DATASET

Starter-home hours.

National bottom-tier Zillow ZHVI divided by AHETPI wages, using 2,080 hours per work-year. Updated when source data refreshes; no quarterly ceremony.

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Starter-home hours series from 2000 Q1 to Jun 2026, with actual work-years compared with wage-pace and CPI-pace baselines.
At these assumptions: national bottom-tier ZHVI ($198,648.86, 2026-04) divided by AHETPI ($32.31, 2026-05), using 2,080 hours per work-year. Wage-pace baseline: 2.07 work-years held constant. CPI-pace baseline: 2000 nominal price grown by annual CPIAUCSL, divided by actual AHETPI wages.

POINTS

All published points

Hours and work-years are derived from the source manifest on the matching Index receipt. The wage-pace baseline is the first work-years value held constant; the CPI-pace baseline grows the 2000 nominal price by annual CPIAUCSL, then divides by actual wages.

Quarter Hours Work-years Wage pace CPI pace
2000 Q1 4,296 2.07 2.07 2.07
2004 Q1 5,050 2.43 2.07 2.02
2008 Q1 5,380 2.59 2.07 2
2012 Q1 3,963 1.91 2.07 1.94
2016 Q1 4,728 2.27 2.07 1.86
2020 Q1 5,460 2.63 2.07 1.78
2024 Q1 6,367 3.06 2.07 1.75
2025 Q2 6,263 3.01 2.07 1.67
Jun 2026 6,148 2.96 2.07 1.61

CITATION

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Source: Aspire (aspirerate.com/data), starter-home hours, retrieved 2026-06-15.
Underlying data: BLS/FRED AHETPI; Zillow ZHVI bottom tier; FRED:CPIAUCSL annual CPI.