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Ocean City

Title	BLS Subject	Product Type	Date Published
	AllEmploymentConsumer price indexesPay
Consumer Price Index, Northeast Region – August 2024	Consumer price indexes	News Release	Sep 2024
Average Earnings and Hours in New Jersey - March 2013	Pay	News Release	May 2014
Occupational Employment and Wages in Ocean City — May 2017	Employment, Pay	News Release	Jun 2018

Ocean City, NJ Economy at a Glance:

Ocean City, NJ

Data Series	Back Data	Mar 2024	Apr 2024	May 2024	June 2024	July 2024	Aug 2024
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)		46.8	46.3	49.9	54.9	58.7	(p)58.0
Employment(1)		42.0	42.6	46.8	52.0	55.7	(p)55.1
Unemployment(1)		4.8	3.8	3.1	2.8	3.0	(p)2.8
Unemployment Rate(2)		10.3	8.1	6.2	5.2	5.2	(p)4.9
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(3)		41.3	41.7	48.0	54.1	58.2	(p)57.3
12-month % change		19.4	9.7	10.6	-2.0	-0.3	(p)-0.2
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)		8.0	8.1	9.0	10.8	11.9	(p)11.8
12-month % change		21.2	12.5	13.9	13.7	14.4	(p)15.7
Education and Health Services(3)		4.6	4.6	4.6	4.7	4.7	(p)4.7
12-month % change		4.5	7.0	4.5	4.4	4.4	(p)4.4
Leisure and Hospitality(3)		8.9	12.1	17.5	23.1	24.8	(p)24.2
12-month % change		29.0	33.0	35.7	9.5	4.2	(p)4.3
Government(3)		7.9	7.8	8.1	9.1	8.6	(p)8.4
12-month % change		5.3	2.6	2.5	2.2	8.9	(p)9.1
Consumer Price Index: Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
CPI-U, All items(4)			313.505		314.328		316.061
CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change(4)			4.1		3.6		3.4
CPI-W, All items(5)			314.742		314.773		316.888
CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(5)			4.3		3.6		3.1
Footnotes (1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. (2) In percent, not seasonally adjusted. (3) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data. (4) All Urban Consumers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted. (5) Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted. (p) Preliminary