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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (source: BLS Current Employment Statistics) · 2024
Population measured
Production and nonsupervisory employees in manufacturing
Coverage: 1939–present, monthly. Manufacturing-only earnings series; AHETPI starts in 1964 but covers the broader total-private population. 1950 annual average: $1.32/hour. CSV API: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=CES3000000008.
7 records across 5 decades and countries. Documented gaps are included; a source cited for a gap does not establish a value.
5 of 7 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.
$1.32
USD per hour, nominal
Calculation replayed · 2026-09-08Arithmetic mean of the twelve seasonally adjusted monthly CES3000000008 observations for 1950; 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.
$2,673
USD per year, nominal (computed: $53.46 × 50 weeks)
No current source audit$53.46/week — a full year of it (×52) ≈ 84% of median family income
weekly manufacturing earnings vs annual median family income
No current source audit$7.15
USD per hour, nominal
Calculation replayed · 2026-09-08Arithmetic mean of the twelve seasonally adjusted monthly CES3000000008 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.
$10.77
USD per hour, nominal
Calculation replayed · 2026-09-08Arithmetic mean of the twelve seasonally adjusted monthly CES3000000008 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.
$14.31
USD per hour, nominal
Calculation replayed · 2026-09-08Arithmetic mean of the twelve seasonally adjusted monthly CES3000000008 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.
$18.61
USD per hour, nominal
Calculation replayed · 2026-09-08Arithmetic mean of the twelve seasonally adjusted monthly CES3000000008 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.