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Posts Categorized: Wages
Average Hourly Wage – January Revised Down
January annual growth rate now down below last September’s. February number further down, at 2.6% Read More
Hourly Wage Distortions, Part 2
This is a follow-up to our previous post on Hourly Wages. The issue we raised may be a storm in a teacup – the headline number could be impacted, but we favor attributing a more limited scope to this anomaly. Read More
Payrolls Average Hourly Wages: A Distortion.
Something strange seems to be happening in the Payrolls Survey wage estimates for a sub-sector of the Retail industry. More investigation is needed before we can say what implications this might have for next month’s hourly wage headline number. Many commentators made claims for inflationary pressures in the release of January’s Payroll Survey. This was… Read more » Read More