• Prices and Wages by Decade🔍
• Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts🔍
• Income and Prices 1900🔍
• United States Wages and Salaries Growth🔍
• Nominal Wages🔍
• Wages and salaries in the U.S.🔍
• History of the Cost of Living🔍
• For most U.S. workers🔍

Prices and Wages by Decade: Intro - Library Guides

Prices and Wages by Decade: Intro · 1900-1909 · 1910-1919 · 1920-1929 · 1930-1939 · 1940-1949 · 1950-1959 · 1960-1969 · 1970-1979 ...

Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts | Economic Policy Institute

The figure shows that in the three decades following World War II, hourly compensation of the vast majority of workers rose 91 percent, roughly in line with ...

Prices and Wages by Decade: 1800s - Library Guides

Links to government documents and primary sources listing retail prices for products and services, as well as wages for common occupations.

Income and Prices 1900 - 1999 - About the USA

Wages per Full-Time Employee. $ 15757/year ; State and Local Government Workers. $ 15078/year ; Public School Teacher. $ 15438/year ; Building Trades. $ 18571/year.

Wages - Economic Data Series | FRED | St. Louis Fed

15,069 Series · Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over · Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, ...

United States Wages and Salaries Growth - Trading Economics

Wage Growth in the United States averaged 6.19 percent from 1960 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 15.40 percent in April of 2021 and a record low of - ...

Nominal Wages, Cost of Living, and Real Wages ... - GHDI - Document

... decade, indicating a period of price deflation, nominal wages declined even more. Hence, German workers' average real wages declined from 578 to 524 marks ...

Wages and salaries in the U.S. - statistics & facts - Statista

In 2022, the average annual wages in the United States came to 77,643 U.S. dollars. The number has grown incrementally over the last decades ...

History of the Cost of Living - Investopedia

Learn about the relationship between the cost of living, the Consumer Price Index, inflation, and Americans' household incomes—is wage growth strong enough?

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

After adjusting for inflation, however, today's average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power it did in 1978, following a long ...

Average Wage Index (AWI) - SSA

We use the term "wages" to refer to net compensation. Raw average wage data are presented in the table below. Note that an average wage is an average per worker ...

US wages grew at fastest pace in decades in 2021, but prices grew ...

Over the last three months nominal wages and salaries for all civilian workers slowed slightly but still rose at a fast 4.4 percent annual ...

Wage growth vs inflation U.S. 2024 - Statista

The rate of inflation overtook the growth of wages in April 2021. High rates of inflation means that consumers are seeing a decrease in ...

Wage Trends, 1800-1900 - National Bureau of Economic Research

Rates in the West. South Central frontier had also stopped their marked decline by 1870, moving parallel to other rates in subsequent decades. New versus Old ...

History of Federal Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor ...

History of Federal Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938 - 2009 ; Jan 1, 1981, $3.35 for all covered, nonexempt workers, $3.35 for all ...

United States Average Hourly Wages - Trading Economics

Wages in the United States averaged 12.61 USD/Hour from 1964 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 30.33 USD/Hour in September of 2024.

Workers' Paychecks Are Growing More Quickly Than Prices

The median inflation-adjusted change in workers' hourly earnings was about 45 cents, which translates to a more than $900 annual increase for a ...

Nominal Wage Tracker | Economic Policy Institute

Year-over-year change in private-sector nominal average hourly earnings, 2007–2024 ...

50 years of US wages, in one chart | World Economic Forum

Denominated in constant 1982-1984 dollars, average hourly wages dropped from $9.40 in February to $9.38 in March, with average weekly earnings ...

Employment Cost Index - September 2024 - Bureau of Labor Statistics

Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 3.6 percent over the year. In September. 2023, the increase was 4.3 percent. Wages and ...