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alphanerd4@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Half of America Makes Less Than 35k

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Half of America Makes Less Than 35k

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alphanerd4@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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    Half of America makes more than that now. Though not by much.

    https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/05/17/half-americans-make-less-35000/

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      It’s tough because the snopes article moves between individual and household income amounts–which are two very different things. Kinda wish articles were written more clearly, and provided contextual data regarding how many households have multiple earners.

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        Yes. If you add up mine and all five of my roommates in our one bedroom apartment we make more than 35k lol

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          The landlord: and I took that personally

          The rent: goes even higher for bullshit reasons

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        This has been driving me crazy. I try to compare the median income in the twin cities and it always provides the median household income. Why is it so difficult to find indivual median income for regions.

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      The latest (2022) “median net compensation” from SSA is $40,847.18

      https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html

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      If half is making less, the other half is obviously making more.

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        deleted by creator

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          Large if factual

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            Giga if brain

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        The article found the numbers the OP image was based on.

        For 2019, according to the SSA, the median net compensation for American workers was indeed less than $35,000 — it was $34,248.45, to be precise

        The $35k was rounded. Less than half make more.

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        Come on, it can’t be half and half. Won’t somebody think about the poor bastards making EXACTLY 35k?

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          True dat

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      Ah there’s the evidence

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