BLS labor productivity and unit labor costs

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Quarterly U.S. productivity and cost measures from the BLS Productivity and Costs program: labor productivity (output per hour of all workers) and unit labor costs for the nonfarm business sector and the manufacturing sector. Percent change at annual rate, seasonally adjusted.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Rows: 312
Columns: 4
Source cadence: Quarterly
Last refreshed: Sep 28, 2026
Theme: labor

Column	Type	Description
date	date	Period of observation, mapped from the BLS API 'year' and 'period' fields (for example '2026' + 'M08' becomes 2026-08-01; '2026' + 'Q02' becomes 2026-04-01, the first day of the quarter). Monthly and quarterly periods are kept; annual averages (M13) are dropped.
series_id	string	BLS series identifier, e.g. 'CES0000000001' or 'CUSR0000SA0'. Encodes the survey, area, item, and seasonal adjustment; formats are documented at bls.gov/help/hlpforma.htm.
series_label	string	Official BLS series title from the Bureau's series catalog (data.bls.gov/timeseries), e.g. 'All employees, thousands, total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted'.
value	float	Observed value from the BLS API 'value' field. Units follow the series definition: employment and unemployment levels are in thousands of persons/jobs, average hourly earnings in dollars, weekly hours in hours, rates in percent, and CPI/PPI series in index points. Missing observations are null.

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date	series_id	series_label	value
2007-01-01T00:00:00	PRS30006092	Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers	5.8
2007-04-01T00:00:00	PRS30006092	Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers	4.4
2007-07-01T00:00:00	PRS30006092	Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers	2.8
2007-10-01T00:00:00	PRS30006092	Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers	4.6
2008-01-01T00:00:00	PRS30006092	Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers	0.4
2008-04-01T00:00:00	PRS30006092	Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers	-5
2008-07-01T00:00:00	PRS30006092	Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers	-4.1
2008-10-01T00:00:00	PRS30006092	Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers	-6.2
2009-01-01T00:00:00	PRS30006092	Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers	-2.4
2009-04-01T00:00:00	PRS30006092	Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers	9.5

Profiled Sep 28, 2026 from snapshot 20260928T054559Z-d8ad91571cf3

Measured

Completeness: 100%
Rows: 312
Columns: 4
Columns with gaps: 0

Rows per yeardate · 2007–2026 · 20 years

20072026

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
datetimestamp_ns	0%	76	Jan 1, 2007 → Apr 1, 2026	—
series_idvarchar	0%	4	—	PRS3000609278 PRS3000611278 PRS8500609278
series_labelvarchar	0%	4	—	Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers78 Manufacturing Sector: Unit Labor Costs for All Workers78 Nonfarm Business Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers78
valuedouble	0%	159	-25.7 → 37.8median 1.4	8 outside 1st–99th percentile

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2026). BLS labor productivity and unit labor costs [Data set, snapshot 20260928T054559Z-d8ad91571cf3, sha256 d8ad91571cf3]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-28, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/bls/bls_labor_productivity?snapshot=20260928T054559Z-d8ad91571cf3

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@misc{dz_bls_bls_labor_productivity_d8ad9157,
  title        = {{BLS labor productivity and unit labor costs}},
  author       = {{U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/bls/bls_labor_productivity?snapshot=20260928T054559Z-d8ad91571cf3}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260928T054559Z-d8ad91571cf3, sha256 d8ad91571cf3f5ce7158999cdd3e83dc8c6bdbee57eee2c70311d81b9bfeeca4; accessed 2026-09-28}
}

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