Creating a Staircase bar graph in STATA

[Muhammad Bashir]

Hi,
I am trying to create following staircase plot in STATA. Just consider first 4 red bars. I want to start each bar after first bar from where previous bar ended. Can you suggest any program to do that? I have tried stacked bar and many other ways using graph bar but it did not work. For now I have following data

input str20 category cost "Salary Cost" 30000 "Labor Cost" 5000 "Office Level Overhead" 2400 "Head Quarter cost" 2300 end
Thanks

[Nick Cox]

graph bar has flexibility but not of the kind you most need here. The most valuable tool is twoway rbar.