Anonymous #2 4w

Lmao if you think our salaries were raised enough to match inflation, you’re crazy

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Anonymous #2 4w

your taxes are higher while billionares get even more tax cuts ontop of the tax fraud they already commit

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Anonymous #2 4w

It’s close but hasn’t quite caught up

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Anonymous #1 4w

I have a feeling the average is being dragged up by earnings increases from the top 10%. I’d be interested to see the same graph but with real median hourly wages.

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Anonymous #4 4w

Yeah good point. I’m not sure why I can’t find median hourly but I found real median weekly https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

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Anonymous #1 4w

So like barely any change (0.8%, but at least it’s positive) between Q1 2021 and Q2 2025

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Anonymous #1 4w

I actually don’t know enough to say whether you can compare hourly earnings to usual weekly earnings tbh, but I’m surprised I can’t find the median

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Anonymous #1 4w

“BLS Median Hourly Earnings: This series is an annual measure of median wages for workers paid hourly rates. This series can be broken down by sex, race, ethnicity, and age. Median hourly earnings is a specific measure that is not representative of the total labor force and is not provided frequently. Nonetheless, this series may be useful in the context of tracking and understanding the wages and characteristics of hourly workers.” hmmmm

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Anonymous #1 4w

https://data.epi.org/wages/hourly_wage_median/line/year/national/real_wage_median_2024/overall This is just annual and but seems like a 1.5% increase?

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Anonymous #2 4w

What field are you in, buddy? I haven’t met anyone whose salary increased to balance out inflation. Homes, food, childcare- things are way too expensive

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Anonymous #5 4w

I work for my parents. We are in the aviation industry

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Anonymous #2 4w

Well that explains a lot doesn’t it rich boy? I’m sure those soft baby hands love counting cash mommy and daddy are paying you

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Anonymous #7 4w

Ownership doesn’t mean shit because I still do the work. And yeah costs went up across the board but so did revenues. Margins mostly stayed the same or even improved in a lot of cases. Same goes for a lot of our friends who own businesses too. If everything costs more but your pay didn’t go up that’s just the business using the gap to boost profits. That’s not on trump

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Anonymous #6 4w

It’s 2025 we plug our cars in now

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Anonymous #2 4w

No way you thought this would help your argument

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