2009 Second Quarter (Preliminary) Productivity and Costs — 2009-08-11

This release was reissued on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 11, 2009, to correct information on compensation per hour, real compensation per hour, unit labor costs, and unit non-labor payments in Tables 1 through 5 and Appendix tables 1 and 2. In the tables, all index levels for these data series were corrected; as a result, percent changes derived from the corrected index levels were changed slightly in a few cases. No other portions of the news release were affected. The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor today reported preliminary productivity data--as measured by output per hour of all persons--for the second quarter of 2009. The seasonally adjusted annual rates of productivity change in the second quarter were: 6.3 percent in the business sector and 6.4 percent in the nonfarm business sector.