Output growth slowed to 4.4 percent in the second quarter, following a 5.5 percent jump the prior quarter. Compensation growth held steady at a pace of 2.3 percent.
Year-on-year, productivity was up 0.9 percent in the third quarter, down from 1.3 percent in the second quarter. Year-ago unit labor costs were up 2.4 percent, compared to up 1.5 percent in the second quarter.
Recent History Of This Indicator:
Nonfarm business productivity for the second quarter was nudged down to a 2.3 percent annualized gain after falling 4.5 percent in the first quarter. But unit labor costs also were bumped down to minus 0.1 percent, following an 11.6 percent annualized surge in the first quarter. First quarter numbers were heavily affected by atypically harsh winter weather. Output rebounded 5.0 percent after dipping 2.4 percent in the first quarter. Compensation growth decelerated to 2.3 percent from 6.6 percent in the first quarter. Based on deceleration in third quarter GDP growth from the second quarter weather rebound, third quarter productivity is likely to ease and labor costs firm from the second quarter.
Nonfarm business productivity for the second quarter was nudged down to a 2.3 percent annualized gain after falling 4.5 percent in the first quarter. But unit labor costs also were bumped down to minus 0.1 percent, following an 11.6 percent annualized surge in the first quarter. First quarter numbers were heavily affected by atypically harsh winter weather. Output rebounded 5.0 percent after dipping 2.4 percent in the first quarter. Compensation growth decelerated to 2.3 percent from 6.6 percent in the first quarter. Based on deceleration in third quarter GDP growth from the second quarter weather rebound, third quarter productivity is likely to ease and labor costs firm from the second quarter.
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