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Distribution of Pre-tax factor income (United States)
Adults | Equal-split adults | Share

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Factor national income is the sum of all pretax personal income flows of personal sector accruing directly or indirectly to the individual owners of the production factors, labor and capital, before taking into account the operation of the tax/transfer system, and before taking into account the operation of pension system.
The chart(s) below show(s) how the Pre-tax factor income has being distributed across sets of complementing (they add up to 100%) percentile groups. We have tried to show this data for as many years as possible, but you may find that in some cases the information is just not available for some percentiles.

[Bottom 50% - Next 40% - Top 10%] shares split (1913-2014)

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[Bottom 90% - Top 10%] shares split (1913-2014)

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[Bottom 99% - Top 1%] shares split (1913-2014)

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Other available data for this indicator (Pre-tax factor income)



We source all the data from the World Inequality Database.