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Anchorage

Title	BLS Subject	Product Type	Date Published
	AllEmploymentUnemploymentConsumer price indexesConsumer spendingBenefitsPayIndustry price indexes
Western Consumer Price Index Card	Consumer price indexes	CPI Summary	Sep 2014
Western - Labor Force Statistics	Employment, Unemployment	Table	Oct 2024
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West	Consumer price indexes	Table	Oct 2024
Occupational Employment and Wages in Anchorage — May 2023	Employment, Pay	News Release	Jun 2024
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 — August 2024	Consumer price indexes	News Release	Sep 2024
Anchorage Area Economic Summary (PDF)	Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment	Economic Summary	Sep 2024
Alaska Labor Market Outlook, September 29, 2016, Anchorage, AK (PDF)	N/A	Factsheet	Sep 2016
Consumer Expenditures in the Anchorage Metropolitan Area — 2021–22	Consumer spending	News Release	Oct 2023
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

Data Series	Back Data	Mar 2024	Apr 2024	May 2024	June 2024	July 2024	Aug 2024
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)		202.2	201.2	201.5	200.3	200.7	(p)200.8
Employment(1)		193.7	193.0	193.8	191.2	192.7	(p)193.5
Unemployment(1)		8.5	8.2	7.7	9.0	8.0	(p)7.2
Unemployment Rate(2)		4.2	4.1	3.8	4.5	4.0	(p)3.6
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(3)		178.7	180.5	184.5	187.7	188.5	(p)188.4
12-month % change		3.1	2.9	2.8	2.3	3.9	(p)3.7
Mining and Logging(3)		2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	(p)2.0
12-month % change		11.1	5.3	5.3	0.0	0.0	(p)0.0
Construction(3)		11.0	11.5	13.0	14.3	14.8	(p)14.9
12-month % change		19.6	18.6	20.4	17.2	18.4	(p)17.3
Manufacturing(3)		2.3	2.4	2.4	2.5	2.6	(p)2.5
12-month % change		4.5	4.3	0.0	-3.8	-3.7	(p)-3.8
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)		38.4	38.7	39.7	40.5	41.0	(p)40.6
12-month % change		-0.3	-0.3	-0.5	0.2	2.2	(p)1.2
Information(3)		3.1	3.1	3.1	3.1	3.1	(p)3.1
12-month % change		-6.1	-6.1	-6.1	-8.8	-6.1	(p)-6.1
Financial Activities(3)		7.4	7.4	7.5	7.7	7.9	(p)7.7
12-month % change		0.0	-1.3	-1.3	0.0	3.9	(p)1.3
Professional and Business Services(3)		19.8	20.1	20.8	21.5	21.7	(p)21.8
12-month % change		4.8	4.7	4.0	2.9	2.8	(p)3.3
Education and Health Services(3)		33.6	33.8	33.8	34.0	34.2	(p)34.4
12-month % change		3.7	4.3	4.0	3.7	4.9	(p)5.2
Leisure and Hospitality(3)		19.6	20.1	21.0	22.7	23.6	(p)24.0
12-month % change		0.5	2.6	2.4	2.3	5.8	(p)6.7
Other Services(3)		6.9	6.8	6.8	6.8	6.8	(p)6.7
12-month % change		6.2	3.0	1.5	-1.4	-2.9	(p)0.0
Government(3)		34.6	34.6	34.4	32.6	30.8	(p)30.7
12-month % change		3.0	1.5	1.5	0.9	1.7	(p)1.3
Consumer Price Index: Urban Alaska
CPI-U, All items(4)			267.046		267.559		267.313
CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change(4)			3.2		2.9		1.5
CPI-W, All items(5)			263.875		265.787		265.190
CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(5)			2.9		3.2		1.5
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