Jan 31, 2025 Employment Cost Index
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics scheduled Employment Cost Index for 8:30 AM EST on Friday, Jan 31, 2025, and that date has passed. The next one lands Apr 30, 2025. It was one of 13 BLS releases that January.
The scheduled date has passed. JMM has not captured a release receipt for it, so this entry evidences the schedule and not the publication.
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Where Employment Cost Index lands in the trading day
Employment Cost Index, in one paragraph
The Employment Cost Index measures the change in what employers pay for wages, salaries, and benefits while holding the mix of occupations and industries fixed, so a shift in which jobs exist cannot be mistaken for a change in pay.
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The fixed weights are the whole point. Average hourly earnings can rise purely because low-paid jobs disappeared, and the ECI cannot, which is why it is the wage series a central bank quotes when it is being careful and the one nobody quotes when they are not.
The BLS release calendar for January 2025
The BLS calendar carries 13 releases across 11 days of January 2025. The heaviest day is the 15th, carrying 2 of them. Every marked day is listed below with its exact release time.
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Employment Cost Index 8:30 AM ET, this page
Date 1 of the 8 Employment Cost Index entries JMM holds
The source calendar puts these 8 dates a median of 91 days apart. The widest interval in the run is 132 days, between Jul 31, 2025 and Dec 10, 2025.
Previous Employment Cost Index Not in this calendar copy This is the earliest date the source file carried at the last collection.
Next Employment Cost Index Apr 30, 2025 89 days after this oneEvery clock JMM stores for this record
- Status
- Awaiting receiptThe scheduled date has passed. JMM has not captured a release receipt for it, so this entry evidences the schedule and not the publication.
- Effective period
- Not specified by source
- Scheduled time
- Jan 31, 2025, 8:30 AM EST
- JMM retrieval
- Aug 12, 2026, 9:17 PM EDT
- Forecast connection
- None published A published JMM question that settles on this record would freeze its probability before the time above.
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Schedule source. The source timezone is retained; Published requires a separate release receipt.
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