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BNA's Wage Trend
Indicator™ offers
a new perspective
on trends in wage
and salary growth. The
WTI is designed
to predict and interpret
trends in U.S. private
industry wages,
as well as provide
timely information
for business and
human resource executives
as they plan for
year-to-year changes
in compensation
costs.
The WTI was developed for BNA by the economic consulting firm of Joel Popkin &
Company. The quarterly index-revised and updated monthly-provides a new measure for
employers, analysts, and policymakers to identify turning points in private sector wages,
as measured by the Employment Cost Index, a key measure of inflation. The BNA index
comprises seven components shown to be predictive of accelerations and decelerations in
the rate of increase in private wages. Five of the WTI's seven components are based on
federal economic statistical series; two are derived from BNA's Employment Outlook Survey.
Subscribers to BNA's Daily
Labor Report and Daily
Report for Executives
receive full coverage
of the Wage Trend Indicator
as part of their subscription.
A one-year e-mail subscription
to the Wage Trend Indicator
Report is
$55 for BNA subscribers
and $90 for nonsubscribers.
To order, call BNA PLUS
at 800-372-1033 or e-mail bnaplus@bna.com.
For press copies of the data, send an e-mail to Karen James Cody.
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