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Employment Cost Index
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The Economics Daily
Compensation costs for private industry workers up 3.5 percent from June 2024 to June 2025
Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 3.5 percent from June 2024 to June 2025. Wages and salaries increased 3.5 percent over the year and benefits costs increased 3.4 percent. Inflation-adjusted (constant dollar) wages and salaries increased 0.8 percent. A year prior, from June 2023 to June 2024, compensation costs rose 3.9 percent as wages and salaries increased 4.1 percent and benefit costs were up 3.5 percent. read more »
Spotlight on Statistics
Keeping America Moving: Characteristics of the Transportation and Warehousing Industry
National Transportation Week, created in 1962 and celebrated from May 12–18 this year, recognizes those who build and operate our Nation’s transportation systems. Observance of the week sprung from National Defense Transportation Day which dates to 1957, a year after President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act leading to the creation of the interstate highway system. read more »
Monthly Labor Review
Seasonality in the Employment Cost Index
This article examines the effect of seasonal adjustment on Employment Cost Index quarterly estimates. read more »