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The series comes from the 'Current Employment Statistics (Establishment Survey).' The source code is: CES0500000003 The Average Hourly Earnings of All Private Employees is a measure of the average hourly earnings of all private employees on a “gross” basis, including premium pay for overtime and late-shift work. These differ from wage rates in that average hourly earnings measure the actual return to a worker for a set period of time, rather than the amount contracted for a unit of work, the wage rate. This measure excludes benefits, irregular bonuses, retroactive pay, and payroll taxes paid by the employer. Average Hourly Earnings are collected in the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program and published by the BLS. It is provided on a monthly basis, so this data is used in part by macroeconomists as an initial economic indicator of current trends. Progressions in earnings specifically help policy makers understand some of the pressures driving inflation. It is important to note that this series measures the average hourly earnings of the pool of workers in each period. Thus, changes in average hourly earnings can be due to either changes in the set of workers observed in a given period, or due to changes in earnings. For instance, in recessions that lead to the disproportionate increase of unemployment in lower-wage jobs, average hourly earnings can increase due to changes in the pool of workers rather than due to the widespread increase of hourly earnings at the worker-level. For more information, see: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CES Overview (https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesprog.htm) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS Handbook of Methods: Chapter 2. Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Establishment Survey (https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/ces-20110307.pdf)

Data measure usual weekly earnings of wage and salary workers. Wage and salary workers are workers who receive wages, salaries, commissions, tips, payment in kind, or piece rates. The group includes employees in both the private and public sectors but, for the purposes of the earnings series, it excludes all self-employed persons, both those with incorporated businesses and those with unincorporated businesses. Usual weekly earnings represent earnings before taxes and other deductions and include any overtime pay, commissions, or tips usually received (at the main job in the case of multiple jobholders). Prior to 1994, respondents were asked how much they usually earned per week. Since January 1994, respondents have been asked to identify the easiest way for them to report earnings (hourly, weekly, biweekly, twice monthly, monthly, annually, or other) and how much they usually earn in the reported time period. Earnings reported on a basis other than weekly are converted to a weekly equivalent. The term "usual" is determined by each respondent's own understanding of the term. If the respondent asks for a definition of "usual," interviewers are instructed to define the term as more than half the weeks worked during the past 4 or 5 months. Visit the BLS (https://www.bls.gov/cps/earnings.htm) for more information. The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LES1252881600

On April 26, 2006, The Employment Cost Index converted to the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification System (SOC). In addition, several computational changes were introduced, including rebasing all series to December 2005=100 from June 1989=100, the introduction of new employment weights and seasonal adjustment factors. For more detailed information on NAICS and SOC, including background and definitions, please see the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) websites: https://www.bls.gov/bls/naics.htm (https://www.bls.gov/bls/naics.htm) and http://www.bls.gov/soc/home.htm (http://www.bls.gov/soc/home.htm).

Production and related employees include working supervisors and all nonsupervisory employees (including group leaders and trainees) engaged in fabricating, processing, assembling, inspecting, receiving, storing, handling, packing, warehousing, shipping, trucking, hauling, maintenance, repair, janitorial, guard services, product development, auxiliary production for plant's own use (for example, power plant), recordkeeping, and other services closely associated with the above production operations. #Nonsupervisory employees include those individuals in private, service-providing industries who are not above the working-supervisor level. This group includes individuals such as office and clerical workers, repairers, salespersons, operators, drivers, physicians, lawyers, accountants, nurses, social workers, research aides, teachers, drafters, photographers, beauticians, musicians, restaurant workers, custodial workers, attendants, line installers and repairers, laborers, janitors, guards, and other employees at similar occupational levels whose services are closely associated with those of the employees listed. The series comes from the 'Current Employment Statistics (Establishment Survey).' The source code is: CES0500000008

The series comes from the 'Current Employment Statistics (Establishment Survey).' The source code is: CES3000000003

