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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.
In July 2023, Massachusetts had 242,000 job openings, at a rate of 6.0 percent. The unemployed-per-job-opening ratio was 0.4.
Gasoline prices averaged $3.867 a gallon in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton area in August 2023, down 52 cents compared to August 2022.
Prices in the Northeast Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased by 0.5 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Prices in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.6 percent in August.
Private industry employer costs for employee compensation among the four regions of the country ranged from $36.11 per hour in the South to $47.54 in the Northeast in June 2023.