Please don;t make me go back and try to find it.. Ha ha
It was a page at ssa.guv explaining how they calculate your payout. It was too complicated and dense quite frankly but my take-away was relevant to that private sector site I found. (smartasset.com…?) The $56,000 figure that was defaulted in “current wage” was in fact the “average” I was looking for or close enough. I might still be off but without doing a lot of look-back research and then finding a calculator to work with I’ll settle for what I’ve found.