United States average hourly earnings, all employees, total private, seasonally adjusted

Reviewed series · Labor · Monthly · Current U.S. dollars per hour · BLS.USA.AHE.PRIVATE.LVL.SA.M

Average hourly earnings of all employees on total private nonfarm payrolls, seasonally adjusted, current U.S. dollars per hour. Gross average hourly earnings reflect payroll divided by hours and composition effects. This is not a production-and-nonsupervisory-only, median, real-dollar or hourly-earnings-growth series. Context reported in the original current-history API acquisition on 2026-10-13 UTC, rather than a statement of future current flags or historical release vintages: August and September 2026 carry source P/preliminary. Original trailing decimals, including values such as 26.00, are retained. CES pay period that includes the 12th of the reference month. Exact source reference date unknown; calendar month end is a SOTW coverage/freshness boundary. Original numbers, explicit missing rows and footnotes retained. No growth rates, payroll changes or release times are computed. Absent preliminary flags do not establish finality.

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