Real wages today are below what they were in 1981.

Real wages today are 68 percent of what they were in 1980.

Real wages for these workers are now lower, on average, than two years ago.

The real average wage is lower today than it was 20 years ago.

Real wages did not grow in the last two years and will fall further.

Real wages rose by more than 10 percent last year.

Between 1980 and 1987, average real wages fell by 2 percent.

The real wages of the workers fell about 50 percent from what they had been in 1913.

In the last three years, real wages have dropped 4.5 percent.

In fact, your real wages, on the average, have been going down.