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Compensation costs for private industry workers up 3.5 percent from June 2024 to June 2025
August 07, 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.
Compensation costs in private industry and state and local government, 12-month percent change, not seasonally adjusted
Month
Total compensation, private industry
Total compensation, government
Wages and salaries, private industry
Wages and salaries, government
Benefits, private industry
Benefits, government
Jun 2015
1.9
2.2
2.2
1.9
1.4
2.7
Sep 2015
1.9
2.3
2.1
1.8
1.4
3.0
Dec 2015
1.9
2.5
2.1
1.8
1.3
3.5
Mar 2016
1.8
2.4
2.0
1.8
1.2
3.5
Jun 2016
2.4
2.3
2.6
1.7
1.7
3.4
Sep 2016
2.3
2.6
2.4
2.0
1.8
3.7
Dec 2016
2.2
2.4
2.3
2.1
1.8
3.1
Mar 2017
2.3
2.6
2.6
2.2
1.9
3.1
Jun 2017
2.4
2.6
2.4
2.1
2.2
3.2
Sep 2017
2.5
2.4
2.6
2.0
2.4
3.0
Dec 2017
2.6
2.5
2.8
2.1
2.3
3.2
Mar 2018
2.8
2.2
2.9
1.8
2.5
3.0
Jun 2018
2.9
2.3
2.9
1.9
2.8
3.1
Sep 2018
2.9
2.5
3.1
2.3
2.5
3.1
Dec 2018
3.0
2.6
3.1
2.4
2.6
3.1
Mar 2019
2.8
3.0
3.0
2.5
2.4
3.6
Jun 2019
2.6
3.0
3.0
2.5
1.8
3.6
Sep 2019
2.7
3.1
3.0
2.7
2.0
3.5
Dec 2019
2.7
2.9
3.0
2.5
1.9
3.3
Mar 2020
2.8
2.8
3.3
2.7
1.6
3.3
Jun 2020
2.7
2.7
2.9
2.6
2.0
3.1
Sep 2020
2.4
2.3
2.7
1.8
2.0
3.2
Dec 2020
2.6
2.3
2.8
1.8
2.1
3.1
Mar 2021
2.8
2.0
3.0
1.6
2.5
2.6
Jun 2021
3.1
2.0
3.5
1.6
2.0
2.6
Sep 2021
4.1
2.3
4.6
2.4
2.6
2.1
Dec 2021
4.4
2.6
5.0
2.7
2.9
2.5
Mar 2022
4.8
3.2
5.0
3.1
4.1
3.5
Jun 2022
5.5
3.4
5.7
3.2
5.3
3.6
Sep 2022
5.2
4.6
5.2
4.4
5.0
5.0
Dec 2022
5.1
4.8
5.1
4.7
4.8
5.0
Mar 2023
4.8
4.9
5.1
4.7
4.3
5.0
Jun 2023
4.5
4.9
4.6
4.7
3.9
5.2
Sep 2023
4.3
4.8
4.5
4.8
3.9
4.7
Dec 2023
4.1
4.6
4.3
4.7
3.6
4.6
Mar 2024
4.1
4.8
4.3
5.0
3.6
4.5
Jun 2024
3.9
4.9
4.1
5.1
3.5
4.8
Sep 2024
3.6
4.7
3.8
4.6
3.3
4.8
Dec 2024
3.6
4.7
3.7
4.5
3.3
4.9
Mar 2025
3.4
4.3
3.4
4.1
3.5
4.8
Jun 2025
3.5
4.0
3.5
3.9
3.4
4.1
Compensation costs for state and local government workers increased 4.0 percent for the 12-month period ending in June 2025 after increasing 4.9 percent in the same period a year earlier. Wages and salaries increased 3.9 percent from June 2024 to June 2025 and benefit costs increased 4.1 percent. From June 2023 to June 2024, wages and salaries were up 5.1 percent and benefit costs rose 4.8 percent.
These data are from the Employment Cost Index program and are not seasonally adjusted. To learn more, see "Employment Cost Index — June 2025." We also have more charts on the Employment Cost Index. Civilian workers are defined as all private industry workers plus all state and local government workers. Total compensation costs are the sum of wages and salaries plus benefits costs.
United States Department of Labor
