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>$36k/year (which is well below the median salary range for the US) "The U.S. Census Bureau lists the annual median personal income at $31,099 in 2016." https

>$36k/year (which is well below the median salary range for the US) "The U.S. Census Bureau lists the annual median personal income at $31,099 in 2016." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...

jsjohnst 7y ago
Looking at the census publication directly[0], seems Wikipedia is wrong then. [0] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2019/acs/acsbr18-01.pdf https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
- tfehring 7y ago
  That's household income, which includes multiple people's income for households in which multiple people work. Median income for individuals was $33,706 in 2018, the last year for which data is available. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
  - jsjohnst 7y ago
    Now you’re starting to see the problem. Everyone has their way of calculating median and each, while factually correct given the set of parameters, is incompatible for comparison to anything not using the same methods/process.
darkwizard42 7y ago
You are looking at data from 2016, comment below has an updated source of data
missedthecue 7y ago
That $31k figure includes part time workers, who dream drag down the number, and who won't be getting full unemployment anyway. So it's a bad comparison. The median full time worker in the USA make over $50k a year according to data collected by the BLS
- ineedasername 7y ago
  That's for men ($991/week). For women it's about $42k ($796/week)
  - missedthecue 7y ago
    $1052 for men ($54,808) $852 for women ($44,304) https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf Average it out (more men than women in full time workforce) and it's $50k a year or so

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>$36k/year (which is well below the median salary range for the US) "The U.S. Census Bureau lists the annual median personal income at $31,099 in 2016." https

by alasdair_ 7y ago

jsjohnst 7y ago
Looking at the census publication directly[0], seems Wikipedia is wrong then. [0] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2019/acs/acsbr18-01.pdf https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
- tfehring 7y ago
  That's household income, which includes multiple people's income for households in which multiple people work. Median income for individuals was $33,706 in 2018, the last year for which data is available. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
  - jsjohnst 7y ago
    Now you’re starting to see the problem. Everyone has their way of calculating median and each, while factually correct given the set of parameters, is incompatible for comparison to anything not using the same methods/process.
darkwizard42 7y ago
You are looking at data from 2016, comment below has an updated source of data
missedthecue 7y ago
That $31k figure includes part time workers, who dream drag down the number, and who won't be getting full unemployment anyway. So it's a bad comparison. The median full time worker in the USA make over $50k a year according to data collected by the BLS
- ineedasername 7y ago
  That's for men ($991/week). For women it's about $42k ($796/week)
  - missedthecue 7y ago
    $1052 for men ($54,808) $852 for women ($44,304) https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf Average it out (more men than women in full time workforce) and it's $50k a year or so