Commenters question the missing 2022 baseline and income data
3 Nov 2 11:16 PM · 9d ago · 1 post · 3 comments · 2 sources · development 3 of 4
An HN commenter notes the page shows no visible 2022 figures to substantiate the stated decline and points out that real median incomes reportedly rose 6.2% over the same period.
“I don't see data for 2022 on the page? I searched for "2022" and found nothing?”
anubisthetaKeeping Up Inc Publisher of the net worth benchmark pagejpmulhausen Hacker News submitterFederal Reserve Source of underlying Survey of Consumer Finances data
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Households is an interesting metric to choose. If fewer people get married, then average household would have fewer people.But I don't see data for 2022 on the page? I searched for "2022" and found nothing?What makes it odd to me is that real median incomes for both individuals and households rose 6.2% over that period. That includes all people…
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This is a generic comment of course, but anyone else feeling immediate distrust when data is presented in an obvious vibe design (I have "built" sites with that exact font combo and general vibe ffs). Ideally one should distrust any data on random websites to begin with, but at least my human psychology deducted many extra points here.
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Are student loans excluded from this data? Can't imagine that the 10% line is only at -$10k in that scenario.
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