Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers News Release — 2021-07-16

(NOTE: BLS reissued this news release on October 19, 2021, to address incorrect values for 9 seasonally adjusted series for second quarter, 2021. The incorrect data were published in table 1, in the text of the news release, and in the online database.) Median weekly earnings of the nation's 113.6 million full-time wage and salary workers were $990 in the second quarter of 2021 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 1.2 percent lower than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 4.8 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.