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Real Earnings

Real Earnings

What exactly? A measure of the change in real (inflation-adjusted) average week by week earnings.
Source: Labor Department
Frequency: Monthly
Delivered when? Around the fifteenth of the month (same day as the Consumer Price Index) at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. Data for prior month.
Market importance: None. Never moves the market attributable to the way that it just joins statistics contained in the recently delivered employment report and the all the while delivered CPI.
Other notes: The headline number is the percent change from the prior month, however we likewise graph the year-on-year change. That way you can see the rate at which real earnings are expanding or decreasing.