{
  "id": 14681616,
  "title": "Revenue per Worker Is Up. Are Firms Getting a Larger Share?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/revenue-per-worker-is-up-are-firms-getting-a-larger-share",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-15T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Liberty Street Economics",
    "slug": "liberty-street-economics",
    "url": "https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/10/revenue-per-worker-is-up-are-firms-getting-a-larger-share/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "From 2010 to 2019, U.S. labor productivity growth was disappointing, with output per hour increasing by only 1 percent annually, compared to 3 percent in the late 1990s. This trend was particularly evident in manufacturing and coincided with a slowdown in revenue per worker growth among public firms. However, since 2019, productivity growth has picked up, with a rate of 2 percent, nearly twice the pace seen in the 2010s. This acceleration in growth has been observed both in overall labor productivity and firm revenue per worker.",
  "summary": "From the Great Recession until 2019, U.S. labor productivity growth disappointed. Nonfarm-business output per hour grew about 1 percent a year from 2010 to 2019, down from 3 percent in the late 1990s. This slowdown was especially pronounced in manufacturing, and it coincided with a slowdown in the growth of revenue per worker among public firms. However, since 2019, growth has picked up to twice…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}