United States

Average hourly earnings

Average hourly earnings for private-sector workers.

FrequencymonthlyTransformlevel

Source: BLS · CES0500000003

Stored official data

Average hourly earnings - United States in United States was 37.4 on April 1, 2026, higher by 0.06 (+0.2%) from the prior observation. Charted from monthly observations in currency per hour.

Latest37.41

MoM+0.16%

YoY+3.57%

10Y Avg30.80

Latest observationApril 1, 2026

Model surprise-0.16

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Min25.37

Mean30.67

Max37.41

Latest observationApril 1, 2026

Source evidence

Tier 1 - critical

Source note Provider health

Source

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Native key

CES0500000003

Freshness

Stored · 2026-04-01

History

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Public domain

Research notes

88 · Strong

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.Revision evidence is not a full historical vintage archive: Use this as current-value or captured-forward evidence unless the series is explicitly labelled source-native vintage.

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QualitySource authority: 100/100. Source kind is classified as official national.Methodology completeness: 100/100. 100% of core provider, geography, unit, frequency, citation, and revision fields are populated.Timeliness and freshness: 90/100. 124 observations available; latest observation 2026-04-01; platform fetch 2026-06-19T05:31:07.293Z; release status none; data status liveRevision 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.

3/6 strong

CitationAverage hourly earnings - United States (BLS: CES0500000003, United States, retrieved Jun 19, 2026)

Retrieved Jun 19, 2026

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Series details

SourceBLS

CategoryLabor

FrequencyMonthly

Unitcurrency per hour

Latest observationApril 1, 2026

Platform last fetchJune 19, 2026

Transformslevel, mom, yoy, index 100

About this series

Average hourly earnings for private-sector workers.

The reading right now

As of April 2026, Average hourly earnings for United States stood at 37.4. That is up 0.06 from the prior month. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 34, ranging from a low of 30.2 in April 2021 to a high of 37.4 in April 2026. The current reading sits 6.61 above its trailing ten-year mean of 30.8.

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