Faith, Education and Income

Interesting post from David Leonhardt:

The chart in the magazine looks at the percentage of people with a four-year college degree and the percentage of people with family income of at least $75,000 a year, using data from Pew. Here are the percentages if the education cutoff is changed to at least some college (including a two-year degree) and the family income cutoff is changed to $50,000:

	%, at least some college	%, family income $50k+
Hindus	84	80
Reform Jews	83	81
Unitarians	81	55
Conservative Jews	79	74
Anglicans/Episcopalians	76	63
Buddhists	74	56
Orthodox Christians	68	57
Presbyterians	64	60
Secular	60	55
Mormons	60	54
Methodists	56	53
Lutherans	53	54
TOTAL U.S.	50	48
Catholics	47	49
Muslims	47	41
Baptists	40	36
Unaffiliated religious	39	37
Pentecostals	33	29
Jehovah’s Witnesses	31	35

Here are the percentages of people with a post-graduate degree and with family income of at least $100,000 a year:

	%, post-grad degree	%, family income, $100k+
Hindus	43	48
Reform Jews	55	35
Conservative Jews	43	35
Unitarians	26	29
Buddhists	22	26
Anglicans/Episcopalians	35	25
Orthodox Christians	28	18
Presbyterians	26	18
Secular	23	16
Methodists	20	13
TOTAL U.S.	18	11
Mormons	16	10
Catholics	19	10
Muslims	16	10
Lutherans	16	9
Baptists	11	6
Unaffiliated religious	12	6
Pentecostals	7	3
Jehovah’s Witnesses	9	3

In every case, the correlation between education and income is extremely strong.