Real hourly earnings monthly change U.S. 2023

In February 2023, real hourly earnings of all employees in the United States experienced a decrease of 0.21 percent in comparison to the previous month. The data have been seasonally adjusted. The deflators used for constant-dollar earnings shown here come from the Consumer Price Indexes Programs. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Employees (CPI-U) is used to deflate the data for all employees.

Monthly percentage change in real average hourly earnings for all employees in the United States from February 2022 to February 2023 (seasonally adjusted)

Characteristic	Change compared to previous month
Feb '23	-0.1%
Jan '23	-0.3%
Dec '22	0.3%
Nov '22	0.2%
Oct '22	-0.1%
Sep '22	-0.1%
Aug '22	0.1%
Jul '22	0.5%
Jun '22	-0.8%
May '22	-0.5%
Apr '22	0%
Mar '22	-0.4%
Feb '22	-0.7%

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Release date

March 2023

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Region

United States

Survey time period

February 2022 to February 2023

Age group

16 years and older

Supplementary notes

Employed persons consist of: persons who did any work for pay or profit during the survey reference week; persons who did at least 15 hours of unpaid work in a family-operated enterprise; and persons who were temporarily absent from their regular jobs because of illness, vacation, bad weather, industrial dispute, or various personal reasons.
Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series used when analyzing non-seasonal trends.

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