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Employment Cost Index

Corrections to Employment Cost Index data

Employment Cost Index data for September 2012 through March 2013, as originally published, contained errors for several series. Similarly, data for September 2012 and December 2012

Employer Costs for Employee Compensation contained errors. Details are listed below.

Employment Cost Index

The specific data series that contain statistically significant differences (when compared to the original estimates) for one or more reference periods, for 3-month and/or 12-month percent changes, are listed below:

ECI series with statistically significant differences between originally published estimates and corrected estimates, September 2012 through March 2013, by periodicity
TableOwnershipMeasureSeriesSeptember
2012		December
2012		March
2013

Table 4

CivilianTotal compensationAll workers, excluding incentive paid occupations(*)(*)(Q)

Table 4

CivilianTotal compensationSales and office(*)(*)(Q)

Table 4

CivilianTotal compensationSales and related(*)(*)(Q)

Table 4

CivilianTotal compensationOffice and administrative support(*)(*)(Q) (A)

Table 12

CivilianBenefitsAll workers(*)(*)(Q) (A)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationAll workers(*)(*)(Q)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationAll workers, excluding incentive workers(*)(*)(Q) (A)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationSales and office(*)(*)(Q)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationSales and office, excluding incentive paid occupations(*)(*)(Q) (A)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationSales and related(*)(*)(Q)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationSales and related, excluding incentive paid occupations(Q) (A)(A)(Q) (A)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationOffice and administrative support(*)(*)(Q)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationService-providing industries(*)(*)(Q)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationService-providing industries, excluding incentive paid occupations(*)(*)(Q)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationService-providing industries, sales and office(*)(*)(Q)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationTrade, transportation, and utilities(*)(*)(Q)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationTrade, transportation, and utilities, excluding incentive paid occupations(Q)(*)(Q) (A)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationWholesale trade(*)(*)(Q)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationWholesale trade, excluding incentive paid occupations(*)(*)(Q) (A)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationRetail trade(Q) (A)(A)(Q)

Table 5

Private industryTotal compensationRetail trade, excluding incentive paid occupations(Q) (A)(A)(Q) (A)

Table 6

Private industryTotal compensationNonunion, service-providing industries(*)(*)(Q)

Table 6

Private industryTotal compensationSouth(*)(*)(Q)

Table 6

Private industryTotal compensationSouth Atlantic(*)(*)(Q)

Table 6

Private industryTotal CompensationEast South Central(*)(*)(Q)

Table 6

Private industryTotal CompensationEast North Central(*)(*)(Q)

Table 12

Private industryBenefitsAll workers(Q)(*)(Q) (A)

Table 12

Private industryBenefitsSales and office(Q) (A)(A)(Q) (A)

Table 12

Private industryBenefitsProduction, transportation, and material moving(*)(*)(Q)

Table 12

Private industryBenefitsGoods-producing industries(*)(*)(Q)

Table 12

Private industryBenefitsManufacturing(*)(*)(Q) (A)

Table 12

Private industryBenefitsService-providing industries(Q)(*)(Q) (A)

Table 12

Private industryBenefitsNonunion(*)(*)(Q) (A)

Footnotes:
(*) = No statistically significant change
(A) = Statistically significant 12-month percent change
(Q) = Statistically significant 3-month percent change

Note: All series are not seasonally adjusted series. Standard errors for seasonally adjusted series are not computed.

Additional series were also corrected where the corrected data were different from the original data but those differences were not statistically significant. A listing of those series is at www.bls.gov/ncs/eci/notices/eci-non-significant-corrections-2013.htm. Series that had both statistically significant corrections and not statistically significant corrections appear in both listings. In some seasonal series, corrections were made to estimates prior to September 2012.


Corrected data are available at www.bls.gov/ncs/eci/data.htm. In addition, the following historical listings (located at www.bls.gov/ect/#tables) have been corrected:

The following national ECI news releases, which contain the incorrect data, will not be reissued. However, they contain a statement about the errors and refer users to this website.

  • September 2012 (USDL-12-2162) (HTML) (PDF)
  • December 2012 (USDL-13-0143) (HTML) (PDF)
  • March 2013 (USDL-13-0781) (HTML) (PDF)

 

Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Errata Notice

BLS has discovered errors in the Employer Costs for Employee Compensation data for September 2012 and December 2012. There is no impact on March 2013 estimates. The primary errors are in insurance benefits data. Additional series are subject to correction as well. Earlier news releases will not be corrected. Historical and supplemental historical tables for the Employer Costs for Employee Compensation will be updated when corrected data are available. The data series will be corrected in the public database available on the BLS website and the historical listings on the National Compensation Survey and Employment Cost Trends webpages. All corrections will be available prior to July 31, 2013.

Last Modified Date: January 24, 2014