The Employment Cost Index lands Oct. 30. Here's what it measures
The BLS publishes third-quarter labor costs on Oct. 30 at 8:30 a.m. ET. At the last release, compensation was up 3.4% over 12 months, with wages cooling and benefits rising.
On Friday, Oct. 30, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is scheduled to publish the Employment Cost Index for the third quarter of 2026. It is not the jobs report, and it won't get the same headlines. But it measures something the jobs report doesn't: how much it costs employers to keep a given job filled.
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