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How much does the average American make? These Ivy League students think it’s six figures

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On Wednesday, a professor tweeted that 25% of her students believed the average American salary was over six figures. One of them, she says in the tweet, believed it was over $800,000.

The average American worker actually makes closer to $51,480, based on 2021 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, and about 30.7% of households earned over $100,000 in 2020, according to Policy Advice, an insurance insights company.

The tweet ended up going viral, reaching over 100,000 likes and nearly 20,000 retweets by Thursday afternoon. The author of the tweet, Professor Nina Strohminger, teaches legal studies and business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, ranked as the No. 2 business school in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

 

Michelle Shen

USA TODAY

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