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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · Monthly releases on the BLS schedule (Employment Situation first Friday, CPI mid-month, 8:30 a.m. ET); values served are the current vintage — recent CES months are preliminary, and seasonally adjusted series are revised when seasonal factors are re-estimated.

9 series 3 datasets 6 passing 5h ago last refresh 1913-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 coverage

License: public-domain · official terms. Attribution text and per-series license flags ride in every API envelope.

Source API docs · Verification statuses come from golden-value and freshness checks against the live source; see status.

Quickstart

Latest observations, with provenance and citation on every value:

curl "https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/v1/sources/bls/series/CUSR0000SA0/observations?latest=12"

A computed, cited answer from this source:

curl -X POST "https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/v1/answer" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"question": "What is the latest All items in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, seasona?", "source": "bls"}'

As MCP tools in Claude, Cursor, or any agent framework:

claude mcp add --transport http starwell https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/mcp

Series

SeriesIndicatorGeographyUnitFreqCoverageVerification
CUSR0000SA0 All items in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, seasonally adjusted United States Index 1982-84=100 monthly 1947-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 passing
CUUR0000SA0 All items in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted United States Index 1982-84=100 monthly 1913-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 passing
LNS14000000 (Seas) Unemployment Rate United States Percent monthly 1948-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 passing
LNS12300000 (Seas) Employment-Population Ratio United States Percent monthly 1948-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 passing
LNS11300000 (Seas) Labor Force Participation Rate United States Percent monthly 1948-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 passing
CUUR0000SA0L1E All items less food and energy in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted United States Index 1982-84=100 monthly 1957-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 unverified
CES0000000001 All employees, thousands, total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted United States Thousands of employees monthly 1939-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 passing
LNS12000000 (Seas) Employment Level United States Thousands of persons monthly 1948-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 unverified
CES0500000003 Average hourly earnings of all employees, total private, seasonally adjusted United States Dollars per hour monthly 2006-03-01 .. 2026-06-01 unverified