11.   Average hourly earnings fell last month, the government said.

12.   Average hourly earnings have been accelerating.

13.   Barbera also has a doubt about the deceleration in average hourly earnings.

14.   Average earnings dropped by about one-third.

15.   Average hourly earnings, meanwhile, are up only a little bit, he said, and that may be due to increased overtime rather than wage gains.

16.   Below are average earnings estimates for the companies.

17.   Benefit levels are based on average earnings during peak working years.

18.   Bond investors paid as much attention to the rise in average hourly earnings, the largest on record, as they did to the number of new jobs.

19.   A startling development, however, was the large increase in average hourly earnings.

20.   A separate measure of average hourly earnings will also be probed for signs of inflationary pressure.