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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 Jul 2026
Southeast Consumer Price Index Card Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Southeast - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Jul 2026
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – Southeast Consumer price indexes Table Jul 2026
Consumer Price Index, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater — May 2026 Consumer price indexes News Release Jun 2026
ConsumerPriceIndex_Summary_Southeast (PDF) Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Jul 2026
Occupational Employment and Wages in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — May 2025 Employment, Pay News Release Jul 2026
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 — 2023–24 Consumer spending News Release Jan 2026
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Economy at a Glance:
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
Data Series Back
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2026		 Feb
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2026

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 1,683.9 1,698.6 1,693.0 1,696.9 (p)1,690.6  

Employment(1)

 1,598.4 1,615.6 1,616.5 1,617.9 (p)1,613.8  

Unemployment(1)

 85.5 83.0 76.5 79.0 (p)76.9  

Unemployment Rate(2)

 5.1 4.9 4.5 4.7 (p)4.5  

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 1,543.5 1,553.6 1,554.7 1,564.7 1,558.0 (p)1,544.6

12-month % change

 -0.3 -0.3 -0.3 0.1 0.0 (p)0.2

Construction(3)

 95.9 97.5 98.1 99.2 99.2 (p)99.4

12-month % change

 0.4 0.5 -0.1 0.7 0.1 (p)0.7

Manufacturing(3)

 73.1 73.9 73.2 74.3 74.4 (p)74.7

12-month % change

 -1.9 -0.4 -1.3 0.0 0.3 (p)0.4

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 280.8 278.6 277.3 277.9 277.5 (p)278.0

12-month % change

 -0.8 -1.2 -1.5 -0.9 -1.0 (p)-0.4

Information(3)

 30.0 29.6 29.2 29.4 29.0 (p)29.2

12-month % change

 -1.6 -3.6 -4.9 -2.6 -3.3 (p)-3.9

Financial Activities(3)

 142.2 143.1 142.1 142.7 141.3 (p)141.6

12-month % change

 -0.6 0.1 -0.5 0.3 -0.9 (p)-0.6

Professional and Business Services(3)

 277.0 280.9 284.5 286.5 287.4 (p)285.7

12-month % change

 -3.0 -1.7 0.2 -0.1 0.7 (p)0.3

Education and Health Services(3)

 259.4 261.7 262.1 263.7 258.5 (p)256.7

12-month % change

 3.4 3.0 3.1 2.9 1.7 (p)2.4

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 167.7 169.5 170.3 171.7 172.2 (p)170.1

12-month % change

 1.1 0.0 -1.5 -0.7 0.2 (p)0.5

Other Services(3)

 54.9 54.8 54.4 55.3 55.3 (p)55.5

12-month % change

 0.0 -1.3 -2.0 -1.4 -1.4 (p)-0.7

Government(3)

 162.3 163.8 163.3 163.8 163.0 (p)153.5

12-month % change

 -1.1 -1.4 -1.5 -0.6 -0.7 (p)-0.9

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

CPI-U, All items(4)

 310.244   311.681   316.435  

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

   2.3   2.1   3.2  

CPI-W, All items(5)

 305.590   308.568   313.808  

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

   2.5   2.4   3.7  

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