Well, we're looking at the median here, which tells us what the lot of the "average American is". If you want to compare distribution curves, you can look at t

Well, we're looking at the median here, which tells us what the lot of the "average American is". If you want to compare distribution curves, you can look at the income growth separated by quintile. That can be found here -> https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-poverty/historical-income-households.html https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p... Click on "Income Limits for each Fifth and Top 5 percent", All Races. It's an Excel spreadsheet. The real income of the bottom 2 quintiles have also dramatically increased.