New survey is showing Americans pay in the last five years has remained stagnant.
The research was done by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research:
The Great Recession and lack of wage growth in recent years have not helped. In the same AP-NORC poll, 46 percent of workers said their wages have remained stagnant in the last five years, and another 16 percent said they’ve actually seen salary cuts. Meanwhile, costs for basic needs, such as food, housing and health care, have risen.
The AP-NORC poll of 1,008 adults was conducted April 14-18 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
