So after the tax hikes wages and salaries are now barely growing after inflation.
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Ordinary slobs like me get the overwhelming share of our income from wages and salaries.
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Over that same time frame, wages and salaries have grown 3 to 5 percent a year.
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The top fifth of American earners get 84% of their income from wages and salaries.
But, there also are pernicious consequences of the new payroll tax affecting wages and salaries.
To summarize, faster growth in wages and salaries is a trim tab for stock prices.
That means that all wages and salaries were more than the value of all U.S. stocks.
An important feature of the plan is reportedly endorsement of higher wages and salaries.
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The labour share of income is not equal or equivalent to wages and salaries.
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So a 3.2% nominal growth rate in wages and salaries translates into virtually no growth after inflation.
Another compelling statistic: the BLS projects that health care wages and salaries will rise 27% through 2014.
Similarly, it means wages and salaries fall as a percentage while the profit share does not rise.
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It is equal to wages and salaries plus benefits from employment and employer paid taxes on employment.
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There are a variety of social norms around talking about wages and salaries.
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To achieve that goal, wages and salaries must rise to move more of the population into the middle class.
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Interestingly, income derived from wages and salaries were not included in the ruling.
For example, according to our data, wages and salaries jumped 7% year-over-year in 2006, the highest growth rate since 2000.
In less troubled times, the marked acceleration in wages and salaries in the first quarter would soon push up spending.
Wages and salaries data for February pointed to no change in permanent salaries since January, ending a four-month sequence of increases.
But we know based on the taxes withheld from workers' paychecks that wages and salaries actually jumped 7.5% year-over-year in February.
For example, most wages and salaries are reported by employers to the IRS on Forms W-2 and are subject to withholding.
Perhaps the traditional system of seniority should ration all wages and salaries?
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More money chasing fewer shares and the multiple of stock prices to both earnings and wages and salaries will increase and multiply.
But right now wages and salaries are barely growing adjusted for inflation.
Main reasons: labour-market rigidity and high costs, not least due to social-security contributions, which have now risen to 42% of wages and salaries.
The only place where the Fed can locate a pulse of inflationary pressure is in wages and salaries for skills-based workers, particularly in technology.
Wages and salaries, which we track each day in real time, are falling slightly sequentially, mostly because Wall Street players are getting smaller bonuses.
But also such leaders must navigate between the lesser of two bad options, e.g. closing a facility, laying off employees or cutting wages and salaries.
Leaving that aside the error is in thinking that the labour share of wages and salaries in GDP is the inverse of the profit share.
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This would and does mean that the wages and salaries part of the national income falls while the labour share of national income does not.
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