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by Spooky23 1151 days ago
It’s hard to really grok what the means for this type of comparison. For census data, information is self-reported and often under reported income doesn’t include many common sources of money.

Additionally, median income driven down by the number of people living on social security, and many of those get benefits like housing subsidy that aren’t income.

It’s a good metric to compare areas, not jobs.