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Tacoma-Lakewood

Title	BLS Subject	Product Type	Date Published
	AllEmploymentUnemploymentAverage energy pricesConsumer price indexesPay
Western Consumer Price Index Card	Consumer price indexes	CPI Summary	Sep 2014
Western - Labor Force Statistics	Employment, Unemployment	Table	Aug 2022
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West	Consumer price indexes	Table	Aug 2022
Occupational Employment and Wages in Tacoma-Lakewood — May 2017	Employment, Pay	News Release	May 2018
Unemployment in the Seattle Area by County - June 2016	Unemployment	News Release	Aug 2016
Average Energy Prices, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue – June 2022	Average energy prices	News Release	Jul 2022
Consumer Price Index, Seattle area — June 2022	Consumer price indexes	News Release	Jul 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 - June 2022 (PDF)	Consumer price indexes	CPI Summary	Jul 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

Tacoma-Lakewood, WA Economy at a Glance:

Tacoma-Lakewood, WA

Data Series	Back Data	Jan 2022	Feb 2022	Mar 2022	Apr 2022	May 2022	June 2022
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)		456.8	463.4	465.1	455.9	452.2	(p)450.7
Employment(1)		429.9	436.5	438.6	433.8	430.5	(p)428.2
Unemployment(1)		26.9	26.9	26.5	22.2	21.8	(p)22.6
Unemployment Rate(2)		5.9	5.8	5.7	4.9	4.8	(p)5.0
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(3)		317.3	322.3	322.7	326.2	326.6	(p)329.4
12-month % change		2.8	3.2	2.3	2.4	2.1	(p)2.5
Mining and Logging(3)		0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	(p)0.3
12-month % change		-25.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	(p)0.0
Construction(3)		23.6	24.4	24.7	25.8	26.1	(p)25.7
12-month % change		-2.1	0.4	-1.2	2.0	2.8	(p)0.4
Manufacturing(3)		17.0	17.1	17.1	17.1	17.4	(p)17.5
12-month % change		4.9	6.2	5.6	4.9	6.7	(p)6.1
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)		71.3	70.7	70.3	70.6	70.5	(p)71.0
12-month % change		1.9	1.9	1.6	1.7	0.9	(p)1.1
Information(3)		1.7	1.7	1.7	1.7	1.7	(p)1.7
12-month % change		21.4	13.3	13.3	6.3	0.0	(p)0.0
Financial Activities(3)		14.3	14.4	14.4	14.5	14.4	(p)14.3
12-month % change		0.0	0.0	0.0	1.4	0.7	(p)0.7
Professional and Business Services(3)		33.8	34.9	35.6	35.7	35.5	(p)35.7
12-month % change		-0.9	1.2	1.7	2.0	0.6	(p)0.8
Education and Health Services(3)		55.8	57.7	57.1	57.9	57.5	(p)57.9
12-month % change		-2.1	-0.7	-1.6	-0.3	0.0	(p)1.4
Leisure and Hospitality(3)		30.9	31.6	32.1	32.5	32.8	(p)34.5
12-month % change		29.8	19.7	15.1	10.9	10.4	(p)12.7
Other Services(3)		12.2	12.4	12.5	12.7	12.9	(p)13.0
12-month % change		3.4	4.2	5.0	5.8	6.6	(p)4.8
Government(3)		56.4	57.1	56.9	57.4	57.5	(p)57.8
12-month % change		1.3	2.9	1.4	0.5	0.3	(p)0.5
Consumer Price Index: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
CPI-U, All items(4)			310.078		316.525		326.656
CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change(4)			8.1		9.1		10.1
CPI-W, All items(5)			305.702		310.928		321.626
CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(5)			8.1		8.5		9.5
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