Index lookup
The producer and consumer price indices that actually get cited in escalation clauses, with the current value, the year-over-year change, and what each one means for a formula, not just a raw number.
BLS · BLS_PCU333611333611 · Aerospace & Defence
Used to escalate the propulsion-system share of naval shipbuilding contracts, alongside shipbuilding steel and shipyard labor.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU336412336412 · Aerospace & Defence
The largest single weight in most aircraft equipment and spare-parts escalation composites, engine overhaul is where aftermarket spend concentrates.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU336411336411 · Aerospace & Defence
Indexes new-build aircraft directly. Does not cover spare parts, which have no matching government series and price from a composite instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU336611336611 · Aerospace & Defence
Indexes naval and commercial shipbuilding contracts directly, typically weighted alongside shipbuilding steel and marine propulsion.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU33299T33299T · Aerospace & Defence
The only real government index for defence small-arms contracts. No narrower "small arms only" or "ammunition only" series exists alongside it.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU332722332722 · Aerospace & Defence
Fasteners and structural hardware component in aircraft spare-parts escalation composites.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU33641-33641- · Aerospace & Defence
Used as a portfolio-level benchmark in a diversified aerospace supply contract spanning airframes, engines, and parts together rather than isolating one component type. A dispute over a specific component should still cite PCU336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing) or PCU336412 (Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing) instead, since this aggregate blends them.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3364--3364-- · Aerospace & Defence
Relevant only for a contract whose aerospace scope is broader than PCU33641 (Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing) can capture, for example a diversified prime-contractor supply agreement covering airframes, engines, and other aerospace parts under one umbrella. A dispute over one component should cite PCU336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing) or PCU336412 (Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing) instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU334413334413 · Semiconductors
Indexes chip supply contracts directly. Needs a cap and floor more than most categories since the swings are structural, not occasional.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333242333242 · Semiconductors
Indexes fab equipment separately from chip prices, the two move on different cycles and a shared index misprices whichever side is out of phase.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU334412334412 · Semiconductors
Indexes the bare board substrate itself, separate from the populated assembly. A contract that only cites a chip index misses the board substrate cost, which moves on its own schedule.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU334418334418 · Semiconductors
Covers the finished assembled board with labor and component cost baked in together. Use this instead of the bare-board index when the supplier delivers a completed assembly, not raw boards.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU334417334417 · Semiconductors
Connectors are a standalone line item in most electronics bills of materials and price on their own cycle, tied to copper and plating metal cost more than to chip supply.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU33441K33441K · Semiconductors
The standard index for passive components, bundled into one series since none of the individual component types trades a large enough category for its own separate line.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU335910335910 · Semiconductors
Covers finished battery packs and cells broadly. For EV or grid-scale battery-metal exposure specifically, pair with a lithium or nickel index rather than relying on this alone.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU334419334419 · Semiconductors
A catch-all for electronic components with no dedicated series of their own. Use only when nothing more specific applies, and name the actual component in the clause so both sides know what it covers.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3344--3344-- · Semiconductors
Used as a portfolio-level benchmark in a component supply contract spanning several narrower series at once, chips, boards, connectors, and passive parts together such as PCU334413 (Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing), PCU334412 (Bare Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing), PCU334417 (Electronic Connector Manufacturing), or PCU33441K (Capacitor, Resistor, Coil, Transformer, and Other Inductor Manufacturing). A dispute over one component type still needs one of those narrower series, since this aggregate blends all of them.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU334413334413A · Semiconductors
Fits a wafer or discrete-component supply contract that needs to isolate device-level pricing from the broader mix of packaged chips the parent series tracks. Cite this alongside the parent semiconductor and related device manufacturing series only when the contract explicitly separates discrete devices from finished chips, otherwise the parent series alone is simpler to administer.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU334---334--- · Semiconductors
Fits only a contract whose electronics scope is broader than semiconductors specifically, for example one spanning computer hardware alongside chips. Too broad to isolate a chip-price dispute, PCU3344 (Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing) or a narrower product series should carry that clause instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU33441-33441- · Semiconductors
The tighter of the two aggregate levels for this industry, cite this instead of PCU3344 (Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing, NAICS 3344) when the buyer wants the narrowest available bucket without naming a single product line. Still broader than any single product series, so a dispute over one product type needs one of those instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU335311335311 · Telecom & Data Centers
One of the strongest indexed components in data-center, transmission, and substation contracts, a real manufactured product with a live monthly survey.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU335313335313 · Telecom & Data Centers
Paired with the transformer series as the two strongest indexed components in data-center, transmission, and substation escalation clauses.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333415333415 · Telecom & Data Centers
Covers the cooling-equipment share of a data-center build, alongside the transformer and switchgear series.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU334112334112 · Telecom & Data Centers
Indexes storage hardware, drives and arrays, as a distinct line from servers or networking gear. Useful when a data-center build-out contract breaks storage out as its own procurement category.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU324191324191 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Use when neither contract party holds an Argus or ICIS subscription, or as a free sanity check against a subscription-based number.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU326122326122 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Covers PVC and similar pressure and drain pipe as a manufactured product, distinct from the raw resin feedstock index. Use this one when the contract buys finished pipe, the resin series when it buys pellets for in-house extrusion.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU326160326160 · Lubricants & Chemicals
