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Comment period now open for the 2028 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) manual. Read More
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has revised Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 updating the standards for maintaining, collecting, and presenting federal data on race and ethnicity. Read more about OMB Statistical Policy Directives.
Median weekly earnings of the nation's 119.9 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,143 in the second quarter of 2024 (not seasonally adjusted). This was 3.9 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 3.2 percent in the CPI-U.
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