Where can I find a reasonably up-to-date file of wage earning statistics for the US, broken down by age?

January 5, 2005 1:36 PM

Anyone know where I can find a reasonably up-to-date of wage earning statistics for the US, broken down by age?
posted by ph00dz to work & money (4 comments total)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/bls/wages.htm
posted by grateful at 1:38 PM on January 5, 2005

Yeah... looked there first, but to no avail... perhaps I missed it?
posted by ph00dz at 2:22 PM on January 5, 2005

The Current Population Survey has broad age categories through 2001.

I had an econometrics professor that used raw CPS data for in-class explanations and demonstrations - including income vs. age/sex/etc. If you download and install "DataFerrett" (a free Java program from the Census Bureau), you can access the raw data from most recent CPS data (Nov 2004). The program is pretty clunky to use, but the data is there. Hope that helps.
posted by milkrate at 2:58 PM on January 5, 2005

Perfect... thanks, milkrate. Didn't know about DataFerrett -- I bet that'll come in handy... for something.
posted by ph00dz at 3:14 PM on January 5, 2005