Navigation:  2016 Release 1 > BLS Current Employment Statistics Applies To: All Applications

http://www.bls.gov/ces/

Used to set growth rates for pre-trial earnings and pre-trial household services.

Expanded data from 2014. There are now two data sets available for that year:

As part of the Damages Advocate applications, we provide historic earnings growth data sets that are based on the Current Employment Statistics (CES) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In previous releases of the applications, we presented these data sets as being net-of-inflation, or deflated. That was not accurate. We were using nominal data to calculate the growth rates. Starting with the latest release (2016 Release 1) and going forward, we will provide both nominal and deflated earnings growth data sets. The data sets from previous releases have been relabeled to indicate that they are based on nominal data.

To review the data we downloaded from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) web site, and our earnings growth calculations based on that data, please download the following workbook:

We downloaded the CES data using the series ID formats discussed here:

The series IDs we used are in the workbook linked above.

We downloaded the data by starting here and pasting in the series IDs:

On the next screen, for the 2014 data, we selected the following settings:

Data Citations

The dynamic data citations that appear in the report have been enhanced to reference the correct data.

December 2014 BLS Current Employment Statistics

U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Current Employment Statistics - CES (National). Web. 8 January 2016. <http://www.bls.gov/ces/>