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Total compensation costs for private industry workers increased 5.5 percent in the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT, metropolitan area for the year ended December 2022.
Total nonfarm employment for the Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH, metropolitan area increased by 132,100 over the year in April.
Prices in the Boston area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.6 percent for the two months ending in November 2022.
Data Series | Back Data |
Mar 2023 |
Apr 2023 |
May 2023 |
June 2023 |
July 2023 |
Aug 2023 |
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Civilian Labor Force(1) |
3,741.2 | 3,732.0 | 3,728.3 | 3,720.9 | 3,715.3 | (p)3,717.3 | |
Employment(1) |
3,608.9 | 3,617.2 | 3,622.8 | 3,624.9 | 3,623.4 | (p)3,619.1 | |
Unemployment(1) |
132.4 | 114.8 | 105.6 | 96.0 | 91.9 | (p)98.1 | |
Unemployment Rate(2) |
3.5 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.5 | (p)2.6 | |
Total Nonfarm(3) |
3,754.1 | 3,760.0 | 3,767.3 | 3,768.7 | 3,773.3 | (p)3,788.7 | |
12-month % change |
2.7 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 2.2 | (p)2.4 | |
Mining and Logging(3) |
1.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | (p)1.0 | |
12-month % change |
10.0 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 11.1 | 11.1 | (p)11.1 | |
Construction(3) |
174.8 | 175.7 | 177.0 | 176.3 | 176.7 | (p)177.7 | |
12-month % change |
3.2 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.2 | (p)4.7 | |
Manufacturing(3) |
238.8 | 238.4 | 239.4 | 238.7 | 237.8 | (p)237.4 | |
12-month % change |
0.3 | -0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | -0.5 | (p)-0.7 | |
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3) |
571.5 | 571.6 | 572.3 | 573.1 | 575.1 | (p)574.5 | |
12-month % change |
1.0 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.6 | (p)1.4 | |
Information(3) |
97.3 | 98.3 | 97.5 | 97.8 | 96.9 | (p)96.1 | |
12-month % change |
1.9 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.1 | -0.5 | (p)-1.7 | |
Financial Activities(3) |
232.1 | 232.5 | 231.4 | 232.7 | 232.7 | (p)234.1 | |
12-month % change |
3.2 | 3.2 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 2.2 | (p)2.8 | |
Professional & Business Services(3) |
652.9 | 653.6 | 654.6 | 655.4 | 655.9 | (p)656.7 | |
12-month % change |
3.6 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.0 | (p)2.9 | |
Education & Health Services(3) |
829.7 | 833.5 | 836.6 | 835.7 | 835.2 | (p)838.7 | |
12-month % change |
3.1 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 3.1 | (p)3.4 | |
Leisure & Hospitality(3) |
360.5 | 358.7 | 358.6 | 358.7 | 358.9 | (p)361.0 | |
12-month % change |
4.4 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 3.8 | (p)5.2 | |
Other Services(3) |
137.2 | 137.3 | 138.1 | 137.5 | 138.0 | (p)139.9 | |
12-month % change |
3.3 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 1.5 | (p)2.3 | |
Government(3) |
458.2 | 459.4 | 460.7 | 461.8 | 465.1 | (p)471.6 | |
12-month % change |
2.6 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 0.8 | (p)1.0 | |
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