Invisapeeps 2.0

Aurora · Senior Member

Income by U.S. Religious affiliation

bigbosslady · Newbie

That's interesting, but odd.

I wonder what the median is among those who identify as Orthodox. We definitely have greater expenses than most, so even with a higher median income, it doesn't go very far.

RichardInTN · I believe in I.D.I.C.

I'd be willing to switch religions if it would move me from "where I am now, for the belief that I believe" to the same relative level of the one I want to move to... but... I can't give up the bacon.

Bacon is worth so much more than more income.

Cactus · Senior Member

bigbosslady wrote:
That's interesting, but odd.

I wonder what the median is among those who identify as Orthodox. We definitely have greater expenses than most, so even with a higher median income, it doesn't go very far.

When looking at a chart like the above, you also have to consider where different populations are concentrated. For example a large percentage of Jewish people live in high income/high COL areas like the Northeast, NYC in particular.

ETA: I guess this also would have worked as a response to Richard. Richard, changing religions won't increase your income but changing regions probably would -while, however, also increasing your expenses.(I know you were just kidding)

-- Edited by Cactus on Tuesday 25th of February 2014 12:25:53 PM

bigbosslady · Newbie

Very true, Cactus. Which makes me wonder also, what is the conclusion to draw from this graph, other than "Jews are rich", which we all know isn't really true.

Aurora · Senior Member

bigbosslady wrote:
Very true, Cactus. Which makes me wonder also, what is the conclusion to draw from this graph, other than "Jews are rich", which we all know isn't really true.

Honestly, I don't think you can draw any conclusions from the graph. On my money board someone found a graph from the same time period that mapped out the areas which had the highest levels of certain religions and combined they might tell you something. But just this, nah, I don't think so.

I posed it mostly because it amused me and I wondered what people would say. My first response was a bad, bad one. Well, now, now I know what religion to join. biggrin Just reading it over made me laugh and be sarcastic so I thought I would pass it along.

EmmDee · Guru

The only thing that can really be drawn is possible reasons for higher income (stressing education, owning a business, living without debt, higher COL areas) that are common in a religion. The numbers themselves are kind of interesting though.