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Does the US government provide metrics on job openings by wages or some measurement of monthly or annual earnings? My portfolio has been doing fantastic, but I
by tracer4201 7y ago
Does the US government provide metrics on job openings by wages or some measurement of monthly or annual earnings?
My portfolio has been doing fantastic, but I have to stop and wonder how the average person who doesn’t have assets is doing.
- asdfqwer234 7y agoGiven wages not increasing with COL in cities and availability of credit (student loans, rising rents, credit cards, low interest rates) I'd assume poorly
- frockington1 7y agoNumbers prove your assumptions wrong. Take a look over at the bureau of labor reports, Q4 2019 is out
- sdinsn 7y agoExcept he's right. Wages have increased with respect to CPI, but not to COL. The housing market has consistently and significantly outpaced salaries.
- thunderbird120 7y agoYou're looking for the USUAL WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here's the archive. https://www.bls.gov/bls/news-release/wkyeng.htm https://www.bls.gov/bls/news-release/wkyeng.htm The most recent report for Q4 2019 can be found here https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf Important takeaways: "Median weekly earnings of the nation's 118.3 million full-time wage and salary workers were $936 in the fourth quarter of 2019 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 4.0 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 2.0 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period."