“The average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year.”
What PolitiFact found
The White House cited a quarterly set of federal government wage statistics. This shows that median wages rose by a cumulative $546 during the first two quarters of 2025. A different set of statistics — which economists consider more accurate because they come from a much larger sample — shows a significantly smaller rise for the average U.S. worker’s pay over that period, about $121. When inflation is factored in, workers’ take-home pay rose by even less — about $26 during the first six mont...
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In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 26 August 2025. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 September 2025, 10 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- rollcall.comhttps://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-cabinet-meeting-white…
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