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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,513 posts) Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:41 AM Oct 2019

BLS Report: Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers are $919 in 3rd quarter 2019

Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers are $919 in 3rd quarter 2019

Economic News Release USDL-19-1818

Usual Weekly Earnings Summary
For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Wednesday, October 16, 2019

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USUAL WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS
THIRD QUARTER 2019

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 118.4 million full-time wage and salary workers were $919 in the third quarter of 2019 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 3.6 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.8 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.

Data on usual weekly earnings are collected as part of the Current Population Survey, a nationwide sample survey of households in which respondents are asked, among other things, how much each wage and salary worker usually earns. (See the Technical Note in this news release.) Data shown in this news release are not seasonally adjusted unless otherwise specified.

Highlights from the third-quarter data:

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Revision of Seasonally Adjusted Usual Weekly Earnings Data

The Usual Weekly Earnings news release for the fourth quarter of 2019,
scheduled for release in January 2020, will incorporate annual revisions
to seasonally adjusted data for the number of full-time wage and salary
workers and median weekly earnings in current dollars. (See table 1.)
Estimates for constant (1982-84) dollar median weekly earnings also will
be affected by revisions to the current dollar series. Seasonally adjusted
estimates back to the first quarter of 2015 will be subject revision.
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BLS Report: Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers are $919 in 3rd quarter 2019 (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2019 OP

based on the "hot" employment market, this still lags where income should be beachbumbob Oct 2019 #1

FAKE NEWS for more and more stagnant wage workers. Backseat Driver Oct 2019 #2

If you feel the Bureau of Labor Statistics is handing out bunk, start here: mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2019 #3

Yeah right, just like Betsy DeVos responded to all those 16,000 students Farmer-Rick Oct 2019 #4

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)

1. based on the "hot" employment market, this still lags where income should be

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2019, 11:10 AM

Oct 2019

Backseat Driver

(4,393 posts)

2. FAKE NEWS for more and more stagnant wage workers.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2019, 11:19 AM

Oct 2019

Wealthy suits getting richer; non-living wage workers stagnant and/or LOSING bigly.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,513 posts)

3. If you feel the Bureau of Labor Statistics is handing out bunk, start here:

Reply to Backseat Driver (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 16, 2019, 11:33 AM

Oct 2019

Taken from this post:

The mind-numbing rant, based on a version posted on the first Friday in September 2016:

HTH

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Farmer-Rick

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4. Yeah right, just like Betsy DeVos responded to all those 16,000 students

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 16, 2019, 12:08 PM

Oct 2019

Who got ripped off by a Trump like college scam, and despite a court order, collected payoffs anyway.

In the reign of Traitor Trump, just because our federal government, even under law, has a process to address citizens' issues does not mean they will follow it.

Why do we assume that the BLS is not manipulating the numbers to make the stats look good for Traitor Trump, when almost every executive function is? Trump has his tinny little fingers into everything that might make him look bad.

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