United States
Employment cost index
Index of wages, salaries, and benefits.
Source: BLS · CIU1010000000000A
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LatestN/A
QoQN/A
YoYN/A
10Y AvgN/A
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Source evidence
Tier 1 - criticalOfficial U.S. labor + price stats; release-critical.Action: deepen nowExpected coverage: 50,000 series.SourceBLS
Bureau of Labor StatisticsNative keyProvider-native identifier used to reconcile this country/provider series.
CIU1010000000000AFreshnessDisplayed 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 dataHistoryBLS 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 tagReuseCommercial use: yes.Redistribution: allowed.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (CIU1010000000000A). Accessed 2026-06-19.
Public domainResearch notes
80 · AcceptableComparabilityLabor 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.
3 notesQualitySource 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: 52/100. 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 strongCitationEmployment cost index - United States (BLS: CIU1010000000000A, United States, retrieved Jun 19, 2026)
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Series details
SourceBLS
CategoryLabor
FrequencyQuarterly
Unitindex or percent
Transformslevel, annualized, yoy, index 100
About this series
Index of wages, salaries, and benefits.