Not exact matches
In private industry, says the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and
notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decade.
However, the number of people who think the job market is going to contract, rather than expand, is still
notably higher than the number of people who think the
labor market is bound to improve.