Appendix chart 1. Standard deviation of log hourly wages for all workers and full-time workers in CPS outgoing rotations, public-use (with two different corrections for the censoring of high-wage observations) and confidential internal versions, 2003–19
Year All workers Full-time workers
Public-use, Pareto Public-use, 1.4 recoding Confidential Public-use, Pareto Public-use, 1.4 recoding Confidential

2003

 0.591 0.582 0.582 0.568 0.557 0.557

2004

 0.598 0.587 0.587 0.574 0.561 0.562

2005

 0.602 0.591 0.590 0.579 0.565 0.565

2006

 0.605 0.592 0.593 0.582 0.567 0.568

2007

 0.610 0.594 0.594 0.588 0.570 0.569

2008

 0.613 0.596 0.595 0.591 0.570 0.570

2009

 0.617 0.598 0.598 0.595 0.571 0.572

2010

 0.622 0.599 0.601 0.602 0.576 0.578

2011

 0.624 0.601 0.601 0.604 0.577 0.577

2012

 0.636 0.609 0.610 0.617 0.585 0.586

2013

 0.642 0.611 0.612 0.623 0.586 0.589

2014

 0.638 0.608 0.609 0.619 0.582 0.585

2015

 0.650 0.613 0.615 0.634 0.591 0.594

2016

 0.648 0.612 0.616 0.631 0.588 0.593

2017

 0.648 0.608 0.610 0.631 0.584 0.588

2018

 0.653 0.608 0.611 0.637 0.584 0.589

2019

 0.656 0.603 0.608 0.642 0.581 0.587

Note: CPS = Current Population Survey. Public-use microdata are adjusted for the censoring of high wages in two different ways (using a Pareto distribution and multiplying the maximum reported value by 1.4). This adjustment is not done in the confidential internal version of these data.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.