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The statistics on this page offer a closer examination of the annual wage changes of U.S. workers
that have not changed jobs over the year. They include graphs of the fraction of workers receiving
a wage change of zero in several demographic subgroups of the U.S. labor force, as well as a
histogram showing all of the reported wage changes among these workers in the last four
quarters. The data for these statistics are drawn from a matched Current Population Survey
dataset (see Daly, Hobijn, Wiles 2011 for details on the matching procedure). The Current
Population Survey is a monthly nationally representative survey conducted by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. The summary statistics on this page will be updated on a quarterly frequency.
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Type of pay
Educational attainment
Selected industries
Distribution of wage changes
The above chart displays the percentage of workers who saw no change in their wage over the past
year. This statistic is calculated for all workers, for workers paid at an hourly rate, and for nonhourly workers.
Distribution of Nominal Wage Changes
4-Quarter Average 2012Q2 2012Q3 2012Q4 2013Q1 2013Q2
Difference of log wage from one year prior
25th Percentile
-0.032
-0.033
-0.029
-0.028
-0.03
Median
0.018
0.017
0.018
0.018
0.016
75th Percentile
0.105
0.105
0.105
0.106
0.105
Percentage of workers reporting a wage change of zero
15.91
15.81
15.7
15.61
15.98
References
Daly, Mary C., Bart Hobijn, and Brian Lucking. 2012. Why Has Wage Growth Stayed Strong?
FRBSF Economic Letter 2012-11 (April 2).
Daly, Mary C., Bart Hobijn, and Theodore S. Wiles. 2011. Dissecting Aggregate Real Wage
Fluctuations: Individual Wage Growth and the Composition Effect FRBSF Working Paper
2011-23.
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