Die Daten stammen von der Federal Reserve. Die Reallöhne werden durch Anpassung der Nominalwerte an die Inflation anhand des VPI berechnet. Die zweite Grafik zeigt das Lohnwachstum seit 2006 in einem bestimmten Sektor im Vergleich zum US-Durchschnittslohn.
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Source: [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/) Tools: Python with pandas, NumPy, and matplotlib.
is the data even reliable under trump?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-reliable-is-u-s-economic-data-its-a-growing-risk-for-investors-awaiting-the-next-fed-rate-cut-f477bf0b
https://www.businessinsider.com/econmic-data-jerome-powell-bls-labor-market-inflation-cpi-economy-2025-6
Wow, people romanticize the past, but that ~1979-1999 stretch was rough for wage earners in the first chart.
In the second chart, why does it start in 2007 – basically the start of the housing crisis as the start point for comparing sector growth? kinda hard to square the big, long-term rises in the first chart with the relatively small, sector to sector growth in the second chart.
Just to point out, but Construction work has the same productivity($ produced per hour worked) since the god damn 70s. So the wages not climbing is in my opinion logical.
I don’t have an answer for the rest tho.
You should consider using the PCE considering the Federal Reserve prefers that to CPI. Second figure is a mess. Another way to think about it is to look at the weights each sub component contributes to the overall average trends.
I think one broken out by industry (like the second graph), but showing the change in real wages rather than relative to US average (like the first graph) would be real interesting.
I’d do it, but honestly, I don’t feel like digging through [fred.stlouisfed.org](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/) to find the data. Maybe the OP could add some direct links to the specific data used rather than just the TLD…?
I don’t understand why health and education are lumped together. Totally different sectors. Is it just because they’ve tracked the same?
Everyone blames housing costs but the real reason it doesn’t feel like wages have kept up is healthcare costs. 20 years ago you might have been paying $100/mo for employer-sponsored health insurance with tiny deductibles. Today it might be $500 or $1000/mo with large deductibles.
interesting. how fukcing dare you?
Yes, real wages are higher now than they were in the 1970s. Just. Now compare relative to GDP growth over the past 50 years. Unless you’re really really poor, being rich or poor is a positional thing. And there’s the rub.