The top 2% spend ~ 65% while the top 20% spend ~ 80%. The spending habits of the top 2% have been dramatically reduced over the past 24 months by as much as 75%. You know what rolls down the hill. Our retail, commercial, and industrial entities have been hit very hard contributing to decreased income, increased layoffs.
The answer depends on where in the world and over what period. 250000 Japanese yen would be equivalent to 2330 USD. On a daily basis that would put you in the top 20% but certainly not on an annual basis.
2 percent of 156,000 is 3,120.
top 14 percent
Two percent of 3785mL is 75.7mL
150000
1.5 million
1.5 million
250,000
The top 2% of wage earners are those earning approximately $225,000 per year or more. Don't let them fool you into thinking it's only millionaires and billionaires. It's not.
Yes, there will be top 3% of earners in America as well as in any other continent, country, region or city.
200000
120,000
In Canada, pretty much anyone earning over $100,000 is in the top 5 to 10 % of income earners. Statistics Canada data will bear this out.
£42,871 a year
As of this year the top twenty percent of income in the United States is "a household income of just over $100,000. The top 10 percent of earners have a household income of more than $148,687."
"Including all tax returns that had a positive AGI [adjusted gross income], taxpayers with an AGI of $153,542 or more in 2006 constituted the nation's top 5 percent of earners. To break into the top 1 percent, a tax return had to have an AGI of $388,806 or more. The top-earning 25 percent of taxpayers [have an] AGI over $64,702." http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html