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Half of America Makes Less Than 35k (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by alphanerd4 to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] reddig33 23 points 7 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/

[–] owenfromcanada 44 points 7 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 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 months ago

The landlord: and I took that personally

The rent: goes even higher for bullshit reasons

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 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.

[–] RustyEarthfire 15 points 7 months ago

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

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

[–] Eheran 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Big if true.

[–] HaveYouPaidYourDues 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Large if factual

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Giga if brain

[–] ninja 5 points 7 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.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Eheran 2 points 7 months ago

True dat

[–] Jac0b 1 points 7 months ago

Ah there's the evidence