I originally got this from Matt Busigin (I think). Average Hourly Earnings multiplied by Average Weekly Hours (Total Private: Nonfarm) gives a pretty good indication of where GDP is headed, well ahead of the BEA accounts.
Remember this is nominal GDP, so the latest (April 2015) figure of 4.38% would need to be adjusted for inflation. Inflation is somewhere between 0.5% and 1.75% depending on how you measure it. The GDP deflator looks like it will come in below 1.0% which would leave us with real GDP of at least 3.38% p.a.
Does the US not have an average earnings figure
Yes. Average weekly earnings (Total Private) reported Monthly, but “Monthly” seems to introduce some distortion as can be seen from the NSA (not seasonally adjusted) data plotted in brown on the graph below.