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

12.   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.

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

14.   A report Friday showed the economy added fewer jobs than expected last month, while hourly earnings barely budged.

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

16.   But others dismissed the latest jump as another example of how hourly earnings tend to surge in the first month of each quarter before settling back.

17.   But the report also showed a gain in average hourly earnings.

18.   But the same report gives data on hourly earnings, which is considered a leading indicator of inflation.

19.   But while jobs have been declining, the growth rate of average hourly earnings in manufacturing is rising again.

20.   Expectations for higher U.S. rates have grown since Friday, when the U.S. reported stronger-than-expected growth in average hourly earnings for March.