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Factory Unit Labor Costs Fall to 0.00 From 3.50

Factory Unit Labor Costs came in at 0.00 in Q2 2026, 3.5 points below the prior reading of 3.50.

Factory Unit Labor Costs came in at 0.00 in Q2 2026, 3.5 points below the prior reading of 3.50. On a diffusion index the sign is the signal: above zero means more respondents reporting expansion than contraction, and the distance from zero is how lopsided the split is.

• Q2 2026: 0.00
• prior (Q1 2026): 3.50
• change: -3.5 pts

Factory Unit Labor Costs has ranged from 0.00 (Q1 2025) to 8.90 (Q4 2025) over the archived window, which puts the current reading 0% of the way up that range.

Survey readings are noisy month to month, so the standing trend matters more than any single print: this series has been rising across recent readings. Source: BLS Productivity and Costs.

Published 2026-08-31.