Average Wages

The national average wage is currently at about $20 per hour. Average wages are so far gone from one end to the next, that $20 hour falls in the average wage percentile. The national average wage salary has consistently raised throughout the years. The average wages for the year 1951 and 1952 were at $2,799.16 a year, from there the average wages increased to $2,973.32. By 1960, the average wage salary was at $4,007.12. In 1970, the average wages were at $6,186.24. In 1980, the average wage salary was at $12,513.46. The average wages in 1990 was $21,027.98. By 2000, the average wages were at $32,154.82. Many are happy to see that the average wages have slowly increased each year, whether it has been by a hundred dollars, or thousands.

The average wages in the United States have most recently accounted for approximately 800 occupations. The average wage determination is based upon management positions, business and financial workers, life, physical, and social science occupations, health care staff, farming, fishing, and forestry, construction, illustration, repair, computer and mathematical sciences employees, education workers, sales and marketing staff, food industry workers, architecture and engineering staff, oil and gas workers, production and operation workers, and legal staff. The average wages have also accounted for about 400 different industries.

One of the trends that came to make up the average wages of the United States is that those that worked in metropolitan areas were more inclined to add to the higher percentile of the average wages. The Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas metropolitan area had the highest average wage for the net income earning for every dollar. The average wage that was earned for every penny on the dollar was $.77. The average wage for the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, California, metropolitan area set a record high. The average wage for the area was higher than the national average wage of $20 an hour.