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Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CWUR0000SA0) · All items, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted

What is the consumer price index for urban wage earners (CPI-W)?

The CPI-W for all items was 330.654 in the month ended , up 3.9% from a year earlier.

Consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items, not seasonally adjusted, each month

January 1913 to September 2026Not seasonally adjusted, as published

Consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items, not seasonally adjusted, each month (January 1913 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items, not seasonally adjusted, each month (September 2016 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items, not seasonally adjusted, each month (September 2024 to September 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

Consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items, change from a year earlier, each month (ours)

January 1913 to September 2026Ours, from the published values

Consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (January 1913 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (September 2016 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (September 2024 to September 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

Each point is one month of the series as the source publishes it, or a change worked out from those values (ours). The US recessions are shaded. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.

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MeasureLatestThe month beforeA year earlierFive years earlierTen years earlier
Month
Consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items330.654328.481318.139269.086235.495
Change over a year+3.9%+3.5%+2.9%+5.9%+1.2%

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Observed .

Right now

The CPI-W for all items was 330.654 in September 2026, the highest since our record begins in January 1913.

Over a year it is up 3.9% (ours).

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ChangeOurs

PeriodThenChange
One month328.481 in +0.7%
Three months327.075 in +1.1%
Twelve months318.139 in +3.9%
Five years269.086 in +22.9%
Ten years235.495 in +40.4%

In historyOurs

The CPI-W for all items of 330.654 in was higher than in 1,363 of the 1,363 other months since , the same in 0 and lower in 0.

Highest since : 330.654 in . Lowest since : 9.800 in .

AverageOurs

Average since : 91.4413 (ours, a plain mean of the 1,364 months).

Understanding the CPI-W for all items

Where it stands today

The CPI-W for all items was 330.654 in September 2026.

What does the CPI-W for all items measure?

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) follows the prices that urban households with wage or clerical earners pay for a fixed basket of goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes it each month, about two weeks after the month ends, as an index set to 100 for the average of 1982 to 1984. The cost-of-living increase of Social Security benefits is worked out from it.

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The CPI-W is a narrower group of households than the CPI-U, which covers all urban households. The two indexes usually move together but not by exactly the same amount.

What 500metrics adds: the change over one month, three months, a year and five years, the highest and lowest value since the series begins, and the yearly cost-of-living increase worked out from its third-quarter averages, on a page of its own.

The numbers behind the chart

What was the CPI-W for all items in each month?The last ten years, 119 months, newest first; the chart and the file have every month since Jan 1913
Consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items, not seasonally adjusted, by month, newest first (Index, 1982-84 = 100; the change ours)
MonthValueChange over a year
330.654+3.9%
328.481+3.5%
327.104+3.4%
327.075+3.5%
328.829+4.4%
326.541+3.9%
323.500+3.3%
319.422+2.2%
317.942+2.2%
317.014+2.6%
317.414+2.7%
318.139+2.9%
317.306+2.8%
316.349+2.5%
315.945+2.6%
314.839+2.2%
314.243+2.1%
313.250+2.2%
312.460+2.7%
311.172+3.0%
309.067+2.8%
308.998+2.6%
309.358+2.4%
309.046+2.2%
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MonthValueChange over a year
308.640+2.4%
308.501+2.9%
308.054+2.9%
308.163+3.3%
307.811+3.4%
306.502+3.5%
304.284+3.1%
302.201+2.9%
300.728+3.3%
301.224+3.0%
302.071+3.1%
302.257+3.6%
301.551+3.4%
299.899+2.6%
299.394+2.3%
298.382+3.6%
297.730+4.6%
296.021+4.5%
295.057+5.8%
293.565+6.3%
291.051+6.3%
292.495+7.1%
293.003+7.9%
291.854+8.5%
291.629+8.7%
292.219+9.1%
292.542+9.8%
288.022+9.3%
284.575+8.9%
283.176+9.4%
278.943+8.6%
276.296+8.2%
273.925+7.8%
273.042+7.6%
271.552+6.9%
269.086+5.9%
268.387+5.8%
267.789+6.0%
266.412+6.1%
263.612+5.6%
261.237+4.7%
258.935+3.0%
256.843+1.9%
255.296+1.6%
254.081+1.4%
253.826+1.3%
254.076+1.3%
254.004+1.5%
253.597+1.4%
252.636+1.0%
251.054+0.5%
249.521−0.1%
249.515+0.1%
251.375+1.5%
251.935+2.3%
251.361+2.5%
250.452+2.3%
250.644+1.9%
250.894+1.6%
250.251+1.5%
250.112+1.5%
250.236+1.7%
249.747+1.4%
249.871+1.7%
249.332+1.9%
247.768+1.8%
246.218+1.3%
245.133+1.3%
244.786+1.8%
245.933+2.2%
247.038+2.7%
246.565+2.3%
246.336+2.9%
246.155+3.2%
246.196+3.1%
245.770+3.0%
244.607+2.6%
243.463+2.4%
242.988+2.3%
241.919+2.1%
240.526+2.2%
240.666+2.3%
240.573+2.1%
240.939+2.3%
239.448+1.9%
238.617+1.6%
238.813+1.5%
238.609+1.8%
238.432+2.1%
237.656+2.3%
237.477+2.8%
236.854+2.5%
235.390+2.0%
235.215+1.5%
235.732+1.4%
What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite

What this number cannot tell you

  • The index is not adjusted for the season, as BLS publishes it in this series. BLS also publishes a seasonally adjusted CPI-W, which this page does not show.
  • BLS did not collect October 2025 because of the lapse in appropriations. The month has no value and is a gap in the chart.
  • The index is shown to three decimals, as the BLS file has it; a value with fewer places is shown with zeros.
  • The changes and the highest and lowest values are ours, worked out from the index values BLS publishes.

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How to cite this

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) and Chained CPI-U, All items, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, through September 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "What is the consumer price index for urban wage earners (CPI-W)?", https://500metrics.com/cpi-w.

Can the data be downloaded?cpi-w.csv

Download the full history as CSV: 1,364 rows, to , 24,475 bytes.

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Recession dates from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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