Trump campaigned heavily on bringing back blue-collar jobs. Manufacturing and other blue-collar professions are seeing some of the fastest job growth since the mid-1980s, but their pay is not rising. Most of the wage growth in the Employment Cost Index is coming from service sector jobs. Pay in the goods-producing sector has actually slowed in the last year, notes Michael Pence, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 31, 2018 21:22 UTC