Worker pay gains cooled at the end of last year, with the new sign of moderating inflation leaving the Federal Reserve on course to slow interest-rate increases again Wednesday and increasing the possibility of a pause in rate rises this spring.
Employers spent 1% more on wages and benefits last quarter versus the prior three months, a slowdown from a 1.2% increase in the third quarter, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Compensation gains slowed in the second half of 2022, after touching the highest readings since the series began in 2001.
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