Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors
Income Percentile Results
Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 74.4th and 82.1th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 90,595 Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors.
50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $35,07275th Percentile: $56,115
95th Percentile: $101,983
99th Percentile: $161,760
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Income Percentile Stats
- To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $161,760 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
- To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $101,983 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
Income of Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors by Highest Education Level
Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels. There is not a lot of data for people with Masters Degrees, Professional Degrees, or Doctoral Degrees, so this data may be misleading.:- Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 63.6th and 63.6th percentiles.
- Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 100th and 100th percentiles.
- Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 22.1th and 31.5th percentiles.
- Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 53.6th and 67.3th percentiles.
- Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 77.2th and 84.6th percentiles.
Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level
Highest Level of Education for Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors:- Other (N/A or Less than HS): 22.8%
- HS Diploma / GED: 49.8%
- Associates Degree and Some College: 22.1%
- Bachelors Degree: 4.7%
- Masters Degree: 0.5%
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 0.1%
- Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 0%
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- For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 44.1th and 58.5th percentiles.
- For Engineering undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 80.1th and 81.4th percentiles.
- For Criminal Justice and Fire Protection undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 26.4th and 50.9th percentiles.
- For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 88.6th and 88.6th percentiles.
- For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 37th and 54.4th percentiles.
- For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 48.1th and 75.5th percentiles.
- For Computer and Information Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 72.9th and 77.8th percentiles.
- For History undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 89.5th and 95.9th percentiles.
- For Environment and Natural Resources undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 80th and 100th percentiles.
- For Medical and Health Sciences and Services undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 32.9th and 55.7th percentiles.
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Methodology and Assumptions
This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2017-2022. These results represent 90,595 Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 9720 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).
Exclusions and Filters Applied:- Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
- High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
- Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can. The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
- All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
- There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
- Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
- Doctoral Degree: PHd