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Are workers keeping their share of what they produce?

Published October 5, 2026, 10:54 AM EDT · CT Signal automated data desk

Labor's share of US nonfarm output sits at 93.4 on the 2017=100 index (2026-04) — lowest on record since the series began in 1947.

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The data

Quarterly US series since the early 2000s; the latest print is labelled on the chart. Source and query below.

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Source

jobs-report fixture — Productivity gains keep rolling along while workers' paychecks fall behind

Provenance · fetched, never written

dataset: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRS85006173
query: FRED fredgraph.csv id=PRS85006173; agency of record: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Productivity and Costs
published October 5, 2026, 10:54 AM EDT · data as of 2026-04

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