The Labor Department released its latest employment cost index, a quarterly report on how much employers are paying their employees, on Thursday. It showed that employment costs were up 0.8% in Q3.

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The Employment Cost Index rose 0.9% in Q1 2025, the matching the consensus and holding steady from Q4 2024, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday. For the ...

Based on the Consumer Price Index, the cost of the basket of goods that (supposedly) we typically buy has risen by about 20% since 2020. To offset this “inflation tax,” compensation must rise by at ...

Q3 Employment Cost Index: +0.8% vs. +0.9% expected and +0.9% in Q2, marking the lowest print since Q2 2021. Compensation costs for civilian workers rose 3.9% for the 12 months ended September 2024, ...

Ahead of the Autumn Budget, Employment Hero has urged the Government to avoid increasing the cost of employment, with new research revealing that 1 in 2 (49%) small business leaders would consider ...

The cost of employing the average U.S. worker rose 0.7% in the fourth quarter, but compensation still hasn’t return to pre-pandemic levels, according to a closely followed measure of labor costs.

The numbers: The wages and benefits that companies pay their workers rose less than 1% for the second time in the past three quarters, reflecting the waning demand for labor in a slower-growing ...

(Bloomberg)—U.S. employment costs jumped by the most on record at the start of the year, heightening concerns about persistent inflation that set the stage for more forceful policy action by the ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] U.S. employment costs jumped by the most on record at the start of the year, heightening concerns about persistent inflation that set ...