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Geographic Information > Western > Washington > Olympia

Olympia

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 Jan 2020
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West Consumer price indexes Table Jan 2020
Occupational Employment and Wages in Olympia-Tumwater — May 2018 Employment, Pay News Release Jul 2019
Unemployment in the Seattle Area by County - June 2016 Unemployment News Release Aug 2016
Average Energy Prices, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue – November 2019 Average energy prices News Release Dec 2019
Consumer Price Index, Seattle area — December 2019 Consumer price indexes News Release Jan 2020
CPI Historical Table - Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Consumer price indexes Table Jul 2019
CPI Historical Table - Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (old base) Consumer price indexes Table Jul 2019
CPI Pacific Cities and U.S. City Average - December 2019 Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Jan 2020
Changing Compensation Costs in the Seattle Metropolitan Area – September 2019 Benefits, Pay News Release Nov 2019
2018 CPI Geographic Revision Fact Sheet Consumer price indexes Factsheet Mar 2018
Consumer Price Index Data Tables Consumer price indexes Table Feb 2019

Olympia-Tumwater, WA Economy at a Glance:

Olympia-Tumwater, WA
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2019

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 142.2 142.5 143.1 146.7 (p)148.3  

Employment(1)

 134.7 135.0 136.4 139.7 (p)141.3  

Unemployment(1)

 7.4 7.5 6.6 7.0 (p)7.0  

Unemployment Rate(2)

 5.2 5.3 4.6 4.8 (p)4.7  

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 122.3 121.7 123.0 124.5 124.7 (p)123.9

12-month % change

 2.7 1.8 1.5 2.3 2.6 (p)2.2

Mining, Logging, and Construction(3)

 6.6 6.7 6.7 6.6 6.4 (p)6.5

12-month % change

 -4.3 -4.3 -4.3 -4.3 -1.5 (p)1.6

Manufacturing(3)

 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 (p)3.2

12-month % change

 3.1 3.1 3.1 0.0 0.0 (p)0.0

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 20.0 19.9 20.2 20.3 20.7 (p)20.7

12-month % change

 6.4 3.6 4.7 5.2 5.1 (p)6.7

Professional and Business Services(3)

 11.5 11.7 11.7 12.0 11.8 (p)11.6

12-month % change

 -3.4 -3.3 -9.3 -1.6 0.0 (p)-1.7

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 11.8 11.7 12.1 11.9 11.7 (p)11.4

12-month % change

 1.7 -0.8 6.1 3.5 3.5 (p)-1.7

Government(3)

 39.1 38.5 38.8 40.1 40.3 (p)39.9

12-month % change

 2.9 2.7 1.8 2.8 2.5 (p)2.3

Consumer Price Index: West urban

CPI-U, All items(4)

 271.029 271.264 272.102 273.524 273.128 272.584

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

   2.7 2.6 2.6 2.8 2.8 2.8

CPI-W, All items(5)

 262.401 262.416 263.328 265.185 264.619 263.892

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

   2.5 2.4 2.5 2.7 2.7 2.7

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