[WillPostForFood]

Median is also up:

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 121.0 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,235 in the first quarter of 2026 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 3.4 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 2.7 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf

[nobodyandproud]

What is the employment rate between the two quarters?

Edit: 4.2% (2025) vs 4.3% (2026).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/UNRATE

[5701652400]

wonder how much of it is K-shaped. if is payouts for execs, capital gains and alike are boosting aggregate.

[munificent]

Median specifically avoids outliers at both ends of the continuum like that.

[emp17344]

Always an excuse, huh? Both mean and median wages are up. Sorry this doesn’t suit your narrative.