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Sustainability / Wages
Providing good jobs with growing wages is a key measure of sustainability and prosperity for a region's residents.

Although Pittsburgh has trailed benchmark regions in wage growth in recent years, that gap is narrowing. The Pittsburgh MSA had a 5.0 percent increase in annual wages between 2005 and 2006 and outpaced the U.S. average. Between 2006 and 2007, annual wages in Pittsburgh rose another 5.3 percent, and between 2007 and 2008 they rose by 2.8 percent. However, between 2008 and 2009 the increase was only 0.25 percent. Those numbers strengthened slightly last year: Between 2009 and 2010, average annual pay increased by 2.74 percent in Pittsburgh, outpacing eight benchmark regions.

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Data source(s):

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program publishes a quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering 98 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the county, MSA, state and national levels by industry.