Douglas wages surge while others lag
By James Paton, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published January 18, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
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Workers in Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, Larimer and Weld counties saw their wages rise faster than the national average in the second quarter of last year, but those in four other counties lagged.
Average weekly wages in Denver rose 5.3 percent to $989, while U.S. wages increased 4.6 percent to $820, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Douglas County reported the fastest gain in Colorado and the eighth-fastest in the country - 8.2 percent - and Arapahoe and Boulder counties had the weakest increases, 2.3 percent.
Denver in the same period posted a 2.6 percent rise in employment compared with 1.2 percent for the U.S., according to the report released Thursday.
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