Wish I could say I thought of it, but I didn’t.
Thanks to Mitch for bringing this to my attention.
And my hat is off to the guys and gals at Trim Tabs for analyzing the daily income tax deposits to analyze the unemployment numbers.
Hell, I didn’t even know this data was available.
I would love to see [...]

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by vbierschwale
Filed under: BLS - OES Wage and Occuption Data, Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 6677No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=6677Hip+Hip+Hooray+for+Trim+Tabs+for+showing+up+the+dept+of+labor+and+their+lousy+data2010-02-09+04%3A40%3A51vbierschwale

Lets take a look at the goods producing jobs
To do that we will go to this site
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
1999 23839 23872 23938 24235 24476 24771 24812 24882 24790 24767 24708 24487 24465
2000 24080 24055 24270 24475 24674 25021 25038 25092 24930 24900 24752 24504 24649
2001 23979 23920 23981 24034 24153 24310 24166 24094 23855 23636 23335 23017 23873
2002 22423 22332 22365 22480 22666 22911 22845 22864 22715 22574 22401 22106 22557
2003 21596 21457 21529 21653 21892 22127 22043 22113 22015 21941 21823 21607 21816
2004 21161 21125 21341 21623 21940 22228 22268 22349 22242 22250 22139 21918 21882
2005 21415 21462 21640 21941 22227 22532 22539 22634 22525 22553 22519 22296 22190
2006 21914 21966 22132 22398 22647 22943 22930 22996 22849 22732 22535 22324 22531
2007 21883 21753 21941 22103 22354 22647 22617 22604 22462 22346 22181 21904 22233
2008 21402 21292 21347 21441 21658 21845 21796 21803 21608 21375 20997 20469 21419
2009 19580 19253 19056 18989 19010 19068 19013 18991 18840 18700(P) 18528(P)
P : preliminary
Now lets pull up a chart

Now lets look at the service producing

Year
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Annual

1999
101621
102573
103220
104070
104700
105135
104227
104211
105076
106036
106555
106915
104528

2000
104683
105372
106256
107051
107807
107977
106738
106694
107519
108107
108619
108804
107136

2001
106454
107177
107708
108060
108647
108869
107521
107520
108017
108436
108545
108474
107952

2002
106179
106737
107307
107777
108357
108493
107115
107180
107842
108653
108944
108826
107784

2003
106652
107203
107619
108148
108667
108763
107507
107488
108238
109104
109385
109419
108183

2004
107204
107851
108678
109516
110107
110267
109066
109002
109826
110800
111162
111156
109553

2005
108954
109733
110398
111306
111831
112196
111126
111276
112008
112707
113298
113318
111513

2006
111047
111921
112736
113382
113937
114140
112978
113114
113928
114743
115322
115423
113556

2007
113069
113888
114592
115232
115923
116132
114762
114884
115584
116440
116909
116971
115366

2008
114438
115064
115597
116102
116532
116606
115254
115199
115511
116117
115885
115448
115646

2009
112722
112885
113021
113347
113710
113557
112114
112055
112595
113443(P)
113695(P)

P : preliminary

Now lets look at a graph
Interesting
Manufacturing trending down.
Services trending up
aren’t services the ones that pay less unless of course you are a commission banker [...]

Posted on December 4th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 5730No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=5730so+the+unemployment+numbers+are+out+and+CNBC+and+the+Markets+are+in+ecstasy%2C+but+here+in+the+Real+World2009-12-04+14%3A06%3A01vbierschwale

Looks like I am not the only one as I have always suspected.
At this point it wouldn’t bother me one bit if we immediately shut down every corporation and sent their executives to siberia.
Sure we would all be walking, but we would have community and friends and we could learn to live again instead of [...]

Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008, Wall of Shame | 5660No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=5660Cold+Cruel+Corporate+America+is+to+blame+and+NOBODY+will+hold+them+accountable+because+they+are+above+the+law+to+our+representatives+that+have+sold+their+soul+to+them%212009-12-02+20%3A25%3A33vbierschwale

A few days ago I wrote this article where I realized that the true Middle Class in America actually goes from 50,000 to 500,000 dollars so I decided to revisit my previous calculations and put together the following two charts.
Just so you will know, the categories are broken down this way:

Working Poor – 1 to [...]

Posted on November 27th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 5479No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=5479Lets+revisit+the+breakdown+of+wages+in+America+using+the+New+Middle+Class+calculations2009-11-27+20%3A13%3A10vbierschwale

So lets see who has the money so that they can do good with it.
Lets turn to the IRS databook broken down by AGI that you can find by clicking here
We are going to work with that top row of links under “All Returns: Selected Income and Tax Items”
I will update this from time to [...]

