Equifax Settlement Perspective 

The settlement was for 700m USD. Rough estimate of the US population in 2019 is around 330 million people.

You could pay every single US resident a onetime payment of approximately 2.12 million USD from it.

Equifax is still in business.

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re: Equifax Settlement Perspective 

The average lifetime earnings in the US is 2.7m USD.

This number is heavily skewed upward by the wealthy elite as the average lifetime wage for a high graduate is 1.1m USD and for an associate degree holder is 1.7m USD.

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