[boole1854]

Even without including employer health insurance costs, real wages are up 67% since 1980.

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1JxBn

Details: uses the "Wage and salary accruals per full-time-equivalent employee" time series, which is the broadest wage measure for FTE employees, and adjusts for inflation using the PCE price index, which is the most economically meaningful measure of "how much did prices change for consumers" (and is the inflation index that the Fed targets)

[fusionadvocate]

How has inflation behaved since 1980?

[0xffff2]

It's probably worth noting that the "real" in "real wages" indicates that the number is already inflation adjusted.

[boole1854]

It rose 2.75% per year (239% over 45 years).

Source with details: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1JxIa