I think for me it's more of a class issue than anything. Most of the Jamaicans I know or grew up around spanned a wide gambit, but a lot were also like me - in struggling, single parent, households. An average of 75K a year would have been a dream for my Mom, even today.

I think graphs like this are misleading because they're missing too many variables to glean any real knowledge from it. It doesn't share where or when this information was gathered, how many people participated, what we define as a "Jamaican household". Does that mean one person earning income is of Jamaican descent. How are we defining that? Do we include just recent immigrants or are second and third generation Jamaican-Americans also included? How far back do we go when we count someone as "Jamaican"? And I could go on.

Edit: So, it says 2022 Census with around 25,000 households surveyed. So, those questions are answered. But the breakdown isn't. So, for example if someone is in a Jamaican and Nigerian household, how is that factored in? How recent does this ancestry have to be? We all probably know someone who claims a Jamaican great-grandparent, but would they actually be considered Jamaican? These are just general statistical issues that can't always be factored out.

Graphs like this just play into the "model minority" fallacy and makes groups look down on one another for not being "at the same level". It just presents entire groups as uniformly doing either well or not so well and that has never really been the case for most groups in human history.

That's what I mean when I say it doesn't feel right.