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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (source: BLS Current Employment Statistics) · 2024
Population measured
Production and nonsupervisory employees, total private sector
Average (not median) hourly earnings. Coverage: 1964-present, monthly. BLS source code: CES0500000008. Used as an explicitly average wage benchmark in the work-buys panel; it does not identify median worker purchasing power.
10 records across 5 decades and countries. Documented gaps are included; a source cited for a gap does not establish a value.
5 of 10 records have a current source audit. A transcription check reads a declared numeric field from a pinned local source file; a calculation replay reads its operands and applies the declared method and rounding rule. A source audit does not independently validate the source or every claim in a record. The date is the last successful local audit; the build checks that its bindings still match.
$6.85
USD per hour, nominal
Calculation replayed · 2026-09-08Arithmetic mean of the twelve seasonally adjusted monthly CES0500000008 observations for 1980; each month weighted equally, rounded once to 2 decimal places.
Arithmetic mean, rounded to 2 decimal places before unit scaling. Exact halfway cases round away from zero.
12 source operands; the source audit records their pinned file and addresses.
$241.12/week — a full year of it (×52) ≈ 60% of median family income
weekly earnings vs annual median family income
No current source audit$10.20
USD per hour, nominal
Calculation replayed · 2026-09-08Arithmetic mean of the twelve seasonally adjusted monthly CES0500000008 observations for 1990; each month weighted equally, rounded once to 2 decimal places.
Arithmetic mean, rounded to 2 decimal places before unit scaling. Exact halfway cases round away from zero.
12 source operands; the source audit records their pinned file and addresses.
$349.86/week — a full year of it (×52) ≈ 51% of median family income
weekly earnings vs annual median family income
No current source audit$14.01
USD per hour, nominal
Calculation replayed · 2026-09-08Arithmetic mean of the twelve seasonally adjusted monthly CES0500000008 observations for 2000; each month weighted equally, rounded once to 2 decimal places.
Arithmetic mean, rounded to 2 decimal places before unit scaling. Exact halfway cases round away from zero.
12 source operands; the source audit records their pinned file and addresses.
$480.54/week — a full year of it (×52) ≈ 49% of median family income
weekly earnings vs annual median family income
No current source audit$19.05
USD per hour, nominal
Calculation replayed · 2026-09-08Arithmetic mean of the twelve seasonally adjusted monthly CES0500000008 observations for 2010; each month weighted equally, rounded once to 2 decimal places.
Arithmetic mean, rounded to 2 decimal places before unit scaling. Exact halfway cases round away from zero.
12 source operands; the source audit records their pinned file and addresses.
$636.27/week — a full year of it (×52) ≈ 55% of median family income
weekly earnings vs annual median family income
No current source audit$30.12
USD per hour, nominal
Calculation replayed · 2026-09-08Arithmetic mean of the twelve seasonally adjusted monthly CES0500000008 observations for 2024; each month weighted equally, rounded once to 2 decimal places.
Arithmetic mean, rounded to 2 decimal places before unit scaling. Exact halfway cases round away from zero.
12 source operands; the source audit records their pinned file and addresses.
$1,015.04/week — a full year of it (×52) ≈ 50% of median family income
weekly earnings vs annual median family income
No current source audit