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Worcester

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Worcester Area Economic Summary
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
 Economic Summary Aug 2018
New England - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Sep 2018
New England Consumer Price Index Card Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – New England Consumer price indexes Table Sep 2018
Average Energy Prices In Boston-Cambridge-Newton – August 2018 Average energy prices News Release Sep 2018
Consumer Price Index, Boston-Brockton-Nashua– 2012 Annual Average Consumer price indexes News Release Apr 2013
Consumer Expenditures for the Boston Metropolitan Area: 2015-16 Consumer spending News Release Jan 2018
Women’s Earnings in Massachusetts — 2016 Pay News Release Sep 2017
Consumer Price Index, Boston-Cambridge-Newton — July 2018 Consumer price indexes News Release Aug 2018
Consumer Price Index Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (1982-84 = 100) (PDF) Consumer price indexes Table Aug 2018
Consumer Price Index US City Average (1982-84 = 100) (PDF) Consumer price indexes Table Sep 2018
Changing Compensation Costs in the Boston Metropolitan Area — June 2018 Benefits, Pay News Release Aug 2018
Occupational Employment and Wages in Worcester — May 2014 Pay News Release Sep 2015
OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES FOR SELECTED STEM OCCUPATIONS IN MASSACHUSETTS’ METROPOLITAN AREAS AND DIVISIONS – MAY 2015 Pay News Release Dec 2016

Worcester, MA-CT Economy at a Glance:

Worcester, MA-CT
Data Series Back
Data		 Mar
2018		 Apr
2018		 May
2018		 June
2018		 July
2018		 Aug
2018

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 360.3 361.4 364.5 368.4 (p)368.4  

Employment(1)

 345.7 348.6 351.3 353.1 (p)352.8  

Unemployment(1)

 14.6 12.8 13.1 15.2 (p)15.6  

Unemployment Rate(2)

 4.1 3.6 3.6 4.1 (p)4.2  

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 287.0 291.1 294.0 295.7 291.1 (p)290.7

12-month % change

 1.3 1.9 2.1 2.4 2.7 (p)2.5

Mining, Logging, and Construction(3)

 10.4 11.2 11.9 12.5 12.8 (p)12.8

12-month % change

 7.2 7.7 8.2 8.7 8.5 (p)6.7

Manufacturing(3)

 27.8 28.0 28.1 28.4 28.3 (p)28.3

12-month % change

 2.2 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.9 (p)2.9

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 52.7 53.3 54.3 55.5 55.4 (p)55.2

12-month % change

 -0.2 0.4 1.5 2.4 3.6 (p)3.2

Information(3)

 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.8 3.8 (p)3.8

12-month % change

 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.7 (p)2.7

Financial Activities(3)

 14.7 14.8 14.9 15.0 15.0 (p)14.9

12-month % change

 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.0 0.7 (p)0.7

Professional and Business Services(3)

 29.8 30.1 30.5 30.8 30.7 (p)30.7

12-month % change

 7.2 6.7 8.2 8.1 7.3 (p)6.2

Education and Health Services(3)

 68.2 68.5 68.2 67.7 67.9 (p)67.9

12-month % change

 0.1 0.4 0.0 1.0 2.1 (p)2.3

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 24.3 25.7 26.4 27.3 26.4 (p)26.4

12-month % change

 -0.8 3.6 2.7 1.9 -0.4 (p)-0.8

Other Services(3)

 10.8 11.0 11.1 11.5 11.6 (p)11.6

12-month % change

 0.9 1.9 2.8 1.8 0.9 (p)1.8

Government(3)

 44.6 44.8 44.9 43.2 39.2 (p)39.1

12-month % change

 0.7 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.5 (p)0.5

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.
(p) Preliminary