The latest Employment Cost Index news release

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The latest Employment Cost Index news release
(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/eci.pdf)
was issued today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Highlights are below.
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Total compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.5 percent, seasonally adjusted, from March to
June 2010. For the year ended June 2010, compensation costs rose 1.8 percent, wages and salaries rose
1.6 percent, and benefit costs rose 2.5 percent.