Table 2. Earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls, seasonally adjusted
Table 2. Earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers(1) on private
nonfarm payrolls, seasonally adjusted
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| |
| |
| Average hourly | Average weekly
| earnings | earnings
| |
Year |_____________________________|_____________________________
and | | | |
month | | | |
| Current | Constant | Current | Constant
| dollars | (1982) | dollars | (1982)
| | dollars(2) | | dollars(2)
| | | |
_____________|______________|______________|______________|______________
| | | |
2008: | | | |
Dec. | $18.40 | $8.65 | $612.72 | $288.12
2009: | | | |
Jan. | 18.43 | 8.64 | 613.72 | 287.60
Feb. | 18.46 | 8.61 | 614.72 | 286.80
Mar. | 18.50 | 8.64 | 612.35 | 286.10
Apr. | 18.50 | 8.65 | 612.35 | 286.16
May | 18.53 | 8.65 | 613.34 | 286.25
June | 18.54 | 8.57 | 611.82 | 282.94
July | 18.59 | 8.59 | 615.33 | 284.48
Aug. | 18.66 | 8.58 | 617.65 | 283.98
Sept. | 18.68 | 8.57 | 618.31 | 283.77
Oct. | 18.74 | 8.57 | 618.42 | 282.88
Nov.(p) | 18.77 | 8.54 | 623.16 | 283.59
Dec.(p) | 18.80 | 8.54 | 624.16 | 283.58
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1 See footnote 2, table 1.
2 The deflator for the constant-dollar series presented in this
release is the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical
Workers (CPI-W).
p = preliminary.
Last Modified Date: January 15, 2010
