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BLS report: Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers are $865 in 1st quarter 2017
Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers are $865 in 1st quarter 2017Economic News Release USDL-17-0442
Usual Weekly Earnings Summary
For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Tuesday, April 18, 2017
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USUAL WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS
FIRST QUARTER 2017
Median weekly earnings of the nation's 110.7 million full-time wage and salary workers were $865 in the first quarter of 2017 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 4.2 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with again of 2.5 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.
Data on usual weekly earnings are collected as part of the Current Population Survey, a nationwide sample survey of households in which respondents are asked, among other things, how much each wage and salary worker usually earns. (See the Technical Note in this news release.) Data shown in this release are not seasonally adjusted unless otherwise specified.
Highlights from the first-quarter data:
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