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Median income for full time workers is about $60k.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States
Median numbers do look a lot better when you remove 60% of below median earning workers, who would have thought.
Where's this coming from? (I'm probably just blind, sorry)
It's only that high if you narrow the scope to only full-time and employed for the whole year. This neglects how much (or maybe rather how little) the us values a large proportion of its labor. I didn't check the math on the percentage they gave, but it's at least in the right ballpark from some very rough napkin math- 60% of below median is 30% of total, and if we make a not amazing assumption that the "curve" of earnings is linear, then we can just shift the median by the given 30%, which if you shift up from 47960 you get 68.5k, or if you shift down from 60070 you get 42k.