I get a little frustrated when I read articles that deal with average American's earnings. Today I read an article on yahoo that shows you "where your salary ranks across the country." In the first section it talks about the average American worker earns $45,790 a year. Sorry, that's a little inflated. Average salary as a whole is a terrible way to see what an average citizen earns,
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