BLS release calendar, April 2026 Apr 30, 2026 Employment Cost Index
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics scheduled Employment Cost Index for 8:30 AM EDT on Thursday, Apr 30, 2026, and that date has passed. The next one lands Jul 31, 2026. It was one of 14 BLS releases that April.
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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What it measuresEmployment 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 month around this date The BLS release calendar for April 2026
The BLS calendar carries 14 releases across 11 days of April 2026. The heaviest day is the 10th, 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
The run of dates Date 6 of the 8 Employment Cost Index entries JMM holds
The source calendar puts these 8 dates a median of 91 days apart. This one falls 79 days after the previous entry. The widest interval in the run is 132 days, between Jul 31, 2025 and Dec 10, 2025.
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- 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
- Apr 30, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT
- 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.
Raise vs inflation calculatorA pay number is only meaningful net of prices. This does that subtraction on your own figures.
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