{
  "id": 5648211,
  "title": "August Real Average Hourly Earnings Nowcasted",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/august-real-average-hourly-earnings-nowcasted",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-04T21:14:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Econbrowser",
    "slug": "econbrowser",
    "url": "https://econbrowser.com/archives/2026/09/august-real-average-hourly-earnings-nowcasted"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "With August hourly earnings and nowcasted August CPI: Figure 1: Average hourly wage in 2025$ using CPI-all urban (blue), using CPI for wage earners and clerical workers (red). August deflated using Cleveland Fed nowcast. Source: BLS, Cleveland Fed, and author’s calculations.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}