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• Employment Cost Index (TXT) (PDF 99K)
• UPDATED Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (HTML) (PDF 107K)
• Subscribe to the BLS News Service-- receive the Employment Cost Index news release by e-mail

• Most Requested Statistics --Select from lists of the most popular Compensation Cost Trends statistics.
• Employment Cost Index (ECI)
• Employer Cost for Employee Compensation (ECEC)
• 2004 forward (NAICS basis)
• 1986 - 2003 (SIC basis)
• Create Customized Tables (one screen) --this application (previously called "Public Data Query") requires a Java-enabled browser. Choose the data you want from BLS databases on a simple, one-screen form.
• Employment Cost Index (ECI)
• Employer Cost for Employee Compensation (ECEC)
• 2004 forward (NAICS basis)
• 1986-2003 (SIC basis)
• Create Customized Tables (multiple screens) --a form-based query application which allows you to obtain BLS time series data based on choices you make (previously called "Selective Access").
• Employment Cost Index (ECI)
• Employer Cost for Employee Compensation (ECEC)
• 2004 forward (NAICS basis)
• 1986-2003 (SIC basis)
• Series Report--Already know the series identifier for the statistic you want? Use this shortcut to retrieve your data.
• Flat files (FTP)--For those who want it all. Download a flat file of the entire database or large subset of the database.
• Employment Cost Index (ECI)
• Employer Cost for Employee Compensation (ECEC)
• 2004 forward (NAICS basis)
• 1986-2003 (SIC basis)
• Compensation Cost Trends Search--allows you to search through all the Employment Cost Index and Employer Costs for Employee Compensation publications that are currently available electronically.

• Historical Listing—Employment Cost Index (TXT) (PDF 531K)
• Constant Dollar—Employment Cost Index (TXT) (PDF 418K)
• ECI Health Insurance, private industry (PDF 11K)
• ECI Standard Errors
• ECEC Historical Listing, 1986-2001 (Annual)—Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (TXT) (PDF 983K) -- Annual estimates from March 1986 to March 2001, with sample establishments classified by industry categories based on the Standard Industry Classification (SIC) system and by occupational classifications according to the Census of Population.
• ECEC Historical Listing, 2002-2003 (Quarterly)—Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (TXT) (PDF 568K) -- Quarterly estimates from March 2002 to December 2003, with sample establishments classified by industry categories based on the 1987 Standard Industry Classification (SIC) system and by occupational classifications according to the 1990 Census of Population.
• NEW ECEC Historical Listing, 2004 to present (Quarterly)-Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (TXT)(PDF 498K) -- Quarterly estimates from March 2004 to the present, with sample establishments classified by industry categories based on the new 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.
• ECEC Relative Standard Errors (TXT) (PDF 72K)
• Seasonal Factors and Revised Seasonally Adjusted Indexes
• Chart—Changes in wages and salaries and benefit costs, civilian workers

• Employment Cost Indexes, 1975-99 (PDF 567K)
• Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, 1986-99 (PDF 719K)
• Related Articles
• The Compensation and Working Conditions Bulletin (CWC) publications on-line
• The Monthly Labor Review (MLR) publications on-line

Other BLS Programs

• National Compensation Survey--provides comprehensive measures of occupational earnings; compensation cost trends; and benefit incidence and detail plan provisions.
• Wages--provides data on occupational wages for localities, broad geographic regions, and the nation..
• Benefits--comprehensive data on incidence and provisions of selected employee benefit plans.
• Consumer Price Indexes--provides monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.
• Producer Price Indexes--provides monthly data on changes in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.
• Occupational Employment Statistics--annual data on employment and wages for about 750 occupations and 400 nonfarm industries for the nation, plus occupational data by geographic area.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook--provides data for 250 occupations, by nature of the work, working conditions, employment, job outlook and earnings, related occupations, sources of additional information, and training, other qualifications, and advancement.

Other Useful Links

• Employment Standards Administration--administers a variety of programs protecting the basic rights of workers, including minimum wage and hour standards, and equal employment opportunity.
• Employee Benefit Research Institute--offers a detailed description of private- and public-sector employee benefit programs as they exist today.