TAMPA -- For years, local economic boosters — and workers — have had to live with an ugly reality when it comes to the area's wages: Salaries are painfully low.
U.S. Census figures show the median household income for the Tampa area was just under $44,000 in 2011. That's almost $500 less than the median Florida household income and a whopping $6,600 less than the U.S. median.
What's more, the trend is going the wrong way. The median household income last year was 13 percent lower than in 2007.
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