For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

Production and related employees include working supervisors and all nonsupervisory employees (including group leaders and trainees) engaged in fabricating, processing, assembling, inspecting, receiving, storing, handling, packing, warehousing, shipping, trucking, hauling, maintenance, repair, janitorial, guard services, product development, auxiliary production for plant's own use (for example, power plant), recordkeeping, and other services closely associated with the above production operations. #Nonsupervisory employees include those individuals in private, service-providing industries who are not above the working-supervisor level. This group includes individuals such as office and clerical workers, repairers, salespersons, operators, drivers, physicians, lawyers, accountants, nurses, social workers, research aides, teachers, drafters, photographers, beauticians, musicians, restaurant workers, custodial workers, attendants, line installers and repairers, laborers, janitors, guards, and other employees at similar occupational levels whose services are closely associated with those of the employees listed. The series comes from the 'Current Employment Statistics (Establishment Survey).' The source code is: CES3000000008

For the years 1968-1971 and 1976-1978, the displayed wage represents the largest minimum wage paid. Some individuals newly covered under state law received a lower wage. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

Construction employees in the construction sector include: Working supervisors, qualified craft workers, mechanics, apprentices, helpers, laborers, and so forth, engaged in new work, alterations, demolition, repair, maintenance, and the like, whether working at the site of construction or in shops or yards at jobs (such as precutting and preassembling) ordinarily performed by members of the construction trades. The series comes from the 'Current Employment Statistics (Establishment Survey).' The source code is: CES2000000003

State minimum wage applies only after a certain level of gross annual sales or receipts is reached by the employer. State minimum wage can be changed annually based on changes in the CPI and a cost of living formula. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

Median of the year-over-year percent change in hourly wage rates computed at the individual level using linked wage records. Reported as a 3-month moving average. For more details about this release from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, visit their Wage Growth Tracker webpage (https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker?panel=2).

State minimum wage applies only when a certain number of workers are employed. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

Data measure usual weekly earnings of wage and salary workers. Wage and salary workers are workers who receive wages, salaries, commissions, tips, payment in kind, or piece rates. The group includes employees in both the private and public sectors but, for the purposes of the earnings series, it excludes all self-employed persons, both those with incorporated businesses and those with unincorporated businesses. Usual weekly earnings represent earnings before taxes and other deductions and include any overtime pay, commissions, or tips usually received (at the main job in the case of multiple jobholders). Prior to 1994, respondents were asked how much they usually earned per week. Since January 1994, respondents have been asked to identify the easiest way for them to report earnings (hourly, weekly, biweekly, twice monthly, monthly, annually, or other) and how much they usually earn in the reported time period. Earnings reported on a basis other than weekly are converted to a weekly equivalent. The term "usual" is determined by each respondent's own understanding of the term. If the respondent asks for a definition of "usual," interviewers are instructed to define the term as more than half the weeks worked during the past 4 or 5 months. For more information see https://www.bls.gov/cps/earnings.htm The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LES1252881500

BEA Account Code: BA06RC For more information about this series, please see http://www.bea.gov/national/.

State minimum wage will always change to equal to the federal minimum wage. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

The federal minimum wage is the minimum hourly wage employers are required to pay employees who are eligible under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938. The FLSA was generally only applicable to employees involved in interstate commerce, either directly or through the creation of goods. Many amendments have since been added to the FLSA, expanding its coverage and raising the minimum wage. Significant amendments occurred in 1961 and in 1966, when a separate minimum wage for farm workers was established. Starting in January of 1978 the minimum wages of all eligible workers, including farm workers, were made uniform. The values in the series for non-farm workers are those for the groups initially covered under the 1938 FLSA. Many states also have minimum wage laws. Some state laws provide greater employee protections; employers must comply with both. For additional information go to: http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/coverage.htm or http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/chart.htm#fn3

Data measure usual hourly earnings of wage and salary workers. Wage and salary workers are workers who receive wages, salaries, commissions, tips, payment in kind, or piece rates. The group includes employees in both the private and public sectors but, for the purposes of the earnings series, it excludes all self-employed persons, both those with incorporated businesses and those with unincorporated businesses. For more information see https://www.bls.gov/cps/earnings.htm The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LEU0203127200

