Unionized manufacturing and construction workers get a bigger pay boost from union representation than their unionized peers in service industries: Union hourly wage premium, by select industries
| Union wage premium | |
|---|---|
| Services | 8.0% |
| Manufacturing | 17.9% |
| Construction | 35.6% |
Note: The union wage premium is regression-adjusted and shows how much more a worker covered by a collective bargaining contract earns in hourly wages than a peer with similar education, experience, and other characteristics in a nonunionized workplace in the same industry.
Source: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis of individual-level Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group (CPS ORG) 2015–2019 pooled microdata from EPI Microdata Extracts (EPI 2021a).