ACTV - Are Real Wages Catching Up?
2024-07-05 03:45:00 ET
Summary
- The speed and magnitude of the surge in consumer prices resulted in a sizeable decline in real (inflation-adjusted) wage growth.
- Inflation cooled quickly following the initial surge and by June 2023 was trending a bit above 3 percent.
- While real wage growth has turned slightly positive in recent months, the level of real wages is still below where they were at the onset of the inflation surge that we began to see in the first quarter of 2021.
Originally published on June 27, 2024
By Jose Maria Barrero | Nick Bloom | Steven J. Davis | Kevin Foster | Brent Meyer | Emil Mihaylov ...
Are Real Wages Catching Up?