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Tacoma-Lakewood

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 Oct 2019
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West Consumer price indexes Table Oct 2019
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 2019 Average energy prices News Release Jul 2019
Consumer Price Index, Seattle area — June 2019 Consumer price indexes News Release Jul 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 - June 2019 Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Jul 2019
Changing Compensation Costs in the Seattle Metropolitan Area – March 2019 Benefits, Pay News Release May 2019
2018 CPI Geographic Revision Fact Sheet Consumer price indexes Factsheet Mar 2018
Consumer Price Index Data Tables Consumer price indexes Table Feb 2019

Tacoma-Lakewood, WA Economy at a Glance:

Tacoma-Lakewood, WA
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2019

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 437.8 436.3 436.6 433.5 440.4 (p)444.1

Employment(1)

 412.6 412.6 414.6 409.4 416.2 (p)418.9

Unemployment(1)

 25.2 23.7 22.0 24.2 24.2 (p)25.2

Unemployment Rate(2)

 5.7 5.4 5.0 5.6 5.5 (p)5.7

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 323.8 327.0 328.9 329.8 330.8 (p)330.7

12-month % change

 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.1 2.4 (p)2.2

Mining and Logging(3)

 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 (p)0.3

12-month % change

 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 (p)0.0

Construction(3)

 25.1 25.4 25.8 26.3 27.6 (p)29.0

12-month % change

 5.9 6.3 5.3 6.0 10.0 (p)13.3

Manufacturing(3)

 17.7 17.7 17.8 18.0 18.1 (p)18.2

12-month % change

 4.1 3.5 2.9 3.4 2.8 (p)3.4

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 67.0 67.7 67.9 68.1 68.7 (p)68.4

12-month % change

 0.3 0.6 0.6 -0.3 -0.1 (p)-0.7

Information(3)

 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.6 (p)2.6

12-month % change

 0.0 0.0 -3.8 0.0 4.0 (p)4.0

Financial Activities(3)

 14.5 14.6 14.6 14.7 14.8 (p)14.7

12-month % change

 -1.4 -0.7 -0.7 0.7 0.7 (p)0.7

Professional and Business Services(3)

 33.8 33.9 34.2 34.3 35.4 (p)35.9

12-month % change

 4.6 4.6 5.6 4.3 5.4 (p)4.4

Education and Health Services(3)

 54.9 55.2 54.9 54.5 54.4 (p)55.2

12-month % change

 0.7 0.7 0.0 1.9 2.3 (p)2.4

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 34.7 35.7 36.0 35.7 35.0 (p)35.1

12-month % change

 8.1 6.6 7.8 5.3 3.6 (p)3.2

Other Services(3)

 14.4 14.5 14.6 14.8 14.8 (p)14.8

12-month % change

 1.4 1.4 0.7 0.7 1.4 (p)1.4

Government(3)

 58.9 59.5 60.3 60.5 59.1 (p)56.5

12-month % change

 -0.5 0.2 1.0 1.0 0.5 (p)-1.4

Consumer Price Index: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

CPI-U, All items(4)

   276.765   278.631   280.286

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

     2.4   2.3   3.2

CPI-W, All items(5)

   272.393   273.488   274.520

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

     2.1   1.7   2.5

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