A finished-goods packaging index that tracks converters output price, not the resin they buy. Pair with a resin index only if the contract also covers raw material risk upstream of the bottler.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0722 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Covers flexible packaging film and sheet stock as a commodity, common in a freight or product-packaging escalation composite where film cost is a real, separately negotiated line.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3261403261403 · Lubricants & Chemicals
The construction-specific cut of polystyrene foam output, rigid insulation board and similar building products, separate from packaging foam, which prices differently.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU071304 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Indexes hydraulic and industrial hose as a finished product. Pair with a fluid power valve or fitting index when a contract covers a full hydraulic assembly rather than hose alone.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU326220326220D2 · Lubricants & Chemicals
A narrow, named cut of the rubber and plastics hose and belting series. Use it specifically for belt drives, not the parent series, when the contract is belt-specific.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU06790304 · Lubricants & Chemicals
One of several named cuts of the industrial gas series. Oxygen prices separately from nitrogen or argon since production and distribution economics differ by gas.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU06790303 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Prices on its own cycle from oxygen and argon despite sharing production infrastructure. Name the specific gas in the clause rather than citing a generic industrial gas index.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU06790309 · Lubricants & Chemicals
A blended two-gas series. Use only when the contract genuinely buys both in a fixed ratio, otherwise the nitrogen or oxygen series is the cleaner match for a single-gas clause.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3251203251204 · Lubricants & Chemicals
The standalone carbon dioxide cut of the industrial gas manufacturing series, relevant to beverage carbonation, welding shielding gas, and dry ice supply contracts specifically.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU067904 · Lubricants & Chemicals
A single blended series covering both adhesives and sealants, common in a construction materials composite where sealant cost is real but too small a line to negotiate its own index.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU32592-32592- · Lubricants & Chemicals
The only BLS series for commercial and mining explosives, an industry-group aggregate rather than a single narrow product line since no finer breakdown exists.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU067903 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Used in supply contracts for welding, steelmaking and food freezing. It combines oxygen, nitrogen, argon, hydrogen and other gases, which the catalog also lists separately. Check whether the contract already passes power cost through before adding this index.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU061 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Used in bulk chemical supply and toll manufacturing agreements where the buyer wants one broad chemicals figure rather than naming each feedstock. A contract with one dominant feedstock gets a more accurate escalator from that feedstock's own narrower series.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU325---325--- · Lubricants & Chemicals
Sometimes cited in general contract boilerplate as a catch-all chemicals escalator. A drafter should name the specific chemical index instead whenever the contract has one identifiable input, since this aggregate moves with the whole sector, not the one product being bought.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU325311325311 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Appears in bulk fertilizer supply and distribution agreements between manufacturers and agricultural cooperatives. Natural gas is the dominant feedstock cost for nitrogen fertilizer, so a drafter sometimes pairs this with a natural gas index rather than relying on it alone to capture feedstock swings.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0613020T1 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Common in phosphate fertilizer, metal pickling, and mineral processing supply contracts, since sulfuric acid is a direct input in each. The acid is heavy and corrosive to transport, so some contracts add a separate freight adjustment alongside this index rather than folding transport into one blended rate.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU06 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Used as a fallback escalator in general commercial agreements that touch chemicals broadly, such as a distribution contract with no single dominant input. It is too broad for a contract built around one specific chemical, where a narrower series for that chemical prices the actual product being bought.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU325510325510 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Cited in construction and industrial coating supply contracts where the buyer wants the finished-product price rather than the resin or pigment inputs behind it. A contract sourcing raw resin directly should use the plastics resin series instead, since resin and finished paint do not move in lockstep once labor and packaging are added.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU06790918 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Written into tire and rubber compound supply agreements, where carbon black is a major reinforcing filler cost. Feedstock oil price swings pass through with a lag, so a short averaging window on this index can understate the true cost move during a fast oil rally.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0652013A · Lubricants & Chemicals
Used in nitrogen fertilizer supply and blending contracts as the input-cost benchmark ahead of the finished fertilizer manufacturing index. It bundles several nitrogen intermediates into one figure, so a contract buying only urea specifically still benefits from naming urea in the clause language even though this series is what gets tracked.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU06130302 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Relevant to water treatment, pulp bleaching, and PVC supply contracts that draw on chlor-alkali output. Chlorine and sodium hydroxide are joint products of one electrolysis process, so a plant tilting output toward one product can shift the blended price here independent of demand for the other, worth a footnote in a long-term supply contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0652026A · Lubricants & Chemicals
Used in phosphate fertilizer blending and distribution agreements as the intermediate-cost benchmark, sitting between the raw sulfuric acid input and the finished fertilizer product. A drafter escalating a finished DAP or MAP fertilizer sale should confirm which stage of production the contract price is actually set at before choosing this series over a finished-goods one.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU061303024 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Written into pulp and paper, water treatment, and soap and detergent manufacturing supply contracts where caustic soda is bought as a standalone input rather than paired with chlorine. This is the more precise choice over WPU06130302 (Chlorine, Sodium Hydroxide, and Other Alkalies) whenever the buyer never takes delivery of chlorine at all.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU065202 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Sometimes used in older fertilizer supply contracts drafted before the more granular phosphate fertilizer materials series existed, since this one has a longer continuous history back to 1982. A new contract drafted today should generally prefer the more granular series unless a long historical baseline is the deciding factor.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU061303 · Lubricants & Chemicals
