On Jan 1, 2008, at 6:10 PM, John Blazek wrote:
> In the past few years I have read in a number of places that real
> wages in
> the US have basically been stagnant since the 1970's, but these
> assertions
> are often not very solidly referenced.
>
> Can anyone point me to the best-sourced discussions of real wage
> trends,
> over both the longer term and since 2000?
Here's the average U.S. hourly wage deflated by the consumer price index.
Doug
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1964 17.07 1965 17.44 1966 17.61 1967 17.88 1968 18.16 1969 18.32 1970 18.33 1971 18.72 1972 19.51 1973 19.48 1974 18.82 1975 18.39 1976 18.61 1977 18.78 1978 18.85 1979 18.29 1980 17.39 1981 17.11 1982 17.05 1983 17.23 1984 17.09 1985 16.99 1986 17.02 1987 16.83 1988 16.69 1989 16.55 1990 16.33 1991 16.15 1992 16.07 1993 16.00 1994 16.00 1995 15.99 1996 16.06 1997 16.30 1998 16.69 1999 16.94 2000 17.02 2001 17.19 2002 17.40 2003 17.48 2004 17.38 2005 17.28 2006 17.38 2007 17.57