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Originally Posted by Excaliber
To put the working man's wage in a different perspective I'll cite the US Census Bureau: "Average American makes $27,590.16 a year or $13.26 an hour." I guess blue color workers make slightly more? Actually, it is difficult to nail down figures such as these,
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I don't know which century you got your information from, but from current Social Security report of wages, for 2008, the average wage was $41,000, and the current census data from 5/08 shows an average of $42,270
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/AWI.html
http://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/oes_nat.htm#b00-0000
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