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Anchorage

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Western Consumer Price Index Card Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Western - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Oct 2019
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West Consumer price indexes Table Oct 2019
Occupational Employment and Wages in Anchorage — May 2018 Employment, Pay News Release Jun 2019
CPI Historical Table - Anchorage, AK Consumer price indexes Table Feb 2019
CPI Historical Table - Anchorage, AK (old base) Consumer price indexes Table Feb 2019
Consumer Price Index, Alaska area – August 2019 Consumer price indexes News Release Sep 2019
Anchorage Area Economic Summary
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
 Economic Summary Oct 2019
Alaska Labor Market Outlook, September 29, 2016, Anchorage, AK N/A Factsheet Sep 2016
Consumer Expenditures for the Anchorage Metropolitan Area: 2016–17 Consumer spending News Release Dec 2018
2018 CPI Geographic Revision Fact Sheet Consumer price indexes Factsheet Mar 2018
Consumer Price Index Data Tables Consumer price indexes Table Feb 2019

Anchorage, AK Economy at a Glance:

Anchorage, AK
Data Series Back
Data		 Mar
2019		 Apr
2019		 May
2019		 June
2019		 July
2019		 Aug
2019

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 196.5 195.7 196.7 198.0 197.5 (p)193.2

Employment(1)

 184.0 184.7 185.6 186.7 187.3 (p)183.6

Unemployment(1)

 12.5 11.0 11.0 11.2 10.1 (p)9.6

Unemployment Rate(2)

 6.3 5.6 5.6 5.7 5.1 (p)5.0

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 171.6 174.7 179.4 184.2 181.7 (p)181.4

12-month % change

 -0.3 0.7 0.6 1.8 1.7 (p)1.2

Mining and Logging(3)

 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 (p)3.0

12-month % change

 3.7 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.4 (p)11.1

Construction(3)

 9.0 9.6 10.8 12.1 12.2 (p)12.7

12-month % change

 9.8 10.3 8.0 10.0 8.9 (p)11.4

Manufacturing(3)

 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.5 2.9 (p)2.7

12-month % change

 0.0 -4.8 -12.5 -7.4 -3.3 (p)-6.9

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 35.8 36.3 38.2 38.6 39.0 (p)39.0

12-month % change

 -2.7 -2.7 -0.5 0.0 0.8 (p)0.3

Information(3)

 3.9 3.9 3.9 4.0 4.0 (p)4.0

12-month % change

 -2.5 -2.5 -2.5 0.0 0.0 (p)2.6

Financial Activities(3)

 7.8 7.9 8.0 8.1 8.2 (p)8.2

12-month % change

 -1.3 -2.5 -1.2 -1.2 -1.2 (p)-1.2

Professional and Business Services(3)

 18.2 18.9 20.0 20.6 20.9 (p)20.3

12-month % change

 -2.2 3.3 5.3 6.2 7.7 (p)3.6

Education and Health Services(3)

 31.8 31.8 31.7 31.6 31.0 (p)31.2

12-month % change

 1.0 1.3 1.3 1.0 -0.6 (p)0.0

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 19.5 19.8 21.0 22.6 22.6 (p)22.4

12-month % change

 0.0 1.5 1.0 3.2 1.8 (p)-0.4

Other Services(3)

 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.7 6.6 (p)6.6

12-month % change

 0.0 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.5 (p)0.0

Government(3)

 34.5 35.2 34.3 34.5 31.4 (p)31.3

12-month % change

 -0.3 0.9 -2.0 0.3 0.6 (p)0.3

Consumer Price Index: Urban Alaska

CPI-U, All items(4)

   228.553   234.179   230.406

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

     2.7   2.5   0.7

CPI-W, All items(5)

   225.713   229.121   226.667

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

     2.3   2.1   0.9

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: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(5) Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(p) Preliminary