Archived articles from The Editor’s Desk— Earnings and Wages

• Compensation highlights in trade, transportation, and utilities industries (06/04/2013)
• Real earnings increase in April (05/20/2013)
• Union and nonunion wages, December 2011 (05/13/2013)
• Compensation costs in March 2013: state and local government workers (05/01/2013)
• Median weekly earnings by age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, first quarter 2013 (04/19/2013)
• Real earnings in March 2013 (04/18/2013)
• Employment and wages for newly defined occupations, May 2012 (04/04/2013)
• Employment in 10 largest counties (03/29/2013)
• Minimum wage workers account for 4.7 percent of hourly paid workers in 2012 (03/25/2013)
• Employer costs for employee compensation, December 2012 (03/21/2013)
• Real earnings in February 2013 (03/19/2013)
• Real earnings in January 2013 (02/25/2013)
• Compensation costs increased in December 2012 (02/06/2013)
• Median weekly earnings, fourth quarter 2012 (01/23/2013)
• Real earnings up again in December 2012 (01/18/2013)
• Women’s earnings by occupation, 2011 (01/02/2013)
• Employer costs for employee compensation, September 2012 (12/19/2012)
• Real earnings up in November 2012 (12/18/2012)
• Women’s earnings, 1979–2011 (11/23/2012)
• Real earnings in October 2012 (11/19/2012)
• Community and social service occupations in 2011 (11/08/2012)
• Changes in private industry compensation costs, September 2011–September 2012 (11/02/2012)
• Median weekly earnings by age, sex, race, and ethnicity, third quarter 2012 (10/19/2012)
• Real earnings in September 2012 (10/18/2012)
• Occupational employment and wages in green goods and services (10/02/2012)
• Employment and wages up in large counties (09/28/2012)
• Employer costs for employee compensation $28.80 in June 2012 (09/19/2012)
• Real earnings in August 2012 (09/18/2012)
• Atlanta’s air transportation industry, 1990–2010 (08/27/2012)
• Real earnings in July 2012 (08/17/2012)
• Compensation costs up in June (08/01/2012)
• Weekly earnings of full-time workers by age and sex, second quarter 2012 (07/20/2012)
• Real earnings up in June 2012 (07/19/2012)
• Employment up, wages down, in large counties (06/29/2012)
• Real earnings in May 2012 (06/18/2012)
• Employer costs for legally required benefits in March 2012 (06/08/2012)
• Real earnings in April 2012 (05/17/2012)
• Compensation costs for private industry workers: March 2011–March 2012 (04/30/2012)
• Median weekly earnings by race, ethnicity, and occupation, first quarter 2012 (04/19/2012)
• Real earnings in March 2012 (04/17/2012)
• Employer-provided life insurance benefits, 2011 (04/06/2012)
• Working poor rate 7.2 percent in 2010 (04/05/2012)
• Occupational Employment and Wages — May 2011 (03/29/2012)
• Employer costs for legally required benefits in December 2011 (03/22/2012)
• Real earnings in February (03/20/2012)
• Characteristics of minimum wage workers in 2011 (03/06/2012)
• Real earnings in January 2012 (02/22/2012)
• Employment costs in private industry and state and local government, December 2011 (02/01/2012)
• Median weekly earnings, fourth quarter 2011 (01/26/2012)
• Medical care benefits, March 2011 (01/24/2012)
• Real earnings in December 2011 (01/23/2012)
• Top searches on BLS website in 2011 (01/18/2012)
• County wages up in second quarter 2011 (01/11/2012)
• Recycling occupations (12/30/2011)
• Real earnings in November 2011 (12/21/2011)
• Construction employment and wages, May 2010 (12/12/2011)
• State and local government employer costs for employee compensation, September 2011 (12/09/2011)
• Employment and wage trends in high-tech industries in Massachusetts (12/07/2011)
• Average wage for the highest paying occupational group nearly five times that of the lowest paying group (11/30/2011)
• Real hourly earnings fall 1.6 percent over the year (11/23/2011)
• New York City’s pay premium from 1990 to 2009 (11/08/2011)
• Employment in large counties, March 2010–March 2011 (11/02/2011)
• Compensation costs for state and local government workers, September 2011 (11/01/2011)
• Median weekly earnings, third quarter 2011 (10/27/2011)
• Real earnings in September 2011 (10/25/2011)
