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Median weekly earnings by educational attainment, first quarter 2025
April 29, 2025
Median weekly earnings of the nation’s 110.8 million full-time wage and salary workers age 25 and over were $1,258 in the first quarter of 2025. This was 5.7 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 2.7 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period. At each level of educational attainment, workers’ weekly earnings were around double what they were 25 years earlier, in the first quarter of 2000. Full Text »
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