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Except for 70th percentile and below down to the 40th percentile

• lotsofpulp 3y ago
  Thanks for the correction! The graph disappears for me around the 80th, so I didn’t know you could click in the invisible part and still see numbers. I assumed the trend continued. The differences, however, are pretty minor (a few hundred dollars to $1,500 at most from what I spot checked), whereas in the differences are thousands and tens of thousands of dollars after the 80th percentile. So it seems like the top 20% in CA earn sufficiently more than the top 20% in NY to far outweigh whatever extra 30% to 70% in NY earn.
  • iopq 3y ago
    Yes, that's true for the average, but doesn't affect the median, which is basically exactly equal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United... if you look at taxes, it depends on what kind of taxes you count, for example North Dakota's severance taxes makes it rank #1 in the nation, but it's from drilling for oil/gas But if you look at the highest state spending per capita https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/per-capita-state-spending/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Per%20Capita%20State%20Spending%22,%22sort%22:%22desc%22%7D https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/per-capita-state-s... #1 is DC, so it's the "richest state" even though it's not a real state, with #2 Alaska spending the most per each resident of which there are not much The conclusion is that California in reality doesn't spend the most on its residents