• Helping those in need: Human service workers (10/20/2011)
• Outpatient prescription drug coverage, March 2010 (09/26/2011)
• Real earnings in August 2011 (09/21/2011)
• Real average hourly earnings down 1.3 percent over the year (08/22/2011)
• Careers in sales (08/16/2011)
• Careers in green construction (08/03/2011)
• 12-month private industry compensation costs, June 2011 (08/02/2011)
• Women’s earnings, 1979–2010 (07/22/2011)
• Median usual weekly earnings, by race, ethnicity, and education, second quarter, 2011 (07/21/2011)
• Real earnings in June 2011 (07/20/2011)
• Employment and wages in the 10 largest U.S. counties, 2009–2010 (07/06/2011)
• Careers in solar power (06/29/2011)
• Real earnings in May 2011 (06/20/2011)
• Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations, May 2009 (06/15/2011)
• Employer costs for employee compensation in March 2011 (06/10/2011)
• Pay comparisons between metropolitan areas in 2010 (05/27/2011)
• Annual wages of largest occupations, May 2010 (05/23/2011)
• Retail salespersons: occupation with highest employment in 2010 (05/20/2011)
• Real earnings in April 2011 (05/19/2011)
• 12-month private industry compensation costs, March 2010–March 2011 (05/03/2011)
• Three occupations in management, scientific, and technical consulting services (05/02/2011)
• Median weekly earnings in first quarter 2011 by demographics (04/25/2011)
• Real earnings decline in March 2011 (04/20/2011)
• Employment and wages in large U.S. counties, September 2009–September 2010 (03/31/2011)
• Real hourly earnings fall 0.4 percent over the year (03/22/2011)
• The compensation-productivity gap (02/24/2011)
• Real earnings in January 2011 (02/23/2011)
• Women’s earnings and employment by industry, 2009 (02/16/2011)
• It pays to be the boss—supervisory wages in 2009 (02/02/2011)
• Private industry compensation costs increase 2.1 percent in 2010 (02/01/2011)
• Median weekly earnings for men and women in fourth quarter 2010 (01/24/2011)
• Real earnings fall 0.4 percent in December 2010 (01/20/2011)
• Careers in wind energy (12/22/2010)
• Real earnings fall 0.1 percent in November 2010 (12/20/2010)
• Real earnings in October 2010 (11/26/2010)
• 12-month private industry compensation costs increase 2.0 percent (11/02/2010)
• Earnings by age and sex, third quarter of 2010 (10/25/2010)
• Real earnings fall 0.1 percent in September (10/20/2010)
• Average hourly earnings for major occupational groups, July 2009 (10/06/2010)
• Real earnings in August 2010 (09/23/2010)
• Real earnings in July 2010 (08/19/2010)
• Compensation costs in June 2010 (08/04/2010)
• Supplemental pay in the healthcare industry, 2007–10 (07/29/2010)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas in 2009 (07/27/2010)
• Usual weekly earnings in second quarter 2010 by education (07/26/2010)
• Real earnings in June 2010 (07/21/2010)
• Mean hourly compensation costs in selected countries, 1975 and 2007 (07/14/2010)
• Women’s-to-men’s earnings ratio by age, 2009 (07/08/2010)
• Real earnings up in May 2010 (06/23/2010)
• Museum occupations: skills on exhibit (06/16/2010)
• Occupational employment in May 2009 (06/15/2010)
• Compensation costs in India (06/03/2010)
• Real earnings in April 2010 (05/24/2010)
• Highest and lowest mean hourly wages in May 2009 (05/20/2010)
• Employment and wages in the 10 largest occupations, May 2009 (05/18/2010)
• Compensation costs in March 2010 (05/04/2010)
• Hourly earnings of healthcare practitioner and technical occupations, by work level, 2008 (05/03/2010)
• Supplemental pay in the finance and insurance industry (04/27/2010)
• Weekly earnings in first quarter 2010 by demographics (04/20/2010)
• Real earnings in March 2010 (04/19/2010)
• Metropolitan geography of tax preparers employment and earnings (04/15/2010)
• Average hourly earnings for all employees and for production and nonsupervisory employees, by industry, 2009 (04/08/2010)
• Real earnings, February 2010 (03/23/2010)
• Earnings of healthcare workers in hospitals, 2008 (03/15/2010)
• Real earnings, January 2010 (03/01/2010)
• Employment costs for private industry workers, December 2009 (02/03/2010)
• Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by major occupational group and sex, 2009 (01/27/2010)
