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Do average people really produce $115,000 of stuff per year, yet take home only $26,000?

OK, here's my math:

* The US GNP (amount of stuff we make) is $15 trillion yearly.
* The US has 130 million employed workers.
* $15 trillion worth of stuff divided by 130 million workers is $115,000 worth of stuff per worker.

Now, US median wage is about $26,000

So if I'm understanding correctly, normal people take home less than a quarter of what they produce.

Am I doing the math wrong?

[Edit] Many of these answers aren't quite getting at the crux of what I'm asking, so I'll rephrase.  It seems to me we're producing lots of stuff.  But ordinary (median) people aren't taking much of that stuff home.  So where's the rest going?

One obvious theory is that it's going to people whose wages are above median.  Another theory is that it's not going to wages at all - it's going to investors, as dividends and the like.  Another theory is that it's going overseas.  Another theory is that my math is completely wrong, we're not producing that much stuff at all.  A fifth theory is that we are indeed producing that much stuff, but median folks are receiving much more than I think.  Another theory is that I've completely misunderstood all these numbers, and I'm comparing nonsense to nonsense.   But I don't know which theory is right.
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I'll also point out that median is not average. If you considered five guys who made $10K, $20K, $30K, $40K and $1M, you could say, "we made $1,100,000 last year amongst the five of us (or $220,000 per person) but out median wage is only $30,000. Where'd all the rest of it go?"