From January 2013 to January 2014, the increase in real average hourly earnings, combined with an unchanged average workweek, resulted in a 0.4-percent increase in real average weekly earnings over this period.
These hours and earnings data are from the Current Employment Statistics program. Data for the most recent two months are preliminary. The seasonally adjusted constant dollar series have been revised to reflect new seasonal adjustment factors calculated for the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). This revision affects real earnings for all employees from January 2009 through December 2013. The estimate of average weekly hours was revised with the release of January data on February 7, 2014, to reflect new employment benchmarks and the updating of seasonal adjustment factors for the establishment survey data. Seasonally adjusted hours and earnings series were revised from January 2009 forward in accordance with the usual practice of revising 5 years of data. In addition, historical reconstructions of some series extended back to 1979. To learn more, see “Real Earnings — January 2014” (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL‑14‑0254. The CPI-U from the Consumer Price Indexes program is used to deflate the all employees data.
United States Department of Labor
