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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	Dec 2022
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West	Consumer price indexes	Table	Dec 2022
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 — October 2022	Consumer price indexes	News Release	Nov 2022
Anchorage Area Economic Summary (PDF)	Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment	Economic Summary	Nov 2022
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

Data Series	Back Data	May 2022	June 2022	July 2022	Aug 2022	Sept 2022	Oct 2022
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)		205.6	203.3	199.5	201.0	201.2	(p)204.8
Employment(1)		197.3	194.8	191.7	194.6	194.8	(p)197.9
Unemployment(1)		8.3	8.5	7.9	6.4	6.4	(p)6.9
Unemployment Rate(2)		4.0	4.2	3.9	3.2	3.2	(p)3.4
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(3)		175.9	178.7	178.0	180.6	180.3	(p)178.4
12-month % change		3.7	4.4	3.5	4.9	4.6	(p)4.6
Mining and Logging(3)		2.1	2.2	2.3	2.3	2.3	(p)2.3
12-month % change		10.5	10.0	15.0	15.0	21.1	(p)21.1
Construction(3)		10.8	12.3	12.6	12.8	12.8	(p)12.2
12-month % change		3.8	7.0	5.9	8.5	12.3	(p)11.9
Manufacturing(3)		2.5	2.6	2.7	2.7	2.5	(p)2.5
12-month % change		4.2	0.0	-3.6	-3.6	4.2	(p)4.2
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)		38.3	39.1	39.3	39.4	38.6	(p)38.4
12-month % change		4.4	6.0	4.8	5.1	4.0	(p)4.3
Information(3)		3.3	3.3	3.3	3.3	3.3	(p)3.3
12-month % change		-2.9	-5.7	-5.7	-5.7	-2.9	(p)-5.7
Financial Activities(3)		8.1	8.5	8.6	8.4	8.4	(p)8.2
12-month % change		6.6	9.0	10.3	7.7	9.1	(p)9.3
Professional and Business Services(3)		18.7	19.5	19.9	20.3	19.8	(p)19.4
12-month % change		0.0	2.1	2.6	4.6	4.8	(p)4.3
Education and Health Services(3)		32.6	32.3	32.5	32.7	32.4	(p)32.8
12-month % change		1.9	1.6	2.2	2.8	2.9	(p)3.1
Leisure and Hospitality(3)		19.3	21.3	21.9	21.8	19.9	(p)18.5
12-month % change		10.3	14.5	12.9	11.8	5.3	(p)6.9
Other Services(3)		6.5	6.5	6.5	6.5	6.4	(p)6.4
12-month % change		10.2	8.3	6.6	6.6	6.7	(p)4.9
Government(3)		33.7	31.1	28.4	30.4	33.9	(p)34.4
12-month % change		1.5	-1.0	-4.4	1.3	2.1	(p)2.1
Consumer Price Index: Urban Alaska
CPI-U, All items(4)			268.916		258.149		261.093
CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change(4)			12.4		7.6		7.6
CPI-W, All items(5)			265.859		257.738		260.901
CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(5)			11.8		7.6		7.6
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