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BLS Employment Cost Index -- Construction, wages and salaries

The labor-cost escalation factor for the installation component of the price range -- installation labor does not track the equipment PPI. Series `CIU2022300000000I`.


License class
P — public domain / open US Government work, public domain.
Attribution
Not legally required — every figure derived from it still carries a source and date stamp.
Fetch cadence
Quarterly -- BLS publishes ECI once per quarter.
Last fetched
No frozen file exists for this source either -- the labor-cost escalation factor is fetched live on every price-range computation. This date is the last quarter this project actually computed with (2026 Q2).

Worth knowing

  • The series ID was wrong: `CIU2012300000000I` (Total compensation) was corrected to `CIU2022300000000I` (Wages and salaries) -- a component-code digit, "01" vs "02".

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