Wages in the United States increased to 31.18 USD/Hour in May from 31.06 USD/Hour in April of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Average Hourly Wages - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Average Hourly Earnings in the United States increased 0.40 percent in May of 2025 over the previous month. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Average Hourly Earnings - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Wages in Manufacturing in the United States increased to 28.92 USD/Hour in May from 28.80 USD/Hour in April of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Average Hourly Wages in Manufacturing - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Context:

The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) and National Compensation Survey (NCS) programs have produced estimates by borrowing from the strength and breadth of each survey to provide more details on occupational wages than either program provides individually. Modeled wage estimates provide annual estimates of average hourly wages for occupations by selected job characteristics and within geographical location. The job characteristics include bargaining status (union and nonunion), part- and full-time work status, incentive- and time-based pay, and work levels by occupation.

Direct estimates are based on survey responses only from the particular geographic area to which the estimate refers. In contrast, modeled wage estimates use survey responses from larger areas to fill in information for smaller areas where the sample size is not sufficient to produce direct estimates. Modeled wage estimates require the assumption that the patterns to responses in the larger area hold in the smaller area.

The sample size for the NCS is not large enough to produce direct estimates by area, occupation, and job characteristic for all of the areas for which the OES publishes estimates by area and occupation. The NCS sample consists of 6 private industry panels with approximately 3,300 establishments sampled per panel, and 1,600 sampled state and local government units. The OES full six-panel sample consists of nearly 1.2 million establishments.

The sample establishments are classified in industry categories based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Within an establishment, specific job categories are selected to represent broader occupational definitions. Jobs are classified according to the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.

Content:

Summary: Average hourly wage estimates for civilian workers in occupations by job characteristic and work levels. These data are available at the national, state, metropolitan, and nonmetropolitan area levels.

Frequency of Observations: Data are available on an annual basis, typically in May.

Data Characteristics: All hourly wages are published to the nearest cent.

Acknowledgements:

This dataset was taken directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and converted to CSV format.

Inspiration:

This dataset contains the estimated wages of civilian workers in the United States. Wage changes in certain industries may be indicators for growth or decline. Which industries have had the greatest increases in wages? Combine this dataset with the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index dataset and find out what kinds of jobs you would need to afford your snacks and instant coffee!

Graph and download economic data for Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, Total Private (CES0500000003) from Mar 2006 to May 2025 about earnings, average, establishment survey, hours, wages, private, employment, and USA.

Average Hourly Earnings YoY in the United States remained unchanged at 3.90 percent in May. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for the United States Average Hourly Earnings YoY.

Avg Hourly Earnings: IF: Publishing Industries data was reported at 58.710 USD in Mar 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 58.590 USD for Feb 2025. Avg Hourly Earnings: IF: Publishing Industries data is updated monthly, averaging 41.240 USD from Mar 2006 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 229 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 58.710 USD in Mar 2025 and a record low of 28.350 USD in Jun 2006. Avg Hourly Earnings: IF: Publishing Industries data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G073: Current Employment Statistics: Average Hourly Earnings.

Avg Hourly Earnings: RT: Tobacco, E-cigarette & Oth Smoking Supplies data was reported at 21.910 USD in Mar 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 21.750 USD for Feb 2025. Avg Hourly Earnings: RT: Tobacco, E-cigarette & Oth Smoking Supplies data is updated monthly, averaging 17.910 USD from Mar 2006 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 229 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 23.860 USD in Feb 2022 and a record low of 14.250 USD in Oct 2006. Avg Hourly Earnings: RT: Tobacco, E-cigarette & Oth Smoking Supplies data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G073: Current Employment Statistics: Average Hourly Earnings.

Average hourly and weekly wage rate, and median hourly and weekly wage rate by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), type of work, gender, and age group.

This dataset provides valuable insights into the wage gap between Hispanic and White workers in the United States.

The wage gap is expressed as a percentage by which hourly wages of Hispanic workers are less than those of White workers.

It is an essential measure for understanding income disparities and examining trends over time.

Interesting Task Ideas:

1. Analyze the Hispanic-White wage gap trends over the years.
2. Explore the variations in median and average wages between Hispanic and White workers.
3. Investigate the gender-specific wage gap and identify any disparities between Hispanic and White men and women.
4. Conduct regression analysis to analyze the wage gap while controlling for relevant factors such as education, age, and geographic location.
5. Visualize the wage gap data to emphasize the magnitude of disparities and highlight any patterns over time.
6. Discover the potential effects of policy changes or economic transformations on the wage gap.

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Analysis of ‘US Minimum Wage by State from 1968 to 2020’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/lislejoem/us-minimum-wage-by-state-from-1968-to-2017 on 12 November 2021.

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US Minimum Wage by State from 1968 to 2020

The Basics

• What is this? In the United States, states and the federal government set minimum hourly pay ("minimum wage") that workers can receive to ensure that citizens experience a minimum quality of life. This dataset provides the minimum wage data set by each state and the federal government from 1968 to 2020.

• Why did you put this together? While looking online for a clean dataset for minimum wage data by state, I was having trouble finding one. I decided to create one myself and provide it to the community.

