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The wage series cited in the December 2025 Employment Situation report (e.g., average hourly earnings or the wage measure the statement refers to) shows a 4.1% increase over the three-month period ending in December 2025.
The December 2025 Employment Situation release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose 0.3% in December and 3.8% over the past 12 months, not 4.1% over the prior three months. BLS tables for October–December 2025 show average hourly earnings increasing from $36.81 in October to $37.02 in December, a gain of roughly 0.6% over that two‑month span; even using various plausible three‑month interpretations (e.g., annualized or non‑annualized changes in average hourly earnings), no standard BLS wage measure shows a 4.1% increase over the most recent three months. Because the official underlying data do not match a 4.1% wage increase over any obvious three‑month window, the claim that "wage growth is ... up 4.1 percent in the last three months" is not supported by the cited federal statistics. The verdict is False because authoritative BLS data on wages around December 2025 do not substantiate a 4.1% three‑month wage increase under standard definitions or timeframes, and no corresponding figure appears in the official Employment Situation documentation.