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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX - MARCH 2011 [29 April 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/eci.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/eci.pdf

[full-text, 21 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/eci.supp.toc.htm

Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.6 percent, seasonally adjusted, for the

3-month period ending March 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages

and salaries (which make up about 70 percent of compensation costs) increased 0.4 percent, and

benefits (which make up the remaining 30 percent of compensation) increased 1.1 percent.

Civilian Workers

     Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 2.0 percent for the 12-month period ending

March 2011. A year earlier--in March 2010--the increase was 1.7 percent. Wages and salaries

increased 1.6 percent for the current 12-month period; in March 2010 the increase was 1.5 percent.

Benefit costs accelerated to 3.0 percent, up from a 2.2-percent increase for the 12-month period

ending March 2010.

AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....

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Stuart Basefsky                   
Director, IWS News Bureau                
Institute for Workplace Studies 
Cornell/ILR School                        
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor             
New York, NY 10016                        
                                   
Telephone: (607) 262-6041               
Fax: (607) 255-9641                       
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