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008, Where does our money come from? | 5437No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=5437To+make+money+so+that+you+can+do+good+requires+money2009-11-26+14%3A32%3A53vbierschwale

According to CNBC and the Bea, everything is coming up rosy, so lets make our own determination based on the facts, not the news headlines.
BEA News: Personal Income and Outlays, October 2009The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release today:
Personal income increased $30.1 billion, or 0.2 percent, and disposable [...]

Posted on November 25th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 54124 Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=5412Personal+Income+and+Outlays+-+October+20092009-11-25+13%3A53%3A28vbierschwale

Nope, they haven’t agreed to write off my debt to them in exchange for my analysis of their numbers (Damn It)
Anyway, I get this email about an hour ago.

IRS Fall 2009 Statistics of Income Bulletin Now Available
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced the release of the fall 2009 issue of the [...]

Posted on November 24th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 53865 Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=5386An+interesting+update+from+the+IRS2009-11-24+20%3A56%3A40vbierschwale

Good.
That is a good start.
We’re going to go back until 1976 for this little lesson.
Why 76?
Because that is when I headed west in my Nova SS and even though I was but a young kid of 18, everything seemed fine in the World.
Part of the reason they can’t fix the economy is because they listen [...]

Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: My Analysis of the GDP, Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 53192 Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=5319Do+you+want+to+know+why+our+representatives+can%27t+fix+the+economy%3F2009-11-23+20%3A44%3A34vbierschwale

Posted on November 20th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: BLS - OES Wage and Occuption Data, Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 5210No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=521015-0000+Computer+and+mathematical+science+occupations2009-11-20+13%3A53%3A12vbierschwale

I did a lot of cutting and posting to make this possible.
at the current time I’m stressed about bills and no income and no unemployment so I don’t really have the time to focus on doublechecking this spreadsheet, so I’m going to post it here so that you can doublecheck it for me if you [...]

Posted on November 20th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: BLS - OES Wage and Occuption Data, Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 51931 Comment »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=519313-0000+Business+and+financial+operations+occupations2009-11-20+12%3A50%3A37vbierschwale

I originally started analyzing this a very long time ago and it opened my eyes.
I never had the time to do an in-depth analysis of the data, but as my skills have picked up, I have figured out a way to chart this data without having to write a program, so we’re going to revisit [...]

Posted on November 19th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: BLS - OES Wage and Occuption Data, Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 5187No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=518711-0000+Management+Occupations2009-11-20+03%3A36%3A31vbierschwale

You are probably thinking as I was that at least all of these H1-B’s are paying their fair share of taxes to help keep our country afloat and solvent.
Think again!
Just incase you are not sure what you are looking for here, let me explain the very big picture to you.
According to this article by the [...]

Posted on November 19th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 5173No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=5173Let+me+show+you+how+the+H1-B%27s+really+stick+it+to+Americans+while+our+representatives+hold+us+down2009-11-19+19%3A30%3A54vbierschwale

Take for instance this breaking news from yahoo.
WASHINGTON (AP) Strong auto demand pushes retail sales up in October, demand for other items remains weak.
For instance, if we look at this article you will see that in 2007 we had about 150 million employees.
Of these, 65% are in what I call the Working Poor [...]

Posted on November 16th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 5008No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=5008Here+is+something+the+CEO%27s+and+Economic+Analysts+don%27t+seem+to+understand2009-11-16+13%3A53%3A24vbierschwale

This chart was prepared by adding the Working Poor, Middle Class and Rich totals as taken from the IRS data
Notice how in 1996 we had about 5 Trillion Dollars
See how it rose and fell like the tide that seperates our countries?
I believe this chart shows the receipts when our assets were sold and the lower [...]

Posted on November 15th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 4973No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=4973This+is+what+I+believe+happens+to+our+money+when+you+allow+foreign+investment+in+our+companies+and+real+estate2009-11-15+19%3A20%3A04vbierschwale

Good.
Proof is good.
So lets see what we have found.
You can download the spreadsheet I used to analyze the data by clicking on the following link
96_ongoing
Since it is the money that hurt the economy and created all of the symptoms such as sub prime mortgages, etc., we will analyze that first
This first chart shows the amount [...]

