Originally Posted By fkurucz <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/01/news/economy/jobs_august/index.htm" target="_blank">http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/0 1/news/economy/jobs_august/index.htm</a> Just right for who? "But despite the lower unemployment rate, workers' average wages rose just 2 cents, or 0.1 percent, to $16.79 an hour, less than the 0.3 percent rise forecast by economists and well below the revised 0.5 percent increase seen in July." Ahh, now I understand.