The jobs report is useful to economists, government agencies such as the Federal Reserve, and investors trying to gauge the state of the economy, said Elise Gould, senior economist for the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. If the data is missing for an extended time, it could distort such forecasts, she said.
“We still have some information on the economy from other sources, yes. None of the other indicators predict perfectly. There’s no replacement for the data,” Gould said.
Stateline
October 6, 2025
CEOs took home an average total of $22.98 million in 2024, according to a September report by the Economic Policy Institute that looked at the average compensation of CEOs at 350 of the largest publicly traded U.S. companies by revenue.
That’s up 6% compared with the year before, and a staggering 1,094% since 1978, when the average CEO took home around $1.9 million in pay and stock-based compensation sold throughout the year, the report says.
Today, CEOs are paid an average of 281 times more than the “typical worker.” The EPI defines a typical worker’s salary as the average annual compensation of full-time workers in production and non-supervisory roles in industries the top 350 firms operate in.
CNBC
October 6, 2025
CEOs, of course, hold massive authority over their companies, and their public image may be tightly bound up with that of the firm itself. Recent data show exactly how influential CEOs have become, with the average leaders’ pay rising nearly 6 percent in 2024, so they now make 281 times the salary of the average worker, the Economic Policy Institute showed.
Inc.
October 6, 2025
According to data from the Economic Policy Institute, approximately 4,874 workers in Montgomery County are employed by the federal government, making up 10.62% of the county’s workforce. (July 2025 figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics estimate Montgomery County to have 45,903 employed persons within its borders.)
NorthPennNow
October 6, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Florida is one of 30 states, plus D.C., that have adopted a state minimum wage above the federal minimum wage. The latter hasn’t changed since 2009.
Orlando Weekly
October 6, 2025
Investors are growing concerned that the US economy may be at risk after job market data continued to show weakness. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 7.23 million job openings in August, a level approaching the lowest in five years. “Federal unemployment insurance claims are about twice as high as they were last year,” economists at the Economic Policy Institute noted Tuesday.
Trading View
October 6, 2025
Teachers’ wages in the United States have fallen further behind those of other college graduates over the last 30 years, resulting in a record-high pay gap in 2024, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
The report found that the gap between the salaries of public school teachers and other college graduates grew to nearly 27% in 2024. In 1996, the gap was 6%. On average, teachers in 2024 earned 73 cents for every dollar earned by people in similar professions, according to the report.
EdSource
October 6, 2025
“All else equal, lower churn can make it harder for new entrants to break into the labor market and can be a drag on average wage growth since finding a new job is often the best way to see better pay,” Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote Tuesday.
CNN Business
October 6, 2025
Economists with the Economic Policy Institute similarly noted Tuesday that while recent data revisions have suggested the labor market was weaker than expected last year, much of the slower job growth was “the result of smaller working-age population growth due to reduced immigration and the aging of the workforce,” rather than there being fewer opportunities available.
This year, though, there are some warning signs that the market is deteriorating.
“There has been a marked decline in payroll employment growth — averaging only 29,000 jobs per month since May,” the economists said. “Nominal wages are still rising faster than inflation, but the pace of private-sector real wage growth is half as fast as it was three months ago.”
Yahoo Finance
October 6, 2025
Analysis by the Economic Policy Institute found that in 2024, CEO compensation surged by almost 6% compared to 2023, with median pay ratios reaching 281:1 compared to the average worker. The data also showed that when compared to the top 0.1% of workers in 2023, CEOs were making 7.5 times their compensation.
“This suggests that CEOs are not paid extraordinary amounts because of any special skills or greater productivity, but because they have extraordinary leverage over corporate boards that set their pay. If CEOs were paid less, there would be no loss of productivity or output in the economy,” the EPI explained in its report.
HR Digest
October 6, 2025