Appears in glass manufacturing and detergent supply contracts that use soda ash alongside chlor-alkali products, where the wider grouping captures more of what the buyer actually purchases than the narrower chlorine-and-caustic series would. A contract buying only caustic soda gets a cleaner match from the single-product series instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU484110484110 · Freight & Trucking
Use for port-to-warehouse and last-mile moves. Local drayage prices on a different structure than long-distance linehaul, do not use one for the other.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU484121484121 · Freight & Trucking
The standard linehaul benchmark for full-truckload freight contracts. Pair with a diesel fuel index for the surcharge, the two move on different schedules.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU484122484122 · Freight & Trucking
Use when a shipment shares trailer space with other freight, LTL typically prices differently from full truckload on the same lane.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU057303 · Freight & Trucking
The standard benchmark for a diesel fuel surcharge on a freight or transport contract, cited alongside the linehaul trucking index, since the two move on different schedules.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU484---484--- · Freight & Trucking
Used as a single benchmark in a logistics contract that buys a mix of local and long-distance trucking and does not want to track each segment separately. Because this blends PCU484110, PCU484121, and PCU484122 together, a dispute over one lane type needs one of those narrower series instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU4841224841221 · Freight & Trucking
Use in place of PCU484122 (General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Less Than Truckload) when a contract needs the LTL rate isolated from ancillary revenue, accessorial fees or warehousing, that LTL carriers also report under the same industry code. The two series track closely in practice, so switching between them mid-contract is rarely worth the administrative effort.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU4841214841212 · Freight & Trucking
Fits a truckload contract that wants the tightest available cut of linehaul revenue rather than PCU484121 (General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload), which can include a small share of non-truckload service revenue from the same carriers. Pair with WPU057303 (No. 2 Diesel Fuel) for the fuel surcharge, since this series itself does not include the surcharge as BLS measures it.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333922333922 · Warehouse & Logistics Equipment
Usually the largest single weight in a warehouse fit-out escalation composite.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333924333924 · Warehouse & Logistics Equipment
Indexes forklift fleet costs in a warehouse fit-out contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333923333923 · Warehouse & Logistics Equipment
Also the standard series for port crane escalation. Name it explicitly as a general proxy in the contract, not a warehouse-specific benchmark.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1322 · Construction Materials
The standard series for bulk cement in a concrete-heavy construction contract, distinct from the broader ready-mix concrete price, which also carries aggregate and labor cost.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU324121324121 · Construction Materials
Covers hot-mix asphalt for paving, the standard index for a road, parking lot, or driveway paving contract material escalation.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1331 · Construction Materials
Indexes finished masonry units, not the raw cement or aggregate that goes into them. Use this when the contract buys block or brick directly, the cement series when it buys bulk cement for site-mixed concrete.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0812 · Construction Materials
A separate series from softwood construction lumber, relevant to flooring, millwork, and furniture-grade contracts rather than structural framing.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU332321332321 · Construction Materials
A finished-product index for window and door units, useful in a building envelope contract where glazing and framing are priced as installed assemblies, not raw glass and metal.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU13210120 · Construction Materials
The standard aggregate index for a concrete or paving contract, typically cited alongside cement since both feed the same ready-mix batch.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1345 · Construction Materials
Covers clay pipe, tile, and similar structural clay items outside the brick and block series, a narrow but real line in some site-utility contracts.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU11710216 · Construction Materials
Indexes the conduit and fittings that route wiring, distinct from the wire itself or the current-carrying devices, switches and outlets, at the end of the run.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU332913332913 · Construction Materials
The standard index for finished plumbing trim, faucets, fittings and fixtures, as installed in a building fit-out contract rather than the pipe that feeds them.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU335931335931 · Construction Materials
Covers switches, outlets, and similar devices that carry current, the companion series to conduit and fittings for a complete electrical escalation composite.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0922 · Construction Materials
The standard series for engineered wood panel products, used in cabinetry, subflooring, and similar applications distinct from solid dimensional lumber.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU062103 · Construction Materials
Covers marine, industrial, and construction coatings as one blended series, common in a building envelope or structural steel contract paint and coating line.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1311 · Construction Materials
Glazing and curtain wall subcontracts that want a flat-glass-only escalator name this commodity series rather than the wider glass industry series.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU137 · Construction Materials
Drywall and interior build-out subcontracts that name a gypsum escalator can use this commodity series for the whole product group, or the industry series for building materials only. Check which one the supplier price list follows.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1392 · Construction Materials
Building envelope and mechanical insulation subcontracts name this series as a general insulation escalator. Its published sub-series are mineral wool, so a contract that buys another insulation type should check the fit.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPUSI012011 · Construction Materials
General contractor bid escalation clauses cite this aggregate when a project buys many material types and does not want to negotiate a separate index per material. Because it blends lumber, concrete, steel, and other inputs that do not move together, a contract concentrated in one material category gets closer accuracy from that material own series.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU081 · Construction Materials
Framing and general timber supply contracts that buy a mix of softwood and hardwood stock cite this blended series, while a contract buying structural framing lumber specifically should use the softwood-only series instead, since softwood and hardwood prices swing on different demand cycles.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3273--3273-- · Construction Materials
Ready mix concrete supply contracts sometimes cite this industry index rather than the narrower bulk cement series when the buyer wants one number covering cement, block, and other concrete products from the same plant. A contract buying only bulk cement gets a more direct match from the cement specific series instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU801 · Construction Materials
