Chart: Measurement comparisons between percentiles and average wages of quintiles: Real wage growth at different points in the wage distribution, 2019–2022 | Economic Policy Institute

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Measurement comparisons between percentiles and average wages of quintiles: Real wage growth at different points in the wage distribution, 2019–2022

Wage group	Wage change
Average of the bottom 20%	7.3%
10th percentile	9.0%

Average of the middle 20%	2.4%
50th percentile	3.4%

Average of the top 20%	8.0%
90th percentile	4.9%

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Source: EPI analysis of the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.37 (2023), microdata.epi.org.

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