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Real hourly wages of full-time workers aged 17 to 64, 1981 to 2011

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This is a line chart.
There are in total 4 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 140 with ticks every 20 points.
There are 3 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "percent".
The horizontal axis is "quintiles".
The title of series 1 is "Married in all years".
The minimum value is 74 and it corresponds to "Top quintile".
The maximum value is 127 and it corresponds to "Bottom quintile".
The title of series 2 is "Widowed by age 78 to 80".
The minimum value is 65 and it corresponds to "Top quintile".
The maximum value is 119 and it corresponds to "Bottom quintile".
The title of series 3 is "Divorced by age 78 to 80".
The minimum value is 53 and it corresponds to "Top quintile".
The maximum value is 118 and it corresponds to "Bottom quintile".

This line chart shows average hourly wages and median hourly wages of full-time workers aged 17 to 64 from 1981 to 2011. Throughout the period, average hourly wages exceed median hourly wages, but the two lines move in a parallel fashion. Both lines show that wages grew little from 1981 to the late 1990s but increased to a greater extent from the late 1990s to 2011.

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