Table 4. Compensation (not seasonally adjusted): Employment Cost Index for total compensation, for civilian workers, by occupational group and industry

Table 4. Employment Cost Index for total compensation(1), for civilian workers, by occupational group and industry [Not seasonally adjusted]
Occupational group and industry	Indexes (Dec. 2005=100)			Percent changes for
	Sep. 2020	Jun. 2021	Sep. 2021	3-months ended-			12-months ended-
	Sep. 2020	Jun. 2021	Sep. 2021	Sep. 2020	Jun. 2021	Sep. 2021	Sep. 2020	Jun. 2021	Sep. 2021
All workers(2)	141.4	144.7	146.7	0.6	0.7	1.4	2.4	2.9	3.7
Excluding incentive paid occupations(3)	141.5	144.6	146.3	0.6	0.8	1.2	2.4	2.8	3.4
Occupational group
Management, professional, and related	140.0	142.3	144.2	0.6	0.6	1.3	2.0	2.2	3.0
Management, business, and financial	141.0	143.4	145.5	0.4	0.8	1.5	1.8	2.1	3.2
Professional and related	139.5	141.7	143.4	0.7	0.4	1.2	2.1	2.3	2.8
Sales and office	142.4	146.8	148.7	0.4	0.3	1.3	2.5	3.5	4.4
Sales and related	137.9	143.8	145.8	0.1	-0.3	1.4	2.7	4.4	5.7
Office and administrative support	145.1	148.5	150.3	0.6	0.8	1.2	2.4	2.9	3.6
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	141.0	144.4	145.7	0.5	1.0	0.9	2.3	2.9	3.3
Construction, extraction, farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	140.8	144.5	145.7	0.5	1.3	0.8	1.9	3.1	3.5
Installation, maintenance, and repair	141.4	144.4	145.8	0.6	0.7	1.0	2.9	2.8	3.1
Production, transportation, and material moving	143.1	147.1	149.3	0.7	1.1	1.5	3.2	3.5	4.3
Production	139.5	143.9	145.8	0.6	1.4	1.3	3.1	3.7	4.5
Transportation and material moving	147.2	151.0	153.3	0.8	0.9	1.5	3.4	3.4	4.1
Service occupations	145.5	150.4	153.2	0.8	1.3	1.9	3.3	4.2	5.3
Industry
Goods-producing industries(4)	138.2	141.6	142.9	0.3	1.1	0.9	2.2	2.8	3.4
Manufacturing	137.6	140.8	142.5	0.3	1.0	1.2	2.3	2.6	3.6
Service-providing industries(5)	142.0	145.3	147.3	0.6	0.6	1.4	2.5	2.9	3.7
Education and health services	141.0	143.1	145.1	1.0	0.5	1.4	2.2	2.5	2.9
Educational services	141.8	143.0	145.2	0.9	0.2	1.5	2.1	1.8	2.4
Elementary and secondary schools	142.3	143.6	145.7	1.2	0.2	1.5	2.3	2.1	2.4
Junior colleges, colleges, universities, and professional schools	140.6	141.6	143.9	0.2	0.3	1.6	1.4	0.9	2.3
Health care and social assistance	140.2	143.2	145.0	1.1	0.7	1.3	2.2	3.2	3.4
Hospitals	140.9	144.0	145.4	0.4	0.7	1.0	2.4	2.6	3.2
Nursing and residential care facilities	137.4	141.4	143.8	0.7	1.1	1.7	2.6	3.7	4.7
Public administration	146.2	147.9	149.6	0.8	0.3	1.1	2.6	2.0	2.3
Footnotes (1) Includes wages, salaries, and employer costs for employee benefits. (2) Includes workers in the private nonfarm economy except those in private households, and workers in the public sector, except the federal government. (3) The index for this series is not strictly comparable with other series in this table. (4) Includes mining, construction, and manufacturing. (5) Includes the following industries: wholesale trade; retail trade; transportation and warehousing; utilities; information; finance and insurance; real estate and rental and leasing; professional and technical services; management of companies and enterprises; administrative and waste services; educational services; health care and social assistance; arts, entertainment and recreation; accommodation and food services; other services, except public administration; and public administration.
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey

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