{"id":1562,"date":"2019-07-23T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2019-07-23T12:58:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T18:58:31","slug":"interesting-view-on-the-growth-of-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2019\/07\/interesting-view-on-the-growth-of-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting view on the growth of wages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I came across this link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/OACT\/COLA\/central.html\">SSA income data<\/a>. I see that the average salary\/wage is growing faster than the median salary\/wage. So this shows that the majority of the workers continue to get more and more relatively poorer than the &#8220;average&#8221; worker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the upper left of the SSA page is a link to yearly breakdowns of the annual wages. Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/cgi-bin\/netcomp.cgi?year=2017\">link the 2017 numbers<\/a>. It shows the breakdown of the number of earners in each income band, up to 205 people who earned more than $50,000,000. The total of those 205 people was $19,954,445,874.88 for a average of $97,338,760.37 each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, only 143 people earned more than $50M with an average of $100.7M each.And in 2015, it was 202 people with an average of $91.4M each. Looks like a lot of volatility at the top. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An interesting page to fiddle with to see where the inequity grows. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this link to SSA income data. I see that the average salary\/wage is growing faster than the median salary\/wage. So this shows that the majority of the workers continue to get more and more relatively poorer than the &#8220;average&#8221; worker. In the upper left of the SSA page is a link to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2019\/07\/interesting-view-on-the-growth-of-wages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting view on the growth of wages<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-pc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}