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The Mid-Atlantic BLS Information Office in Philadelphia services the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

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Special Notices:

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Economic News Releases, Technical Notes & Tables Created by BLS:

Inflation and Consumer Spending

Consumer Price Index

News Releases and Technical Information

Mid-Atlantic Information Office CPI Announcement (Blue Sheet)

Historical data tables for the CPI-U and CPI-W, all items, (1982-84=100)

  • U.S. city average (TXT) (PDF)
  • Northeast Region (TXT) (PDF)
  • South Region (TXT) (PDF)
  • Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-DE-NJ-MD, area (TXT) (PDF)
  • Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, area (Nov. 1996=100) (TXT) (PDF)
  • New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, area (TXT) (PDF)
  • Baltimore, MD, area (discontinued in Nov. 1997) (TXT) (PDF)
  • Washington, DC-MD-VA, area (discontinued in Nov. 1997) (TXT) (PDF)
  • Summary of annual and semi-annual indexes (TXT) (PDF)

Historical data tables for the CPI-U and CPI-W, all items, (1967=100)

  • U.S. city average (TXT) (PDF)
  • Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-DE-NJ-MD, area (TXT) (PDF)
  • New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, area (TXT) (PDF)
  • Baltimore, MD, area (discontinued in Nov. 1997) (TXT) (PDF)
  • Washington, DC-MD-VA, area (discontinued in Nov. 1997) (TXT) (PDF)

Consumer Expenditure Survey

News Releases, Technical Information, and Tables

  • Baltimore, MD, area (TXT) (PDF)
  • Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-DE-NJ-MD area (TXT) (PDF)
  • Pittsburgh, PA, area (TXT) (PDF)
  • Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV, area (TXT) (PDF)
  • South Region (TXT) (PDF)
  • CE explanatory note (TXT) (PDF)
  • CE Regional metropolitan area definitions (TXT) (PDF)
  • Data tables for all regions and metropolitan areas (most current) (TXT) (PDF)

Producer Price Index

Data Tables and Technical Information

  • Selected industry codes (TXT) (PDF)
  • Health services (TXT) (PDF)
  • Real estate services (TXT) (PDF)
  • Legal services (TXT) (PDF)
  • Engineering and architectural services (TXT) (PDF)
  • Utilities (TXT) (PDF)
  • Logging (TXT) (PDF)
  • Insurance (TXT) (PDF)
  • Selected commodity and special commodity codes (TXT) (PDF)
  • Selected average hourly earnings data for use with selected PPI data (TXT) (PDF)
  • PPI explanatory note (TXT) (PDF)
  • PPI escalation article (TXT) (PDF)

Employment & Unemployment

News Releases and Technical Information

  • Philadelphia Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (Quarterly)(TXT) (PDF)
  • South Atlantic Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (Quarterly) (TXT) (PDF)
  • Textile Mill Employment (TXT) (PDF)
  • CPS/LAUS explanatory note (TXT) (PDF)
  • CES explanatory note (TXT) (PDF)
  • CPS/LAUS Regional metropolitan area definitions (TXT) (PDF)
  • CES Regional metropolitan area definitions (TXT) (PDF)

Data tables of unemployment rates and nonfarm employment

  • Delaware
    • seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Wilmington area
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • District of Columbia
    • seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV, area
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Maryland
    • seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Baltimore area (includes Baltimore City)
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Suburban Maryland area
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Pennsylvania
    • seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Allentown area
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Harrisburg area
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Lancaster area
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Philadelphia area (includes Philadelphia City and surrounding PA counties)
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Pittsburgh area
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Reading area
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Scranton—Wilkes-Barre area
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Virginia
    • seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News area
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Northern Virginia
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Richmond area
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • West Virginia
    • seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • New Jersey
    • seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • Camden area
    • seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)
  • United States
    • seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(PDF)
    • historical nonfarm employment (TXT)(PDF)

Wages, Earnings, & Benefits

Average Annual Wages

News Releases and Technical Information

Employment Costs

News Releases and Technical Information

  • Employment Cost Index, Northeast Region (Quarterly) (TXT) (PDF)
  • Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, Northeast Region (Annual) (TXT) (PDF)
  • Employment Cost Index, South Region (Quarterly) (TXT) (PDF)
  • Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, South Region (Annual) (TXT) (PDF)

National Compensation Survey

News Releases and Technical Information

Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

News Releases and Technical Information

  • Scranton-Wilkes-Barre-Hazelton, PA MSA (TXT) (PDF)

