Bureau of Labor Statistics

The BLS Public Data API provides access to U.S. labor market and economic statistics including the unemployment rate, Consumer Price Index (CPI), nonfarm payroll employment, job openings (JOLTS), wages and compensation data, and labor productivity. Data is available as time series spanning decades, with national, state, and metro-level coverage across dozens of surveys and programs.

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What you can query

You can pull monthly time series for any BLS program by series ID — unemployment rates and labor force participation (LN and LA series), Consumer Price Index for all items or specific categories like food, energy, and shelter (CU series), nonfarm payroll employment by sector (CE series), job openings, hires, and quits from JOLTS (JT series), average hourly earnings and weekly hours, and Producer Price Index data (WP series). Requests support multi-series queries, net and percent change calculations, and annual averages.

What you can do

  • Unemployment trend analysis
  • Inflation and CPI monitoring
  • Wage data by occupation (annual estimates)
  • Labor force participation tracking
  • State-level employment comparisons
  • Regional price trend tracking

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