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Average wage in the United States was $69,392 in 2020. [1] Median income per person in the U.S. was $42,800 in 2019. [2] The average is higher than the median because there are a small number of individuals with very high earnings, and a large number of individuals with relatively low earnings. (See Income inequality in the United States.)
As a reference point, the US minimum wage since 2009 has been $7.25 per hour or $15,080 for the 2080 hours in a typical work year. The minimum wage is approximately 25% over the official U.S. government-designated poverty income level for a single person unit (before taxes) and about 63% of the designated poverty level for a family of four ...
Their findings place the United States as the most unequal and ranks poorly on social and health problems among developed countries. [176] The authors argue inequality creates psychosocial stress and status anxiety that lead to social ills. [177] A 2009 study attributed one in three deaths in the United States to high levels of inequality. [178]
1950. Minimum wage: $0.75 In 2024 money: $9.56 By 1950, the recession that followed World War II was over and America was entering an unprecedented era of prosperity and economic stability. That ...
In July 2019, the U.S. House passed a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025, which could increase the incomes of 17 milli on to 27 million minimum wage workers, according ...
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A 2018 University of Washington study which investigated the effects of Seattle's minimum wage increases (from $9.50 to $11 in 2015 and then to $13 in 2016) found that while the second wage increase caused hourly wages to grow by 3%, it also caused employers to cut employee hours by 6%, yielding an average decrease of $74 earned per month per ...
In the US "an April 2013 study by Bloomberg finds that large public company CEOs were paid an average of 204 times the compensation of rank-and-file workers in their industries. By comparison, it is estimated that the average CEO Pay Ratio was about 20 times the typical worker’s pay in the 1950s, with that multiple rising to 42-to-1 in 1980 ...