SHOCKER: Believe It Or Not, Wall Street Doesn’t Dominate The Top 1 Percent. “It turns out the finance sector only makes up 14% of the top 1% of American earners, says this CNN Money report. Executives in other industries make up more than 30% of America’s richest cohort. Medical professionals compose close to 16% and lawyers are 8% of the top 1%. Meanwhile, no one is immune to the weak economy. The threshold to make it into the 1% club was over $424,00 in 2007. Today, it’s $343,927.” Creeping perilously close to the Obama Administration’s original you’re rich if you make over $250K schtick, which they had to change because it included too many core Democratic constituencies.