Owner and general contractor guaranteed maximum price contracts occasionally reference this output index as a total project cost benchmark rather than an input material escalator, since it reflects bid pricing across labor, materials, and margin together. It is a poor fit for escalating a single material line item because it cannot isolate what drove any change.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU4441--4441-- · Construction Materials
Distribution and dealer supply agreements use this series when the contract price includes dealer markup and logistics rather than mill or plant gate cost. A contract buying direct from a manufacturer should use that material own production side series instead, since dealer margin and manufacturing cost do not move together.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU32721-32721- · Construction Materials
Glazing and curtain wall subcontracts cite this industry series as a glass cost escalator when no narrower flat-glass-only series is available, though it also picks up container and specialty glass output that a building glazing contract never buys.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU083 · Construction Materials
Roof and wall sheathing subcontracts name this series directly rather than a general wood panel index, since plywood veneer supply and pressed panel supply chains respond to different input costs and do not track each other closely.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU236211236211 · Construction Materials
Design build and EPC contracts for a warehouse or plant shell sometimes reference this output index as a whole project benchmark rather than an input escalator. Like the nonresidential construction series, it bundles labor, material, and margin together, so it cannot substitute for a material specific clause.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3241213241210131 · Construction Materials
State and municipal road paving contracts, including DOT bid escalation clauses, cite this narrower primary product series over the broader industry group index to isolate the paving mixture itself from other output the same plants also sell, such as roofing asphalt.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0811 · Construction Materials
Residential and light commercial framing contracts name this series specifically rather than the blended lumber aggregate, since softwood is the grade actually framed with and its price swings, driven by housing starts and tariff cycles, run wider than the blended series shows.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPUIP2311001 · Construction Materials
Homebuilder cost plus and allowance contracts sometimes cite this basket as a single materials escalator across an entire home build. Because it is a weighted basket, the movement in any one line item a buyer actually cares about, framing lumber or roofing shingles for instance, can differ meaningfully from the basket average.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU2123122123120 · Construction Materials
Aggregate supply agreements for road base and site fill cite this series directly, and a cement supply contract may also reference it as an upstream input cost signal, since limestone is the primary raw material cement plants calcine, separate from the finished cement price itself.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3241223241222 · Construction Materials
Roofing subcontracts and reroofing allowance clauses in a building contract name this series rather than the paving asphalt index, since shingle and roofing felt manufacturing carries its own asphalt grade and coating cost that paving mixture pricing does not reflect.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3274203274201 · Construction Materials
Drywall and interior finish subcontracts escalate against this series directly. Gypsum board pricing has swung sharply around wallboard plant closures and paper liner cost in the past, so a contract relying on this series benefits from a defined review cadence rather than a single annual check.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU102505 · Industrial Metals & Parts
The standard series for titanium stock used in aerospace structural and engine components, priced separately from the aluminum and steel series it sometimes substitutes for.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU10170674 · Industrial Metals & Parts
A distinct series from carbon steel pipe, relevant to corrosion-resistant piping in chemical processing or food-grade construction contracts.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1076 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Covers cut and shaped steel plate as a manufactured product, distinct from raw hot-rolled steel, useful when the contract buys ready-to-weld plate rather than coil.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU332911332911 · Industrial Metals & Parts
The standard index for process valves in a chemical plant or utility contract, a real, separately negotiated line distinct from the pipe and fitting it connects to.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU332919332919 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Covers fittings and smaller valve types outside the industrial valve series, commonly cited alongside it for a complete piping-system escalation composite.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU339991339991 · Industrial Metals & Parts
A small but real line in an automotive or industrial equipment contract, gasket cost tracks rubber and metal input cost more closely than it tracks the parent assembly.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU331513331513 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Covers cast steel parts made by sand or similar casting, distinct from wrought steel plate or bar. Relevant to heavy equipment and structural casting contracts.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU332618332618 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Covers wire mesh, fencing, and similar fabricated wire goods, a narrow line most relevant to site fencing or reinforcement mesh in a construction contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3271203271207 · Industrial Metals & Parts
The standard index for furnace and kiln lining brick, relevant to any contract supplying refractory material for industrial heat processing equipment.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1074051 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Used in concrete and foundation supply contracts where the buyer pays for fabricated reinforcing steel, not just mill bar. Because it blends bar joists with reinforcing bar and includes shop work, check it against a mill steel series or a regional rebar price before relying on it alone.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU101705 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Used in supply contracts for drawn wire and wire products. It follows mill steel but with a smaller swing, so a clause tied to a hot rolled series can over-adjust compared with the wire invoice.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU101 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Cited in broad steel supply agreements and long term purchase contracts where the buyer wants one steel escalator instead of tracking each mill product separately. The tradeoff is precision, a mill invoicing a specific plate or sheet grade usually sees less price correlation with this aggregate than with the matching narrower series.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1017 · Industrial Metals & Parts
