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Real average weekly earnings fell by 0.3 percent from April to May after seasonal adjustment.
A 0.3-percent decrease in average weekly hours and a 0.1-increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) were partially offset by a 0.1-percent increase in average hourly earnings.
Average weekly earnings rose by 1.2 percent, seasonally adjusted, from May 2008 to May 2009. After deflation by the CPI-W, average weekly earnings increased by 2.8 percent.
These earnings data are from the Current Employment Statistics program. These data are for production and nonsupervisory workers in private nonfarm establishments. Earnings data are preliminary and subject to revision. Find out more in "Real Earnings in May 2009" (PDF) (HTML), news release USDL 09-0679.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Change in real average weekly earnings, April 2009-May 2009 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2009/jun/wk3/art05.htm (visited December 11, 2024).