March 2013 Employment Cost Index — 2013-04-30

(Note: Employment Cost Index data for September 2012, December 2012, and March 2013 contained errors in several series and have been corrected in the public database and historical listings available on the BLS website. This news release will not be corrected. The primary errors are in benefits data for private industry. Some additional series were also corrected. For further information see: www.bls.gov/bls/eci_corrections_043013.htm.) Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.3 percent, seasonally adjusted, for the 3-month period ending March 2013, essentially unchanged from the 0.4 percent increase for the December 2012 3-month period. Wages and salaries increased 0.5 percent for the current period compared to a 0.3 percent increase for the December 2012 period. Benefit costs decelerated to 0.1 percent in March 2013, down from 0.6 percent in December 2012. Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 1.8 percent for the 12-month period ending March 2013, essentially unchanged from the March 2012 increase of 1.9 percent.