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Bureau of Labor Statistics > Geographic Information > Southeast > Florida > Tampa

Tampa

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Tampa, FL, Area Economic Summary (PDF)
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
 Economic Summary Aug 2025
Southeast Consumer Price Index Card Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Southeast - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Dec 2025
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – Southeast Consumer price indexes Table Dec 2025
Consumer Price Index, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater — November 2025 Consumer price indexes News Release Dec 2025
ConsumerPriceIndex_Summary_Southeast (PDF) Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Dec 2025
Occupational Employment and Wages in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — May 2024 Employment, Pay News Release Apr 2025
Occupational Employment and Wages for Selected Engineering Occupations in Selected Southeast Metropolitan Areas – May 2017 Employment, Pay News Release Jun 2018
Consumer Expenditures in the Tampa Metropolitan Area — 2022–23 Consumer spending News Release Oct 2024
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Economy at a Glance:
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
Data Series Back
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2025

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 1,710.6 1,715.2 1,714.0 1,721.6    

Employment(1)

 1,642.2 1,645.1 1,638.4 1,648.2    

Unemployment(1)

 68.5 70.0 75.7 73.4    

Unemployment Rate(2)

 4.0 4.1 4.4 4.3    

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 1,556.1 1,548.2 1,557.2 (p)1,560.9    

12-month % change

 1.1 1.0 0.8 (p)0.9    

Construction(3)

 98.4 98.3 97.5 (p)97.1    

12-month % change

 3.5 3.7 2.4 (p)2.4    

Manufacturing(3)

 76.4 76.6 76.8 (p)76.3    

12-month % change

 0.7 1.7 2.0 (p)1.3    

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 281.6 280.7 278.0 (p)277.7    

12-month % change

 0.8 0.4 -0.2 (p)-0.3    

Information(3)

 29.1 29.0 29.4 (p)29.1    

12-month % change

 0.7 0.7 2.1 (p)1.4    

Financial Activities(3)

 145.3 145.8 145.7 (p)145.3    

12-month % change

 0.3 0.6 0.3 (p)0.1    

Professional and Business Services(3)

 288.9 289.1 287.9 (p)288.4    

12-month % change

 0.4 0.5 -0.1 (p)0.8    

Education and Health Services(3)

 253.2 250.3 255.3 (p)258.7    

12-month % change

 2.2 2.3 2.7 (p)2.9    

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 175.2 172.0 170.7 (p)169.7    

12-month % change

 1.5 0.7 0.5 (p)0.5    

Other Services(3)

 54.3 54.2 54.0 (p)54.1    

12-month % change

 0.9 0.9 0.7 (p)0.9    

Government(3)

 153.5 152.0 161.7 (p)164.3    

12-month % change

 -0.1 0.0 0.5 (p)0.3    

Consumer Price Index: Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

CPI-U, All items(4)

   310.071   309.669   308.706

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

     3.3   3.3   3.0

CPI-W, All items(5)

   305.400   305.701   305.542

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

     3.1   3.3   3.3

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: 1987=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(5) Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, base: 1987=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(p) Preliminary