Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power
by wool_gather on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:37AM
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Note, it's at most 1% per year. The HN headline is actually a quote from the body of the article:
> In most rich countries, real pay has grown by at most 1% per year, on average, since 2000.
The next sentence breaks out one piece of that average:
> For low-wage workers the stagnation has been more severe and prolonged: between 1979 and 2016, pay adjusted for inflation for the bottom fifth of American earners barely rose at all.
> In most rich countries, real pay has grown by at most 1% per year, on average, since 2000.
The next sentence breaks out one piece of that average:
> For low-wage workers the stagnation has been more severe and prolonged: between 1979 and 2016, pay adjusted for inflation for the bottom fifth of American earners barely rose at all.