U.S. military bases abroad have dramatically lower income inequality than the civilian economy

Evidence

Income inequality is shockingly low for the United States: the highest-ranking general makes only around ten times the pay of the lowest-ranking private. (The average S&P 500 CEO, on the other hand, makes 354 times the average worker’s salary.) And unlike lily-white Mayberry and most of the United States, the bases are unusually diverse and ethnically integrated, in keeping with the overall diversity of the military. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 436