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Economic Summaries are specialized products that combine data graphically from subjects such as unemployment, inflation, and wages into a single document for selected metropolitan areas. To view a specific area in this region, use the dropdown list below or click here.
Private industry employer costs for employee compensation among the four regions of the country ranged from $34.45 per hour in the South to $42.83 in the Northeast in March 2022.
Workers in the Anchorage, AK Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $30.63 in May 2021, 9 percent above the nationwide average of $28.01.
Workers in the Fairbanks, AK Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $30.21 in May 2021, 8 percent above the nationwide average of $28.01.
Gasoline prices averaged $6.044 a gallon in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim area in May 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Gasoline prices averaged $6.149 a gallon in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward area in May 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.