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WillPostForFoodyesterday at 6:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

Median is also up:

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 121.0 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,235 in the first quarter of 2026 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 3.4 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.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf


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5701652400yesterday at 6:36 PM

wonder how much of it is K-shaped. if is payouts for execs, capital gains and alike are boosting aggregate.

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nobodyandproudyesterday at 11:39 PM

What is the employment rate between the two quarters?

Edit: 4.2% (2025) vs 4.3% (2026).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/UNRATE