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Economic Summaries:
Economic Summaries are specialized products that combine data graphically from subjects such as unemployment, inflation, and wages into a single document for selected metropolitan areas. To view a specific area in this region, use the dropdown list below or click here.
Private industry employer costs for employee compensation among the four regions of the country ranged from $41.85 per hour in the South to $54.76 in the Northeast in June 2026.
Employment declined in 5 of the 6 largest planning regions—a county-level equivalent—in Connecticut from March 2025 to March 2026.
Employment in Maine’s York County decreased 0.8 percent from March 2025 to March 2026; employment in Cumberland County rose 0.2 percent over the year.
Employment declined in all nine of the largest counties in Massachusetts from March 2025 to March 2026.
Employment declined in all three of the largest counties in New Hampshire from March 2025 to March 2026.