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Real wages
Real earnings outpace inflation, helping consumers offset price growth
Jul 11, 2024
Raises in real earnings help offset price increases but not all consumers share the benefits equally.
Inflation ticked up to 3.4% in December. How are wages doing?
Jan 11, 2024
Wage growth is slowing, and those at the top of the earnings spectrum have done better than those at the lower end.
September's real wages are expected to rise
Oct 9, 2023
And that would mean your paycheck's purchasing power would be getting a boost relative to inflation.
Even as real wages rebound, low-income households are playing catch-up
Aug 22, 2023
Average hourly earnings are now rising faster than prices. But two years of high inflation have left many low-income people in a financial hole.
Are wages outpacing inflation? Depends on what you do.
by
Justin Ho
Jan 12, 2022
Real average hourly pay increased 0.1% in December. Generally, wages are beating inflation, but some industries are lagging.
Here is the truth about wages that you won’t hear from Trump
by
Jana Kasperkevic
and Kimberly Adams
Feb 2, 2018
Are wages really growing under President Donald Trump?
Real vs. nominal wages
Sep 4, 2015
Average hourly pay for Americans increased an anemic 0.3 percent in August.