Comp over GDP is slightly down, but is still increasing overall, even when adjusted for inflation. See my sibling post.

Not since the seventies which was the assertion in question

And I'm saying it is massively up since the 1970s, and provided FRED links.

I don't know what measure you're looking at, but here again is literally "Comp over GDP", now trimmed from 1970

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1XOcj

This is obviously some strange usage of the word 'up' that I wasn't previously aware of

> Comp over GDP is slightly down, but is still increasing overall...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252881600A

The original parent claim was:

> The US Department of Labor measures wages, and adjusted for inflation the hourly wage is below what it was in 1973. It is even lower if you are only counting non-management roles then and now. Wages have not gotten better over the past half century they have gotten worse.

This is a flat out lie. Comp/GDP is a side note that does not negate the fact that inflation adjusted wages are up.

> Comp over GDP is slightly down, but is still increasing overall...

> https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252881600A

That graph does not represent Comp over GDP so it does not show it "is still increasing overall"

> The original parent claim was:...

Maybe so, but my post is a direct response to

> ...the increasing share of the economy consumed by the government...

> [the hourly wage] is a misleading statistic. The actual statistic is "total employee compensation"

So you agree that real salaries and compensation are not down since 1970? That is my main point.

Sure, I never said otherwise

The part of compensation includes healthcare, because we have no choice, it's a lock in - there's no marketplace to choose your healthcare, unless you go ACA which is a bad idea in many states - and as a lock-in the out of pocket costs have skyrocketed. To borrow your wording, google 'out of pocket healthcare costs annual trends.'

So that compensation covers less.

As I specifically mentioned, the compensation chart includes benefits (including health insurance)