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Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers are $905 in 1st quarter 2019

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 116.1 million full-time wage and salary workers were $905 in the first quarter of 2019 (not seasonally adjusted). This was 2.7 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.6 percent in the CPI-U.

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