A common default in a steel distributor or service center supply agreement when the buyer purchases a mix of mill shapes rather than one specific product. Because it blends several product lines, a contract for a single shape is usually served better by the narrower series for that shape.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU101707 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Automotive and appliance stamping supply agreements typically name this series rather than the broader steel mill products index, because cold rolled sheet carries a separate finishing premium over hot rolled that a blended index would understate.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU101704 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Structural steel fabrication and building frame contracts escalate against this series since beams and plate stock ship hot rolled. A contract that cites the cold rolled series instead would track a finishing cost the structural buyer never pays for.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU10 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Occasionally cited in a diversified manufacturing supply contract that buys a mix of metal inputs and wants one blended escalator rather than negotiating several. Because it averages across ferrous and nonferrous cycles that do not move together, it can understate or overstate the swing on any one metal a buyer actually purchases.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1012 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Scrap purchase agreements between steel mills and scrap dealers use this series directly rather than a finished product index, since scrap and finished steel prices can diverge sharply when scrap export demand or furnace utilization shifts.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU10230103 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Foundries and brass mill suppliers that buy scrap as their main furnace charge cite this series instead of a refined copper index, since scrap brass runs through its own collection and sorting supply chain that prices differently from mined copper.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU10260314 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Electrical contractors and cable suppliers escalate wire and cable line items against this series rather than a raw copper index, since drawing, insulating, and jacketing add labor and material cost that raw copper price alone does not capture.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPUSI019011 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Used in a long term copper supply agreement as a broad hedge reference when the contract does not need refined cathode price isolated from mill shape or wire cost. A buyer of one specific copper product should check whether the series for that product moves differently before relying on this blend.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU102502 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Fabricators that buy copper or brass mill products for machined or formed parts escalate against this series, since it prices the mill product they receive rather than refined copper or finished wire.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU102501 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Aluminum extruder and fabricator supply agreements cite this series when the contract buys a mix of mill shapes rather than one specific extruded profile, which WPU10250162 (Extruded Aluminum Shapes, Including Rod, Bar, and Wire) covers instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU10250162 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Building facade, window frame, and heat sink suppliers that buy extruded profiles specifically use this series rather than the broader mill shapes index, since extrusion adds a die and tooling cost step that rolled sheet and plate do not carry.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU102 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Appears in a multi-metal component contract, a wiring harness or heat exchanger assembly for instance, where several nonferrous inputs are bought under one line. Aluminum and copper cycles diverge often enough that a single-metal contract is better served naming the series for that metal instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU102504 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Process equipment and specialty valve manufacturers that buy nickel alloy stock cite this series directly, since nickel alloy price swings run wider than carbon or stainless steel and a blended metals index would flatten that volatility out of the escalator.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU10760102 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Pressure vessel, tank, and heavy equipment fabrication contracts use fabricated plate indexes to escalate the shop-fabricated steel share of the price. A drafter choosing between this item series and WPU1076 should check both histories, since the group index reaches back to 1982 and makes a cleaner long-run base period.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU101706 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Oil and gas pipeline and general plumbing supply contracts that buy a mix of pipe grades use this blended series, while a contract buying stainless pipe specifically should name the stainless-only series instead since the two grades do not price identically.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3312--3312-- · Industrial Metals & Parts
A downstream fabricator cost pass-through clause sometimes cites this industry index rather than a raw steel series to reflect what mills that buy semi-finished steel and further process it actually charge. It moves with labor and overhead at those plants as well as raw steel cost, so it will not track a pure material cost one for one.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3312103312100 · Industrial Metals & Parts
Pipeline construction and municipal water contracts that buy from a purchased-steel pipe mill rather than an integrated mill use this industry-specific series, since it isolates output pricing for the pipe and tube maker from the broader mix in the parent steel product group.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU33131-33131- · Industrial Metals & Parts
Primary aluminum smelter offtake agreements and long term ingot supply contracts cite this industry series, while a contract buying finished sheet or extrusion should use WPU102501 (Aluminum Mill Shapes) or WPU10250162 (Extruded Aluminum Shapes, Including Rod, Bar, and Wire) instead, since smelting cost and downstream fabrication cost move on different drivers.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU332---332--- · Industrial Metals & Parts
Diversified metal parts supply agreements sometimes cite this sub-sector index as a catch all escalator when the contract covers several fabricated metal product lines at once. Because it blends products as different as valves and wire mesh, a contract for one specific product type is served better by a narrower series for that product.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU482111482111 · Transportation & Logistics
The standard index for rail freight service broadly. Use the intermodal cut of this same series instead when the contract specifically covers container-on-rail movement.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU482111482111412 · Transportation & Logistics
A named cut of the line-haul railroad series specific to container and trailer-on-rail movement, the right choice for an intermodal logistics contract rather than the broader rail series.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU481112481112 · Transportation & Logistics
Covers commercial air cargo service, relevant to a time-sensitive freight contract where air is a real alternative to ocean or truck, not just an emergency option.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU483111483111 · Transportation & Logistics
The standard index for oceangoing container and bulk freight, the usual choice for an international shipping contract transport-cost escalation.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU483113483113 · Transportation & Logistics
Covers domestic waterborne freight distinct from deep sea international shipping, relevant to a contract moving goods along the US coastline or through the Great Lakes.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU486110486110 · Transportation & Logistics