• Real earnings in December 2009 (01/22/2010)
• Real earnings in November 2009 (12/23/2009)
• Employment and wages in large occupations, May 2008 (12/16/2009)
• Wages for sales and related workers down substantially in first three quarters of 2009 (11/30/2009)
• Real earnings in October 2009 (11/20/2009)
• Earnings by age and sex, third quarter of 2009 (10/21/2009)
• Average weekly wages: first quarter 2008–09 (10/20/2009)
• Change in real weekly earnings, September 2009 (10/19/2009)
• Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s, 2008 (10/14/2009)
• Change in real average hourly earnings, August 2009 (09/18/2009)
• Careers in auto racing (09/15/2009)
• Wages and benefits by occupational group, June 2009 (09/11/2009)
• Change in real average weekly earnings, July 2009 (08/19/2009)
• Women and men in management, professional, and related occupations, 2008 (08/07/2009)
• 12-month private industry compensation costs increase in June: 1.5 percent (08/03/2009)
• Women’s-to-men’s earnings ratio, 1979-2008 (07/31/2009)
• Comparisons of full- and part-time hourly earnings, 2007 (07/28/2009)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas in 2008 (07/27/2009)
• Average weekly wages among large counties, fourth quarter 2008 (07/23/2009)
• Change in real average weekly earnings, June 2009 (07/20/2009)
• Education and usual weekly earnings for women and men, second quarter 2009 (07/17/2009)
• Change in real average weekly earnings, April 2009-May 2009 (06/19/2009)
• Compensation costs per hour, March 2009 (06/12/2009)
• Change in real average weekly earnings, March 2009-April 2009 (05/19/2009)
• Wages of workers in largest occupations, May 2008 (05/04/2009)
• Compensation costs in private industry up 1.9 percent from March 2008 to March 2009 (05/01/2009)
• Forensic science technicians (04/22/2009)
• A career as an executive chef (04/21/2009)
• Weekly earnings in first quarter 2009 by demographics (04/17/2009)
• Bonuses as percentage of cash compensation (04/02/2009)
• Change in real average weekly earnings, January 2009-February 2009 (03/20/2009)
• Real average weekly earnings in January 2009 (02/24/2009)
• Wages in healthcare practitioner and technical occupations (02/05/2009)
• Compensation costs in private industry up 2.4 percent in 2008 (02/02/2009)
• Earnings and education, fourth quarter 2008 (01/23/2009)
• Counties with highest wage growth, second quarter 2008 (01/22/2009)
• Wives earning more than their husbands, 1987-2006 (01/09/2009)
• Real average weekly earnings up in November 2008 (12/18/2008)
• Wages in architecture and engineering occupations by sector (12/05/2008)
• Working in the electric power industry (12/03/2008)
• Real average weekly earnings, October 2008 (11/28/2008)
• Wages in the nonprofit and private sectors, 2007 (11/06/2008)
• Employment costs in private industry, September 2008 (11/03/2008)
• Women’s earnings by occupation in 2007 (10/31/2008)
• Earnings of women and men by race and ethnicity, 2007 (10/30/2008)
• Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s, 1979-2007 (10/29/2008)
• Weekly earnings in the third quarter of 2008 (10/21/2008)
• Counties with highest wage growth, first quarter 2008 (10/20/2008)
• New Employment Cost Indexes for selected metropolitan areas (09/26/2008)
• Real average weekly earnings, August 2008 (09/18/2008)
• Variation in worker earnings by occupation, July 2007 (09/16/2008)
• Working poor and education in 2006 (09/04/2008)
• Displaced workers’ earnings at new jobs, January 2008 (08/27/2008)
• Change in wages and salaries in constant dollars, June 2007-June 2008 (08/01/2008)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2007 (07/28/2008)
• Counties with highest average weekly wages at the end of 2007 (07/25/2008)
• Surgical technologists (07/23/2008)
• Earnings of bachelor’s degree recipients 10 years after graduation (07/22/2008)
• Earnings and education in the second quarter of 2008 (07/21/2008)
• Real earnings, June 2008 (07/18/2008)
• Earnings in nine largest occupations, May 2006 (06/25/2008)
• Occupations with different wage variations (06/20/2008)
• Real average weekly earnings, May 2008 (06/17/2008)
