Question: what is the 1 in nyc?
Answer: New York's top 1% earn even more: about $2.2 million on average. That's nearly 42 times the average income earned by the bottom 99%, $50,107, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The minimum annual income needed to crack the state's top 1% is $550,174, which is 30% higher than the national threshold of $421,926.