LAS1205: Work as Meaning and Identity

The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of consumer goods and services. The CPI measures inflation as experienced by consumers in their day-to-day living expenses. Indexes are available for the United States and various geographic areas. Average price data for select utility, automotive fuel, and food items are also available. CPI indexes are used to adjust income eligibility levels for government assistance, federal tax brackets, federally mandated cost-of-living increases, private sector wage and salary increases, poverty measures, and consumer and commercial rent escalations. Consequently, the CPI directly affects hundreds of millions of Americans.

The Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE) program provides data on expenditures, income, and demographic characteristics of consumers in the United States. The CE program provides these data in tables, LABSTAT database, news releases, reports, and public use microdata files.

Career information for students! Search for careers based on what interests you. Find out what people in an occupation do, what kind of education and training they need, salary information, and job outlook.

Your home for career trajectory discovery. Filter jobs to discover how fast that position is expected to grow, median salary, fastest growing positions/titles, and jobs by degree.

Take care to look at individual organizations and locations to get a more in depth understanding of what jobs pay in particular areas.

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