Wages Rising for Low-Earners, Blue Collar Workers

low-income workers pay rising

Today NPR ran a story titled “Why Wages Are Stagnating,” which featured an interview with a liberal economist who argued that despite record low unemployment, wages haven’t been increasing for the typical American worker. “Adjusted for inflation, wages are basically flat, even though we have unemployment at an 18-year low,” the economist said.

Ironically, that interview was published right as new statistics were published by the job searching and reviewing website Glassdoor found that wages were surging in August, particularly for low skilled jobs.

According to Fox News, “U.S. workers in traditionally lower-wage jobs are among those seeing the biggest wage bumps in August,” Glassdoor Chief Economist Andrew Chamberlain said. “Roles ranging from maintenance worker and bank teller to barista and bartender are seeing big pay gains as the healthy job market translates into more pay across many corners of the labor market.”

As for those gains by job type, they include; bank teller (8 percent raise), maintenance worker (7.5 percent), bartender (6.5 percent), property manager (6.1 percent) and financial adviser (6 percent). “As the U.S. labor market shows no signs of letting up, we expect wages to keep climbing,” Chamberlain added. Nationally, wages rose 2.4 percent higher this August than August of last year, and median pay rose to $52,461.

The cities which saw the largest rises included Los Angeles and San Francisco, so there was little for the liberals in those cities to complain of.

Despite repeated attempts by Democrats and Barack Obama to take credit for the current economic upswing in America, leading economists agree the main man behind it is President Trump. A Wall Street Journal poll of economists earlier int he year found that most agreed Trump deserved more credit than Obama for the current economic landscape, citing the upturn in business confidence that accompanied Trump’s election, and tie that to increase business investment. The Trump tax cuts had just been passed at the time of the study, but the CBO estimates that they’re boosting growth 0.7% higher every year.

It’s impossible to deny that President Trump’s economic agenda is helping the average American, which is why Democrats are becoming increasingly extreme, or, in the case of Nancy Pelosi, struggling to even articulate what her party stands for.

By Matt

Matt is the co-founder of Unbiased America and a freelance writer specializing in economics and politics. He’s been published... More about Matt

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