The IRS publishes distributional data on this. Here’s how it looked in 2020 (latest available).
Source: Heritage Foundation
In this year (which is typical), the top 1% of taxpayers collectively earned 22% of the total adjusted gross income and paid 42% of the total taxes. The next 4% had 16% of AGI and paid 20% of the taxes. Below that, tax paid is proportionately the same or less than earnings.
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