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the U.S. Department of Labor. This rise stemmed from a 0.6 percent 0.3 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and 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. Average hourly earnings estimates are derived by dividing the estimated industry payroll--for all production or nonsupervisory jobs-- by the corresponding paid hours.