StateofWorkingAmerica.org (Current Edition)
The State of Working America, an ongoing analysis published since 1988 by EPI, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, jobs, unemployment, wealth, and poverty that allow for a clear, unbiased understanding of the economy’s effect on the living standards of working Americans.
2008/2009 Edition
Download individual tables in Microsoft Excel (.xls) or Zip (.zip) format below:
Jobs
- Unemployment rate by age, January 1948 to July 2009
[zip] [xls] - Part-time employment as a percent of total employment, January 1973 to August 2008
[zip] [xls] - Employment rates by gender (persons age 25-54), 1979-2008q1
[zip] [xls] - Long-term unemployed as a share of unemployed, and the unemployment rate, 1979 to 2008q2
[zip] [xls] - Unemployment rate, January 1948 to August 2008
[zip] [xls] - Gross Job gains and losses, 1990q2 to 2007q4
[zip] [xls] - Labor force and total non-farm employment, 1979-August 2008
[zip] [xls]
Wage and Compensation Trends
- Real and current values of the minimum wage, 1960-2007
[zip] [xls] - Share of all workers earning poverty-level hourly wages, 1973-2007
[zip] [xls] - Dimensions of wage inequality, log wage differentials, 1973-2007
[zip] [xls] - Hourly wage decile cutoffs for all workers, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
[zip] [xls] - Hourly wage decile cutoffs for male workers, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
[zip] [xls] - Hourly wage decile cutoffs for female workers, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
[zip] [xls] - Hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers, 1947-2007 (2007 dollars)
[zip] [xls] - Real hourly wage for all by education, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
[zip] [xls] - Men’s real hourly wage by education, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
[zip] [xls] - Women’s real hourly wage by education, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
[zip] [xls] - Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers (25 years and older), annual averages (2007 dollars)
[zip] [xls] - Estimated wage premium for college and high school graduates, 1973-2007
[zip] [xls] - Productivity and median and average compensation, 1973-2007
[zip] [xls] - Decomposition of total and within-group wage inequality, 1973-2007
[zip] [xls] - Change in private sector employer-provided health insurance coverage, 1979-2006
[zip] [xls] - Change in private sector employer-provided pension insurance coverage, 1979-2006
[zip] [xls]
Prices
- Consumer price index — all urban consumers (CPI-U) (1982-84=100)
[zip] [xls] - Consumer price index research series using current methods (CPI-U-RS), (1977=100)
[zip] [xls]
Archived data: View and print all tables from The State of Working America 2006/2007 in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) or Microsoft Excel (xls) format.