Jan 15, 2025 · The Atlanta Fed's Wage Growth Tracker is a measure of the nominal wage growth of individuals. It is constructed using microdata from the Current Population Survey (CPS), and is the median percent change in the hourly wage of individuals observed 12 months apart.

Feb 14, 2023 · The Atlanta Fed's Wage Growth Tracker (WGT) measure of year-over-year nominal wage growth has been elevated during the last couple of years. It was 6.1 percent in December 2022.

Jun 27, 2024 · While real wage growth has turned slightly positive in recent months, the level of real wages is still below where they were at the onset of the inflation surge that we began to see in the first quarter of 2021. Simply put, real wages haven't fully caught up …

Aug 28, 2024 · Last May, the Atlanta Fed temporarily paused updates to the Wage Growth Tracker (WGT), a decision made in response to a change in the underlying data used to construct the WGT.

Feb 5, 2024 · The rise in average wages during the Great Recession led to different ways to look at the cyclicality of wage growth that are not affected by changes in the composition of employment—and this leads to the second part of the origin story.

Jul 13, 2023 · The Atlanta Fed's Wage Growth Tracker was 5.6 percent in June, down from the 6.0 percent reading in May. For people who changed jobs, the Tracker in June was 6.1 percent, down from 6.8 percent in May.

Mar 13, 2024 · The Atlanta Fed's Wage Growth Tracker was 5.0 percent in February, the same as for January. For people who changed jobs, the Tracker in February was 5.3 percent, down from 5.6 percent in January. For those not changing jobs, the …

Sep 13, 2024 · The Atlanta Fed's Wage Growth Tracker was 4.6 percent in August, down slightly from 4.7 percent in July. For people who changed jobs, the Tracker in August was 4.6 percent, down from 5.0 percent in July. For those not changing jobs, the Tracker was 4.7 percent, up from 4.5 percent in July.

Oct 21, 2022 · High wage growth for lower-paid workers aligns with numerous anecdotal reports suggesting that worker shortages since the pandemic have been especially acute in industries that pay below-average wages, such as leisure and hospitality.

Jan 9, 2023 · This Policy Hub: Macroblog post explores what coming changes in how wage data are reported mean for the Atlanta Fed's Wage Growth Tracker.