[FabHK]

Yeah, quite remarkable. Celebrating a 0.1% annual wage increase over the last 4 decades, one week (!) of paid vacation, and "help" with health insurance as progress. In 2019.

It reminds me of the Onion article rejoicing that "Chinese Employers To Grant 15-Minute Maternity Break".

https://www.theonion.com/chinese-employers-to-grant-15-minut...

"Of course, this measure wouldn't need to be taken at all if pregnant workers could schedule their due dates for the annual holiday of May 1," Huang added.

[will4274]

When you consider that it's 0.9% in the past year, and 3.2% total in the 39 years prior to that, it seems more like something to celebrate.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm

[FabHK]

Agreed, though the number you cited is increase of average real weekly earnings over that year, seasonally adjusted, while the much worse numbers quoted from the article are not even median, but 10th percentile of real wages, IIRC.