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Does the US government provide metrics on job openings by wages or some measurement of monthly or annual earnings?

My portfolio has been doing fantastic, but I have to stop and wonder how the average person who doesn’t have assets is doing.




You're looking for the USUAL WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here's the archive. https://www.bls.gov/bls/news-release/wkyeng.htm

The most recent report for Q4 2019 can be found here https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf

Important takeaways:

"Median weekly earnings of the nation's 118.3 million full-time wage and salary workers were $936 in the fourth quarter of 2019 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 4.0 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 2.0 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period."


Given wages not increasing with COL in cities and availability of credit (student loans, rising rents, credit cards, low interest rates) I'd assume poorly


Numbers prove your assumptions wrong. Take a look over at the bureau of labor reports, Q4 2019 is out


Except he's right. Wages have increased with respect to CPI, but not to COL. The housing market has consistently and significantly outpaced salaries.




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