United States

Average hourly earnings

Average hourly compensation earned by employees on private nonfarm payrolls.

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Source: BLS · CES7072233013

Stored official data

Average hourly earnings - United States in United States was 8.58 on March 1, 2026, lower by 0.06 (-0.7%) from the prior observation. Charted from monthly observations in currency.

Latest8.58

MoM-0.69%

YoY+2.51%

10Y Avg7.99

Latest observationMarch 1, 2026

Model surprise+0.00

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Min7.06

Mean7.98

Max8.98

Latest observationMarch 1, 2026

Source evidence

Tier 1 - critical

Provider health

Source

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Native key

CES7072233013

Freshness

Stored · 2026-03-01

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Public domain

Research notes

69 · Caution

Fallback dataMethodology link missing

ComparabilityLabor definitions vary by survey and agency: Do not mix levels across definitions; compare rates or changes only after matching population, adjustment, and frequency.Seasonal-adjustment status needs attention: Prefer same-adjustment comparisons, or transform to year-over-year changes before cross-series comparison.Concept mapping is not explicit: Treat cross-country or cross-provider comparisons as provisional until concept, unit, adjustment, and geography are explicitly aligned.

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QualitySource authority: 100/100. Source kind is classified as official national.Metadata completeness: 90/100. 90% of core provider, geography, unit, frequency, citation, methodology, and revision metadata fields are populated.Timeliness and freshness: 28/100. 122 observations available; latest observation 2026-03-01; outside 45-day freshness window; platform fetch 2026-05-24T12:24:49.799Z; release status none; data status fallbackRevision and vintage depth: 78/100. BLS does not expose a true vintage API. Each observation carries a footnote code that tags it as preliminary (P), revised (R), or final.

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CitationAverage hourly earnings - United States (BLS: CES7072233013, United States, retrieved Jul 12, 2026)

Retrieved Jul 12, 2026

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Series details

SourceBLS

CategoryLabor

FrequencyMonthly

Unitcurrency

Latest observationMarch 1, 2026

Platform last fetchMay 24, 2026

Transformslevel, mom, yoy, index 100

About this series

Average hourly compensation earned by employees on private nonfarm payrolls.

The reading right now

As of March 2026, Average hourly earnings for United States stood at 8.58. That is down 0.06 from the prior month. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 8.39, ranging from a low of 7.89 in May 2021 to a high of 8.68 in January 2026. The current reading sits 0.59 above its trailing ten-year mean of 7.99.

Computed from the observation series on this page. Numbers update when the underlying provider revises the data.