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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.
News Releases:
Houston Area Employment — April 2017
Total nonfarm employment in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land Metropolitan Statistical Area stood at 3,042,800 in April 2017, up 41,900, or 1.4 percent, from one year earlier.
Occupational Employment and Wages in Austin-Round Rock, May 2016
Workers in the Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $24.44 in May 2016, about 2 percent above the nationwide average of $23.86.
Business Employment Dynamics in Louisiana – Third Quarter 2016
From June 2016 to September 2016 gross job gains in private sector establishments in Louisiana totaled 105,759, while gross job losses numbered 102,408.
Consumer Price Index, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria – April 2017
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Houston area rose 0.6 percent in January and February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Consumer Price Index, South Region – April 2017
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the South edged up 0.2 percent in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
