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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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REAL EARNINGS * SEPTEMBER 2013 [30 October 2013]

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

or

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

[full-text, 5 pages]

 

All employees

 

Real average hourly earnings for all employees was unchanged from August to September, seasonally

adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This result stems from a 0.1 percent

increase in average hourly earnings being offset by a 0.2 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index

for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U).

 

Real average weekly earnings decreased 0.1 percent over the month due to an unchanged real average

hourly earnings and an unchanged average workweek. 

 

Real average hourly earnings rose 0.9 percent, seasonally adjusted, from September 2012 to September

2013. The increase in real average hourly earnings, combined with an unchanged average workweek,

resulted in a 0.9 percent increase in real average weekly earnings over this period.

 

Production and nonsupervisory employees

 

Real average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory employees rose 0.1 percent from August

to September, seasonally adjusted. This gain stems from a 0.2 percent increase in average hourly earnings

being about offset by a 0.2 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and

Clerical Workers (CPI-W).

 

Real average weekly earnings was unchanged over the month due to a 0.1 percent increase in real

average hourly earnings combined with an unchanged average workweek.

 

Real average hourly earnings rose 1.3 percent, seasonally adjusted, from September 2012 to September

2013. The increase in real average hourly earnings, combined with an unchanged average workweek,

resulted in a 1.2 percent increase in real average weekly earnings over this period.

 

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Real Earnings for October 2013 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at

8:30 a.m. (EST).

 

AND MORE...including TABLES....

 

 

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