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Title	BLS Subject	Product Type	Date Published

Seattle Area Economic Summary (PDF)	Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment	Economic Summary	Nov 2022
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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue — May 2021	Employment, Pay	News Release	Jul 2022
Occupational Employment and Wages in Tacoma-Lakewood — May 2017	Employment, Pay	News Release	May 2018
Consumer Expenditures for the Seattle Metropolitan Area: 2020–21	Consumer spending	News Release	Oct 2022
Unemployment in the Seattle Area by County - June 2016	Unemployment	News Release	Aug 2016
Average Energy Prices, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue – October 2022	Average energy prices	News Release	Nov 2022
Consumer Price Index, Seattle area — October 2022	Consumer price indexes	News Release	Nov 2022
CPI Historical Table - Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (PDF)	Consumer price indexes	Table	Jul 2019
CPI Historical Table - Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (old base) (PDF)	Consumer price indexes	Table	Jul 2019
CPI Pacific Cities and U.S. City Average - October 2022 (PDF)	Consumer price indexes	CPI Summary	Nov 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

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Economy at a Glance:

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
Data Series	May 2022	June 2022	July 2022	Aug 2022	Sept 2022	Oct 2022
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)	2,239.3	2,227.7	2,218.2	2,214.2	2,228.2	(p)2,228.5
Employment(1)	2,177.1	2,156.6	2,147.1	2,137.2	2,156.1	(p)2,154.9
Unemployment(1)	62.2	71.1	71.0	77.0	72.1	(p)73.6
Unemployment Rate(2)	2.8	3.2	3.2	3.5	3.2	(p)3.3
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(3)	2,092.3	2,112.1	2,122.0	2,127.4	2,128.9	(p)2,134.6
12-month % change	5.4	5.3	5.0	4.9	4.5	(p)4.5
Mining and Logging(3)	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	(p)1.0
12-month % change	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	(p)0.0
Construction(3)	134.1	137.2	139.4	141.3	141.1	(p)142.2
12-month % change	4.0	5.5	5.6	6.9	6.5	(p)9.2
Manufacturing(3)	159.8	162.8	165.9	165.8	164.6	(p)164.8
12-month % change	3.6	5.7	6.6	6.7	5.4	(p)5.4
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)	407.1	412.3	413.4	414.7	414.2	(p)417.5
12-month % change	3.2	3.4	2.6	2.4	2.0	(p)2.1
Information(3)	148.4	154.2	156.4	157.4	160.8	(p)154.0
12-month % change	8.5	11.2	11.8	11.4	12.4	(p)8.4
Financial Activities(3)	106.7	106.6	105.7	105.5	105.9	(p)105.6
12-month % change	5.9	5.5	3.7	3.3	4.3	(p)3.8
Professional and Business Services(3)	328.6	329.1	329.1	330.7	329.1	(p)330.1
12-month % change	7.4	7.0	5.6	5.5	4.4	(p)3.8
Education and Health Services(3)	282.4	282.6	280.6	281.4	284.8	(p)288.6
12-month % change	2.1	1.9	2.9	3.2	3.3	(p)3.7
Leisure and Hospitality(3)	184.4	189.5	193.0	194.9	189.7	(p)186.8
12-month % change	19.6	17.1	12.3	10.6	8.8	(p)9.9
Other Services(3)	69.5	69.7	70.2	70.1	69.5	(p)68.3
12-month % change	4.7	2.8	1.9	1.2	0.9	(p)0.4
Government(3)	270.3	267.1	267.3	264.6	268.2	(p)275.7
12-month % change	1.5	-0.3	1.7	2.3	1.7	(p)2.6
Consumer Price Index: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
CPI-U, All items(4)		326.656		326.796		330.173
CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change(4)		10.1		9.0		8.9
CPI-W, All items(5)		321.626		322.664		325.897
CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(5)		9.5		9.2		9.4
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