Data measure usual weekly earnings of wage and salary workers. Wage and salary workers are workers who receive wages, salaries, commissions, tips, payment in kind, or piece rates. The group includes employees in both the private and public sectors but, for the purposes of the earnings series, it excludes all self-employed persons, both those with incorporated businesses and those with unincorporated businesses. Usual weekly earnings represent earnings before taxes and other deductions and include any overtime pay, commissions, or tips usually received (at the main job in the case of multiple jobholders). Prior to 1994, respondents were asked how much they usually earned per week. Since January 1994, respondents have been asked to identify the easiest way for them to report earnings (hourly, weekly, biweekly, twice monthly, monthly, annually, or other) and how much they usually earn in the reported time period. Earnings reported on a basis other than weekly are converted to a weekly equivalent. The term "usual" is determined by each respondent's own understanding of the term. If the respondent asks for a definition of "usual," interviewers are instructed to define the term as more than half the weeks worked during the past 4 or 5 months. For more information see https://www.bls.gov/cps/earnings.htm The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LES1252881900

View data of the CPI, or an inflation measure derived from tracking the changes in the weighted-average price of a basket of common goods and services.

See Footnote V on https://www.bls.gov/ect/cimapnote.htm

Median of the year-over-year percent change in hourly wage rates computed at the individual level using linked wage records. For more details about this release from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, visit their Wage Growth Tracker webpage (https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker?panel=2).

Construction employees in the construction sector include: Working supervisors, qualified craft workers, mechanics, apprentices, helpers, laborers, and so forth, engaged in new work, alterations, demolition, repair, maintenance, and the like, whether working at the site of construction or in shops or yards at jobs (such as precutting and preassembling) ordinarily performed by members of the construction trades. The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNU04032231

For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

For each time period represented in the tables, complete income reporters are ranked in ascending order, according to the level of total before-tax income reported by the consumer unit. The ranking is then divided into five equal groups. Incomplete income reporters are not ranked and are shown separately. For more details about the data or the survey, visit the FAQs (https://www.bls.gov/cex/csxfaqs.htm).

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

For the years 1976-1978, the displayed wage represents the largest minimum wage paid. Some individuals newly covered under state law received a lower wage. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

State minimum wage is changed annually based on changes in the CPI and a cost of living formula. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

Production and related employees include working supervisors and all nonsupervisory employees (including group leaders and trainees) engaged in fabricating, processing, assembling, inspecting, receiving, storing, handling, packing, warehousing, shipping, trucking, hauling, maintenance, repair, janitorial, guard services, product development, auxiliary production for plant's own use (for example, power plant), recordkeeping, and other services closely associated with the above production operations. #Nonsupervisory employees include those individuals in private, service-providing industries who are not above the working-supervisor level. This group includes individuals such as office and clerical workers, repairers, salespersons, operators, drivers, physicians, lawyers, accountants, nurses, social workers, research aides, teachers, drafters, photographers, beauticians, musicians, restaurant workers, custodial workers, attendants, line installers and repairers, laborers, janitors, guards, and other employees at similar occupational levels whose services are closely associated with those of the employees listed. The series comes from the 'Current Employment Statistics (Establishment Survey).' The source code is: CES3100000008

This series has been disaggregated from annual frequency into monthly by interpolating the annual values and repeating those values for every month in the year. This series is only experimental and should be used with caution. State minimum wage applies only when a certain number of workers are employed. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

State minimum wage applies only when a certain number of workers are employed. State minimum wage will always change to equal to the federal minimum wage. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

BEA Account Code: A034RC A Guide to the National Income and Product Accounts of the United States (NIPA) - (http://www.bea.gov/national/pdf/nipaguid.pdf)

An Overlapping Year, 1947, Was Derived From The 1932-1946 Data. The Series Is Considered Continuous. Discrepancies May Be Attributed To Differences In Rounding Methods. Source: For 1932-1946, The Data Have Been Derived By Dividing "Average Hourly Earnings, Manufacturing, Total, Bls" Seasonally Adjusted By Ibm, By The "Index Of Consumer Prices, All Items"; For 1947-1966, Bureau Of The Census "Business Cycle Developments" June, 1968; For 1968, See Current Issues Of "Business Conditions Digest." This NBER data series m08343 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html. NBER Indicator: m08343

