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Erm, you actually can talk about the modal american in the same sense as any of those other measures of central tendency.
You don't talk about "the average american" with no context. You talk about the average american salary, the average american number of occupants of a household, and so on. Same for median.
The modal American salary would be the dollar figure which has the most americans earning that exact amount. It's fine.
Don't do continuous data.
Turn salary into a discrete variable. 0-20k, 20-40k, 40-60k, etc.
Modal salary, is the category most Americans fall into. And that is genuinely interesting to know.