Low-wage worker's wage relative to low-wage worker wage in 1979, 1973–2019
Year | 10th percentile workers | |
---|---|---|
1973 | 90.67 | 100 |
1974 | 92.92 | 100 |
1975 | 90.05 | 100 |
1976 | 93.54 | 100 |
1977 | 92.31 | 100 |
1978 | 99.18% | 100 |
1979 | 100.00% | 100 |
1980 | 93.23% | 100 |
1981 | 91.90% | 100 |
1982 | 88.21% | 100 |
1983 | 85.33% | 100 |
1984 | 83.59% | 100 |
1985 | 82.46% | 100 |
1986 | 82.77% | 100 |
1987 | 82.67% | 100 |
1988 | 83.49% | 100 |
1989 | 82.97% | 100 |
1990 | 83.49% | 100 |
1991 | 84.92% | 100 |
1992 | 85.64% | 100 |
1993 | 86.87% | 100 |
1994 | 86.15% | 100 |
1995 | 85.23% | 100 |
1996 | 84.31% | 100 |
1997 | 86.77% | 100 |
1998 | 92.21% | 100 |
1999 | 93.85% | 100 |
2000 | 93.23% | 100 |
2001 | 96.21% | 100 |
2002 | 99.18% | 100 |
2003 | 98.77% | 100 |
2004 | 97.03% | 100 |
2005 | 94.67% | 100 |
2006 | 94.05% | 100 |
2007 | 95.69% | 100 |
2008 | 96.82% | 100 |
2009 | 97.64% | 100 |
2010 | 96.82% | 100 |
2011 | 94.36% | 100 |
2012 | 92.72% | 100 |
2013 | 93.33% | 100 |
2014 | 94.15% | 100 |
2015 | 98.56% | 100 |
2016 | 99.38% | 100 |
2017 | 103.59% | 100 |
2018 | 104.10% | 100 |
2019 | 103.28% | 100 |
Note: Data are for the 10th-percentile worker in each year.
Source: EPI analysis of Current Population Survey data (EPI 2020). Wages are adjusted for inflation using the CPI-U-RS (BLS 2020a).