When will republicans claim the economy is booming?

Yes you're growing nominal wages faster than inflation. In your chart nominal wages are up 28% and inflation (prices) are up 25%. That means real wages are up around 3% (28-25). So nominal wages increased faster than inflation (28% to 25%). But real wages did not (3% to 25%).

The original claim was about real wages growing faster than inflation. I was trying to point out that that's kind of a nonsensical thing to say because inflation is already factored in to real wages.

 

LOL shocker, rich too hot libs don't get the working middle class struggle.

 

Yes, I did a poor job of explaining it. The statement 'When real wages start rising above the rate of inflation' is nonsensical. You would either say 'When wages start rising above the rate of inflation' or 'When real wages start rising', which both mean the same thing.

And of course wages have been rising faster than inflation. If he's waiting for real wages to rise faster than inflation rate he'll be waiting a long time.