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Billings

Title	BLS Subject	Product Type	Date Published
	AllEmploymentUnemploymentConsumer price indexesConsumer spendingBenefitsPayIndustry price indexes
Billings Area Economic Summary	Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment	Economic Summary	Mar 2021
Mountain-Plains - Labor Force Statistics	Employment, Unemployment	Table	Apr 2021
Occupational Employment and Wages in Billings — May 2018	Employment, Pay	News Release	Sep 2019

Billings, MT Economy at a Glance:

Billings, MT

Data Series	Back Data	Oct 2020	Nov 2020	Dec 2020	Jan 2021	Feb 2021	Mar 2021
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)		(2)88.1	(2)87.8	(2)85.9	85.5	(p)86.0
Employment(1)		(2)84.6	(2)84.3	(2)82.4	81.6	(p)82.0
Unemployment(1)		(2)3.5	(2)3.5	(2)3.5	3.9	(p)4.0
Unemployment Rate(3)		(2)4.0	(2)4.0	(2)4.1	4.5	(p)4.6
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(4)		85.1	84.9	84.2	81.8	82.1	(p)83.2
12-month % change		-1.3	-2.1	-2.8	-3.7	-3.8	(p)-2.6
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(4)		20.6	20.8	21.3	20.6	20.6	(p)20.7
12-month % change		0.5	-0.5	1.9	1.0	1.0	(p)2.0
Professional and Business Services(4)		9.0	8.7	8.7	8.3	8.4	(p)8.0
12-month % change		4.7	1.2	3.6	-2.4	-2.3	(p)-8.0
Education and Health Services(4)		15.7	15.8	15.8	15.8	15.9	(p)16.3
12-month % change		0.6	0.6	0.0	0.6	0.6	(p)3.2
Leisure and Hospitality(4)		11.1	10.7	10.6	10.1	10.3	(p)10.6
12-month % change		-6.7	-11.6	-13.1	-15.1	-14.2	(p)-11.7
Government(4)		9.7	9.8	9.2	9.5	9.7	(p)9.7
12-month % change		-1.0	-1.0	-7.1	-3.1	-2.0	(p)-2.0
Footnotes (1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. (2) Data were subject to revision on April 16, 2021. (3) In percent, not seasonally adjusted. (4) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data. (p) Preliminary