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Philadelphia, PA

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Philadelphia, PA, Division Economic Summary
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
 Economic Summary Nov 2018
Philadelphia, PA Metropolitan Division: Nonfarm employment and labor force data Employment, Unemployment Table Dec 2018
Mid-Atlantic - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Dec 2018
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – Mid-Atlantic Consumer price indexes Table Dec 2018
Mid-Atlantic Consumer Price Index Card Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Consumer Expenditures for the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area: 2016-17 Consumer spending News Release Oct 2018
Average Energy Prices - Philadelphia Average energy prices Table Nov 2018
Consumer Price Index Historical Tables for Phila.-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-DE-NJ-MD, CMSA Consumer price indexes Table Nov 2018
Summary of annual and semi-annual indexes Consumer price indexes Table Jul 2018
Consumer Price Index Historical Tables for Phila.-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-DE-NJ-MD, CMSA (1967=100) Consumer price indexes Table Nov 2018
Mid-Atlantic Regional Office CPI Announcement Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Nov 2018

Philadelphia, PA Economy at a Glance:

Philadelphia, PA
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2018

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 987.0 997.3 1,010.9 999.2 1,007.4 (p)1,016.0

Employment(1)

 941.8 945.0 955.7 944.3 958.9 (p)967.2

Unemployment(1)

 45.2 52.3 55.3 54.9 48.5 (p)48.8

Unemployment Rate(2)

 4.6 5.2 5.5 5.5 4.8 (p)4.8

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 959.4 957.5 956.5 951.3 974.1 (p)982.0

12-month % change

 1.3 2.4 2.8 2.2 2.4 (p)2.2

Mining, Logging, and Construction(3)

 25.0 25.2 25.6 25.4 25.5 (p)25.6

12-month % change

 0.8 2.4 5.3 4.5 4.9 (p)4.9

Manufacturing(3)

 34.2 34.2 34.3 34.2 34.4 (p)34.2

12-month % change

 0.0 -0.9 -0.6 -0.9 0.3 (p)0.3

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 135.3 135.2 134.4 133.7 135.3 (p)136.1

12-month % change

 1.3 1.2 1.0 -0.1 0.3 (p)0.4

Information(3)

 13.9 14.0 14.0 14.0 13.9 (p)14.0

12-month % change

 -2.1 -2.8 -2.1 -2.1 -1.4 (p)0.0

Financial Activities(3)

 59.2 60.0 60.5 60.3 59.7 (p)59.5

12-month % change

 2.1 2.4 3.1 2.7 2.4 (p)2.1

Professional and Business Services(3)

 128.8 130.6 132.0 131.4 131.1 (p)132.0

12-month % change

 -1.4 0.2 1.3 0.3 0.1 (p)0.6

Education and Health Services(3)

 294.6 289.1 290.4 289.0 302.8 (p)308.7

12-month % change

 2.6 4.8 4.9 5.1 4.3 (p)3.5

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 100.1 101.0 100.6 100.7 101.7 (p)101.7

12-month % change

 3.1 3.8 4.4 4.2 4.7 (p)4.1

Other Services(3)

 40.0 40.5 40.3 40.0 39.6 (p)39.7

12-month % change

 0.8 1.5 1.8 1.3 1.0 (p)0.8

Government(3)

 128.3 127.7 124.4 122.6 130.1 (p)130.5

12-month % change

 0.6 1.1 1.9 -0.6 1.8 (p)2.0

Consumer Price Index: Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

CPI-U, All items(4)

   252.386   253.085   253.040

CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change(4)

     1.9   1.7   1.6

CPI-W, All items(5)

   253.215   253.851   253.329

CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(5)

     1.8   1.5   1.3

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