Wire Embargo Until — 1998-10-16

today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. The a 0.1 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and percent between September of 1997 and 1998 as a result of a 3.8 percent increase weekly hours. After adjustment for a 1.2 percent gain in the CPI-W over the release is the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical is the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers The earnings series presented in this release are derived from the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly establishment survey of employment, payroll, and hours. The deflator used for constant-dollar earnings series presented in this release is derived from the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). Earnings series from the monthly establishment series are estimated arithmetic averages (means) of the hourly and weekly earnings of all production or nonsupervisory jobs in the private nonfarm sector of the economy.