{"id":882252,"date":"2026-10-14T17:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882252\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:50:20","slug":"preview-due-september-30-u-s-q3-employment-cost-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882252\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Due September 30 &#8211; U.S. Q3 Employment Cost Index &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We look for the Q3 employment cost index (ECI) to increase by 0.8%, slower than two preceding quarters at 0.9% but leaving yr\/yr growth stable at 3.4% for a third straight quarter.<\/p>\n<p>We expect a 0.7% increase in wages and salaries, a slowing from 0.9% in Q2 as suggesting buy a recent slowing in payroll average hourly earnings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6acf99a43862d.JPG\" style=\"width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We expect a 0.9% rise in benefit costs, a slight slowing from 1.0% in Q2 though exceeding wages and salaries for a fourth straight quarter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6acf99aa30f51.JPG\" style=\"width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yr\/yr growth in wages and salaries would then slow to 3.1% from 3.2% but yr\/yr growth in benefit cost would pick up to 3.9% from 3.8%.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6acf99b05f008.JPG\" style=\"width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We look for the Q3 employment cost index (ECI) to increase by 0.8%, slower than two preceding quarters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,2788,370424,18664,134],"class_list":["post-882252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-data","tag-data-previews","tag-foreign-exchange","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}