US Labor Market Indicator Lookup — BLS Data
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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}
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
indicators | array of strings | Which indicators to fetch. One or more of unemploymentRate, cpi, averageHourlyEarnings, laborForceParticipationRate, jobOpeningsRate. Default ["unemploymentRate"]. |
yearsBack | number | How 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.
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