Specialist Physician – Median: $350,000 — Top 1%
Judge – Median: $260,000 — Top 1.5%
Secondary School Teacher – High End: $112,000 — Top 11%
Police Officer – High End: $107,250 — Top 12%
Police Officer – Median: $85,600 — Top 20%
Secondary School Teacher – Median: $83,500 — Top 22%
Retail Sales – High End: $38,000 — Top 70%
Waiter/Server – High End: $35,900 — Top 74%
Waiter/Server – Median: $25,200 — Top 94%
Retail Sales – Median: $22,400 — Top 98%
Using only “full-time” employment as our group for analysis, the following incomes would equal the following percentiles:
$25,000 = 94th percentile
$50,000 = 53rd percentile
$75,000 = 27th percentile
$100,000 = 14th percentile
$150,000 = 5th percentile
$225,000 = 2nd percentile
$300,000 = 1st percentile