Median is also up:
Median weekly earnings of the nation's 121.0 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,235 in the first quarter of 2026 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 3.4 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 2.7 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.
What is the employment rate between the two quarters?
Edit: 4.2% (2025) vs 4.3% (2026).
wonder how much of it is K-shaped. if is payouts for execs, capital gains and alike are boosting aggregate.