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How to use
  1. Enter your zip and occupation.
  2. Read the two halves: what your wage did, and what local prices did.
  3. See how they net out into your one footing number.
Breakdown · what makes the number

Take your footing apart

One number, two forces: what your wage did, and how much your local prices ran ahead of the national average.

National CPI (BLS): loading live figure…
Your footing this month
▼ -0.4%
The components
Real-wage change (your field)0%
What pay in your occupation did after inflation. Modeled from your field; production wires BLS wage series.
Local price drag (vs national)-0.4%
Local CPI +2.8% runs above the national +2.4% by +0.4%. That gap is the part of national CPI that doesn't describe your life.
Net footing-0.4%
0% wage − +0.4% local drag = -0.4%

Why split it this way?

National CPI is live from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (series CUUR0000SA0, CPI-U, year-over-year). The real-wage change and local-CPI figures shown here are modeled around that live national baseline — production wires BLS area series + BLS wage series + Census for your zip and occupation. Inputs drive a seed calculation for the prototype, identical to the home screen so the numbers agree.