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Seattle

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Seattle Area Economic Summary
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
 Economic Summary Dec 2019
Western Consumer Price Index Card Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Western - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Dec 2019
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West Consumer price indexes Table Dec 2019
Occupational Employment and Wages in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue — May 2018 Employment, Pay News Release Jul 2019
Occupational Employment and Wages in Tacoma-Lakewood — May 2017 Employment, Pay News Release May 2018
Consumer Expenditures for the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton Area: 2017–18 Consumer spending News Release Nov 2019
Unemployment in the Seattle Area by County - June 2016 Unemployment News Release Aug 2016
Average Energy Prices, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue – October 2019 Average energy prices News Release Nov 2019
Consumer Price Index, Seattle area — October 2019 Consumer price indexes News Release Nov 2019
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 - October 2019 Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Nov 2019
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

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

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
Data Series Back
Data		 May
2019		 June
2019		 July
2019		 Aug
2019		 Sept
2019		 Oct
2019

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 2,153.6 2,149.2 2,171.7 2,180.8 2,189.7 (p)2,188.8

Employment(1)

 2,081.4 2,075.5 2,093.0 2,102.7 2,112.7 (p)2,117.2

Unemployment(1)

 72.2 73.8 78.7 78.1 77.0 (p)71.5

Unemployment Rate(2)

 3.4 3.4 3.6 3.6 3.5 (p)3.3

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 2,101.2 2,118.5 2,124.3 2,121.4 2,122.8 (p)2,126.8

12-month % change

 2.7 2.9 3.2 3.0 3.2 (p)2.9

Mining and Logging(3)

 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 (p)1.1

12-month % change

 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 (p)0.0

Construction(3)

 132.8 133.5 135.8 137.9 136.6 (p)137.1

12-month % change

 5.3 4.3 5.2 5.2 5.1 (p)4.3

Manufacturing(3)

 185.9 186.9 189.7 188.9 189.6 (p)187.6

12-month % change

 4.5 4.3 5.4 4.9 4.8 (p)4.2

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 394.0 397.6 398.8 397.7 397.1 (p)397.0

12-month % change

 1.4 1.3 1.2 0.5 1.0 (p)0.9

Information(3)

 121.5 125.3 128.0 129.7 129.0 (p)129.3

12-month % change

 4.8 4.8 5.5 6.0 6.1 (p)6.0

Financial Activities(3)

 104.6 106.5 107.3 107.7 107.8 (p)107.8

12-month % change

 2.8 4.2 5.0 5.2 6.1 (p)6.4

Professional and Business Services(3)

 300.7 305.3 309.6 311.6 310.9 (p)308.9

12-month % change

 2.7 3.1 3.9 3.4 4.0 (p)4.0

Education and Health Services(3)

 288.1 286.4 282.4 285.5 288.3 (p)290.5

12-month % change

 4.1 4.2 3.8 4.4 4.5 (p)3.9

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 216.9 219.6 220.1 219.2 216.0 (p)212.7

12-month % change

 4.5 3.9 3.9 2.8 3.5 (p)2.6

Other Services(3)

 77.0 79.1 78.2 77.2 76.2 (p)76.4

12-month % change

 4.5 5.0 3.9 2.3 2.4 (p)2.8

Government(3)

 278.6 277.2 273.3 264.9 270.2 (p)278.4

12-month % change

 -1.7 -0.5 0.1 0.6 0.0 (p)-0.4

Consumer Price Index: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

CPI-U, All items(4)

   278.631   280.286   278.682

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

     2.3   3.2   2.2

CPI-W, All items(5)

   273.488   274.520   274.358

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

     1.7   2.5   1.7

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