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Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA

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	May 2025
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West	Consumer price indexes	Table	May 2025
Occupational Employment and Wages in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue — May 2021	Employment, Pay	News Release	Jul 2022
Unemployment in the Seattle Area by County - June 2016	Unemployment	News Release	Aug 2016
Average Energy Prices, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue – December 2022	Average energy prices	News Release	Jan 2023
Consumer Price Index, Seattle area — December 2022	Consumer price indexes	News Release	Jan 2023
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 - December 2022 (PDF)	Consumer price indexes	CPI Summary	Jan 2023
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

Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA Economy at a Glance:

Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA
Data Series	Sept 2024	Oct 2024	Nov 2024	Dec 2024	Jan 2025	Feb 2025
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)	(m)1,398.1	(m)1,398.5	(m)1,405.6	(m)1,405.6	1,392.3	(p)1,396.8
Employment(1)	(m)1,340.7	(m)1,342.7	(m)1,353.6	(m)1,362.4	1,337.4	(p)1,339.0
Unemployment(1)	(m)57.4	(m)55.8	(m)52.0	(m)43.2	54.9	(p)57.7
Unemployment Rate(2)	(m)4.1	(m)4.0	(m)3.7	(m)3.1	3.9	(p)4.1
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(3)	1,499.2	1,486.0	1,501.4	1,509.1	(p)1,489.8
12-month % change	1.3	0.8	1.5	1.8	(p)1.6
Mining and Logging(3)	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	(p)0.4
12-month % change	-20.0	-20.0	0.0	0.0	(p)-20.0
Construction(3)	74.2	73.7	71.9	71.7	(p)69.0
12-month % change	-4.3	-2.9	-3.6	-3.4	(p)-3.6
Manufacturing(3)	94.7	81.2	93.6	93.1	(p)91.7
12-month % change	0.3	-13.3	-0.2	-0.6	(p)-2.3
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)	231.3	231.8	233.1	236.5	(p)231.3
12-month % change	-0.6	0.2	-0.5	0.4	(p)0.4
Information(3)	131.4	129.6	129.8	131.2	(p)130.7
12-month % change	-1.4	-0.7	-0.2	0.5	(p)1.6
Financial Activities(3)	74.2	74.5	74.7	74.6	(p)74.3
12-month % change	0.1	1.1	1.5	1.1	(p)1.8
Professional and Business Services(3)	315.2	315.4	314.8	315.1	(p)312.7
12-month % change	0.7	0.9	0.2	0.3	(p)0.5
Education and Health Services(3)	201.4	204.4	206.2	206.0	(p)204.6
12-month % change	3.2	4.1	4.0	4.0	(p)4.1
Leisure and Hospitality(3)	142.8	137.6	136.7	139.9	(p)135.7
12-month % change	2.2	1.1	0.6	2.8	(p)3.6
Other Services(3)	48.8	48.0	47.3	48.1	(p)48.7
12-month % change	0.6	-1.4	-3.3	-1.4	(p)0.8
Government(3)	184.8	189.4	192.9	192.5	(p)190.7
12-month % change	8.3	8.5	10.4	8.8	(p)5.5
Consumer Price Index: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
CPI-U, All items(4)						358.096
CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change(4)						2.5
CPI-W, All items(5)		349.417		348.575		351.165
CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(5)		2.7		2.9		2.6
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. (m) Data are provisional, subject to revision on April 18, 2025. (p) Preliminary