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No Wharton kids, the average U.S. worker does not make $800,000 😂
WTF? I mean really?
It all started with this tweet. And then the Twitter floodgates opened.
I recently wrote “Let Them Eat Cake” about wealth disparity in America. How there are so many Marie Antoinettes running around. And now we learn their mini Marie Antoinettes are just as bad.
New York Times data, showing the median family income of a student from Penn is $195,500. And that’s for the university as a whole.
As for the real number, the Social Security Administration put the average U.S. annual wage last year at $53,383, and the median wage at $34,612.
In the fourth quarter, the Labor Department said median weekly earnings were $1,010, or an annualized $52,520.