The line charts shows how wages have changed over time from 1979 to 2022 in North Carolina. Overall, North Carolina workers at the median and below in terms of wages have seen their wages grow much slower than those workers at the top of the wage distribution. North Carolinians in the bottom tenth of the wage distribution saw their wages increase when adjusting for inflation by just $1.80 from 1979 to 2022 while those in the top tenth saw their wages increase by $21.