BLS

BLS survey data showed that in 2023, 35% of employed people did some or all of their work at home.

Owners' equivalent rent measures the market cost of living in a home — which is a bit different from how much we actually spend on housing.

The survey of employers was created to help answer puzzling questions about labor.

The WSJ’s Lauren Weber talks about "how we sort ourselves into different occupations and how in some ways we are sorted."

Rising productivity makes possible rising living standards over time.

A more stable, less swingy labor market, as reflected in the latest JOLTS data, is usually good news.

It means interest rate hikes are having the intended effect. Tapering consumer demand and high labor costs are weighing on earnings.

To make the CPI’s health care component more accurate, the Bureau of Labor Statistics changed how it uses health insurance data.

Average hourly earnings rose 4.1% year-over-year in October; the rate peaked near 6% in March 2022. The slowdown in wage growth is helping the Fed wrestle inflation lower.

The "I’d prefer a full-time gig, but I can’t find one” measure can give us a sense of how much slack or unmet potential there is in the labor market.