The average U.S. worker earned a little more than $30 per hour in 2011.

[Brownslave688]

99.9% of all statistics are fabricated and manipulated. just sayin.

As mark twain once said there are 3 types of lies..... Lies,damned lies, and statistics.

[brown_trousers]

Average is the median, so you have plenty of higher paying jobs to bring the average to this.

Average is NOT the median. there is a difference!

[over9five]

I believe 75% of statistics 37% of the time.

[Brownslave688]

Average is the median, so you have plenty of higher paying jobs to bring the average to this.

Average is not the median. Average is the average the median would be the median. Let me explain. Take 5 workers incomes are 22k 28k 35k 200k and 400k. The median income would be 35k half the people make over that half the people make under that. The average income for these 5 people however would be 137k understand now? Both stats can be skewed greatly by just 1 or 2 subjects this is why you should never trust statistics.

[HULKAMANIA]

You should also never trust a fart when you ate alot of papa johns.

[Cementups]

That would be median income not average.

Half is median which is the middle number I didn't say average. Average is almost never half.

You used median stats to claim an average stat was BS that's comparing apples to oranges and most people don't know the difference.

Average is NOT the median. there is a difference!

Ahem...

[upsguy72]

Depending on how they are used statistics can make thing look a lot better than they are or a lot worse than they are. The government does it all the time to confuse the uninformed and UPS management uses them all the time to justify all the BS they tell us....

[klein]

He is right with the average US worker earning $30 an hr, but that includes all benefits, sick leave, vacation pay, healthcare, etc.

[Hoaxster]

He is right with the average US worker earning $30 an hr, but that includes all benefits, sick leave, vacation pay, healthcare, etc.

If you agree with him, that means he is wrong.

[yeldarb]

I read something this week that said that less than 8% of men over 18 make 100k. Granted, 30 bucks an hour by itself isnt close to 100k, but that leads me to believe that the average is no where near 30 bucks an hour. Guaranteed on my route which has alot of businesses, no one, except for the owner comes anywhere near 30 bucks an hour.