• Real average weekly earnings in April 2008 (05/16/2008)
• Highest and lowest paying occupational groups, 2007 (05/13/2008)
• Office and administrative occupations in 2007 (05/12/2008)
• Real average weekly earnings, March 2008 (04/18/2008)
• Retirement benefits of State and local government workers (03/26/2008)
• Commercial divers (03/25/2008)
• Real earnings, February 2008 (03/18/2008)
• Real average weekly earnings, January 2008 (02/22/2008)
• Manufacturing compensation costs in U.S. and abroad, 2006 (02/12/2008)
• Compensation costs in state and local government up 4.1 percent in 2007 (02/06/2008)
• Compensation costs in private industry up 3.0 percent in 2007 (02/01/2008)
• Real average weekly earnings, December 2006-December 2007 (01/18/2008)
• Real average weekly earnings, November 2007 (12/21/2007)
• Differences in women’s earnings by educational level, 2006 (12/04/2007)
• Wives who earn more than their husbands, 1987-2005 (11/30/2007)
• Real earnings in October (11/21/2007)
• Employment and wages by occupation for nonmetropolitan areas (10/25/2007)
• Counties with highest wage growth, first quarter 2007 (10/22/2007)
• Usual weekly earnings by educational attainment and sex (10/19/2007)
• Earnings in air travel jobs (10/05/2007)
• Flexible work and part-time jobs (10/03/2007)
• Health educators (10/01/2007)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2006 (09/27/2007)
• Working as a cobbler (09/26/2007)
• Real earnings in August (09/21/2007)
• Average weekly earnings, July 2007 (08/21/2007)
• Wages and salaries in constant dollars increase from June 2006 to June 2007 (08/02/2007)
• Real earnings in June (07/24/2007)
• Weekly earnings in second quarter 2007 by demographics (07/20/2007)
• Variation in worker earnings by establishment size and industry, June 2006 (07/05/2007)
• Variation in worker earnings by occupation, June 2006 (06/27/2007)
• Real earnings in May (06/19/2007)
• Real earnings in April (05/23/2007)
• Highest and lowest paying occupational groups, 2006 (05/22/2007)
• Highest paid registered nurses are in California (05/18/2007)
• Real earnings, March 2007 (04/24/2007)
• Weekly earnings in the first quarter of 2007 (04/19/2007)
• Real average weekly earnings, February 2007 (03/20/2007)
• Working as a floral designer (03/02/2007)
• Real earnings in January (02/23/2007)
• Training animals for a living (02/21/2007)
• Compensation costs in State and local government, September-December 2006 (02/02/2007)
• Compensation costs in private industry up 3.2 percent in 2006 (02/01/2007)
• Earnings and education in the fourth quarter of 2006 (01/29/2007)
• Real average weekly earnings, December 2005–December 2006 (01/22/2007)
• Counties with highest wage growth, second quarter 2006 (01/12/2007)
• Real earnings in November (12/19/2006)
• Employer costs for employee compensation, September 2006 (12/14/2006)
• Hourly compensation of production workers in the U.S. and selected countries, 2005 (12/01/2006)
• Differences in women’s earnings by educational level, 2005 (11/29/2006)
• Real average weekly earnings in October 2006 (11/21/2006)
• State and local government employment costs up 1.4 percent from June to September (11/02/2006)
• Compensation costs in private industry up 3.0 percent over the year (11/01/2006)
• Real earnings, September 2006 (10/23/2006)
• Earnings of second-generation Americans (10/17/2006)
• Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s, 1979-2005 (10/03/2006)
• Differences in earnings by age and sex in 2005 (10/02/2006)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2005 (09/29/2006)
• Employer costs for retirement and savings plans, June 2006 (09/25/2006)
• Real earnings in August 2006 (09/19/2006)
• Variation in worker earnings, June 2005 (09/14/2006)
• Real earnings, July 2006 (08/21/2006)
• Counties with highest wage growth, fourth quarter 2005 (08/02/2006)
• Decline in wages and salaries in constant dollars, June 2005-June 2006 (08/01/2006)
• Middle Atlantic division had highest earnings in June 2005 (07/26/2006)
• Real earnings in June (07/25/2006)
• Usual weekly earnings, second quarter 2006 (07/24/2006)
• Service jobs most likely to pay minimum wage (07/07/2006)
• Emergency management specialists (06/30/2006)
