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Average hourly earnings, all private employees, monthly
Published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED), from BLS on October 3, 2026.
Average hourly pay. September 2026 is $37.81. The year-over-year percent on this page is arithmetic on this file.
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… 2025-12-01,37.02 2026-01-01,37.15 2026-02-01,37.27 2026-03-01,37.35 2026-04-01,37.41 2026-05-01,37.49 2026-06-01,37.59 2026-07-01,37.64 2026-08-01,37.76 2026-09-01,37.81
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- Payrolls rose by an estimated 29,000 in September, a change too small for the survey to tell from none · cited for the wage level and the computed year-over-year change
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