Payroll employment, earnings and hours, June 2014
Press Release –
Average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $940 in June, up 0.6% from the previous month. Compared with 12 months earlier, weekly earnings increased 3.3%.
Year-over-year change in average weekly earnings and average weekly hours
Chart description: Year-over-year change in average weekly earnings and average weekly hours
The 3.3% increase in weekly earnings during the 12 months to June reflected a number of factors, including wage growth, changes in the composition of employment by industry, occupation and level of job experience, as well as average hours worked per week. Non-farm payroll employees worked an average of 33.0 hours in June, unchanged from the previous month but up from the weekly average of 32.9 hours observed a year earlier.
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