http://www.nber.org/chapters/c2500.pdf page 101 suggests seamstress was making about 1/3 what a carpenters made. Thus seamstresses where far from the to 10%.
The US numbers look for top 10% was ~1/3 of all income top 5% = 20% of all income so 90-95% was ~10% of all incomes. The bottom 40% was 13.6% of all income. Page 32: http://eml.berkeley.edu/~webfac/cromer/e211_f12/LindertWilli...
So, someone at 90.001 percentile was making about 8x what someone at 20.001 percentile.
PS: Inflation is hard to calculate for this time-span but it was the equivalent of something like 2$ per hour.
http://www.nber.org/chapters/c2500.pdf page 101 suggests seamstress was making about 1/3 what a carpenters made. Thus seamstresses where far from the to 10%.
The US numbers look for top 10% was ~1/3 of all income top 5% = 20% of all income so 90-95% was ~10% of all incomes. The bottom 40% was 13.6% of all income. Page 32: http://eml.berkeley.edu/~webfac/cromer/e211_f12/LindertWilli...
So, someone at 90.001 percentile was making about 8x what someone at 20.001 percentile.
PS: Inflation is hard to calculate for this time-span but it was the equivalent of something like 2$ per hour.