Hourly mean wage
The arithmetic mean hourly wage for a defined occupation, industry and geography cohort and release period.
Sources that carry it
2 sourcesAnnual OEWS release files provide employment and straight-time gross hourly and annual wage estimates by occupation for national, state, metropolitan/nonmetropolitan, and national-industry cohorts. BLS publishes the current May 2025 release, annual archives, coordinated OE text files and mapping dictionaries, and Public Data API delivery. Historical editions provide level observations, not an emitted growth rate; comparability requires release, geography, SOC/NAICS vintage, method, suppression, and pooled-sample controls.
Commercial PDF publication that combines pooled 2003–2023 ATUS time diaries with OEWS wage rates to report daily time and replacement-value measures for household production and other activities across 385 U.S. demographic groupings. The current offered edition is the 2023 valuation edition, updated on the publisher page in April 2025.
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