Safety & Health

Mid-Atlantic Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries

News Releases and Technical Information

    State News Releases

  • District of Columbia (TXT) (PDF)
  • State of Maryland (TXT) (PDF)
  • State of New Jersey (TXT) (PDF)
  • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (TXT) (PDF)
  • State of West Virginia (TXT) (PDF)
  • Southeast (TXT) (PDF)

        Metropolitan Area News Releases

  • Baltimore area (includes Baltimore PMSA and Baltimore City) (TXT) (PDF)
  • Philadelphia area (includes Philadelphia City) (TXT) (PDF)
  • Pittsburgh area (TXT) (PDF)
  • Washington area (includes Washington PMSA and District of Columbia) (TXT) (PDF)

    Technical Information

  • CFOI explanatory note (TXT) (PDF)
  • CFOI Regional metropolitan area definitions (TXT) (PDF)

    Occupational Injuries and Illnesses

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Ready Facts (Fax-on-demand Catalog):

BLS Ready Facts is a catalog of documents that highlights data of special interest and summarizes frequently requested statistics and technical information from across the various BLS programs. Each catalog document is identified by a four-digit code. Numbers below 9000 identify documents available from the National catalog; numbers 9000 and above are reserved for documents not in the National catalog. Each of the eight BLS Information Offices maintains their own Ready Facts catalog highlighting State and metropolitan area data specific to their service area. The BLS Ready Facts catalogs can be accessed in two ways--through the World-Wide Web (not all catalogs or documents are yet available) and from the fax-on-demand systems maintained by the National office and each regional office. All that is needed to retrieve a document by fax is its individual code number. Ready Facts documents that are currently available on the WWW are highlighted in the catalog listings that follows. You can obtain those that are not available on the web by calling our fax-on-demand system at 215-597-4153.

Code   Document
9000   READY FACTS instructions and catalog for the Mid-Atlantic Information Office
9001   READY FACTS catalog for Mid-Atlantic--Consumer Price Index
9002   READY FACTS catalog for Mid-Atlantic--Producer Price Index
9004   READY FACTS catalog for Mid-Atlantic--Employment
9005   READY FACTS catalog for Mid-Atlantic--Average Annual Wages
9006   READY FACTS catalog for Mid-Atlantic--Compensation
9007   READY FACTS catalog for Mid-Atlantic--Consumer Expenditure Survey
9008   READY FACTS catalog for Mid-Atlantic--Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
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Publications and Other Documentation:

None

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Need Help?

Frequently Asked Questions

Ways To Obtain Data

  • Ready Fax
    Fax-On-Demand: An automated fax system containing selected CPI, PPI, and employment series; is available 24 hours a day at (215) 597-4153.


  • Telephone Hotlines
    CPI Hotlines: Recorded CPI messages available 24 hours a day.
    • Philadelphia (215) 656-3948
    Pittsburgh (412) 644-2900
    Washington-Baltimore (410) 962-4898
  • Library
    Telephone: The Economic Analysis & Information staff is available for phone assistance from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM at (215) 597-DATA (or 3282).
    Location: The office is open from 8:15 AM to 4:45 PM and is located at:
    • Bureau of Labor Statistics
    Suite 610 East -- The Curtis Center
    170 South Independence Mall West
    Philadelphia, PA 19106-3305
Latest Numbers

ECI Total Compensation, private industry workers

United States
 3-Month % Change:
History  0.9% in 2nd Qtr of 2004

12-Month % Change:
History  4.0% in 2nd Qtr of 2004

Northeast
 3-Month % Change:
History  1.2% in 2nd Qtr of 2004

12-Month % Change:
History  4.3% in 2nd Qtr of 2004

South
 3-Month % Change:
History  0.9% in 2nd Qtr of 2004

12-Month % Change:
History  3.9% in 2nd Qtr of 2004

Midwest
 3-Month % Change:
History  0.9% in 2nd Qtr of 2004

12-Month % Change:
History  3.4% in 2nd Qtr of 2004

West
 3-Month % Change:
History  0.9% in 2nd Qtr of 2004

12-Month % Change:
History  4.3% in 2nd Qtr of 2004

CPI-U, All Items

U.S. City Average
History   +0.1% in Aug 2004

History   +2.7% since Aug 2003

Northeast
History   unchanged in Aug 2004

History   +3.4% since Aug 2003

Midwest
History   +0.1% in Aug 2004

History   +2.5% since Aug 2003

South
History  unchanged in Aug 2004

History  +2.6% since Aug 2003

West
History   +0.1% in Aug 2004

History   +2.0% since Aug 2003

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