Table 2. Earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls, seasonally adjusted
Table 2. Earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers(1) on private
nonfarm payrolls, seasonally adjusted
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| |
| Average hourly | Average weekly
| earnings | earnings
| |
Year |_____________________________|_____________________________
and | | | |
month | | | |
| Current | Constant | Current | Constant
| dollars | (1982) | dollars | (1982)
| | dollars(2) | | dollars(2)
| | | |
_____________|______________|______________|______________|______________
| | | |
2008: | | | |
Mar. | $17.90 | $8.28 | $605.02 | $279.82
Apr. | 17.94 | 8.29 | 606.37 | 280.03
May | 17.99 | 8.27 | 606.26 | 278.56
June | 18.04 | 8.20 | 606.14 | 275.59
July | 18.10 | 8.16 | 608.16 | 274.31
Aug. | 18.18 | 8.20 | 612.67 | 276.47
Sept. | 18.21 | 8.21 | 611.86 | 275.99
Oct. | 18.28 | 8.33 | 612.38 | 279.11
Nov. | 18.34 | 8.54 | 612.56 | 285.23
Dec. | 18.40 | 8.65 | 612.72 | 288.12
2009: | | | |
Jan. | 18.43 | 8.64 | 613.72 | 287.60
Feb.(p) | 18.47 | 8.62 | 615.05 | 286.95
Mar.(p) | 18.50 | 8.64 | 614.20 | 286.96
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1 See footnote 2, table 1.
2 The deflator for the constant-dollar series presented in this
release is the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical
Workers (CPI-W).
p = preliminary.
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