Sentences with phrase «average hourly pay rose»

Average hourly pay rose 2.9 percent in January from a year earlier, the sharpest year - over-year increase in eight years.

Average hourly pay rose 2.7 percent in March compared with a year earlier, a slight pickup from February.

Despite a shortfall of workers, average hourly pay rose just 2.4 percent from a year ago, one - half percentage point lower than September's annual gain.

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The numbers show slight upticks in manufacturing employment, the average length of the workweek, and even a 7 - cent rise in average hourly pay for workers.

The assemblyman's office noted he had co-sponsored a measure that would peg the then - $ 8 hourly minimum wage to the urban inflation rate, which has increased by an average of 1.7 percent annually over the last five years (and only increased by a tenth of a percent in 2015)-- which would have resulted in a far more modest rise in the pay floor.