Your first link says that total pay rose YoY at 1.3%. Your link above says that the average over 160 years[1] is 1.4%[2]. I just don't know what you want. Yo

Your first link says that total pay rose YoY at 1.3%. Your link above says that the average over 160 years[1] is 1.4%[2]. I just don't know what you want. You're doing well relative to your recent compatriots and very acceptably relative to your ancestors. You're fine. If you can't find a way to be happy with that kind of wealth, well, that's on you and not macroeconomics. There's clearly no number someone can give you that's going to make you happy. [1] Which seems awfully cherry picked. It moves the boundary all the way back to before the industrial revolution. Surely you'd agree that the turn of the century was a huge economic outlier, no? [2] Not 2%, I can't find that number anywhere.