• Working poor by occupation in 2004 (06/29/2006)
• Captioning and court reporting in the 21st century (06/26/2006)
• Health benefit costs in private industry, March 2006 (06/22/2006)
• Working poor and education in 2004 (06/21/2006)
• Rate of working poor up in 2004 (06/19/2006)
• Real earnings in May 2006 (06/16/2006)
• Earnings of retail salespersons highest in metro areas in West (06/08/2006)
• Real earnings in April 2006 (05/22/2006)
• Weekly earnings in first quarter 2006 by demographics (04/27/2006)
• Foreign born and earnings in 2005 (04/26/2006)
• Real earnings in March 2006 (04/25/2006)
• Counties with fastest pay growth, third quarter 2005 (04/18/2006)
• Wage growth by county, third quarter 2005-2006 (04/17/2006)
• Over-the-year changes in average weekly earnings, February 2006 (03/20/2006)
• Real earnings in January 2006 (03/01/2006)
• Compensation costs in State and local government (02/02/2006)
• Compensation costs up 3.0 percent in private industry in 2005 (02/01/2006)
• Real average weekly earnings, December 2004 – December 2005 (01/20/2006)
• Counties with most rapid pay growth, second quarter 2005 (01/12/2006)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas (12/29/2005)
• Meeting and convention planners (12/02/2005)
• Food preparation and serving occupations, November 2004 (11/29/2005)
• Hourly compensation in U.S. and foreign factories, 2004 (11/23/2005)
• Highest paid occupations, November 2004 (11/10/2005)
• Differences in earnings by age and sex in 2004 (11/03/2005)
• Women’s earnings by occupation in 2004 (11/02/2005)
• Growth in inflation-adjusted earnings, 1979-2004 (11/01/2005)
• Drop in compensation costs in constant dollars, September 2005 (10/31/2005)
• Counties with fastest pay growth, first quarter 2005 (10/21/2005)
• Education and earnings in 2004 (10/20/2005)
• Real weekly earnings in September 2005 (10/18/2005)
• Real weekly earnings, August 2005 (09/19/2005)
• Treating cancer with technology (09/15/2005)
• Compensation costs up 3.2 percent in private industry over the year (08/01/2005)
• Independent contractors in 2005 (07/29/2005)
• Jobs in the green industry (07/26/2005)
• Earnings in geography jobs (07/22/2005)
• Earnings and educational attainment: second quarter of 2005 (07/21/2005)
• Athletic trainers work in a variety of settings (07/20/2005)
• Real weekly earnings in June 2005 (07/19/2005)
• Wages in for-profit and nonprofit private hospitals (07/01/2005)
• Comparing growth rates of benefits and wages in private industry (06/30/2005)
• Wives who earn more than their husbands (06/23/2005)
• Private industry compensation $24.17 per hour on average in March 2005 (06/22/2005)
• Real weekly earnings, May 2005 (06/20/2005)
• Earnings of foreign-born workers, 2004 (06/02/2005)
• Lowest paying occupations in May 2004 (06/01/2005)
• Highly paid healthcare occupations (05/27/2005)
• Real weekly earnings, April 2005 (05/23/2005)
• Disposable income and consumption (05/17/2005)
• Differences in women’s earnings by educational level (05/12/2005)
• Benefit and wage costs in private industry in March 2005 (05/02/2005)
• Real weekly earnings, March 2005 (04/22/2005)
• Occupation and the working poor in 2003 (04/19/2005)
• Counties with fastest pay growth, third quarter 2004 (04/15/2005)
• Rate of working poor unchanged in 2003 (04/12/2005)
• Real weekly earnings in February 2005 (03/28/2005)
• Real earnings decline in January 2005 (02/25/2005)
• Weekly earnings in fourth quarter 2004 by demographics (02/01/2005)
• Real earnings in December 2004 (01/24/2005)
• Counties with most rapid pay growth, second quarter 2004 (01/12/2005)
• Earnings of advertising sales agents (01/07/2005)
• Real earnings fall in November 2004 (12/21/2004)
• Real earnings in October 2004 (12/17/2004)
• Differences in earnings by sex, race, and Hispanic origin (11/29/2004)
• Hourly compensation in U.S. and foreign factories, 2003 (11/23/2004)
• Highest-paying jobs in November 2003 (11/15/2004)
• Part-time workers: who they are and how much they earn (11/04/2004)
• Poverty rate of families with one member in the labor force (11/03/2004)
• Earnings and educational level in 2003 (10/29/2004)