Indexes the cost of moving crude by pipeline, a real and separately negotiated line in an upstream or midstream contract distinct from the crude price itself.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU486210486210 · Transportation & Logistics
The gas-transport equivalent of the crude oil pipeline series, relevant to a midstream contract where transport and commodity cost are billed separately.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU4842--4842-- · Transportation & Logistics
Covers trucking for freight requiring special handling, oversize, refrigerated, or hazardous, as an industry-group aggregate since no finer single-commodity breakdown exists for this trucking segment.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU4831114831115 · Transportation & Logistics
Use for an ocean carriage contract that wants to isolate the core freight service charge from ancillary port and handling revenue the broader deep sea freight series also captures. Because ocean freight publication can lag, confirm the release schedule against the rate-reset date set in the contract before relying on the most recent print.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1413 · Transportation & Logistics
Fits a fleet-purchase or vehicle-upfitting contract buying truck or bus bodies as capital equipment rather than freight or transportation services pricing. Pair with a chassis or complete-vehicle series if the contract covers a finished truck rather than the body alone, since BLS prices bodies and chassis separately.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU015 · Textiles & Fibers
An agricultural commodity series more than an industrial input, relevant to a textile or apparel manufacturing contract that buys raw fiber rather than finished cloth.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU031 · Textiles & Fibers
Covers polyester, nylon, and similar man-made fiber output, the standard series for a contract buying synthetic fiber as a manufacturing input rather than finished fabric.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0345 · Textiles & Fibers
Covers nonwoven material used in filtration, geotextiles, and insulation backing, a real input in both construction and automotive interior contracts.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0542 · Energy & Fuels
The standard series for commercial electricity rates, distinct from industrial electricity, which prices on a different rate schedule.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU05130101 · Energy & Fuels
Covers coal sold to utilities for power generation, relevant to a legacy power-purchase or industrial-boiler fuel contract still indexed to coal.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU057104 · Energy & Fuels
The retail-grade gasoline series, use for a light-vehicle fleet fuel contract, a diesel index is the right choice for heavy trucking instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU057203 · Energy & Fuels
The standard index for aviation turbine fuel, relevant to an air charter, cargo, or defense logistics contract fuel escalation clause.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0574 · Energy & Fuels
Covers heavy bunker-grade fuel oil, the standard index for a marine shipping contract fuel surcharge, distinct from the diesel or gasoline series used for road transport.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0531 · Energy & Fuels
Used in supply contracts where gas is burned for process heat or used as a feedstock. The index is a national figure, so a single plant often pairs it with its own utility tariff or a hub price. It rises in winter and falls in summer, so the start month of an averaging window matters.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU05320104 · Energy & Fuels
Used in supply and delivery contracts for crop drying, fleet fuel and off-grid heating. The index follows the wholesale propane market, so a delivered-price contract needs a separate term for freight, storage and dealer margin.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0543 · Energy & Fuels
Used in contracts where power is a large cost, such as steelmaking, data centers and cold storage. Industrial power is priced on different rate schedules from commercial power, so the commercial series is not a substitute. A large plant usually also tracks its own utility tariff.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU091302 · Paper & Packaging
A secularly declining but still actively published series, relevant only to a legacy print or publishing contract still buying newsprint directly.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU091501233 · Paper & Packaging
More an institutional and janitorial supply input than a manufacturing one, relevant to a facilities-management or janitorial-supply contract rather than a typical production contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU322220322220E · Paper & Packaging
Covers heavy paper packaging used for bulk material shipment, cement, chemicals, and similar, a real line in a freight or bulk-goods packaging contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0911 · Paper & Packaging
Fits a pulp supply contract between a pulp mill and a paper or paperboard converter, upstream of finished paper and paperboard pricing. Pulp price typically moves ahead of paper and paperboard price, since pulp is a direct input cost passed downstream.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU091405 · Paper & Packaging
Fits a box-plant supply contract for the sheet or roll stock itself, distinct from PCU32221132221102 (Corrugated and Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing, Corrugated Shipping Containers for Paper and Allied Products). A contract buying finished boxes should cite that series instead, since this one only fits a contract for the unconverted material.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU32221132221102 · Paper & Packaging
Fits a packaging supply contract between a box maker and a paper or paperboard producer buying its own shipping containers, a specific end-use pairing rather than a generic box-buyer contract. If the buyer sits outside the paper and allied products industry, a broader corrugated container series is the better fit even though this one is easy to find by name.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU09141107 · Paper & Packaging
Fits a purchase contract between a converter and its paperboard supplier that names the kraft grade explicitly, since kraft, recycled, and bleached paperboard price on different cost structures. Name the grade in the clause text itself, a generic paperboard reference with no grade named invites a dispute over which series applies.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU09120325 · Paper & Packaging
Fits a recycler or mill buying recovered corrugated material as feedstock, a different supply-chain position from PCU32221132221102 (Corrugated and Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing) or WPU0911 (Wood Pulp). This series tracks recovered fiber cost, which can move independently of, and sometimes opposite to, virgin wood pulp cost.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU091301 · Paper & Packaging
Fits a print-shop or office-supply purchase contract rather than a packaging or shipping contract, since writing and printing paper is a different product line from WPU091405 (Corrugated Paperboard) and WPU09141107 (Unbleached Kraft Packaging and Industrial Converting Paperboard). Demand for this grade has trended down for years, though BLS still publishes it on a current schedule.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU09 · Paper & Packaging
Used as a single top-level benchmark in a contract that buys a mix of paper and paperboard products and does not want to track each grade separately. Too broad to resolve a dispute over one grade or converted product, a narrower grade-specific series should carry that clause instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU09150301 · Paper & Packaging
Packaging supply contracts for finished boxes name this series directly. It sits one stage downstream of corrugated paperboard sheets and rolls, so a box clause and a board clause on the same project follow related but separate prices.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU091411 · Paper & Packaging
