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Yeah, that person was talking about the sum total of real wages, and you're talking about a sector by sector comparison...

• ArkyBeagle 12y ago
  How would you go about even comparing them, really?
  • _delirium 12y ago
    Often what people quote is the median real wage, across the whole economy. There are other measures as well, but it's one fairly simple one that gives a trend for whether the middle portion of the workforce is seeing wage growth. Rather than looking at wage changes within sectors, shifts between sectors, etc., it just looks at the aggregate end result: do all these changes add up to the the 50th-percentile American wage earner getting more or less money?
    • ArkyBeagle 12y ago
      That is indeed one way. I am just unsure it's all that meaningful.