US Labor Market Indicator Lookup — BLS Data avatar

US Labor Market Indicator Lookup — BLS Data

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US Labor Market Indicator Lookup — BLS Data

US Labor Market Indicator Lookup — BLS Data

Look up national US labor market indicators (unemployment rate, CPI, average hourly earnings, labor force participation, job openings rate) over recent years via the official Bureau of Labor Statistics public API. For finance, macro, and policy research teams.

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Look up national US labor market indicators — unemployment rate, CPI, average hourly earnings, labor force participation, job openings rate — over recent years, via the official Bureau of Labor Statistics public API.

Built for finance, macro, and policy research teams tracking the US labor market trend without pulling BLS's own CSV/Excel releases by hand.

Input

{
"indicators": ["unemploymentRate", "cpi", "averageHourlyEarnings"],
"yearsBack": 3
}
FieldTypeDescription
indicatorsarray of stringsWhich indicators to fetch. One or more of unemploymentRate, cpi, averageHourlyEarnings, laborForceParticipationRate, jobOpeningsRate. Default ["unemploymentRate"].
yearsBacknumberHow many years of monthly history to fetch per indicator. Default 3, max 20.

Output

One record per requested indicator, with its full monthly history and a year-over-year comparison:

{
"indicator": "unemploymentRate",
"label": "Unemployment rate",
"unit": "percent",
"seriesId": "LNS14000000",
"latestValue": 4.1,
"latestPeriod": "July 2026",
"yearOverYearChange": -0.2,
"yearOverYearPercentChange": -4.65,
"history": [
{ "year": "2026", "period": "M07", "periodName": "July", "value": 4.1 }
]
}

An unrecognized indicator key is skipped with a warning rather than failing the whole run.

How it works

Direct calls to the official BLS public API (api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2) — no proxy, no scraping, no API key required for this actor's usage level. BLS is a federal statistical agency; its published data is US government work and in the public domain. This actor covers a curated set of well-known national series rather than arbitrary series-ID lookup, since BLS has no key-free series search endpoint.

Pricing note

Billed per lookup (one run), not per indicator returned — one charge whether you request 1 indicator or all 5.