Wage compression over the pandemic business cycle: Change in real annual earnings by earnings group, 2019–2023

Change in real annual earnings
Bottom 90% 5.0%
90th–95th percentile 3.0%
95th–99th percentile 3.7%
99.0th⁠–⁠99.9th percentile 2.2%
Top 0.1% -2.2%
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