The Labor Department released its latest employment cost index, a quarterly report on how much employers are paying their employees, on Thursday. It showed that employment costs were up 0.8% in Q3.

The Employment Cost Index rose 0.9% in Q1 2025, the matching the consensus and holding steady from Q4 2024, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday. For the ...

Rising wages and benefit costs will pressure plastics manufacturers as minimum wage increases take effect across multiple ...

The Employment Cost Index rose 0.9% sequentially in Q4, matching the 0.9% increase expected and slightly higher than the 0.80% rise in the previous quarter, the U.S. Department of Labor said on Friday ...

At a time when many congressional conservatives are worrying about the cost of proposed health reforms, their liberal colleagues seem surprisingly unconcerned about the human cost, the inevitable loss ...

Higher labour costs have raised the marginal cost of hiring by around 7%, in real terms, for an entry level position, Niesr ...