“ The often-cited work of income analysts Piketty and Saez … reveals that admission to the top 1% of the income scale will run you a cool $375,000. Too many common folk there for your taste? Then you’ll need about $600K to move up to the top half of the top 1% (i.e., the top 0.5%). What’s that? You want to roll with some serious money? It’ll cost you $2 million to break into the top 0.1% (the top tenth of the top percent), and $10.5 million for the top 0.01% — the top one-hundredth of the top one percent, average income: $30 million.
— huffpo
