[quote=AN]sdcellar, yes, some segment will do worse while others will do better.[/quote]Yes, my point exactly.
[quote=AN]That’s why I took a specific area to see what’s the median house hold income is. Although their two sites disagree with each other on the exact number for 2008, they’re the same for 2000. Adjusting for inflation, it’s only off by ~$1k/~1.5%. Not a big deal in my book.[/quote]But in the very same thread, I showed that the discrepency in another ZIP was $5K and almost 5%. That is significant. As far as the census years are concerned (1990, 2000), they do match, but that appears to be their methodology (census data supplemented with survey and interagency data compilations for the next 10). It’ll be interesting to see what SANDAG will have for 2010 (it should at least be consistent again). Seeems to me that the IRS could nail these numbers.
[quote=AN]Still get my point across that median house hold income in an area is relatively stable adjusted for inflation. In more newer developed areas like CV, it actually went up.[/quote]Actually, as I just mentioned, the data I brought for CV specifically shows in one data series that wages are up 5.4% and in another merely 0.8% (both adjusted for inflation). So, how do can you state that it went up in a meaningful sense? I suppose it did, but maybe barely (and less than in 92126).
[quote=AN]Regarding the class of 2000 comment, yes, it’s the former. Class of 2002 made about $45-50k fresh out of school. Now, those same people are making around $80-100k. The fresh grads now are making between $55k-65k, based on salary.com. So, if you’re comparing fresh grad vs fresh grad, the salary went up between 22%-30%.[/quote]Yes, so decidely less than 35%.
