[josephjrobison]

The US is hitting new record highs in median income: https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2018/08/july-2018...

[jarcane]

Medians are a meaningless statistic in a country with such a massive gap between top and bottom earners.

The ratio of income bracket to income growth is literally a hockey stick graph: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/8/16112368/pi...

[lotsofpulp]

Median is better than mean though. Preferably, the people with the data would release median, mean, and quintiles or deciles, and the actual data itself for better analysis.

[tormeh]

It's meaningful if you don't care about the top and bottom earners.

[jarcane]

Not if there's no actual data points left in the middle.

[malandrew]

Per person real income is even better:

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/where...