The latest Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers news release

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The latest Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers news release
([url]http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf[/url])
was issued today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Highlights are below.
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Median weekly earnings of the nation's 106.5 million full-time wage and salary
workers were $719 in the first quarter of 2008. This was 3.8 percent higher
than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 4.1 percent in the Consumer Price
Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.