The latest Employment Cost Index news release
(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/eci.pdf)
was issued today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Highlights are below.
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Civilian workers compensation, wages and salaries, and benefit costs all rose 0.4 percent,
seasonally adjusted, from September to December 2010. Over the year, compensation rose
2.0 percent, wages and salaries 1.6 percent, and benefits 2.9 percent.