A recent Gallup poll has given some promising employment news. More than half of American workers say that their income has grown over the last five years, telling Gallup that they are making either a lot (28%) or a little (30%) more money since the onslaught of the economic crisis. Between 2009 and 2012, based on data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, many of the metros with the greatest wage growth are in the economically vibrant, coastal metros that you’d expect – San Francisco, Seattle, and New York – as well as cities in the Energy Belt like Houston. But some metro areas in hard-hit industrial areas of the Rustbelt and a number of Sunbelt metros that were wracked by the housing crisis also saw substantial wage increases, which suggests that the economic recovery may finally be registering in workers’ paychecks nationwide. [Read this article]
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