Research Outline

Employees Earnings Over $100,000

Goals

To identify the number of employees that earn over $100,000 in Cox Enterprises, Staples, Omnicom , Dropbox, and CBS.

Early Findings

  • According to Statista, the upper percentile of the percentage distribution of household income in the United States in 2018 was divided into:
  • 14.9% of households earned between $100,000 and $149,999.
  • 7% of households earned between $150,000 and $199,999.
  • 8.5% of households earned over $200,000.
  • The top 20 companies that pay an average salaries of over $100,000 in the United States are: Amazon - average salary of $100,000, Pegasystems - average salary of $104,000, Bloomberg - average salary of $104,000, Cisco - average salary of $104,000, Netflix - average salary of $104,000, Visa - average salary of $107,000, Chevron Corporation - average salary of $107,000, Zynga - average salary of $108,000, Adobe - average salary of $108,000, PayPal - average salary of $109,000, Salesforce - average salary of $109,000, Intuit - average salary of $113,000, Google - average salary of $113,000, Facebook - average salary of $117,000, eBay - average salary of $118,000, Microsoft - average salary of $118,000, Apple - average salary of $121,000, LinkedIn - average salary of $123,000, VMware - average salary of $126,000, and NVIDIA - average salary of $137,000.
  • In reference to Payscale:
  • Cox pays its employees an average salary of $82,000.
  • Staples pays its employees an average salary of $69,000.
  • Omnicom pays its employees an average salary of $71,000
  • Dropbox pays its employees an average salary of $116,000.
  • CBS pays its employees an average salary of $77,000.
  • Information on the average number of employees and/or job positions that pay over $100,000 per year is available in jobs websites such as Glassdoor, Indeed, Payscale, Comparably, and Indeed.