Table 4

Real average hourly wages, by wage deciles, 1979–2013

Wage by percentile
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 95
Levels (2012 dollars)
1979 $8.71 $9.93 $11.66 $13.72 $15.52 $18.00 $21.27 $24.79 $30.32 $37.03
2000 8.41 10.36 12.10 13.99 16.32 19.31 22.89 27.81 36.36 46.37
2007 8.62 10.46 12.21 14.33 16.74 19.86 23.58 29.09 39.02 50.41
2012 8.19 9.89 11.83 13.99 16.30 19.27 23.50 29.13 39.72 51.48
Period changes
2000–07 2.5% 1.0% 1.0% 2.5% 2.6% 2.9% 3.0% 4.6% 7.3% 8.7%
2007–12 -5.0 -5.5 -3.1 -2.4 -2.6 -2.9 -0.3 0.2 1.8 2.1
2000–12 -2.6 -4.5 -2.2 0.0 -0.1 -0.2 2.7 4.8 9.2 11.0
1979–2012 -5.9 -0.4 1.4 2.0 5.0 7.1 10.5 17.5 31.0 39.0
Recovery years
2009–10 -0.8% -1.6% -1.7% -1.1% -1.3% -1.4% -1.0% -0.8% 0.4% -0.2%
2010–11 -2.5 -2.8 -2.1 -2.4 -2.7 -2.6 -2.3 -1.0 -2.5 -1.1
2011–12 -1.7 -1.7 -1.3 -1.2 -0.6 -0.7 0.1 -0.9 1.1 1.4
Most recent trends*
2011–12 -2.1% -2.2% -1.4% -1.4% -0.9% -0.9% -0.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.8%
2012–13 0.3 -0.4 -0.7 -0.2 0.9 1.0 0.6 1.0 1.7 2.0

* Year-over-year growth rates are the change from the 1st half to the 1st half.

Source: Authors' analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group microdata

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