Posted on November 15th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 49652 Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=4965So+you+want+definitive+proof+that+sub+prime+mortgages+did+not+cause+this+mess%3F2009-11-15+19%3A08%3A32vbierschwale

• Extend jobless benefits for up to two years (why not just put these folks on the government payroll? At least the unemployment rate will start to go down).
• Expand the homeowner tax credit.
• Provide tax breaks to homebuilders (the ones who helped get us in to this mess).
• Provide businesses [...]

Posted on November 11th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 4856No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=4856Dave+Rosenberg+doesn%27t+have+a+clue+in+my+opinion2009-11-11+12%3A42%3A10vbierschwale

If you’ve been following my work on wages, you’ve seen the rise and fall in our wages all over America.
If you haven’t, you can get up to speed by clicking here
You may also be interested in seeing where we get the money to run America from.
You can find that by clicking here
In 2007 we had [...]

Posted on November 4th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008, Where does our money come from? | 4700No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=4700If+we%27re+going+to+let+our+companies+send+our+work+offshore%2C+we+need+to+change+our+tax+system2009-11-04+13%3A46%3A20vbierschwale

Lets look at 1997
Not too much different from 1996, so it didn’t start here, although it does appear that the Middle Class and Rich increased 1% and the Working Poor increased 2% over 1996
But take a look at that jump in the Working Poor between 2006 and 2007.
Folks, that is when the subprime mortgage crisis [...]

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 46591 Comment »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=4659What+did+1997+and+2005+do+to+the+Middle+Class%3F2009-11-02+14%3A39%3A02vbierschwale

Lets look at 1996
If you want to follow along, you can find the link to the IRS data in the previous articles.
Looks like the majority of us made less then 50,000 per year and things werent too bad back then from what I remember
Hey, what do you know?
Even the money was fairly well spread through [...]

Posted on November 1st, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 4644No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=4644When+sanity+partially+ruled+the+country2009-11-01+14%3A33%3A09vbierschwale

As you may have noticed in the earlier two articles, I found some interesting data for 2006 and I broke it down into some charts to make it easier to understand at a glance.
To say it was shocking was an understatement, and I really wanted to compare it to some up to date data.
I finally [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 46383 Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=4638You+won%27t+find+this+on+CNBC+or+Fox+Business+and+I%27ll+bet+the+Government+or+IRS+won%27t+tell+you+about+it2009-10-31+22%3A04%3A21vbierschwale

That last set of charts really ticked me off, so I decided to take a closer look at it and include the middle class.
My definitions are:

Working Poor – Less then 50,000
Middle Class – More then 50,000 and less then 100,000
Rich – Over 100,000

By that definition, I once hit the “rich” category.
I now realize that I [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 4629No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=4629How+many+millions+of+others+have+gone+from+the+Middle+Class+to+the+Working+Poor%3F2009-10-31+15%3A02%3A17vbierschwale

We needed some data today showing the percentage of income for each tax group.
So I went digging, and I found this excellent publication.
On page 4, you will see what I saw and I used this as a guideline.
I also am enclosing a snapshot of it to save you some time
So I created this spreadsheet so [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 4621No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=4621Oh+My+God%2C+This+will+knock+your+socks+off%212009-10-31+14%3A30%3A10vbierschwale

Sorry for the delay, but I can’t seem to shake this flu.
Here is the governments release
BEA News: Personal Income and Outlays, September 2009The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release today:
Personal income decreased $0.1 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) decreased $0.2 billion, [...]

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 4608No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=4608Lets+look+at+the+personal+income+data+that+was+released+by+the+BEA+today2009-10-31+02%3A35%3A51vbierschwale

What a way to start the day.
I was up over 1,000 words with what was for me a very long winded article and somehow, the whole damned thing disappeared when I was trying to change some formatting.
I’m beginning to think I should just go home, get in bed and then get up again, but no, [...]

Posted on October 1st, 2009 by vbierschwale
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 3937No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=3937The+Chicken+or+The+Egg%3F2009-10-01+13%3A41%3A10vbierschwale

Personal income increased $3.8 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, and disposable personal income
(DPI) decreased $4.6 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, in July, according to the Bureau of Economic
Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $25.0 billion, or 0.2 percent. In June,
personal income decreased $133.4 billion, or 1.1 percent, DPI decreased $119.9 billion, [...]

Posted on August 28th, 2009 by vjb
Filed under: Wages from 1948 to 2008 | 3304No Comments »http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=3304Bureau+of+Economic+Analysis+is+the+MASTER+OF+SPIN%21+-+CNBC%2C+why+aren%27t+you+reporting+this%3F2009-08-28+13%3A25%3A48vjb