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Laborers' Average Hourly Rate of Wages, Weighted for United States (A08139USA052NNBR)

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1891: 0.1379  
Updated: Aug 17, 2012

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Not Seasonally Adjusted

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(a) Laborers' Average Hourly Rate of Wages, Weighted for United States, Dollars, Not Seasonally Adjusted (A08139USA052NNBR)
Data Represent Cumulative Weighted (Based On Number Of Wage Earners) Averages Of Hourly Wage Rates Of Laborers, Excluding Those Engaged In City Public Works. Data Cover 20 Establishments. Source: NBER Compiled Data From Figures Published In U.S. Senate Report No. 1394, The Aldrich Report, "Wholesale Prices, Wages, And Transportation, " Finance Committee, Second Session Of The 52Nd Congress, 1893.

This NBER data series a08139 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html.

NBER Indicator: a08139

Laborers' Average Hourly Rate of Wages, Weighted for United States

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NOTES

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research  

Release: NBER Macrohistory Database  

Units:  Dollars, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Annual

Notes:

Data Represent Cumulative Weighted (Based On Number Of Wage Earners) Averages Of Hourly Wage Rates Of Laborers, Excluding Those Engaged In City Public Works. Data Cover 20 Establishments. Source: NBER Compiled Data From Figures Published In U.S. Senate Report No. 1394, The Aldrich Report, "Wholesale Prices, Wages, And Transportation, " Finance Committee, Second Session Of The 52Nd Congress, 1893.

This NBER data series a08139 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html.

NBER Indicator: a08139

Suggested Citation:

National Bureau of Economic Research, Laborers' Average Hourly Rate of Wages, Weighted for United States [A08139USA052NNBR], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A08139USA052NNBR, April 25, 2018.

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