Posts Tagged ‘Bureau of Labor Statistics’
Prices in the western region of the United States dropped slightly in November, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The consumer price index dropped .2 percent last month, influenced by lower prices for electricity and gasoline. During the last 12 months, the consumer price index rose 3.2 percent. Energy prices jumped 13.4 percent, [...] [...]
Colorado businesses laid off 1,235 people in the third quarter of 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Low demand for business was the biggest reason for the layoffs. Across the country, there were more than 184,000 people let go from their jobs, fewer than this time last year. Layoffs due to completion of [...] [...]
Area prices were down for the month, but up nearly 3.1 percent over a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The June decrease was influenced by lower gas prices, but the consumer price index for the Western region advanced over the same time last year, said regional commission Stanley W. Suchman. Energy [...] [...]
Employment rose in all nine large counties in Colorado for the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. El Paso County’s employment growth was an anemic .5 percent, far below the national average and lower than Arapahoe, Boulder and Denver Counties. It was ranked 173rd in the nation. The average [...] [...]
Nationally, employee costs among private industry employers in the United States averaged $28.10 an hour in 2009– with 70 percent of those costs coming from actual wages and nearly 30 percent for benefits, according to newly released information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the West, wages and salaries averaged $21.28 and accounted [...] [...]
Nearly half of the nation’s 372 metropolitan areas saw year-over-year employment increases in November. While 16 remained the same, 176 had decreases in nonfarm payroll employment, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For the same month, unemployment declined. Job less rates in 114 metropolitan areas hovered at or above 10 percent, a decrease from [...] [...]
Hospital pay levels have steadily dropped during the past decade and now match the average pay for all workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Information from the bureau shows that the cost increases to hospitals for wages and salary growth were 5.7 percent higher than they were in the fourth quarter of [...] [...]
In June, private-industry employer costs for employee pay ranged broadly among the four geographic regions of the nation. In the West, average costs for compensation were $24.69 per hour, and the Midwest was $26.64 per hour. The lowest region was the South, at $24.69 per hour, while the highest was the Northeast, at $32 per [...] [...]
The latest employee compensation Bureau of Labor Statistics shows private industry employee compensation ranged from $24.72 an hour in the southern United States to $32.13 in the northeast during March. In the midwest, employer costs were $26.75, and $29.52 in the west. For the first time, total compensation and benefits costs are available for 15 metropolitan areas across the four [...] [...]
Employers took 1,521 mass layoff actions in January, which resulted in 182,261 workers losing their jobs, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Each mass layoff involved at least 50 people from a single employer – and both layoff events and initial claims increased during January, after four consecutive decreases. Manufacturing had the most number of [...] [...]
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