Annual growth in US labor costs decelerated in the third quarter to the slowest pace in four years, adding to evidence that a ...

U.S. labor costs increased slightly less than expected in the third quarter as a softening labor market curbed wage growth, ...

Benefit costs also advanced 0.8% in Q3, compared with +0.7% in the prior quarter. Likewise, employment wages gained 0.8% in ...

The Employment Cost Index (ECI) for the United States showed a quarter-over-quarter increase of 0.8%, down from the previous ...

The Labor Department released its latest employment cost index, a quarterly report on how much employers are paying their employees, on Thursday. It showed that employment costs were up 0.8% in Q3.

The cost of employing the average U.S. worker rose 0.7% in the fourth quarter, but compensation still hasn’t return to pre-pandemic levels, according to a closely followed measure of labor costs.

Based on the Consumer Price Index, the cost of the basket of goods that (supposedly) we typically buy has risen by about 20% since 2020. To offset this “inflation tax,” compensation must rise by at ...

Ahead of the Autumn Budget, Employment Hero has urged the Government to avoid increasing the cost of employment, with new research revealing that 1 in 2 (49%) small business leaders would consider ...

The numbers: The wages and benefits that companies pay their workers rose less than 1% for the second time in the past three quarters, reflecting the waning demand for labor in a slower-growing ...

Employment costs are cooling broadly despite the tight jobs market. Cooling labour cost environment offers the Fed the room to cut interest rates meaningfully to neutral levels. Employment costs rose ...