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About 15% of working Americans make at least $100,000 of income per year as of the 2021 American Community Survey. As you’d expect, many who fall in that 15% spent more years in school and spend more hours at work.
But you can also earn a six-figure income without working all the time. What about those people? What do they do?
Posted by in Data Underload, income, occupation, work
Susie Neilson for the San Francisco Chronicle compared the marriage of professions in San Francisco against the national average. As you might expect, there were a lot of programmers:
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most common union between two professionals here is between a computer programmer and … another computer programmer. Our estimates show that an estimated 1% of all marriages in the region are between two software developers — specifically developers of applications and systems software. For the U.S. overall, software developer unions make up less than one-tenth of a percent of all marriages.
Back in 2017, I made similar comparisons nationally. I like this local angle. Also, maybe I should look at the most recent numbers.
Tags: marriage, occupation, San Francisco Chronicle, Susie Neilson
Posted by in marriage, occupation, San Francisco Chronicle, Statistical Visualization, Susie Neilson