CLOSING THE GAPA woman’s best route to the top 1 percent is to marry rich,
Americans in the top 0.01 percent tower stunningly higher. With average household income of $43 million, they bring in 1,807 times more income than the bottom 20 percent.
1 percent — which meant making more than $845,000 a year — only 15 percent of them needed the woman’s income to cross that elite threshold. And they also found that only 5 percent of women in those crazy rich families made enough money to qualify for the 1 percent.
Medium income $50,000
