So I take it that you are once again backing away from providing any **meaningful** statistical data (oh, gee, I almost forgot, you managed to dig up salaries for the single field of help desk techies....guffaw!) of your own that might even remotely support your wild-eyed theories of labor pricing...Southack, you are celebrating the fact that average salaries last year basically kept place with inflation, or even dropped slightly below. That means that, within that flat average, if top salaries increased, lower salaries decreased, and that does not even reflect the millions of unemployed - so you've basically proven my point for me. You can spin flat average incomes all you want, but the fact is, you're trying to downplay economic misery that millions of Americans are facing. You can celebrate that all you want, but it will only impress a few hard-core clymers.
Federal government average weekly wages increased by 5.9 percent over the year.
Oh, that's great - the fedgov probably amounted to the strong majority of the overall increase in average wages. Which means productive workers in the private sector most definitely did not keep up with inflation on an average basis.