[lbo-talk] BLS hourly earnings stat question

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jun 12 15:04:33 PDT 2005


Gar Lipow wrote:


>I'm looking at the following statistic:
>
>http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/srgate
>Ask for series CEU0500000049
>in select list for year, choose all years
>results in following table
>http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/srgate
>Series Id: CEU0500000049
>Not Seasonally Adjusted
>Super Sector: Total private
>Industry: Total private
>Data Type: AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS, 1982 DOLLARS
>1964 - 2005
>
>Does anyone know if this is of people who are paid hourly only? Or is
>this all wage earners regardless of method of payment? That is, is the
>BLS imputing an hourly wage to salaried employees?

It covers "nonsupervisory" employees, a/k/a production workers. If they're paid a salary, BLS imputes an hourly wage.

Doug



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