It looks like a lot of people in this thread are reading the headline and not the article. The article states: >Workers in the 95th percentile can expect a 230

It looks like a lot of people in this thread are reading the headline and not the article. The article states: >Workers in the 95th percentile can expect a 230 percent increase over the same period. Those in the 99th percentile -- the doctors and lawyers and engineers -- will see earnings grow a whopping 1,450 percent. The "that isn't what happened to me", the outlier thing, that's the 95th to 99th percentile which includes engineers. And because that's for the 95%+, that's why the WaPo article says "probably" in the title.