What should you be making?
Americans' wages have lagged further and further behind productivity gains since the late 1970s, but it wasn’t always this way. After World War II, our pay rose with productivity—the more we made, the more we were paid. Today, the gap between American workers’ productivity and their wages is at an all-time high. What could you be making if wages had grown with productivity?
If wages had kept up with productivity over the last three decades, your pay would be closer to:
Source: Economic Policy Institute | Methodology | Replay