California

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News Releases and Tables

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Quick Look

California includes the following metropolitan areas for which an Economy At A Glance table is available:

News Releases and Tables

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Inflation & Consumer Spending

Consumer Price Index

News Releases
  • Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County (Monthly News Release) (HTML) (PDF)
  • San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose (Bi-monthly News Release) (HTML) (PDF)
  • San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA (Food & Energy News Release) (HTML) (PDF)
  • San Diego, CA (Semiannual News Release) (HTML) (PDF)
  • West Region (Monthly News Release) (HTML) (PDF)
Tables of Data
  • Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co, CA (All items tables)
    • 1982-84=100 (PDF 17KB)
    • 1967=100 (PDF 15KB)
  • San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA (All items tables)
    • 1982-84=100 (PDF 13KB)
    • 1967=100 (PDF 15KB)
  • San Diego, CA (All items tables)
    • 1982-84=100 (PDF 15KB)
    • 1967=100 (PDF 13KB)
  • Pacific Cities and U.S. City Average

  • West Region (All items tables)
    • 1982-84=100 (PDF 13KB)
    • December 1977=100 (PDF 11KB)
  • West Size Class A (All items tables)
    • 1982-84=100 (PDF 19KB)
    • December 1977=100 (PDF 19KB)
  • West Size Class B/C (All items tables)
    • 1982-84=100 (PDF 12KB)

Consumer Expenditure Survey

News Releases
Tables of Data
  • Consumer Expenditure Surveys - West region (HTML) (PDF)

Pay and Benefits

National Compensation Survey

News Releases
  • Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside, CA (HTML) (PDF)
  • Sacramento-Yolo, CA (HTML) (PDF)
  • Salinas, CA (HTML) (PDF)
  • San Diego, CA (HTML) (PDF)
  • San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA (HTML) (PDF)
  • Visalia-Tulare-Porterville, CA (HTML) (PDF)

Average Weekly Wages

News Releases
  • Arizona, Fourth Quarter 2004 (HTML) (PDF)

Employment Costs Trends

News Releases
  • Employment Cost Index, West Region (Quarterly release) (HTML) (PDF)
  • Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, West Region (Quarterly release) (HTML) (PDF)

Employment & Unemployment

Local Area Unemployment Statistics, seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted

Tables of Data
  • California (PDF 24KB)

Current Population Survey

  • Minimum Wage Workers in California: 2007 (HTML) (PDF 24KB)

Safety and Health

News Releases

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Frequently Asked Questions

Ways to Obtain Data

Telephone Information and Assistance: (415) 625-2270, menu option 4
Information specialists are available from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time to advise you on the availability of BLS data, publications, and information services. Staff economists also assist customers with technical questions regarding survey terms and definitions and with the interpretation and application of BLS data.
  • If you prefer, you can fax your request to us at 415-625-2351 or
  • You can also e-mail your request. Responses to inquiries received by fax and e-mail are usually answered within one workday.
CPI Hotline: (415) 625-2270, menu option 2
    A 24 hour recorded message service containing the latest all items indexes and percent changes for the U.S., West, and Western selected metropolitan areas. The message also provides the issue date for the next release.
    Additional local CPI hotline phone numbers are located in all published Western area cities.
        Anchorage, AK
          (907) 271-2770
        Honolulu, HI
          (808) 541-2808
        Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co., CA
          (310) 235-6884
        Phoenix-Mesa, AZ
          (503) 326-5818
        Portland-Salem, OR-WA
          (503) 326-5818
        San Diego, CA
          (619) 557-6538
        Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA
          (206) 553-0645
Library

The regional office reference library is open to the public from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.. Our library contains historical BLS Bulletins, Monthly Labor Review, BLS Reports, BLS periodicals, news releases, and summaries. Current materials may be obtained free of charge from the information staff.

Address:
Bureau of Labor Statistics
90 7th Street, Suite 14-100
San Francisco, CA 94103
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Last Modified Date: September 3, 2008