# US Pay Data Releases : Reuters **URL:** \ **Category:** PolitiSUCK\ **Created:** [October 20, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-pay-data-releases-reuters/217660 "2011-10-20T05:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-pay-data-releases-reuters/217660/1 "2011-10-20T05:35:03Z")
[**LINK**](http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2011/10/19/first-look-at-us-pay-data-its-awful/) > The figures from [payroll taxes reported to the Social Security Administration](http://link.reuters.com/bas54s) on jobs and pay are, in a word, awful. ![http://static.reuters.com/resources/media/global/assets/images/20111019/20111019_88353331.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/0/a/0a5c320f842ee77d4977891b6798b31c885dbeba.jpeg) _"__There were fewer jobs and they paid less last year, except at the very top where, the number of people making more than $1 million increased by 20 percent over 2009._ _The median paycheck — half made more, half less — fell again in 2010, down 1.2 percent to $26,364. That works out to $507 a week, the lowest level, after adjusting for inflation, since 1999._ _The number of Americans with any work fell again last year, down by more than a half million from 2009 to less than 150.4 million."_ ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-pay-data-releases-reuters/217660/2 "2011-10-20T06:29:06Z")
Half of the Americans that actually have a job make less than 26k a year, but there are 20% more millionaires! Let’s keep coddling the top 1%! They create all of these high-paying jobs!