Folding carton and consumer packaging supply contracts name this series when the board is not corrugated. It is the broader board group, so a contract that buys one grade should check whether a narrower series in the same family fits better.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333912333912 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Indexes compressed-air and gas compressor equipment, a real capital-goods line in a manufacturing plant build-out or industrial equipment supply contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU335312335312 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Covers electric motors and generators as finished equipment, distinct from the transformer and switchgear series used for power distribution.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU332410332410 · Industrial & Building Equipment
The standard index for industrial boilers and heat exchangers, relevant to a power plant or process-heating equipment contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333921333921 · Industrial & Building Equipment
A narrow but real line in a high-rise or commercial construction contract, elevator equipment cost tracks separately from general building materials.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333914333914 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Covers metering pumps and dispensing equipment, relevant to a chemical processing or fuel distribution contract equipment line.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333996333996 · Industrial & Building Equipment
The hydraulic pump and motor equivalent of the fluid power valve series, use both together for a complete hydraulic system escalation composite.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333120333120 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Indexes heavy equipment, excavators, loaders, and similar, relevant to an equipment rental or purchase contract rather than the construction materials the equipment installs.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333131333131 · Industrial & Building Equipment
The standard index for mining-specific equipment, distinct from general construction machinery, relevant to a mine development or extraction equipment contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333517333517 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Covers lathes, mills, and similar precision manufacturing equipment, a capital-goods line relevant to a factory tooling or equipment supply contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU335314335314 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Covers industrial control systems and relays, the automation-equipment line in a manufacturing plant electrical contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333992333992 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Indexes welding and soldering equipment as capital goods, relevant to a fabrication shop equipment contract, distinct from the metal being welded.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU335132335132 · Industrial & Building Equipment
The commercial and industrial lighting equivalent of general electrical fixtures, relevant to a commercial building fit-out contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1177 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Covers the lamp and bulb components themselves, distinct from the fixture that houses them, a real consumable-replacement line in a facilities contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3334133334132 · Industrial & Building Equipment
A named cut of the fan, blower, and air purification equipment series, relevant to an HVAC or industrial ventilation contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333993333993 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Indexes packaging line equipment, a capital-goods line in a manufacturing or distribution facility contract, distinct from the packaging materials the equipment processes.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU332216332216 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Covers hand tools and blades as a manufactured product, a consumable-equipment line in a construction or fabrication contract.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU114905 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Used in maintenance, repair, and machine-build contracts that buy bearings. It has stayed far from raw steel prices, so a clause tied to a steel series is likely to track the wrong thing.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU114302 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Used in equipment-service and machine-build contracts that buy valves. A valve is machined metal plus assembly and test, so a clause tied to a raw metal series can follow the wrong cost.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU113603 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Used in consumables supply contracts for fabrication shops, foundries, and finishing operations. It has not followed steel prices, so a consumables clause tied to a steel series is likely to track the wrong thing.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU33531-33531- · Industrial & Building Equipment
Used as a broad electrical-equipment benchmark in an industrial supply agreement when the buyer does not want to name transformers, motors, or switchgear as separate line items. A dispute over one specific product type needs a narrower series instead, since this aggregate blends them together.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU335311335311P · Industrial & Building Equipment
Escalates a finished power transformer supply contract more tightly than the full industry index would, since primary-products scope excludes non-transformer output from the same manufacturers. A drafter should still name the June 1981 base date explicitly in the clause, since older BLS bases are less familiar to readers than the more common 1982 reference period.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU11 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Functions as a catch-all benchmark in a diversified capital-equipment purchase contract spanning multiple machine types under one purchase order. Too broad to settle a dispute over a single machine type, a narrower branch series should carry that clause instead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU112 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Escalates a construction-equipment purchase or long-term rental agreement, priced separately from the labor and materials a general construction contract would otherwise escalate. The equipment mix behind this series is broad, so confirm it matches the actual machine types in the contract before relying on it for a narrow dispute.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU117409 · Industrial & Building Equipment
The standard commodity-level benchmark for a transformer purchase contract itself. Because parts are excluded by definition, a contract that also covers replacement parts or repair components needs a second series alongside this one.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333132333132 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Escalates an oilfield equipment supply agreement between an equipment manufacturer and an upstream operator. Moves with oilfield capital-spending cycles rather than general industrial demand, so a contract outside the oil and gas sector should not borrow this series as a stand-in for general machinery cost.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU33341-33341- · Industrial & Building Equipment
Used in a mechanical contracting or building-systems supply agreement to escalate equipment cost separately from installation labor. The aggregate blends HVAC and refrigeration equipment together, so a contract buying only one of the two should say so explicitly since the mix behind the index can shift over time.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU333---333--- · Industrial & Building Equipment
