Who Occupies the Top Professions in the United States?
The most lucrative professions once were executives, managers and supervisors at big publicly listed firms but now are the same supermanagers at privately held firms and also people in the financial services industry. Changes in the types of occupations among the top 0.1 percent of tax filers in 1979 and 2005:
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Source: Author’s calculations based on Bakija, Jon, Adam Cole, and Bradley T. Heim. “Jobs and Income Growth of Top Earners and the Causes of Changing Income Inequality: Evidence from US Tax Return Data.” Working Paper (April 2012).