Show High Income Levels For Local Families TO THE Because Davis County families as a whole are earning more money now than in previous many of them have moved as a into new and higher income WHETHER they are able to buy any more with the added cash is another Locally there has been a progressive slit ft Some who were in the to a few years are now to be found in the to THEIR former positions on the income ladder have been taken in by families who had been earning less than The gratification of being in a loftier bracket is somewhat by the realization that tax rates are higher on the upper THE PACTS and figures covering the local area and oilier parts of the country are contained in a report released bv the Standard Rate and Data It for each the number of families in the various income The purpose of the study was to obtain a clearer financial picture of each locality's purchasing power than was revealed by its average income DOES that average comprise a small proportion of families with big incomes counterbalancing a much larger proportion with low incomes or are earnings mare evenly In Davis it is no less than percent of the households had disposable incomes of or more after payment of their personal COMPARED with the proportion at that level this was The United Slates average was It was percent in the State of The breakdown figures for the local area list percent of the households with net incomes of to percent at the to percent between and and percent higher than The others have or less left after taxes THE BIGGER incomes have not improved the buying power of the average The cost of living has been rising at a faster clip than |