Chart: Wage growth for school bus drivers has been slow since the financial crisis: Percent change in real hourly and weekly wages for all workers and school bus drivers, 2008–2019 and 2019–2022 | Economic Policy Institute

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Wage growth for school bus drivers has been slow since the financial crisis: Percent change in real hourly and weekly wages for all workers and school bus drivers, 2008–2019 and 2019–2022

	All workers	School bus drivers
Weekly wage change 2008–2019	5.6%	7.0%
Weekly wage change 2019–2022	6.1%	-1.8%
Hourly wage change 2008–2019	5.3%	1.5%
Hourly wage change 2019–2022	5.7%	4.9%

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Source: EPI analysis of CPS ORG microdata.

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