{"id":12536,"date":"2024-09-05T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12536"},"modified":"2024-09-05T22:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T22:01:22","slug":"why-certain-wisconsinites-feel-particularly-poor-or-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12536","title":{"rendered":"Why certain Wisconsinites feel particularly poor (or rich)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/why-certain-wisconsinites-feel-particularly-poor-or-rich\/<\/a><\/p>\n

A county-by-county interactive analysis of inflation-adjusted wages<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Wisconsin is split.<\/p>\n

A county-by-county analysis shows that while some residents are seeing real growth in their wages \u2014 12% in Lafayette County, for instance, between 2019 and 2023 \u2014 others are falling behind the rise in prices.<\/p>\n

For an increasing number of families in places such as Waukesha County \u2014 where inflation-adjusted wages are down almost 2.6% over the same period of time \u2014 that means there is no longer enough to put food on the table.<\/p>\n

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At first glance, wage growth in Wisconsin might appear strong. The change in average weekly private-sector wages from 2019 to 2023 was 21.6%, according to figures<\/a> released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The statewide average was $972 per week in 2019 and rose to $1,182 by 2023.<\/p>\n

But the high inflation that followed the pandemic has eroded much of those increases. The CPI-urban price index<\/a>, a measure of inflation, grew 19.1% over the same period. Inflation-adjusted real wage growth in Wisconsin, which measures the change in how much one\u2019s wages actually can buy, was only about 2.1% over that four-year period.<\/p>\n

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