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Do You Get a Fair Pay? Check your salary What are you worth?

Wage Data from State of Working America, EPI, Mishel et al

Assessing the Job Polarization Explanation of Growing Wage Inequality, Mishel et al, 1/13

Going Nowhere: Workers' Wages Since the Mid-1970s, TCF, 1/13

The 10-Year Decline in Wages for Most College Graduates, Mishel, EPI, 10/12

Unionization Substantially Improves the Pay&Benefits of Latino Workers en español

Vast majority of wage earners are working harder, and for not much more, Mishel 1/13

Real Earnings in April 2013, BLS May 16, 2013 Real average hourly earnings for all employees increased 0.5 percent from March to April, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This result stems from an increase of 0.2 percent in average hourly earnings combined with a decrease of 0.4 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U).

Real average weekly earnings was unchanged over the month due to the increase in real average hourly earnings being offset by a 0.6 percent decrease in the average workweek

Real average hourly earnings rose 0.8 per cent, seasonally adjusted, from April 2012 to April 2013. The increase in real average hourly earnings, combined with a 0.3 percent decrease in the average workweek, resulted in a 0.5 percent increase in real average weekly earnings over this period. [emphasis added-jz]

Median income for full-time male workers in 2010: $47,715
Median income for full-time male workers in 1973: $49,065 [
2010 dollars] Pro Publica, 9/11

Have Earnings Actually Declined?, Greenstone & Looney, Brookings, Hamilton Project, 3/11

Source: Greenstone & Looney

Basic family budget calculator, EPI

Change in real compensation by different income levels 8/9/07

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Living-Wage Politics--states are raising minimum wage


"In the past three years...shop-happy consumers, cheerfully determined to live beyond their means, leaned a lot more heavily on borrowings ($675 billion of non-mortgage debt) than paychecks ($530 billion) to cover the $1.3 trillion increase in their spending." .Source for charts: Stephanie Pomboy, MacroMavens, via Alan Abelson, Barron's, April 25, 2005; Abelson quoted in http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/


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