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National Compensation Survey - Compensation Cost Trends produces quarterly indexes measuring change over time in labor costs (ECI) and quarterly data measuring level of average costs per hour worked (ECEC).

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General Overview:

Summary | Data Collection | Survey Methodology | Data Usage

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Special Notices:

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Economic News Releases:
  • Employment Cost Index (TXT) (PDF)
    • ECI Archives - Complete set of ECI news releases from 1976.
  • Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (HTML) (PDF)
  • Subscribe to the BLS News Service-- receive the Employment Cost Index news release by e-mail
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Get Detailed NCS - Compensation Cost Trends Statistics:
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Tables Created by BLS:
  • ECI Current-Dollar Historical Listings
    • UPDATED NAICS basis (TXT) (PDF 289K)
    • SIC basis (TXT) (PDF 573K)
  • ECI Constant-Dollar Historical Listings
    • UPDATED NAICS basis (TXT) (PDF 227K)
    • SIC basis (TXT) (PDF 467K)
  • ECI Health Insurance, private industry (PDF 26K)
  • ECI Standard Errors
  • ECEC Historical Listing, 2004 to present (Quarterly)-Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (TXT)(PDF 727K) -- Quarterly estimates from March 2004 to the present, with sample establishments classified by industry categories based on the new 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.
  • ECEC Supplemental Tables Historical Data, December 2006 - December 2007 (TXT)(PDF 426K)
  • ECEC Relative Standard Errors (TXT) (PDF 145K)
  • ECEC Relative Standard Errors – Supplementary Tables (TXT) (PDF 125K)
  • ECEC Supplemental Tables—Employer Costs for Employee Compensation - December 2007 (TXT) (PDF 151K) | September 2007 (TXT) (PDF 140K) | June 2007 (TXT) (PDF 138K) | March 2007 (TXT) (PDF 60K) | December 2006 (TXT) (PDF 81K) -- supplemental tables with series for private industry workers by occupational group, establishment size, and bargaining status in 14 detailed industries.
  • ECEC Historical Listing, 2002-2003 (Quarterly)—Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (TXT) (PDF 526K) -- Quarterly estimates from March 2002 to December 2003, with sample establishments classified by industry categories based on the 1987 Standard Industry Classification (SIC) system and by occupational classifications according to the 1990 Census of Population.
  • ECEC Historical Listing, 1986-2001 (Annual)—Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (TXT) (PDF 983K) -- Annual estimates from March 1986 to March 2001, with sample establishments classified by industry categories based on the Standard Industry Classification (SIC) system and by occupational classifications according to the Census of Population.
  • NEW Seasonal Factors and Revised Seasonally Adjusted Indexes
  • Chart—Changes in wages and salaries and benefit costs, civilian workers
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Publications and Other Documentation:
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Related Links:

Other BLS Programs

  • National Compensation Survey--provides comprehensive measures of occupational earnings; compensation cost trends; and benefit incidence and detail plan provisions.
  • Wages--provides data on occupational wages for localities, broad geographic regions, and the nation..
  • Benefits--comprehensive data on incidence and provisions of selected employee benefit plans.
  • Consumer Price Indexes--provides monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.
  • Producer Price Indexes--provides monthly data on changes in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.
  • Occupational Employment Statistics--data on employment and wages for over 800 occupations and for about 400 nonfarm industries for the nation, plus occupational data for States and metropolitan areas.
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook--provides data for 250 occupations, by nature of the work, working conditions, employment, job outlook and earnings, related occupations, sources of additional information, and training, other qualifications, and advancement.

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 Latest Numbers

Civilian Workers, Compensation

3-Month % Change (SA)
History  
0.7% in 1st Qtr of 2008

12-Month % Change (NSA)
History  
3.3% in 1st Qtr of 2008

Private Industry, Compensation

3-Month % Change (SA)
History  
0.8% in 1st Qtr of 2008

12-Month % Change (NSA)
History  
3.2% in 1st Qtr of 2008

State and Local Government, Compensation

3-Month % Change (SA)
History  
0.6% in 1st Qtr of 2008

12-Month % Change (NSA)
History  
3.6% in 1st Qtr of 2008

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