• Rate of working poor in 2002 (10/27/2004)
• Occupation and the working poor in 2002 (10/26/2004)
• Women’s earnings 80 percent of men’s in 2003 (10/25/2004)
• Occupation and earnings: third quarter of 2004 (10/21/2004)
• Real average weekly earnings in August 2004 (09/20/2004)
• Employer costs for retirement and savings plans, June 2004 (09/16/2004)
• Earnings growth among younger baby boomers (08/31/2004)
• Real earnings up in July 2004 (08/20/2004)
• Displaced workers’ earnings at new jobs (08/06/2004)
• Educational attainment and median earnings (07/21/2004)
• Real wages by industry, June 2003 - June 2004 (07/20/2004)
• Counties with fastest growing pay, fourth quarter 2003 (07/09/2004)
• Compensation in private industry, March 2004 (06/25/2004)
• Real earnings drop in May 2004 (06/21/2004)
• Real earnings in April 2004 (05/18/2004)
• Lowest paying occupations in May 2003 (05/06/2004)
• Highest paying occupations in May 2003 (05/05/2004)
• State and local government compensation costs up 3.3 percent in past 12 months (05/03/2004)
• Compensation costs up 3.9 percent in private industry over the year (04/30/2004)
• Earnings and education in the first quarter of 2004 (04/20/2004)
• Real earnings in March (04/19/2004)
• Increases in men’s and women’s earnings in 2003 (04/09/2004)
• Real earnings in January (02/24/2004)
• Low pay and establishment size (02/03/2004)
• Compensation costs up 4.0 percent in private industry over the year (01/30/2004)
• Age and the working poor (01/26/2004)
• Real earnings in December (01/20/2004)
• Real average weekly earnings higher in November (12/18/2003)
• Nursing animals to health (12/16/2003)
• Variation in workers paid Federal minimum wage by region (12/11/2003)
• Service jobs most likely to pay minimum wage (12/03/2003)
• Lowest paying occupations in 2002 (12/02/2003)
• Wages and benefits in State and local government, September 2003 (11/28/2003)
• Highest paying occupations in 2002 (11/24/2003)
• Real earnings up in October (11/20/2003)
• Counties with fastest growing pay, first quarter 2003 (11/06/2003)
• Growth in compensation costs for State and local government workers during the year ended September 2003 (11/05/2003)
• Wage gains through the fourth quarter of 2002 (10/31/2003)
• Earnings and union status (10/30/2003)
• Women’s earnings in professional specialty occupations (10/29/2003)
• Earnings by educational attainment and sex, 1979 and 2002 (10/23/2003)
• Differences in women’s and men’s earnings by race and Hispanic origin (10/22/2003)
• Earnings and occupation: third quarter of 2003 (10/21/2003)
• Real earnings decline in September (10/20/2003)
• Women’s earnings 78 percent of men’s in 2002 (10/16/2003)
• Average foreign compensation stays in line with U.S. factories (09/29/2003)
• Hours, earnings, and payrolls in August (09/08/2003)
• Employee retirement and savings benefits higher for union workers (08/28/2003)
• Employee benefits in June 2003 (08/27/2003)
• Minimum wage workers in 2002 (08/25/2003)
• Employment and wages in elementary and secondary schools (08/20/2003)
• Earnings higher in larger establishments (07/28/2003)
• Occupational earnings in July 2002 (07/23/2003)
• Earnings highest in Middle Atlantic division (07/22/2003)
• Variation in worker earnings, July 2002 (07/21/2003)
• Earnings and educational attainment: second quarter of 2003 (07/18/2003)
• Farm and service workers have highest poverty rates (07/03/2003)
• Working poor and education in 2001 (07/01/2003)
• Rate of working poor rises in 2001 (06/25/2003)
• Real earnings in May (06/20/2003)
• When relative wages depend on where you are (06/06/2003)
• Do occupational wages vary much by location? (06/03/2003)
• Real earnings in April (05/20/2003)
• Wage gains in the third quarter of 2002 (04/24/2003)
• Women’s earnings up relative to men’s in 2002 (04/23/2003)
• Real earnings in March (04/22/2003)
• Weekly earnings in the first quarter of 2003 (04/18/2003)
• Women’s earnings up relative to men’s in 2002 (04/01/2003)
• Real average weekly earnings down in February (03/25/2003)
• Advantages from an associate degree (03/06/2003)
• Wages and salaries increase fastest in Midwest over the year (02/04/2003)
