Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers News Release — 2020-04-15

(NOTE: BLS reissued this news release on September 23, 2020, to address minor data errors associated with the introduction in January 2020 of a new occupation classification system. The corrections affected a limited number of data series presented in the text and tables of this release; for the vast majority of these series, the impact was negligible. Estimates in the BLS online database were corrected for the first and second quarters of 2020. For more information on these corrections, see www.bls.gov/bls/errata/revision- to-current-population-survey-estimates-for-January-through-July-2020.htm.) Median weekly earnings of the nation's 115.9 million full-time wage and salary workers were $957 in the first quarter of 2020 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 5.7 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 2.1 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.