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Indicators/Topics/Labor Market/Average hourly earnings/United States

United States

Average hourly earnings

Average hourly earnings for private-sector workers.

BLS

Source: BLS · CES0500000003 · monthly · level

Stored official data
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Research notes

Not yet assessed
Fallback data
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.
4 notes
QualitySource authority: 100/100. Source kind is classified as official national.Metadata completeness: 100/100. 100% of core provider, geography, unit, frequency, citation, methodology, and revision metadata fields are populated.Timeliness and freshness: 38/100. 0 observations available; 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.
2/6 strong
CitationAverage hourly earnings - United States (BLS: CES0500000003, United States, retrieved Aug 5, 2026)
Retrieved Aug 5, 2026

Source evidence

Tier 1 - criticalOfficial U.S. labor + price stats; release-critical.Action: deepen nowExpected coverage: 50,000 series.
Source noteProvider health
SourceBLS
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Native keyProvider-native identifier used to reconcile this country/provider series.
CES0500000003
FreshnessDisplayed as stored official data.Official values served from the platform's stored snapshot while live refresh is unavailable or not included for this access level.Fetched: Not recorded.Latest observation flag: Preliminary.
Stored official data
HistoryBLS does not expose a true vintage API. Each observation carries a footnote code that tags it as preliminary (P), revised (R), or final.BLS does not publish historical vintages; revision-status tags are derived from per-observation footnotes.
Provider revision tag
ReuseCommercial use: yes.Redistribution: allowed.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (CES0500000003). Accessed 2026-08-05.
Public domain
Series details, provenance, and revision toolsMetadata, release notes, revision history, and related series.

Series details

SourceBLS
CategoryLabor
FrequencyMonthly
Unitcurrency per hour
Transformslevel, mom, yoy, index 100
About this series

Average hourly earnings for private-sector workers.

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