[refurb]

Stock options are not part of the median income.

I agree. What I'm saying is that average income might not have risen, but median income has. To suggest wages in general have stagnated isn't true.

[toomuchtodo]

> To suggest wages in general have stagnated isn't true

This is false.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/incomes

http://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/09/17/223374331/the-s...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/31/w...

[refurb]

Reread my original post. I'm arguing those aren't looking at the complete picture.

[toomuchtodo]

> I'm arguing those aren't looking at the complete picture.

Right; I'm arguing that non-monetary compensation in no way has contributed in an amount adequate enough to compensate for the stagnation/backslide of wages. Wages have stagnated, full stop.

[refurb]

I'll guess we just have to agree to disagree...

Total compensation, which adds these benefits to wages and salaries, shows that earnings have actually increased more than 45 percent since 1964.[1]

[1]http://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/29/-wage-stagnationcommentary.ht...

[dragonwriter]

> What I'm saying is that average income might not have risen, but median income has.

That's exactly reversed; adjusted for inflation, the average (mean) income has risen, the median has not.