This group includes employees in both the public and private sectors. Wage and salary workers are people age 16 and older who receive wages, salaries, commissions, tips, payments-in-kind, or piece rates on their sole or principal job. The principal concepts and definitions used in connection with the earnings data in this release are described briefly below. Further information about the reliability of data from the CPS is available on the CPS Technical Documentation page of the BLS website. Statistics based on the CPS data are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. All self-employed workers, both incorporated and unincorporated, are excluded from the data presented in this release. The survey data on earnings are based on one-fourth of the CPS monthly sample and are limited to wage and salary workers. Census Bureau using a scientifically selected national sample of about 60,000 eligible households representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) by the U.S. The survey is conducted monthly for the U.S.
The estimates in this release were obtained from the Current Population Survey (CPS), which provides information on the labor force, employment, and unemployment.
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