State minimum wage is changed annually based on changes in the CPI and a cost of living formula. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

For more information, see https://www.bls.gov/lpc/hoursdatainfo.htm

Data measure usual weekly earnings of wage and salary workers. Wage and salary workers are workers who receive wages, salaries, commissions, tips, payment in kind, or piece rates. The group includes employees in both the private and public sectors but, for the purposes of the earnings series, it excludes all self-employed persons, both those with incorporated businesses and those with unincorporated businesses. Usual weekly earnings represent earnings before taxes and other deductions and include any overtime pay, commissions, or tips usually received (at the main job in the case of multiple jobholders). Prior to 1994, respondents were asked how much they usually earned per week. Since January 1994, respondents have been asked to identify the easiest way for them to report earnings (hourly, weekly, biweekly, twice monthly, monthly, annually, or other) and how much they usually earn in the reported time period. Earnings reported on a basis other than weekly are converted to a weekly equivalent. The term "usual" is determined by each respondent's own understanding of the term. If the respondent asks for a definition of "usual," interviewers are instructed to define the term as more than half the weeks worked during the past 4 or 5 months. For more information see https://www.bls.gov/cps/earnings.htm The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LEU0252918500

For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

For the years 1968-1969 and 1976-1978, the displayed wage represents the largest minimum wage paid. Some individuals newly covered under state law received a lower wage. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

State minimum wage is changed annually based on changes in the CPI and a cost of living formula. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

BEA Account Code: W270RE For more information about this series, please see http://www.bea.gov/national/.

The series comes from the 'Current Employment Statistics (Establishment Survey).' The source code is: CES7000000003

Median of the year-over-year percent change in hourly wage rates computed at the individual level using linked wage records. Reported as a 12-month moving average. The weighted median is constructed after weighting the data to be representative of the current month's population of wage and salary earners in terms of sex, as well as broad age, education, industry, and occupation groups. For more details about this release from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, visit their Wage Growth Tracker webpage (https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker?panel=2).

Age refers to the reference person's age, where the reference person is the first member mentioned by the respondent when asked to "Start with the name of the person or one of the persons who owns or rents the home." It is with respect to this person that the relationship of the other consumer unit members is determined. For more details about the data or the survey, visit the FAQs (https://www.bls.gov/cex/csxfaqs.htm).

State minimum wage will always change to equal to the federal minimum wage. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

State minimum wage applies only when a certain number of workers are employed. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

State minimum wage applies only after a certain level of gross annual sales or receipts is reached by the employer. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

State minimum wage is changed annually based on changes in the CPI and a cost of living formula. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

State minimum wage applies only when a certain number of workers are employed. For more information, visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm

Data measure usual weekly earnings of wage and salary workers. Wage and salary workers are workers who receive wages, salaries, commissions, tips, payment in kind, or piece rates. The group includes employees in both the private and public sectors but, for the purposes of the earnings series, it excludes all self-employed persons, both those with incorporated businesses and those with unincorporated businesses. Usual weekly earnings represent earnings before taxes and other deductions and include any overtime pay, commissions, or tips usually received (at the main job in the case of multiple jobholders). Prior to 1994, respondents were asked how much they usually earned per week. Since January 1994, respondents have been asked to identify the easiest way for them to report earnings (hourly, weekly, biweekly, twice monthly, monthly, annually, or other) and how much they usually earn in the reported time period. Earnings reported on a basis other than weekly are converted to a weekly equivalent. The term "usual" is determined by each respondent's own understanding of the term. If the respondent asks for a definition of "usual," interviewers are instructed to define the term as more than half the weeks worked during the past 4 or 5 months. For more information see https://www.bls.gov/cps/earnings.htm The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LES1252882800

Median of the year-over-year percent change in hourly wage rates computed at the individual level using linked wage records. Reported as a 12-month moving average. The 1st to 25th wage percentile is computed after sorting the average wage level in the current month and 12 months earlier. For more details about this release from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, visit their Wage Growth Tracker webpage (https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker?panel=2).