You can see this by the top countries in GDP per capita. Countries like Ireland and Singapore have per capita GDPs that are 10-30% higher than the US, yet med

You can see this by the top countries in GDP per capita. Countries like Ireland and Singapore have per capita GDPs that are 10-30% higher than the US, yet median wages are lower. Wikipedia even has section explaining why: Many of the leading GDP-per-capita (nominal) jurisdictions are tax havens whose economic data is artificially inflated by tax-driven corporate accounting entries.