Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers News Release — 2016-07-19

(NOTE: This news release was reissued on October 20, 2016, due to the correction of May 2016 through August 2016 CPI data. The estimate in table 1 for seasonally adjusted median weekly earnings for men in constant (1982-84) dollars for the second quarter of 2016 was revised. No other median weekly earnings data changed.) Median weekly earnings of the nation's 111.2 million full-time wage and salary workers were $824 in the second quarter of 2016 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 2.9 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.1 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period. Data on usual weekly earnings are collected as part of the Current Population Survey, a nationwide sample survey of households in which respondents are asked, among other things, how much each wage and salary worker usually earns.