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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 May 2023
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West Consumer price indexes Table May 2023
Occupational Employment and Wages in Anchorage — May 2021 Employment, Pay News Release Jun 2022
CPI Historical Table - Anchorage, AK (PDF) Consumer price indexes Table Feb 2019
CPI Historical Table - Anchorage, AK (old base) (PDF) Consumer price indexes Table Feb 2019
Consumer Price Index, Anchorage area — April 2023 Consumer price indexes News Release May 2023
Anchorage Area Economic Summary (PDF)
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
Economic Summary Apr 2023
Alaska Labor Market Outlook, September 29, 2016, Anchorage, AK (PDF) N/A Factsheet Sep 2016
Consumer Expenditures for the Anchorage Metropolitan Area: 2020–21 Consumer spending News Release Oct 2022
2018 CPI Geographic Revision Fact Sheet Consumer price indexes Factsheet Mar 2018
Consumer Price Index Data Tables - Pacific Cities and U.S. City Average Consumer price indexes Factsheet Mar 2020
Anchorage, AK Economy at a Glance:
Anchorage, AK
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Data
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2023

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

(2)204.5 (2)205.0 203.7 202.6 (p)201.7  

Employment(1)

(2)198.0 (2)198.8 196.0 194.8 (p)194.6  

Unemployment(1)

(2)6.5 (2)6.3 7.7 7.8 (p)7.1  

Unemployment Rate(3)

(2)3.2 (2)3.1 3.8 3.9 (p)3.5  

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(4)

175.0 174.4 171.9 174.1 173.9 (p)176.2

12-month % change

2.6 2.3 3.0 2.9 2.2 (p)2.7

Mining and Logging(4)

1.8 1.9 1.8 1.8 1.7 (p)1.8

12-month % change

0.0 5.6 5.9 0.0 -5.6 (p)0.0

Construction(4)

9.9 8.9 8.9 8.8 8.8 (p)9.1

12-month % change

3.1 -4.3 2.3 -1.1 -2.2 (p)-6.2

Manufacturing(4)

2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3 (p)2.3

12-month % change

4.5 4.5 9.5 4.5 4.5 (p)4.5

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(4)

39.3 39.6 38.6 38.6 38.4 (p)38.9

12-month % change

3.1 4.2 3.8 2.9 2.1 (p)1.6

Information(4)

3.3 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.3 (p)3.3

12-month % change

-2.9 0.0 0.0 -2.9 0.0 (p)0.0

Financial Activities(4)

7.8 7.9 7.7 7.7 7.7 (p)7.8

12-month % change

4.0 3.9 2.7 2.7 1.3 (p)1.3

Professional and Business Services(4)

19.4 19.7 19.2 19.7 19.1 (p)19.5

12-month % change

4.9 6.5 6.1 6.5 2.7 (p)4.8

Education and Health Services(4)

32.3 32.1 32.2 32.6 32.7 (p)32.9

12-month % change

1.6 0.9 2.9 3.2 3.2 (p)3.1

Leisure and Hospitality(4)

18.8 18.8 18.8 19.1 19.4 (p)19.9

12-month % change

6.8 3.9 6.2 4.9 4.3 (p)5.9

Other Services(4)

6.3 6.3 6.2 6.3 6.6 (p)6.6

12-month % change

1.6 3.3 5.1 3.3 8.2 (p)4.8

Government(4)

33.8 33.5 32.9 33.9 33.9 (p)34.1

12-month % change

0.0 -0.3 -1.5 1.2 0.9 (p)3.3

Consumer Price Index: Urban Alaska

CPI-U, All items(5)

  256.634   256.856   258.866

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

    5.4   4.3   3.1

CPI-W, All items(6)

  255.001   254.887   256.349

CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(6)

    4.7   3.6   2.0

Footnotes
(1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted.
(2) Data were subject to revision on April 21, 2023.
(3) In percent, not seasonally adjusted.
(4) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data
(5) All Urban Consumers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(6) Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(p) Preliminary