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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 |
Dec 2022 |
Jan 2023 |
Feb 2023 |
Mar 2023 |
Apr 2023 |
May 2023 |
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Civilian Labor Force(1) |
(p)3,730.3 | 3,741.5 | (p)3,741.7 | ||||
Employment(1) |
(p)3,597.7 | 3,604.3 | (p)3,609.0 | ||||
Unemployment(1) |
(p)132.6 | 137.1 | (p)132.8 | ||||
Unemployment Rate(2) |
(p)3.6 | 3.7 | (p)3.5 | ||||
Total Nonfarm(3) |
3,723.9 | 3,732.8 | 3,742.0 | 3,754.1 | 3,760.0 | (p)3,765.7 | |
12-month % change |
3.1 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 | (p)2.9 | |
Mining and Logging(3) |
1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | (p)1.1 | |
12-month % change |
0.0 | 10.0 | 11.1 | 10.0 | 0.0 | (p)10.0 | |
Construction(3) |
171.3 | 171.8 | 172.9 | 174.8 | 175.7 | (p)176.3 | |
12-month % change |
2.1 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 3.2 | 3.5 | (p)4.1 | |
Manufacturing(3) |
236.2 | 237.9 | 238.2 | 238.8 | 238.4 | (p)239.1 | |
12-month % change |
0.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -0.1 | (p)0.3 | |
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3) |
570.5 | 571.4 | 572.1 | 571.5 | 571.6 | (p)572.9 | |
12-month % change |
2.8 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 | (p)1.4 | |
Information(3) |
97.9 | 96.0 | 97.0 | 97.3 | 98.3 | (p)97.5 | |
12-month % change |
3.2 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.1 | (p)0.8 | |
Financial Activities(3) |
232.5 | 232.1 | 232.0 | 232.1 | 232.5 | (p)231.9 | |
12-month % change |
3.6 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.2 | (p)2.7 | |
Professional & Business Services(3) |
649.2 | 649.9 | 652.3 | 652.9 | 653.6 | (p)654.0 | |
12-month % change |
4.4 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.6 | (p)3.6 | |
Education & Health Services(3) |
815.0 | 821.9 | 825.6 | 829.7 | 833.5 | (p)836.2 | |
12-month % change |
1.8 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 3.6 | (p)4.0 | |
Leisure & Hospitality(3) |
356.5 | 355.6 | 356.0 | 360.5 | 358.7 | (p)358.2 | |
12-month % change |
7.4 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.5 | (p)3.2 | |
Other Services(3) |
136.8 | 137.6 | 137.7 | 137.2 | 137.3 | (p)137.7 | |
12-month % change |
4.3 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 | (p)3.4 | |
Government(3) |
457.0 | 457.5 | 457.2 | 458.2 | 459.4 | (p)460.8 | |
12-month % change |
2.6 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 2.6 | (p)2.7 | |
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