Fits a contract whose equipment scope is too varied for any narrower series to represent on its own, for example a plant-wide capital-equipment framework agreement. Because it blends every machinery sub-industry, a dispute over one machine type still needs a narrower series to resolve.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3332--3332-- · Industrial & Building Equipment
Escalates a general industrial-machinery supply contract at a mid-level aggregate, narrower than PCU333333 (Machinery Manufacturing) but broader than any single product line. Useful when a contract wants an industry-side aggregate without naming machinery manufacturing in its entirety.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3331313331319 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Fits an aftermarket parts supply agreement for mining equipment rather than a new-equipment purchase contract. A mine operator buying both replacement parts and complete machines should cite this series and a whole-machine mining equipment series separately, since parts and complete-unit pricing do not always move together.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU33391-33391- · Industrial & Building Equipment
Fits a pump or compressor OEM supply contract priced from the manufacturing side. Pair with WPU1141 (Pumps, Compressors, and Equipment) when a contract needs both the industry view and the product view side by side.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU551 · Industrial & Building Equipment
The right benchmark for a maintenance or service contract escalation clause, not for an equipment purchase agreement. Because BLS marks this series partial in scope, confirm current coverage before relying on it for a large, multi-year maintenance agreement.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU117 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Escalates an electrical-equipment purchase contract at the commodity level, useful when a buyer is comparing quotes across several manufacturers rather than tracking output from a single manufacturer. Pair with PCU33531 (Electrical Equipment Manufacturing) only when a contract explicitly needs both the product-level and industry-level view.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU114 · Industrial & Building Equipment
Fits a facilities or plant-operations contract buying an assorted mix of general equipment types under one purchase order. WPU1141 (Pumps, Compressors, and Equipment) is a narrower cut of this same branch for a contract that only needs that one product line.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU1141 · Industrial & Building Equipment
The commodity-level series for a pump or compressor purchase contract. Pair with PCU33391 (Pump and Compressor Manufacturing) when a contract needs the industry view alongside the product view.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU325211325211 · Plastics & Rubber
Used in resin supply agreements between petrochemical producers and plastics converters as the industry benchmark. Because it covers the whole resin manufacturing industry rather than one polymer family, a converter buying mostly one resin type such as polyethylene should check PCU3252113252111 (Thermoplastic Resins and Plastics Materials) for a closer match.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU325211325211P · Plastics & Rubber
Cited in the same resin supply agreements as PCU325211325211 (Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing) but restricted to a plant's core resin output. Contract drafters should pick whichever of the two a supplier actually reports against, since the two series can diverge slightly when a plant shifts its secondary-product mix.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3252113252111 · Plastics & Rubber
The closest available match for a supply contract naming polyethylene, polypropylene, or PVC broadly without breaking out the individual polymer, since thermoplastics make up most resin manufacturing output. A contract for one specific polymer grade still prices more precisely off a dedicated single-polymer series where one exists.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU066 · Plastics & Rubber
Appears in injection molding and packaging supply contracts alongside PCU325211325211 (Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing). The two track closely but are not identical since one classifies by product and the other by producing industry, so a contract should specify which one governs rather than referencing "the resin PPI" generically.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU07110224 · Plastics & Rubber
Written into tire manufacturing and industrial rubber goods supply contracts, where synthetic rubber is typically the largest input cost after labor. Butadiene and styrene feedstock volatility flows through this index with less lag than through WPU07 (Rubber and Plastic Products), making it the more responsive choice for a contract that wants to track raw material swings closely.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU07 · Plastics & Rubber
Used as a general escalator in facilities, automotive parts, and consumer goods contracts that buy a mix of rubber and plastic finished goods rather than one identifiable material. It moves more slowly and with less amplitude than WPU066 (Plastic Resins and Materials) or WPU07110224 (Synthetic Rubber, Including SBR and Ethylene Propylene), since finished-goods pricing smooths raw material swings with labor and overhead.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU072205011 · Plastics & Rubber
Common in flexible packaging supply contracts, particularly for stretch wrap, produce bags, and industrial liner film. A buyer negotiating a pass-through clause should confirm whether the resin cost the supplier pays, or this finished-film index, is the one actually named in the agreement.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU01 · Food & Agriculture
Used as a general escalator in agricultural supply and cooperative agreements that buy a mix of raw crops and livestock rather than one single material. Farm products are seasonal and weather driven, so a clause built on this aggregate benefits from a longer averaging window than a manufactured-goods clause would need.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0121 · Food & Agriculture
The standard reference in grain purchase and milling supply contracts, cited far more often than the farm products aggregate because wheat trades as its own market with its own weather and export-demand drivers. A flour miller's input contract should reference this series directly rather than the broader farm products index.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU0131 · Food & Agriculture
Cited in livestock purchase agreements between ranchers and packers, priced at the live-animal stage rather than the finished beef product. A supply contract further down the chain, for boxed beef or retail cuts, needs a separate finished-meat index since packer margins are not fixed.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU01190102 · Food & Agriculture
Relevant to almond supply and processing contracts between growers, hullers, and food manufacturers. Almond pricing is set mostly at harvest with the following year's crop, so an annual rather than monthly escalation window tends to match how these contracts are actually negotiated.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU01190106 · Food & Agriculture
Used in pistachio supply and processing contracts on the same basis as WPU01190102 (Almonds). California accounts for nearly all US pistachio production, so a single bad-weather year can move this index sharply, which a contract's cap and floor terms should anticipate.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU01110205 · Food & Agriculture
Written into produce supply agreements between growers and food service or retail buyers. Avocado supply is split between domestic and imported fruit, so a domestic-only PPI series like this one can diverge from the landed cost a buyer actually pays when imports dominate the season.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU311---311--- · