Data: Realtime Inequality; Chart: Baidi Wang/Axios
If your income is rising much more slowly than inflation, that's a sign you might be rich.
Why it matters: The bottom 90% of earners are seeing their income keep up with inflation, while the bottom 50% had wage gains 3.4% bigger than inflation in the first quarter of 2022. That's according to Realtime Inequality, a project that attempts to disaggregate growth statistics by income percentile.