• Who do we thank for this data? The United States Department of Labor compiles a table of this data on their website. I took the time to clean it up and provide it here for you. :) The GitHub repository (with R Code for the cleaning process) can be found here!

Content

This is a cleaned dataset of US state and federal minimum wages from 1968 to 2020 (including 2020 equivalency values). The data was scraped from the United States Department of Labor's table of minimum wage by state.

Description of Data

The values in the dataset are as follows: - Year: The year of the data. All minimum wage values are as of January 1 except 1968 and 1969, which are as of February 1. - State: The state or territory of the data. - State.Minimum.Wage: The actual State's minimum wage on January 1 of Year. - State.Minimum.Wage.2020.Dollars: The State.Minimum.Wage in 2020 dollars. - Federal.Minimum.Wage: The federal minimum wage on January 1 of Year. - Federal.Minimum.Wage.2020.Dollars: The Federal.Minimum.Wage in 2020 dollars. - Effective.Minimum.Wage: The minimum wage that is enforced in State on January 1 of Year. Because the federal minimum wage takes effect if the State's minimum wage is lower than the federal minimum wage, this is the higher of the two. - Effective.Minimum.Wage.2020.Dollars: The Effective.Minimum.Wage in 2020 dollars. - CPI.Average: The average value of the Consumer Price Index in Year. When I pulled the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, I selected the dataset with "all items in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted". - Department.Of.Labor.Uncleaned.Data: The unclean, scraped value from the Department of Labor's website. - Department.Of.Labor.Cleaned.Low.Value: The State's lowest enforced minimum wage on January 1 of Year. If there is only one minimum wage, this and the value for Department.Of.Labor.Cleaned.High.Value are identical. (Some states enforce different minimum wage laws depending on the size of the business. In states where this is the case, generally, smaller businesses have slightly lower minimum wage requirements.) - Department.Of.Labor.Cleaned.Low.Value.2020.Dollars: The Department.Of.Labor.Cleaned.Low.Value in 2020 dollars. - Department.Of.Labor.Cleaned.High.Value: The State's higher enforced minimum wage on January 1 of Year. If there is only one minimum wage, this and the value for Department.Of.Labor.Cleaned.Low.Value are identical. - Department.Of.Labor.Cleaned.High.Value.2020.Dollars: The Department.Of.Labor.Cleaned.High.Value in 2020 dollars. - Footnote: The footnote provided on the Department of Labor's website. See more below.

Data Footnotes

As laws differ significantly from territory to territory, especially relating to whom is protected by minimum wage laws, the following footnotes are located throughout the data in Footnote to add more context to the minimum wage. The original footnotes can be found here.

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Average weekly earnings, average hourly wage rate and average usual weekly hours by union status and type of work, last 5 years.

Avg Hourly Earnings: RT: Floor Covering Retailers data was reported at 31.750 USD in Mar 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 32.110 USD for Feb 2025. Avg Hourly Earnings: RT: Floor Covering Retailers data is updated monthly, averaging 22.320 USD from Mar 2006 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 229 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 33.240 USD in Oct 2023 and a record low of 20.770 USD in Mar 2011. Avg Hourly Earnings: RT: Floor Covering Retailers data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G073: Current Employment Statistics: Average Hourly Earnings.

The dataset contains the average hourly earnings

Avg Hourly Earnings: FA: Portfolio Management & Investment Advice data was reported at 68.250 USD in Mar 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 68.340 USD for Feb 2025. Avg Hourly Earnings: FA: Portfolio Management & Investment Advice data is updated monthly, averaging 49.660 USD from Mar 2006 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 229 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 68.340 USD in Feb 2025 and a record low of 39.400 USD in Mar 2006. Avg Hourly Earnings: FA: Portfolio Management & Investment Advice data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G073: Current Employment Statistics: Average Hourly Earnings.

Minimum Wages in the United States remained unchanged at 7.25 USD/Hour in 2025 from 7.25 USD/Hour in 2024. This dataset provides - United States Minimum Wages- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Average hourly wages for women and men sorted by age range

United States Avg Hourly Earnings: FA: Insurance Carriers & Related Activities data was reported at 35.290 USD in May 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 36.050 USD for Apr 2018. United States Avg Hourly Earnings: FA: Insurance Carriers & Related Activities data is updated monthly, averaging 31.400 USD from Mar 2006 to May 2018, with 147 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 36.050 USD in Apr 2018 and a record low of 26.710 USD in Mar 2006. United States Avg Hourly Earnings: FA: Insurance Carriers & Related Activities data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.G032: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Average Weekly and Hourly Earnings.

Average hourly earnings for employees paid by the hour, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and overtime status, last 5 months.

United States Avg Hourly Earnings: sa: PW: Other Service data was reported at 20.550 USD in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 20.540 USD for May 2018. United States Avg Hourly Earnings: sa: PW: Other Service data is updated monthly, averaging 9.320 USD from Jan 1964 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 654 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 20.550 USD in Jun 2018 and a record low of 1.110 USD in Mar 1964. United States Avg Hourly Earnings: sa: PW: Other Service data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.G034: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Average Weekly and Hourly Earnings: Production Workers.