• Weekly earnings in the fourth quarter (01/21/2003)
• Wage gains in the second quarter of 2002 (01/08/2003)
• Lowest paying occupations in 2001 (12/03/2002)
• Lafayette County, Louisiana had highest growth in pay in 2001 (11/25/2002)
• New York County had highest pay level in 2001 (11/22/2002)
• Metro areas with highest pay in 2001 (11/13/2002)
• Largest pay hike in Lafayette, La. (11/12/2002)
• Highest paying occupations in 2001 (11/07/2002)
• Weekly earnings in the third quarter (10/22/2002)
• Weekly earnings in the second quarter (10/21/2002)
• Wage gains and cuts (10/17/2002)
• Management of companies and enterprises has top pay (10/09/2002)
• Largest pay gains in Delaware and Maryland (10/04/2002)
• Highest pay in 2001: Connecticut (10/01/2002)
• Average pay increase smallest since 1994 (09/25/2002)
• Real average weekly earnings fall in July (08/20/2002)
• Earnings of interpreters and translators (07/19/2002)
• Earnings of part-timers (07/02/2002)
• Paid by the hour in 2001 (06/27/2002)
• Women’s earnings and education in 2001 (06/26/2002)
• Wages in legal occupations in 2000 (06/07/2002)
• Earnings spread widest within and between professional, service groups (05/22/2002)
• Compensation costs up in first quarter (04/29/2002)
• Weekly earnings in the first quarter (04/18/2002)
• Median weekly earnings in 2001 (04/05/2002)
• For aircraft mechanics, certification pays (04/03/2002)
• Real average weekly earnings down in January (02/22/2002)
• Middle Atlantic tops in hourly earnings in 2000 (02/13/2002)
• Wages and salaries increase fastest in West over the year (02/11/2002)
• Who was affected as the economy started to slow? (01/25/2002)
• Weekly earnings in the fourth quarter (01/22/2002)
• Weekly earnings in the third quarter (01/18/2002)
• Lowest paid jobs in 2000 (11/23/2001)
• Highest paying occupations in 2000 (11/21/2001)
• Composition of change in real earnings in October (11/20/2001)
• Highest increase in wages and salaries in West (11/01/2001)
• Employment costs up 4.1 percent (10/26/2001)
• Santa Clara County had top pay level in 2000 (10/23/2001)
• San Mateo County, California had highest growth in pay in 2000 (10/19/2001)
• Gap widens between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area pay (10/11/2001)
• San Jose again leads nation in annual pay (10/04/2001)
• Pay in private sector slightly higher than in government (10/02/2001)
• San Jose has biggest pay hike again (10/01/2001)
• Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists—working to rehabilitate offenders (09/28/2001)
• Financial sector had biggest raise in 2000 (09/26/2001)
• Medical transcriptionists: making medical histories (09/25/2001)
• Highest pay in 2000: Connecticut (09/24/2001)
• Massachusetts, California tops in pay gains (09/20/2001)
• Sales engineers: technical expertise plus people skills (09/18/2001)
• Average annual pay increase in 2000 (09/13/2001)
• Keeping the environment clean (09/07/2001)
• Women’s earnings 76 percent of men’s in 2000 (09/05/2001)
• Low earnings of female high school dropouts (08/29/2001)
• Women’s earnings growth higher than men’s at all education levels, 1979-2000 (08/16/2001)
• Weekly earnings by demographics in second quarter (07/20/2001)
• Hourly earnings highest in Middle Atlantic (07/10/2001)
• Education pays (06/27/2001)
• Seeing with sound (05/31/2001)
• From watches to pianos: precision instrument and equipment repairers (05/30/2001)
• Sources of retirement income (05/23/2001)
• Weekly earnings of full-time workers in first quarter (04/19/2001)
• Number, rate of working poor fell in 1999 (03/20/2001)
• Taxing jobs: tax examiners, revenue agents, and collectors (03/13/2001)
• Wild jobs: working in zoos and aquariums (03/05/2001)
• Wages in sports all over the ballpark (03/01/2001)
• Finance industry led the way in earnings in 1990s (02/14/2001)
• New York County leads in pay in 1999 (12/20/2000)
• San Jose ranks first in annual pay (12/12/2000)
• Connecticut, New York tops in pay (12/06/2000)
• Biggest hike in pay in San Jose (11/29/2000)
• Comparing hourly earnings measures (11/28/2000)
• Mining industry continues to be highest paid, retail trade lowest (11/27/2000)
• Washington State, Massachusetts lead in pay gains (11/20/2000)
