my friend who is a felon makes $60k/year working a trucking company

Even if you are looking world wide? still dont believe it...

It's an average of total earnings divided by the population. "So a family of four would have to rake in $136,000, after taxes, to be among the world’s richest."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/wor...#ixzz1ii4omFUe

very sad statement on society if true.

1.4 billion people live on less then $1.25 a day....

Vacation in a different coutry is sounding better and better

why not? those people don't count? It's US and Europe, and then there are the "poor countries" which shouldn't be included in any statistics? :helpme

Yes because this is not realistic,this look like someone with 34000$ income is super rich,while that is maybe a salary of ordinary occupation like bartender in Usa or western europe.

How do you live on that?

I don't see anything unrealistic about it, it just shows that 99% of the people in the world earn less than $34k/year... what conclusion one wants to draw from that is up to them... :2 cents:

Once again it's not that 99% of the world makes less than $34k a year. It shows that if you divide total earning by the entire population by the total population then you come up with $34k a year. And if you make more than that figure you would seemingly be a 1%'er..

Ballers make that in a day

sheltered much? :1orglaugh

In Latvia average monthly salary is 400$, so it's 4,8k $ / year!
If in US salary is so nice, no need to think that the same is in the rest of world

Refugee camps in Africa with 1 million people in each really skew the results considering they make less than $20 a year in odd jobs.

I'm in the 0.001%.

One word: Debt.

Richness is not only about how much you make. Most people with houses don't really own them and there's probably a good portion of the "1%" according to that $34k/yr that have net wealth under $0.

Another thing why is unrealistic, just because someone makes 100$ monthly that does mean how he cant do shit with it,there is a chance how those 100$ will cover monthly rent ,food and who knows what else,same like a salary of 1000-1500$ in usa.And that is why i consider it unrealistic.

the responses in this thread show how much pressing a screen for your food all day like a wall-e character or a trained monkey turns you into a fat stupid retard, sorry.

"While a salary in the mid-30s isn?t high by American standards, Milanovic notes that number is per person, and is adjusted to account for cost-of-living differences among countries."

So if anyone actually read the article, the 34k was per person per household.

So a household of two would be 68k, household of 3 102k and so on.

...and it would also include kids who don't earn anything yet?

Average household income for an average family would probably be a better measure.

How many three income earners live in a single household? You got kids making 34k a year? You mormon? WTF?