Production was down in April versus 2017 but up from March. Production hourly wage up, remains over 10 percent higher than previous year.
An analysis of the latest data released from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), shows that collision repair industry production in April, while recovering from lows earlier this year, remains below the record levels it had achieved in June 2017.
The industry’s total production, which we define as the total average weekly hours per month multiplied by the total number of production and non-supervisory workers employed each month, was 7.35 million man hours
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