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2019 Third Quarter Summary: Annual compensation growth strengthens, breaking pattern of softening growth over the last two quarters. ECI variation narrows across the country. As private sector growth drives the ECI trend, the accelerating growth in service jobs ends.

2019 Second Quarter Summary: With unemployment rate steady, year-on-year compensation growth softens.

July 31st 2019 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 12-month Employment Cost Index (ECI)

Hassan Enayati has been promoted to Assistant Executive Director within the Institute for Compensation Studies.

Linda Barrington, executive director of the Institute for Compensation Studies, participated in a panel discussion on “The State of the U.S. Labor Market” at the ADP Research Institute (ADPRI) third annual State of the Labor Market Summit 2019

Student Researcher at the Institute for Compensation Studies

The prioritization of money may be at odds with our perceptions of human nature, and can have implications for workplace relationships and culture.

Linda Barrington discusses tighter labor markets spurring innovative recruitment practices in September’s Research for the Real World.

In an attempt to reduce the gender pay gap, some cities and states have enacted “salary privacy” bills.

A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract.