Wages Are Presently Surging Under Donald Trump

Getting Paid: Even as the economy continued its modest recovery in recent years, there was one critical missing element: wages. Despite unemployment declines, wage gains remained tame. Thankfully, that's now coming to an end. A new survey out by the National Association of Business Economics finds that companies are starting to boost pay for their workers in order to attract and keep productive, skilled employees in a tighter labor market. That adds to mounting anecdotal evidence of a wave of pay raises, bonuses and new investments by major corporations fueled by the passage of Trump's tax cuts in December — evidence of a surge in economic growth. No Hidden Agenda: Get News From A Pro-Free Market, Pro-Growth Perspective Almost half — 48% — of the NABE survey of 119 of its member companies said that their wage and salary packages had increased during the last three months, while none reported reducing pay for workers. That difference of 48 percentage points is the highest since