Figure 3.6 Paying and Receiving Parents' Annual Incomes

Figure 3.6 presents the categorized income levels for the paying and receiving parents. The most frequent income category for paying parents was $30,000 to $44,999, with 28.3 percent of non-missing responses falling into this category. A total of 10 percent of paying parents fell into the lowest income category, and 1.9 percent had incomes in excess of $150,000. The pattern of income for receiving parents is somewhat different from paying parents, in that the most common income category for receiving parents is $15,000–$29,999 (36.1 percent of non-missing responses), followed by 24.6 percent in the $30,000–$44,999 range. The proportion of cases in the higher income ranges was considerably lower for receiving parents than for paying parents.