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Santa Cruz

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Western Consumer Price Index Card Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Western - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Jun 2023
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West Consumer price indexes Table Jun 2023
Occupational Employment and Wages in Santa Cruz-Watsonville — May 2022 Employment, Pay News Release Jun 2023
Average Energy Prices, San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward – April 2023 Average energy prices News Release May 2023
Consumer Price Index, San Francisco Area — April 2023 Consumer price indexes News Release May 2023
CPI Historical Table - San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA (PDF) Consumer price indexes Table Jul 2019
CPI Historical Table - San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA (old base) (PDF) Consumer price indexes Table Jul 2019
CPI Pacific Cities and U.S. City Average - April 2023 (PDF) Consumer price indexes CPI Summary May 2023
Changing Compensation Costs in the San Jose Metropolitan Area – March 2023 Benefits, Pay News Release May 2023
Consumer Price Index Data Tables - Pacific Cities and U.S. City Average Consumer price indexes Factsheet Mar 2020
Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA Economy at a Glance:
Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA
Data Series Back
Data
Nov
2022
Dec
2022
Jan
2023
Feb
2023
Mar
2023
Apr
2023

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

(2)134.4 (2)131.9 132.5 134.9 135.7 (p)134.4

Employment(1)

(2)128.4 (2)125.3 124.2 125.7 126.3 (p)126.4

Unemployment(1)

(2)6.1 (2)6.6 8.2 9.2 9.4 (p)8.1

Unemployment Rate(3)

(2)4.5 (2)5.0 6.2 6.9 6.9 (p)6.0

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(4)

102.5 100.6 100.5 101.5 101.9 (p)103.0

12-month % change

3.2 2.7 4.5 3.7 3.5 (p)2.7

Mining, Logging, and Construction(4)

5.3 5.2 5.0 5.0 5.0 (p)5.2

12-month % change

6.0 8.3 6.4 4.2 2.0 (p)4.0

Manufacturing(4)

8.2 8.0 7.9 7.9 7.9 (p)7.9

12-month % change

6.5 5.3 3.9 0.0 1.3 (p)0.0

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(4)

17.1 17.3 16.8 16.7 16.6 (p)16.7

12-month % change

3.0 4.2 5.0 1.8 0.6 (p)0.0

Information(4)

0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 (p)0.6

12-month % change

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 (p)0.0

Financial Activities(4)

3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 (p)3.2

12-month % change

-3.0 -3.0 0.0 -3.0 -3.0 (p)-3.0

Professional and Business Services(4)

10.9 10.8 10.7 10.8 10.7 (p)10.8

12-month % change

0.0 0.0 1.9 1.9 0.9 (p)0.0

Education and Health Services(4)

18.2 18.1 18.1 18.4 18.3 (p)18.6

12-month % change

4.0 3.4 4.0 5.1 5.2 (p)4.5

Leisure and Hospitality(4)

14.1 13.8 13.7 14.0 14.2 (p)14.7

12-month % change

8.5 8.7 9.6 6.9 7.6 (p)5.8

Other Services(4)

5.3 5.3 5.3 5.3 5.3 (p)5.4

12-month % change

6.0 6.0 6.0 3.9 3.9 (p)3.8

Government(4)

19.6 18.3 19.2 19.6 20.1 (p)19.9

12-month % change

-0.5 -4.2 2.7 5.4 5.2 (p)4.2

Footnotes
(1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted.
(2) Data were subject to revision on April 21, 2023.
(3) In percent, not seasonally adjusted.
(4) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data.
(p) Preliminary