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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: John Koligman who wrote (112104)3/11/2008 10:46:07 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
I simply picked the same yearly reference points as the NY Times article.

OK, than they cherry picked the best year to try to make their point.

What the hell are you talking about in reference to my data?

An error. Sorry, I'm human, it happens some times.

But look at the BLS data, and you see more positive information. Or look at the chart in your link and you see a longer term upward trend. Since a high, possible semi-bubble peak in 99 isn't enough data to say the trend has ended.

From the BLS Data

growth in real hourly compensation per year was positive for every year on the chart.

1996 +0.7
1997 +0.9
1998 +4.5
1999 +2.6
2000 +3.7
2001 +1.2
2002 +2.0
2003 +1.7
2004 +0.9
2005 +1.0
2006 +2.37 (average of the annualized data from the 1st two quarters)

Since mid 2006, well its a bit of a job to get the data directly out of the BLS site myself (rather than using the data Russell Roberts pulled from the site), but if its really important I can make the effort.
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