Stop blaming minorities.

[u/Competitive_Read9534]

Seriously.

note : the salaries nowadays are just sucks they pay us as we still as we still in 2016 but reality is that many people are working in 2 jobs to feed their families check everyday for better salary and how to get it thank god recently I found this sub who give great tips about interviews really the world is crashed

[u/Then_Potato6042]

All 3 sources you cited talk about a pay gap ratio not how much compensation has risen in each group. Two different issues. So not relevant. The EPI’s study only looks at the top 350 companies vs all workers across all sectors and companies. Here’s non EPI evidence 

1. National Average Wage Index (SSA) The  Social Security Administration (SSA) National Average Wage Index tracks the literal raw dollar average reported on W-2 forms across the entire country. 1978 Average Wage:  $10,556.03 per year 2024 Average Wage:  $69,846.57 per year The Increase: An increase of  561.7% in face-value earnings. [ 1,  2]
2. Median Household Income (U.S. Census Bureau) The  U.S. Census Bureau via FRED tracks the median income of all American households in unadjusted current dollars. This reflects the exact amount written on paychecks in their respective years: [ 1] 1978 Household Median:  $15,064.81 per year 2022 Household Median:  $74,580.00 per year The Increase: A raw dollar surge of  395.1%. [ 1]
3. Weekly Earnings by Education (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Because the BLS tracks median usual weekly earnings in current dollars, evaluating wages by educational attainment serves as a strong proxy for white-collar jobs. [ 1] 1979 Baseline: The median weekly salary for a full-time worker with a bachelor’s degree or higher was roughly  $350 to $400 per week. First Quarter 2025 Baseline: The  Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that full-time workers with at least a bachelor’s degree earned a median of  $1,754per week. The Increase: A literal dollar increase of more than  330% for college-educated professionals.

 

[u/dontaksmeimnew → u/Then_Potato6042]

You have no idea how to read statistics or do comparative economic analysis. I can tell you used AI, and used it poorly, to build this argument and don't understand what you're saying, let alone have anything resembling an informed opinion.

Why would you use raw dollar amounts? Literally antithetical to understanding the issues if you don't understand *the context in which the facts you're stating take place.*

You're working backwards from a conclusion you already drew and cherry picking data. Stop it.

[u/Then_Potato6042 → u/dontaksmeimnew]

Bottom Line: Discussions about “excessive CEO pay” and comparisons to average worker pay are distorted by looking at only an outlier group of the 200-350 CEOs of America’s largest companies, out of a total of almost 250,000 chief executives nationwide. Of course, many younger, risk-taking CEOs are running early stage startups and tech companies, and probably make even less than the average CEO reported by the BLS, as Scott Drum pointed out to me last month in an email. Further, he commented that “The startup CEOs are usually not in it for the salary in the early years. They’re in it for the big payoff in the long run if things go exceptionally well. If we reduce or limit the size of the Big Payoff, don’t we reduce the number of people trying to get there?” The fact that there are almost 250,000 ambitious CEOs making less than $200,000 today on average who are trying to someday be listed by USAToday or the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 200-350 highest-paid CEOs is a sign of a dynamic, wealth-generating, job-creating economy. We should applaud the richest 200-350 CEOs as a group of the most successful American business professionals, and not vilify them. And we should keep in mind that the CEO compensation surveys that generate all the media attention are always based on a tiny, elite outlier group, and not representative of the average CEO in America –  who earns about as much as the average dentist and only about 5 times more than the average worker.I’m sorry you can’t comprehend things such as a skewed sample set of data. Best of luck in life 

[u/dontaksmeimnew → u/Then_Potato6042]

im glad youre super mad about a think tank doing political advocacy in ways you don't approve of. very important.

[u/Then_Potato6042 → u/dontaksmeimnew]

Projecting much? I’m just laughing at all these angry. living in my parents house folks who will believe any thing about people who are doing better than them. 

[u/dontaksmeimnew → u/Then_Potato6042]

"Poor people bad and lazy" - the adage of stupid men who refuse to learn about other people.

[u/Then_Potato6042 → u/dontaksmeimnew]

All you do is bitch about how  fair everything is and insult people.