whirrwork

Labour shortages and wages

$25.74 USD per hour (average hourly earnings, wage only)

Average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees in US warehousing and storage were $25.74 in August 2026 (seasonally adjusted, preliminary), according to the BLS.

High Primary source Last verified:

Source

Figure
$25.74 USD per hour (average hourly earnings, wage only)
Scope
United States · August 2026 (preliminary)
Type of figure
official statistic
Source
Primary Government statistics
Publisher
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Title
Current Employment Statistics series CES4349300008: Average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees, warehousing and storage, seasonally adjusted
Published
Not stated by the source
Date note
Monthly series; August 2026 value marked (P) preliminary on 2026-11-03 (July 2026: $26.02)
Accessed
Last verified
URL
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES4349300008
Archived copy
No archived copy yet (the archive could not capture this page)
Link check
Resolves (HTTP 200), Nov 3, 2026

Not quoted: a data table, not prose. Value read from the BLS series page and the BLS public API v2 on the access date.

Caveats

  • Wage only, not the fully loaded employer cost (benefits, payroll taxes, overtime, turnover are extra).
  • Preliminary: BLS revises the two latest months; check the series before citing.
  • Production and nonsupervisory employees only, all warehousing and storage occupations, not just pickers or palletizer operators.

Figure read on the BLS series page and confirmed via the BLS API v2 on the access date (editorial review).

How confidence is rated · Report an error · JSON

Cite this

APA

Whirrwork. (2026, November 3). Average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees in US warehousing and storage were $25.74 in August 2026 (seasonally adjusted, preliminary), according to the BLS [Statistic]. Whirrwork Research. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://whirrwork.com/research/stats/us-warehousing-avg-hourly-earnings-2026-08/

Chicago

Whirrwork. “Average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees in US warehousing and storage were $25.74 in August 2026 (seasonally adjusted, preliminary), according to the BLS.” Whirrwork Research. Published November 3, 2026. Accessed November 3, 2026. https://whirrwork.com/research/stats/us-warehousing-avg-hourly-earnings-2026-08/.

MLA

“Average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees in US warehousing and storage were $25.74 in August 2026 (seasonally adjusted, preliminary), according to the BLS.” Whirrwork Research, Whirrwork, 3 Nov. 2026, whirrwork.com/research/stats/us-warehousing-avg-hourly-earnings-2026-08/. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.

BibTeX

@misc{whirrwork_us_warehousing_avg_hourly_earnings_2026_08,
  author       = {{Whirrwork}},
  title        = {{Average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees in US warehousing and storage were \$25.74 in August 2026 (seasonally adjusted, preliminary), according to the BLS}},
  howpublished = {Whirrwork Research},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = nov,
  url          = {https://whirrwork.com/research/stats/us-warehousing-avg-hourly-earnings-2026-08/},
  urldate      = {2026-11-03},
  note         = {Original source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics series CES4349300008: Average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees, warehousing and storage, seasonally adjusted. Licensed CC BY 4.0}
}

Original source (APA)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (n.d.). Current Employment Statistics series CES4349300008: Average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees, warehousing and storage, seasonally adjusted. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES4349300008

For third-party figures, please credit the original source as well as (or instead of) Whirrwork.

More on labour shortages and wages

Licence and attribution

Text, statistics pages, charts and dataset releases are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Quoted passages remain the property of their publishers, and third-party figures should also be credited to their original source.

Attribution wording: Source: Whirrwork (https://whirrwork.com), CC BY 4.0 · CC BY 4.0