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This is the map and list of American countries by monthly net (after taxes) average wage. The chart below reflects the average (mean) wage as reported by various data providers. The salary distribution is right-skewed, therefore more than 50% of people earn less than the average
1939. Minimum wage: $0.30 In 2025 money: $6.81 The very next year, as the Depression was finally drawing to a close, the minimum wage was raised by a nickel an hour to $0.30, where it would remain ...
The gross average monthly wage estimates for 2023 are computed by converting national currency figures from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Statistical Database, compiled from national and international (the CIS, Eurostat, the OECD) official sources. Wages in U.S. dollars are computed by the UNECE Secretariat using ...
Indeed, in 1940, weekly wages of the average black male were only 48.4 percent that of the average white male. In 1990, that had risen to 75 percent, a 60 percent improvement over five decades. [21] From the ending of legal segregation through the mid-1970s, the black-white wage gap continued to narrow.
However, because of wage inflation the federal government indexes wages so that $35,648.55 earned in year 2004 is exactly the same as $23,753.53 earned in 1994. Those two figures came from the yearly list of National Average Wage indexing series. [1]
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.)
A graph of employment rates in the United States between 1920 and 1940. Data was obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau Statistical Abstracts and converted into SVG format by me. The relevant information is in this PDF document, page 17, column 127. Note that these figures do not include farm or WPA employment. Date: 20 January 2008: Source: Own ...
But how about today? The home improvement retailer has already hired at least 1,000 workers under this grant, state records show. Has the median pay matched the state’s estimates from 2019?