Good question. It's average hourly earnings from the official BLS data. So it's aggregated across the whole economy and yes higher earners could skew it (as is always true). More work coming to disaggregate. Also, high *earners aren't necessarily where the biggest distortions are. It's *wealth not *earnings. The richest earn almost all of their income from investment income, which you don't see in AHE....
How is income calculated? Would high end earners skew this?
Good question. It's average hourly earnings from the official BLS data. So it's aggregated across the whole economy and yes higher earners could skew it (as is always true). More work coming to disaggregate. Also, high *earners aren't necessarily where the biggest distortions are. It's *wealth not *earnings. The richest earn almost all of their income from investment income, which you don't see in AHE....