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Title	BLS Subject	Product Type	Date Published
	AllEmploymentUnemploymentConsumer price indexesConsumer spendingBenefitsPayIndustry price indexes
Kalamazoo Area Economic Summary (PDF)	Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment	Economic Summary	Nov 2019
Midwest Economy - Labor Force Statistics	Employment, Unemployment	Table	Jun 2022
County Employment and Wages in Michigan — Fourth Quarter 2018	Employment, Pay	News Release	Jul 2019
Occupational Employment and Wages For Selected Engineering Occupations in Michigan’s Metropolitan Areas — May 2017	Employment, Pay	News Release	May 2018

Kalamazoo-Portage, MI Economy at a Glance:

Kalamazoo-Portage, MI

Data Series	Back Data	Dec 2021	Jan 2022	Feb 2022	Mar 2022	Apr 2022	May 2022
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)		(2)163.0	163.0	163.8	166.4	165.6	(p)167.6
Employment(1)		(2)156.9	155.8	156.4	159.9	159.4	(p)160.7
Unemployment(1)		(2)6.1	7.2	7.4	6.5	6.2	(p)6.8
Unemployment Rate(3)		(2)3.7	4.4	4.5	3.9	3.7	(p)4.1
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(4)		147.1	144.7	(p)146.0
12-month % change		5.5	5.8	(p)4.2
Mining, Logging, and Construction(4)		6.8	6.4	(p)6.3
12-month % change		0.0	1.6	(p)1.6
Manufacturing(4)		23.4	23.1	(p)23.3
12-month % change		4.5	3.6	(p)4.0
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(4)		27.2	26.7	(p)26.7
12-month % change		4.2	6.0	(p)6.4
Information(4)		0.8	0.8	(p)0.8
12-month % change		14.3	14.3	(p)0.0
Financial Activities(4)		7.5	7.4	(p)7.4
12-month % change		-2.6	-2.6	(p)-3.9
Professional and Business Services(4)		17.3	17.0	(p)17.2
12-month % change		4.8	6.3	(p)2.4
Education and Health Services(4)		25.1	24.9	(p)25.1
12-month % change		0.8	0.4	(p)0.8
Leisure and Hospitality(4)		13.6	13.5	(p)13.9
12-month % change		29.5	32.4	(p)16.8
Other Services(4)		5.3	5.3	(p)5.3
12-month % change		8.2	10.4	(p)6.0
Government(4)		20.1	19.6	(p)20.0
12-month % change		6.3	3.7	(p)3.6
Footnotes (1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. (2) Data were subject to revision on April 15, 2022. (3) In percent, not seasonally adjusted. (4) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data. (p) Preliminary