You are wrong, yet again @Suppressed
For the biggest group of American workers, wages aren’t just flat. They’re falling.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/15/for-the-biggest-group-of-american-workers-wages-arent-just-flat-theyre-falling/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c774f12e8c64The average hourly wage paid to a key group of American workers has fallen from last year
when accounting for inflation, as an economy that appears strong by several measures continues to fail to create bigger paychecks, the federal government said Tuesday.
For workers in “production and nonsupervisory†positions, the value of the average paycheck has declined in the past year. For those workers, average “real wages†— a measure of pay that takes inflation into account — fell from $22.62 in May 2017 to $22.59 in May 2018, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
This pool of workers includes those in manufacturing and construction jobs, as well as all “nonsupervisory†workers in service industries such health care or fast food. The group accounts for about four-fifths of the privately employed workers in America, according to BLS....
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REAL EARNINGS–JULY 2018
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/realer.pdfReal average hourly earnings for all employees were unchanged from June to July, seasonally adjusted,
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This result stems from a 0.3-percent increase in
average hourly earnings combined with a 0.2-percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for All
Urban Consumers (CPI-U).
Real average weekly earnings decreased 0.2 percent over the month due to no change in real average
hourly earnings combined with a 0.3-percent decrease in the average workweek.