• Earnings by occupation in 1998 (10/25/2000)
• Weekly earnings of full-time workers in third quarter (10/20/2000)
• Stock options most likely for the higher paid (10/12/2000)
• Labor market problems of poor full-timers (09/29/2000)
• Dropouts most likely to be working poor (09/27/2000)
• No change in foreign wage differential (09/08/2000)
• Part-timers earn more in some health care jobs (08/29/2000)
• Majority of working 15- to 17-year olds earn above minimum wage (08/23/2000)
• Pay gap crosses occupational lines (08/04/2000)
• Weekly earnings of full-time workers in second quarter (07/25/2000)
• Wages of salespersons in 1998 (07/20/2000)
• Health care 5½ percent of compensation (07/12/2000)
• Earnings of female college graduates up 4.7 percent in 1999 (06/06/2000)
• Increases in real earnings vary by occupation (05/26/2000)
• Private sector wages rose faster than benefits last year (05/19/2000)
• Union-nonunion wage gap narrows (04/25/2000)
• College grads have biggest wage increase in 1999 (04/21/2000)
• Pay premium grows through the ranks (04/20/2000)
• Wage differences among industries (04/06/2000)
• Hourly earnings up 4 cents (03/06/2000)
• Wages, occupations, and job duties (02/15/2000)
• Travis County, Texas had biggest pay increase in 1998 (02/03/2000)
• Union members earn more in most industries (02/02/2000)
• Jacksonville, NC, has lowest annual pay (01/27/2000)
• Gender pay gap largest in sales, lowest in farm occupations (01/24/2000)
• The top-paying service occupations in 1998 (01/21/2000)
• Montana had the lowest pay in 1998 (01/11/2000)
• Austin had highest 1998 pay increase (01/03/2000)
• Annual wages of nurses, doctors, and other health care workers (12/23/1999)
• Washington State reports biggest pay gain again (12/16/1999)
• More than two-thirds of projected fastest growing occupations are in high wage jobs (12/09/1999)
• Variation in earnings of college grads (10/25/1999)
• Pay gains similar for workers in private industry and State and local government over past two decades (10/22/1999)
• Nationwide earnings data by occupation from National Compensation Survey now available (10/19/1999)
• Knowledge gets the biggest pay premium (10/05/1999)
• New York County tops in pay in 1997 (09/21/1999)
• High earnings without a college degree? (08/30/1999)
• San Jose leads nation in annual pay (08/26/1999)
• Men’s earnings at peak at age 45-54 (07/23/1999)
• High tech, high pay (07/21/1999)
• Pay increase largest in finance in 1997 (07/01/1999)
• Alaska has smallest pay gain in 1997 (06/25/1999)
• Washington State reports biggest pay gain in 1997 (06/24/1999)
• Women in managerial, professional occupations earn more than others (06/10/1999)
• Differences in women’s and men’s earnings by age, 1979-98 (06/04/1999)
• Both husband and wife work for pay in majority of married-couple families (05/27/1999)
• Women’s earnings ratio highest in D.C., California (05/19/1999)
• Slower growth in health services earnings in the 90s (05/17/1999)
• 1996-98 growth fastest among jobs with highest earnings (04/09/1999)
• Hourly compensation rises in 1998 (03/10/1999)
• Montana reports lowest weekly wage (02/22/1999)
• Northeastern States have highest weekly wages (02/19/1999)
• Finance and manufacturing industries report highest weekly wages in 1997 (02/04/1999)
• Black women report highest earnings premium for additional education (02/03/1999)
• Women’s earnings 76 percent of median for men in 1998 (01/27/1999)
• Another real raise in 1998 (01/20/1999)
• High earnings without long hours a possibility (01/07/1999)
• Clerical, service, and agricultural workers have low wages (01/05/1999)
• Workers with longer workweeks often earn more per hour (12/31/1998)
• Professional and managerial occupations have higher wages (12/29/1998)
• Few of the Nation’s largest counties recorded pay declines in 1996 (12/02/1998)
• Average annual pay highest in New York County in 1996 (11/30/1998)
• About 1 in 6 college graduates earns less than high school graduates (10/30/1998)
• Securities and commodities brokers lead industries earning high wages (10/27/1998)
• Earnings increase substantially with additional education (10/23/1998)