June 2015 Employment Cost Index — 2015-07-31

Compensation costs for civilian workers was little changed at 0.2 percent, seasonally adjusted, for the 3-month period ending June 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries (which make up about 70 percent of compensation costs) was also little changed at 0.2 percent, and benefits (which make up the remaining 30 percent of compensation) was little changed at 0.1 percent. (See chart 1 and tables 1, 2, and 3.) Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 2.0 percent for the 12-month period ending June 2015, unchanged from the 12-month period ending June 2014. Wages and salaries increased 2.1 percent for the current 12-month period. In June 2014 the change was 1.8 percent. Benefit costs increased 1.8 percent for the 12-month period ending June 2015. In June 2014 the increase was 2.5 percent.