Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 3.7 percent in the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK Combined Statistical Area (CSA) for the year ending in June 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted that one year ago, Dallas experienced an annual gain of 3.9 percent in compensation costs. (See chart 1 and table 1.) Nationwide, compensation costs rose 3.5 percent in June 2025.

  

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Chart 1. Twelve-month percent changes in total compensation for private industry workers in the United States and Dallas, not seasonally adjusted

Quarter	Dallas	United States
Jun 2023	4.1	4.5
Sep	3.6	4.3
Dec	3.5	4.1
Mar	3.5	4.1
Jun 2024	3.9	3.9
Sep	3.8	3.6
Dec	3.6	3.6
Mar	4.4	3.4
Jun 2025	3.7	3.5

Locally, wages and salaries, the largest component of compensation costs, advanced at a 3.4-percent pace for the 12-month period ended June 2025. (See chart 2.) Nationwide, wages and salaries rose 3.5 percent over the same period.

  

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Chart 2. Twelve-month percent changes in wages and salaries for private industry workers in the United States and Dallas, not seasonally adjusted

Quarter	Dallas	United States
Jun 2023	4.3	4.6
Sep	3.8	4.5
Dec	3.7	4.3
Mar	3.8	4.3
Jun 2024	3.9	4.1
Sep	3.7	3.8
Dec	3.4	3.7
Mar	4.5	3.4
Jun 2025	3.4	3.5

Dallas is 1 of 15 metropolitan areas in the United States and 1 of 5 areas in the South region of the country for which locality compensation cost data are available. Among these 15 largest areas, over-the-year percentage changes in compensation costs ranged from 5.3 percent in Minneapolis-St. Paul to 2.1 percent in Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor in June 2025; for wages and salaries, Minneapolis registered the largest increase (5.7 percent), and Washington-Baltimore-Arlington registered the smallest (2.1 percent). (See chart 3.)

  

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Chart 3. Twelve-month percent changes in total compensation and wages and salaries for private industry workers by area, not seasonally adjusted, June 2025

Area	Total compensation	Wages and salaries
Detroit	2.1	3.5
Washington	2.5	2.1
Boston	3.0	2.8
Miami	3.0	2.7
New York	3.1	3.1
Atlanta	3.2	3.2
Phoenix	3.3	3.0
San Jose	3.3	3.1
United States	3.5	3.5
Chicago	3.6	3.6
Dallas	3.7	3.4
Philadelphia	3.7	3.9
Los Angeles	3.9	4.1
Seattle	4.7	4.6
Houston	4.9	5.5
Minneapolis	5.3	5.7

The annual increase in compensation costs in Dallas was 3.7 percent in June 2025, compared to advances that ranged from 4.9 to 2.5 the four other metropolitan areas in the South (Houston-Pasadena, Atlanta-Athens-Clarke County-Sandy Springs, Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, and Washington). Dallas’ 3.4-percent gain in wages and salaries over this 12-month period compared to rates ranging from 5.5 percent to 2.1 percent in the four other southern localities. (See table 2.)

The Employment Cost Index for September 2025 is scheduled to be released on Friday, October 31, 2025, at 7:30 a.m. (CT).

Locality compensation costs are part of the national Employment Cost Index (ECI), which measures quarterly changes in compensation costs (wages and salaries and employer costs for employee benefits) free from the influence of employment shifts among occupations and industries. More information can be found in the national Employment Cost Index Technical Note. For information on survey concepts, coverage, methods, nonresponse adjustment, and imputation see the National Compensation Measures Handbook of Methods.

In addition to the data presented here, ECI national data by industry, occupational group, and union status, as well as data for civilian, private, and state and local government employees, are available on the Employment Cost Index website. The national Employment Cost Index Summary is also available online. Additional information for regions, states, and local areas may be accessed via our Southwest Information Office regional homepage.

The substate area data published in this news release reflect the Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 23-01, dated July 21, 2023. See the Tracking Wage Growth in American Cities page for more information on available geographies and their historical timelines.

The Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK Combined Statistical Area (CSA) includes Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Henderson, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, and Wise Counties in Texas and Bryan County in Oklahoma.

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