Wages for nonsupervisory staff — who make up 82% of the workforce — are rising on the quickest price in additional than a decade, The Wall Road Journal studies.

Employees on the backside of the pay scale have been feeling optimistic results on their wages on the finish of 2019 — particularly when in comparison with these on the prime.

Pay charges the underside 25% of wage earners rose 4.5% in November from a yr earlier, whereas wages for the highest 25% of earners rose solely 2.9%, per information from the Federal Reserve Financial institution of Atlanta.