Change in wage groups' shares of total wages, 1979–2017
| Percentage point change | Percentage point change | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share of wages | Long-term change | Great Recession | |||||||||
| Wage group | 1979 | 2007 | 2009 | 2016 | 2017 | 1979–2007 | 1979–2017 | 2007–09 | 2009–17 | 2016–17 | 2007–17 |
| Bottom 90% | 69.8% | 61.1% | 62.3% | 61.1% | 60.9% | -8.8 | -8.9 | 1.3 | -1.4 | -0.2 | -0.2 |
| Top 90th to 99th | 22.8% | 24.9% | 25.5% | 25.8% | 25.7% | 2.0 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | -0.2 | 0.8 |
| 90%–95% | 10.8% | 10.8% | 11.2% | 11.2% | 11.1% | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | -0.1 | -0.1 | 0.3 |
| 95%–99% | 12.1% | 14.1% | 14.3% | 14.7% | 14.6% | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | -0.1 | 0.5 |
| Upper 5% | 19.4% | 28.1% | 26.5% | 27.8% | 28.0% | 8.7 | 8.6 | -1.7 | 1.6 | 0.2 | -0.1 |
| Upper 1% | 7.3% | 14.1% | 12.2% | 13.1% | 13.4% | 6.7 | 6.1 | -1.9 | 1.3 | 0.3 | -0.6 |
| 99.0%–99.9% | 5.7% | 8.4% | 7.9% | 8.3% | 8.3% | 2.7 | 2.6 | -0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | -0.1 |
| 99.9%–100% | 1.6% | 5.7% | 4.3% | 4.8% | 5.2% | 4.0 | 3.5 | -1.4 | 0.9 | 0.3 | -0.5 |
Source: EPI analysis of Kopczuk, Saez and Song (2010) and Social Security Administration wage statistics