&gt;<i>Nobody makes a salary of 100k per month. That is $1.2 million per year. The CEO of IBM, a company that had revenues of $80 billion in 2015, made salary of $1.6 million in 2015.</i><p>Actually lots of people do. In TV, for example, even for a small European countries, such as that I know of, you can make like $500K per year if you&#x27;re one of the 20-30 &quot;stars&quot; of the various network channels (head presenter, show host etc).<p>In the US: &quot;In the depths of the recession in 2009, there were still 236,883 individuals who earned more than $1,000,000 in the United States.  We know from other research that, by rough estimates, 90 out of 100 men and women reaching this income level are self-made with little to no inheritance.  Almost all have college degrees.  Men dominate the field, and almost all own or started their own business or work as an executive for a large business&quot;.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t call 230,000 people &quot;nobody&quot;.