The Economics Daily

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The latest Economics Daily article is available here: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2025/median-weekly-earnings-by-educational-attainment-first-quarter-2025.htm. Highlights are below. Median weekly earnings by educational attainment, first quarter 2025 04/29/2025 Median weekly earnings of the nation's 110.8 million full-time wage and salary workers age 25 and over were $1,258 in the first quarter of 2025. This was 5.7 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. At each level of educational attainment, workers' weekly earnings were around double what they were 25 years earlier, in the first quarter of 2000. HTML

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