• For most U.S. workers🔍
• Despite the pandemic🔍
• For most US workers🔍
• Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts🔍
• Employed persons by detailed occupation and age🔍
• U.S. full|time employees unadjusted monthly number 2022|2024🔍
• Workers' Paychecks Are Growing More Quickly Than Prices🔍
• Table A|1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age🔍

For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades

Today's real average wage (that is, the wage after accounting for inflation) has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago.

Despite the pandemic, wage growth held firm for most U.S. workers ...

Despite the pandemic, wage growth held firm for most US workers, with little effect on inequality.

For most US workers, real wages have barely budged in decades

But in real, inflation-adjusted terms, the median has barely budged over that period: That $232 in 1979 had the same purchasing power as $840 in ...

Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts | Economic Policy Institute

The near stagnation of hourly wage growth for the vast majority of American workers over the past generation.

Employed persons by detailed occupation and age

More Sources of Data · Restricted Data Access · Discontinued ... U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Division of Labor Force Statistics ...

U.S. full-time employees unadjusted monthly number 2022-2024

As of October 2024, there were 133.89 million full-time employees in the United States. This is a slight decrease from the previous month, ...

Workers' Paychecks Are Growing More Quickly Than Prices

The United States has experienced a historically strong economic recovery from the COVID-19 recession, with more jobs and a larger inflation- ...

Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age

More Sources of Data · Restricted Data Access · Discontinued Databases ... U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Division of Labor Force Statistics PSB Suite ...

Understanding America's Labor Shortage: The Most Impacted ...

The US Chamber is closely monitoring trends in job openings, labor force participation, and quit rates affecting industries nationwide.

Many full-time U.S. workers don't making a living wage | Fortune

Around 44% of full-time American employees don't make enough to cover their family's basic needs, assuming a dual-income household with two children.

Occupations | U.S. Department of Labor

Employment and Earnings in Select Occupations · Earnings and earnings ratios by sex, race, and occupation group · Most common occupations for women in the labor ...

U.S. Workers are Far Better Off Than Four Years Ago

This is not just an issue of millions more people being able to get jobs. When the labor market is as strong as it has been, workers can have ...

The Productivity–Pay Gap | Economic Policy Institute

The growing gap amid slowing productivity growth tells us that the same set of policies that suppressed pay growth for the vast majority of workers over the ...

Americans' Wages Are Higher Than They Have Ever Been, and ...

The U.S. employment-to-population ratio is near its all-time ... workers were by far the most likely to lose their jobs. As low-wage ...

Number of full-time employees U.S. 2023 - Statista

Employment in the U.S.. The number of full-time employees in the United States has increased by more than 30 million people since 1991. In ...

Have Wages Stagnated for Decades in the US? - AEI

Many descriptions of U.S. wage stagnation begin in 1973 (or 1979) ... Desilver, Drew, “For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely ...

America's Vast Pay Inequality Is a Story of Unequal Power

Since the late 1970s, inflation-adjusted pay for most US workers has largely stagnated, while pay for the country's highest earners has skyrocketed.

Understanding America's Labor Shortage

At the height of the pandemic, more than 120,000 businesses temporarily closed, and more than 30 million U.S. workers were unemployed. Since ...

The Purchasing Power of American Households - Treasury

Overall, these data show that most American workers can afford more goods and services than they did before the pandemic. To illustrate this ...

The typical U.S. worker out-earned inflation by $1,400 a year, data ...

In the tug-of-war between paychecks and prices, the typical American worker has come out on top.