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Economic Summaries:
Economic Summaries are specialized products that combine data graphically from subjects such as unemployment, inflation, and wages into a single document for selected metropolitan areas. To view a specific area in this region, use the dropdown list below or click here.
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Philadelphia Area Employment – November 2018
Total nonfarm employment for the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metropolitan Statistical Area stood at 2,998,900 in November 2018, up 43,200, or 1.5 percent, over the year.
County Employment and Wages in the District of Columbia – Second Quarter 2018
The average weekly wage in Washington, DC, increased 2.6 percent from the second quarter of 2017 to the second quarter of 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation for the Regions – September 2018
Private industry employer costs for employee compensation among the four regions of the country ranged from $31.13 per hour in the South to $41.98 in the Northeast during September 2018.
Average Energy Prices, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington – November 2018
Gasoline prices averaged $2.658 a gallon in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington area in November 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Average Energy Prices, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson – November 2018
Gasoline prices averaged $2.480 a gallon in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson area in November 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.