A short, honest read on what moved your footing since last month — and which half of it did the moving.
Your footing for 02842 as a Registered Nurse is now -0.4%, up +0.3% from -0.7% last month.
Real wages in your field eased by +0.9%, while local prices eased by +1.4%. Nationally, BLS puts CPI at +2.4% (estimated); your local prices are running above that by +0.4%.
The bigger mover this month was the price side — your local cost of living, not pay, drove the change.
Why a monthly note instead of a chart?
National CPI is live from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (series CUUR0000SA0, CPI-U, year-over-year). The month-over-month deltas, real-wage, and local-CPI figures are modeled — production wires BLS area + wage series for a real prior-month comparison. The prose is generated from the modeled deltas; no editorializing beyond naming which component moved.