The Average Hourly Wage In The U.S. Is $23.78 (ideology, politician, country)

[GuyNTexas]

Originally Posted by TheHurricaneKid

The new camaro has new safety and comfort features though. The car did turn more expensive but it has new stuff as well. An equivalent car would be a kia these days, even if it doesn't look that good.
Also, you earned 10 bucks an hour, the equivalent of 28 today.

So I'm actually not alive now, and don't understand what it's like now, but you do? And you know more about what it was like back then, even though you were not even born?

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by lycos679

That's why they are getting the good bailouts. Being a homeowner doesn't make one not poor though. That is a bad metric to use.

I've never seen a poor person buy a home on the open market,

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

You complained about what he earned.

Maybe the complaint was about whether he really earned it?

I did floor care and cleaned restrooms and worked alongside other government workers who were paid 5x my wage for emptying office waste baskets.

Did the others really earn 5x what I earned?

[lycos679]

Originally Posted by freemkt

I've never seen a poor person buy a home on the open market,

You haven't been paying attention then. Look at home prices in Detroit. I bet I could buy a house for less than a car.

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

Wow.

You've clearly never seen a Rube Goldberg competition.


History of the Rube Goldberg machine contest

Only a Rube would design a convoluted 20-step solution when only 2 steps are needed.

[DivineComedy]

Originally Posted by freemkt

Only a Rube would design a convoluted 20-step solution when only 2 steps are needed.

Actually, a rube wouldn't see that the design of a Rube Goldberg machine forces the designers to solve multiple problems at once.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by DivineComedy

Actually, a rube wouldn't see that the design of a Rube Goldberg machine forces the designers to solve multiple problems at once.

And those who lack critical thinking skills would never understand that.

[AONE]

Originally Posted by workingclasshero

and 50% make more THAN 50K

and that 1% that exceed the 350k market skew the numbers so bad because a few hundred make in excess of $245,000/hour. numbers like this when removed would likely draw the average closer to $15/hr

[Saritaschihuahua]

Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC

Read the thread. The point is to promote discussion. Give it a shot. You might learn something.

The problem is that the original post says this:

The average hourly non-farm wage in the United States is $23.78. That equals to $49,462 per individual OR $98,924 per two worker household ANNUALLY!

There is absolutely NO REASON why the average worker in the United States cannot live off of these wages.

Discussion? Fine. However, average is the total income in the U.S., (which includes all the individuals making mega-millions of dollars) divided by the number of workers in the U.S. Since those who make mega-millions are averaged into that, it skews the wages of those who make $8,000/year to your quoted average of $49,462 per year, making it seem as if the huge # of people living in poverty or in subpoverty, are actually doing better, which they're not.

What was needed for a discussion was a graph of salaries in the U.S., as someone else provided.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by Saritaschihuahua

Discussion? Fine. However, average is the total income in the U.S., (which includes all the individuals making mega-millions of dollars) divided by the number of workers in the U.S. Since those who make mega-millions are averaged into that, it skews the wages of those who make $8,000/year to your quoted average of $49,462 per year, making it seem as if the huge # of people living in poverty or in subpoverty, are actually doing better, which they're not.

Of course they're not. Their birth rate is 3 times higher than everyone else's. How is that going to help them work their way out of poverty?