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Listen to article(2 minutes)Americans’ growing paychecks surpassed inflation for the first time in two years, providing some financial relief to workers, while complicating the Federal Reserve’s efforts to tame price increases.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Listen to article(2 minutes)Americans’ growing paychecks surpassed inflation for the first time in two years, providing some financial relief to workers, while complicating the Federal Reserve’s…

This week’s tentative agreement at West Coast ports is the latest union deal to bring sizable wage increases to transport workers. This week’s tentative agreement at West Coast ports is the latest union deal to bring sizable wage increases to transport workers. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful…

SAKATA, Japan—Miki Iwai, 29, says she has never asked for a raise and isn’t about to start this year, even with inflation at a four-decade high.The sake brewery worker says she started tracking household expenses recently to cover the higher price of gasoline. “If I manage it carefully, I can still add to my savings,” she said. Her boss says he’s raising wages, but probably not enough to keep pace with inflation. Here at Tatenokawa Inc.—a brewery in business since 1832—and at hundreds of thousands of other…

Black workers, young workers and people on the bottom of the income scale were among those who saw the largest pay increases last year, when employers were readily handing out raises in a tight labor market and high inflation environment. Median weekly earnings for all workers were 7.4% higher, year over year, at the end of 2022, according to an analysis of newly released Labor Department data. That outpaced the consumer inflation rate of 7.1% in the fourth quarter, from a year earlier.   For some workers, the gains were…

Worker pay increases fell behind inflation in 2022 for the second year in a row, leaving households worse off despite historically strong pay gains. But recent data suggest a shift is under way, with paycheck totals gaining ground as inflation eases. Whether the trend continues in 2023 depends on the path of the economy, which is cooling as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates and faces the risk of a recession. A historically tight labor market pushed up average hourly earnings by 4.6% in December from a year…

Inflation inflicted misery on pretty much all workers in 2022. Yet peek below the surface, and the year’s most consequential economic development may be what happened between different groups of workers.In the decades before the pandemic, the wages of lower-paid, less skilled hourly employees steadily lost ground to those of skilled workers, college graduates, managers and professionals. In the two years since, those trends have sharply reversed. We don’t know if this narrowing in inequality will last. Perhaps it is a…

Personal spending increased 0.1% in November from the prior month, the Commerce Department said Friday, compared with an upwardly revised 0.9% increase in October. Households boosted spending on services last month while cutting spending on goods, including autos. The personal-consumption expenditures price index—the Fed’s preferred gauge of inflation—rose 5.5% in November from a year earlier, a significant cooling from 6.1% in October. The core PCE-price index, which removes volatile…

There is a tug of war between employers and workers over wage increases, and the outcome is critical for the inflation outlook.Average wage growth had, by some measures, begun to cool since the summer. But Friday’s November jobs report showed annual growth in hourly earnings accelerating to 5.1% from 4.9% in October. Workers continue to win significant pay bumps, in part because help remains hard to find: Unemployment in November remained at 3.7%, near a half-century low. The labor force also shrank in November and is…

Worker pay and benefits rose rapidly in the third quarter from a year before, maintaining pressure on inflation.The employment-cost index, a measure of what employers pay for wages and benefits, rose 5% in the third quarter from the same period a year earlier, the Labor Department said Friday. That was a slightly slower pace than in the second quarter but still well above gains prior to the pandemic. On a quarterly basis, wages and benefits rose a seasonally-adjusted 1.2% in the third quarter from a 1.3% increase in the…

U.S. consumer inflation excluding energy and food accelerated to a new four-decade high in September as prices continued to surge, a sign that persistent cost increases are becoming entrenched in the economy.    The Labor Department on Thursday said that the consumer-price index, a measure of what consumers pay for goods and services, gained 8.2% in September from the same month a year ago, down from 8.3% in August. That was down from an annual increase of 8.5% in July and 9.1% in June, which was the highest inflation…