The graph showing divergence between wages and productivity is almost solely due to different inflation indexes being used to measure the two: https://www.broo

The graph showing divergence between wages and productivity is almost solely due to different inflation indexes being used to measure the two: https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/sources-of-real-wage-stagnation/ https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/sources-of-real-wage-stag... The two inflation indexes produced mostly similar rates until 1971, when the index used to measure real wages began rising faster than the one used to measure productivity.