Washington DC is the only state in the entire US... where average wages are increasing faster than rate of inflation, a rate of 23% as of 2014
1) Not a state.
2) If you've ever seen most of the neighbors that are actually in Washington DC, you'd never, ever want to live in any of them.
3) DC's statistics are skewed as fuck anyway due to politicians and the political support structure versus the rest of the actual civilian population. Basically, if you don't work in the government/public sector, you probably don't want to live there.
It is easy to have massive pay increases when you are the ones deciding if you should get them.
But yea, DC is a shit hole. The only place in the entire...whatever it is that is actually halfway decent is the area where the monuments are. Even the Whitehouse is basically a patch of green in a giant slum.
It's crazy that the nation's capital is like that.