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Title:               Laborers' Average Hourly Rate of Wages, Unweighted for United States
Series ID:           A08138USA052NNBR
Source:              National Bureau of Economic Research
Release:             NBER Macrohistory Database (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency:           Annual
Units:               Dollars
Date Range:          1860-01-01 to 1891-01-01
Last Updated:        2012-08-17 2:17 PM CDT
Notes:               Data Represent Cumulative Unweighted Averages Of The Hourly Rates Of
                     Laborers' Wages Including Those Employed In City Public Works. Series
                     Covers Twenty-Three Establishments. Source: NBER Compiled The Data
                     From Figures Published In U.S. Senate Report No. 1394, Aldrich Report,
                     "Wholesale Prices, Wages, And Transportation", Finance Committee,
                     Second Session Of The 52Nd Congress, 1893.
                     
                     This NBER data series a08138 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8
                     at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html.
                     
                     NBER Indicator: a08138

DATE         VALUE
1860-01-01  0.0976
1861-01-01  0.0974
1862-01-01  0.0973
1863-01-01  0.1110
1864-01-01  0.1300
1865-01-01  0.1483
1866-01-01  0.1520
1867-01-01  0.1528
1868-01-01  0.1537
1869-01-01  0.1561
1870-01-01  0.1559
1871-01-01  0.1574
1872-01-01  0.1588
1873-01-01  0.1590
1874-01-01  0.1584
1875-01-01  0.1542
1876-01-01  0.1493
1877-01-01  0.1416
1878-01-01  0.1370
1879-01-01  0.1345
1880-01-01  0.1353
1881-01-01  0.1399
1882-01-01  0.1434
1883-01-01  0.1469
1884-01-01  0.1462
1885-01-01  0.1445
1886-01-01  0.1443
1887-01-01  0.1486
1888-01-01  0.1503
1889-01-01  0.1498
1890-01-01  0.1506
1891-01-01  0.1528