Talk:Personal income in the United States

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Contents 1 Not Finished 2 Taxed? 3 More Information 4 Median Income at Retirement 5 Labor force median income

[edit] Not Finished

I just started the article. I also wrote Household income in the United States as well as several other articles pertaining to socio-economics in the US. This article will somewhat resembe the Household income in the US article. It will, however, take me a bit of time to expand this article as I am currently somewhat busy. Thus please remeber that this article will still be expanded further. Regards, Signature^brendelNow under review! 07:20, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Taxed?

When discussing incomes in a US context, are you talking about the gross income (not counting taxes) or the net income (counting taxes)? Wouter Lievens 22:42, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Gross income. Nearly all the statistics used in the US are gross income-very rarely do you ever see net income stats. Regards, Signature^brendelHAPPY HOLIDAYS 23:24, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More Information

This page could really use some more information on median income over time like the Household Income page has if anyone can find it. I can't. :( AlexMc 17:17, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I am actually also the author of the household income in the US article. I have the same data available for personal income as I do for household income. I just haven't gotten around to adding all that info yet, being on vacation, X-mas shopping, etc... I will in the near future through. Signature^brendelHAPPY HOLIDAYS 04:45, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Median Income at Retirement

I feel it would be helpful if you could include a section with Median Incomes at the point of Retirement. Most people premise their politics based on the assumption of what they will be earning eventually. I may be wrong but for most people maximum income occurs at the point of retirement, and retirement income is less. Of course, some history and reasonable protections for future earnings is important also. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.98.115.94 (talk) 16:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Labor force median income

I changed the description of the median income cited at the end of the introduction. It had stated that the median income was for all 233 million people over age 15 (i.e., the labor force). However, the median cited excludes people with no earnings; it only considers the 155,410,000 people with earnings. This can be seen by comparing the first two columns in the reference cited for this median income value. 12.107.7.5 (talk) 23:20, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

True; I should have clarified that when I wrote the article. Signature^brendel 23:23, 15 May 2008 (UTC)