New England Information Office

Private industry employer costs for employee compensation among the four regions of the country ranged from $34.45 per hour in the South to $42.83 in the Northeast in March 2022.

Workers in the Boston-Cambridge-Nashua Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $36.95 in May 2021.

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Boston was up 1.1 percent over the two months, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Northeast rose 0.9 percent in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

From June 2021 to September 2021, gross job gains from opening and expanding private-sector establishments in Massachusetts were 217,283, while gross job losses from closing and contracting private-se