• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    BLS never announced that. An “economic” think tank did. Coincidentally the math doesn’t work out and it’s an election year.

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      9 months ago

      Yes, they did. They publish data monthly on average hourly earnings of all employees. It doesn’t take a master statistician to take that and compare it against CPI-U and see that the average earnings one is now bigger compared against a Jan 2020 baseline. Do you want me to send you my excel from last night?

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          9 months ago

          What exactly do you think the difference between “announcing” something and posting the data is?

          Did they make a blog post? Hell if I know. I went to the data directly. Do you think adjusting for inflation is some complicated thing?

          Edit: Here, is this what you want?