This is cool and all but the post is about wage growth in the past 12 months.
It's like if the post said, "did you know 1+1=2?" and you came along saying, "Yeah well 2+2=4". It's not a counter argument to the statement in the post title. It's another statistic altogether.
Now go ahead and try to hand wave this way.
No, handwaving would be saying something like, "well I haven't experienced this and also none of my friends have so it's not happening".
So, interesting stat which is relevant in a larger context but doesn't mean the post is factually incorrect.