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2025 Fourth Quarter Summary: Further softening in compensation cost growth, though margin above general inflation widens slightly

2025 Third Quarter Summary: Growth in compensation costs continues downward trend, though still above general inflation

Experts from the ILR School met with Senator Jessica Ramos and Assemblymember Harry B. Bronson, New York State Chairs of the Committee on Labor, to discuss the current state of labor in New York.

2025 Second Quarter Summary: Workers’ real purchasing power has slightly weakened despite continued wage growth above inflation.

2025 First Quarter Summary: Continue gains in workers’ real purchasing power, while private-sector benefit costs, particularly healthcare, are accelerating faster than wages.

2024 Fourth Quarter Summary: Year-on-year growth of employee compensation softens but remained solidly above consumer inflation.

2024 Third Quarter Summary: Compensation costs continue to rise faster than inflation: good news for workers, especially union workers.

LMD Student Research Team Gathering on Campus

Cornell Compensation Club is currently accepting new members!

Prof Jessi Streib will speak on her new book Friday, September 6 on findings that show career pay equity in some populations that buck assumptions about student resources coming in to college.

A look at recent studies and strategies to address a persistent problem in pay.