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Half of America Makes Less Than 35k (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Half of America makes more than that now. Though not by much.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/05/17/half-americans-make-less-35000/

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's tough because the snopes article moves between individual and household income amounts--which are two very different things. Kinda wish articles were written more clearly, and provided contextual data regarding how many households have multiple earners.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes. If you add up mine and all five of my roommates in our one bedroom apartment we make more than 35k lol

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And yet you still complain. God damn millennials. Back in my day I worked hard and made 600 bajillion dollars just by moxie. You just need a nice suit and a firm handshake and you'll easily find a better job

EDIT: also, living with other people is communism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The landlord: and I took that personally

The rent: goes even higher for bullshit reasons

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

This has been driving me crazy. I try to compare the median income in the twin cities and it always provides the median household income. Why is it so difficult to find indivual median income for regions.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If half is making less, the other half is obviously making more.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Big if true.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Large if factual

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Giga if brain

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The article found the numbers the OP image was based on.

For 2019, according to the SSA, the median net compensation for American workers was indeed less than $35,000 — it was $34,248.45, to be precise

The $35k was rounded. Less than half make more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Come on, it can't be half and half. Won't somebody think about the poor bastards making EXACTLY 35k?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

True dat

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

The latest (2022) “median net compensation” from SSA is $40,847.18

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ah there's the evidence