This is the labor costs https://www.bls.gov/charts/productivity-and-costs/manufacturing-labor-costs-percent-change.htm https://www.bls.gov/charts/productivity-

This is the labor costs https://www.bls.gov/charts/productivity-and-costs/manufacturing-labor-costs-percent-change.htm https://www.bls.gov/charts/productivity-and-costs/manufactur... I don't see anything unusual there, there was a big spike in Q2 2020 obviously, and a matching dip in Q3 2020, which causes havoc with change in a short time, but the average seems about in the ballpark of the 2012-2020 range.