Income Distribution Of Canada
The increase in the average income for families in the bottom 20 chart 7 though largest among the five income brackets actually equates to just a 2 500.
Income distribution of canada. Note 6 employment income represented between 73 6 and 83 8 of total income for people in the top half top five deciles of the income distribution. Figure 2 plots the growth of market income that is all income except transfers and capital gains of various segments of the income distribution between 1982 and 2010. Emmanuel saez and i developed personal income tax data based estimates of the share of market income meaning all income except government transfer payments and capital gains received by canada s top 1 percent from 1920 to 2000. There was similar constancy across the income distribution except at the very top.
From that we. Digging below summary measures of inequality such as the gini coefficient leads us to a more nuanced view of changes in the income distribution. Income distribution in canada in 2018 by income level in canadian dollars graph. Employment income is the major source of income for people in the middle and the top of the income distribution.
Such stability in income distribution is surprising because during the same period canada experienced considerable economic growth and the average family income corrected. Middle class income in canada has a salary range of 36 598 to 73 115 according to this nanos research study most canadians had widely varying views on what is considered middle class for example 22 of canadians believed that 150 000 in yearly income was required to make it into middle class whereas 18 believed 100 000 was. Data have been revised for belgium and ireland income year 2017. The statistic shows the percentage distribution of income of taxfilers in canada in 2018 distinguished by level of income.
Ie the share of income going to each quintile has varied only slightly. While the distribution of income as measured by the gini has remained roughly the same since the late 1990s the dollar amount of income inequality has certainly increased since then. Income distribution as measured by statistics canada has been very stable over the past 30 years.