Usual Weekly Earnings Of Wage And Salary Workers: Second Quarter 2007 — 2007-07-19

Median weekly earnings of the nation�s 106.9 million full-time wage and salary workers were $690 in the second quarter of 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. This was 4.7 percent higher than a year earlier compared with a gain of 2.7 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period. Data on usual 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. (See the Technical Note.) Highlights from the second-quarter data are: --Women who usually worked full time had median earnings of $607 per week, or 79.6 percent of the $763 median for men.