The net wage gap ratio between the top 10 percent earners and the bottom 10 percent earners slightly fluctuated between 1996 and 2018. In 1996, the net salary of the bottom 10 percent was 3.03 times lower than that of the top 10 percent earners. This ratio between the first and last decile decreased between 1996 and 2009, the year of the financial crisis, before rising again to reach 2.98 in 2018. Between 2008 and 2018, the amount of this wage disparity increased from 2,065 to nearly 2,500 net U.S. dollars.
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