Higher average wages, but not do much higher median wages. Unless those rich people who are driving up the average are giving their money away, the ones who are closer to the median are in a sore spot.
No...average is always average, median is always median. Newspapers often mislabel the numbers they are reporting, but the distinction is always made clear in the data. See:
> The average annual wage in 2019 in the US was $51,916.27, and the median annual wage was $34,248.45. The median wage is the wage “in the middle,” while average refers to the measure of central tendency for all the data.