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Boulder

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Boulder Area Economic Summary (PDF)
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
Economic Summary Sep 2023
Mountain-Plains - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Sep 2023
Occupational Employment and Wages in Boulder — May 2021 Employment, Pay News Release Jul 2022
Annual averages U.S., Denver, Kansas City, and St. Louis Consumer price indexes Table Jan 2018
Mountain-Plains CPI Blue Card (PDF) Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Dec 2017
Boulder, CO Economy at a Glance:
Boulder, CO
Data Series Back
Data
Mar
2023
Apr
2023
May
2023
June
2023
July
2023
Aug
2023

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

204.7 203.4 205.0 203.7 203.7 (p)204.5

Employment(1)

199.9 199.1 199.8 197.3 197.0 (p)197.8

Unemployment(1)

4.7 4.3 5.2 6.4 6.7 (p)6.7

Unemployment Rate(2)

2.3 2.1 2.5 3.1 3.3 (p)3.3

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

206.1 206.5 207.7 206.1 205.3 (p)206.4

12-month % change

1.8 0.6 0.9 0.7 0.8 (p)0.9

Mining, Logging, and Construction(3)

5.8 6.0 6.0 6.1 6.2 (p)6.2

12-month % change

5.5 5.3 5.3 5.2 5.1 (p)6.9

Manufacturing(3)

22.0 22.0 22.1 22.4 22.7 (p)22.3

12-month % change

0.9 0.0 0.5 0.4 1.3 (p)0.0

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

25.3 25.6 25.7 25.4 25.4 (p)25.4

12-month % change

-1.9 -1.5 -0.4 -1.9 -3.4 (p)-2.7

Information(3)

8.2 8.1 8.1 8.1 8.1 (p)8.1

12-month % change

-12.8 -13.8 -14.7 -12.9 -2.4 (p)-1.2

Financial Activities(3)

7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 (p)7.0

12-month % change

-4.1 -5.4 -5.4 -4.1 -4.1 (p)-2.8

Professional and Business Services(3)

41.6 41.5 41.5 42.3 42.4 (p)42.1

12-month % change

0.0 -1.9 -2.4 -1.2 -4.3 (p)-4.8

Education and Health Services(3)

26.6 26.6 26.8 26.7 26.8 (p)26.8

12-month % change

4.3 2.3 3.5 3.1 5.1 (p)4.3

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

20.4 20.4 21.0 21.1 20.9 (p)21.3

12-month % change

5.7 2.0 2.9 -2.8 -2.3 (p)0.9

Other Services(3)

8.4 8.4 8.5 8.5 8.5 (p)8.4

12-month % change

2.4 0.0 0.0 -1.2 0.0 (p)-1.2

Government(3)

40.8 40.9 41.0 38.5 37.3 (p)38.8

12-month % change

7.1 7.6 7.6 10.0 10.4 (p)9.6

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.
(p) Preliminary