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Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 4.2 percent for the 12-month period ending March 2024, compared with an increase of 4.8 percent for the year ending March 2023. Civilian workers include all private industry workers plus all state and local government workers. Total compensation costs are the sum of wages and salaries plus benefits costs.
read full article »In 2022, there were 116 police officer fatalities. Homicides accounted for 50 (43.1 percent) of the fatalities to officers. There were 123 government police officer fatalities in 2021 (data are not available for the combination of private and government fatalities in 2021), and 52.0 percent of the fatalities were from homicides (64).
On the last business day of March 2024, there were 8.5 million job openings, little changed from the previous month but 1.1 million fewer than a year earlier. The job openings rate was 5.1 percent.
Of the 3.1 million people ages 16 to 24 who graduated from high school between January and October 2023, 1.9 million, or 61.4 percent, were enrolled in colleges or universities in October 2023.
Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 175,000 in April 2024, lower than the average monthly gain of 242,000 over the prior 12 months. Since April 2023, the over-the-month change in employment has ranged from 165,000 to 315,000. Total nonfarm payroll employment has risen from 155.5 million in April 2023 to 158.3 million in April 2024.