# Are you part of the top 1% \[Poll\]
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 31, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701 "2022-01-31T20:49:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/1 "2022-01-31T20:49:34Z")
Let’s see if the demographics of the Dope reflect that of society…at least based upon income and/or net worth.
Are you part of the 1%, meaning is your annual household income more than $750,000 or alternatively is your household net worth greater than $10 million? If either of these conditions are met then you can answer in the affirmative that you are part of the top 1%.
Poll is anonymous
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/1))_
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/2 "2022-01-31T20:57:32Z")
Note that on a global level, many more of us are in the one percent. “[To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000, according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic.](https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/)”
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### Author:  [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/3 "2022-01-31T21:42:46Z")
Note that pie charts don’t show the percentages, whereas the bar-chart option does.
(but that looks like more than 1% !)
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/4 "2022-01-31T21:45:08Z")
Currently 3/31 = 9.6%
Small sample, but skewing the dope toward the wealthy group.
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### Author:  [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/5 "2022-01-31T22:00:56Z")
Also, those that choose to answer this poll may skew toward a wee bit of bragging, even though it is anonymous.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/6 "2022-01-31T22:20:16Z")
Why…bragging to themselves? Those folks have more problems than they realize, and might need the extra income for mental health care.
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/7 "2022-01-31T22:21:44Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Note that on a global level, many more of us are in the one percent. “[To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000, according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic.](https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/)”
I still don’t qualify by that standard.
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/8 "2022-01-31T22:36:22Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Note that on a global level, many more of us are in the one percent. “[To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000, according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic.](https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/)”
At the risk of nitpicking, that probably doesn’t take purchasing power parity into account.
Someone who earns $10,000 a year in Burkino Faso may be the equivalent, or much more, of someone who earns $34,000 in the United States.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/9 "2022-01-31T23:22:32Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> Currently 3/31 = 9.6%
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> Small sample, but skewing the dope toward the wealthy group.
And now 3/67 = 4.5%.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/10 "2022-01-31T23:26:54Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> Those folks have more problems than they realize, and might need the extra income for mental health care.
You 99%ers, always bragging about your mental health.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/11 "2022-02-01T14:05:00Z")
Not part of the top. But things are lining up pretty good for retirement in about 5 years.
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### Author:  [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/12 "2022-02-01T14:12:53Z")
I just barely qualify.
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/13 "2022-02-01T14:25:30Z")
It might have been more interested to ask for more data…say, top 1%, top 5%, 10%, 50%, etc. Looks like the current poll just has 99 dopers, not in the top 1% and 5 that are. It would be interesting to see where most break down (my WAG is that the majority of dopers would be in the top 10%, but that’s just a guess).
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/14 "2022-02-01T14:26:02Z")
I’m a 1%er; I drink lowfat milk all the time.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/15 "2022-02-01T14:46:29Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> Those folks have more problems than they realize, and might need the extra income for mental health care.
???
What is the correlation between wealth and problems/mental health issues? Haven’t had personal experience with either, but I think it would be much easier to be wealthy than poor.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/16 "2022-02-01T15:13:38Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#):
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> What is the correlation between wealth and problems/mental health issues?
It was a joke, I believe. Someone mentioned anonymous bragging. Someone else said that suggested the need for mental health assistance.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/17 "2022-02-01T15:14:30Z")
> [@XT](#):
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> It might have been more interested to ask for more data…say, top 1%, top 5%, 10%, 50%, etc.
Any bets about members of the top 0.1% or 0.01% in residence here?
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/18 "2022-02-01T15:20:58Z")
I would guess zero or close to zero in those rarified levels, but that’s just my WAG. I’m actually surprised that 5 dopers out of 100 claim to be in the top 1%, to be honest (though, as another poster mentioned, this is 1% in the US…if we are looking at worldwide it’s a different matter).
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### Author:  [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/19 "2022-02-01T15:30:04Z")
I live in Germany, and the [Handelsblatt](https://www.reiches-deutschland.de/newpage1) writes that the distributioin is:
_• Reichste 0,1%: Ab EUR 5.490.000_
_• Reichste 1%: Ab EUR 1.330.000_
_• Reichste 5%: Ab EUR 438.000_
_• Reichste 10%: Ab EUR 279.000_
_• Reichste 25%: Ab EUR 126.000_
_• Reichste 50%: Ab EUR 22.8000_
(_Reichste_ means “richest”, _Ab_ means “more than”). So I will answer accordingly and ignore your 10 million. GAP Gemini writes that there are 1,280,000 millionaires in Germany. That fits just about right with the 1,330,000 € you need to be in the 1%.
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### Author:  [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-part-of-the-top-1-poll/958701/20 "2022-02-01T18:07:38Z")
I doubt we’ll ever qualify by income unless my wife is dragged kicking and screaming into a big time executive role.
Maybe by wealth, eventually. Obviously the thresholds will rise over time.
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