Tag: manufacturing wages

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Wages for construction workers and heavy equipment manufacturing workers are on the rise

We’re now five years into the economic recovery following the Great Recession and pay raises, according to a report from the Associated Press, are uneven across U.S. industries. Overall, pay in the U.S. has risen at a rate roughly equal to inflation: about 2 percent per year. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, […]

August 5, 2014

Business

Wages for construction and other skilled trades are on the rise

Wages for skilled tradesmen in the construction and mining as well as those in logging and manufacturing are on the rise, according to a new report from the Economist. Citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the report says that hourly wages have grown at an annual rate of around 2 percent for the last […]

June 4, 2014