← New searchAverage hourly earnings, private · 1931

No record for 1931

This series is observed, never estimated. Back-casting earnings along inflation would erase real wage growth and invent a figure the record does not support — so ThenPrice declines to guess.

The average hourly earnings, private record starts in 1964 at $2.50 per hour.

See the earliest record (1964) →

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