News Summary

• They're all lower than they were in February … but deflated using CPI ex shelter (mimicking HICP), they’re down 1.4%.
• One wrinkle from where we sit – we run a job board for traveling skilled trades workers – is that average hourly earnings never sees a big chunk of what these folks actually take home.
• A traveling electrician or pipefitter is usually at $35-45 an hour plus $100-125 a day in per diem.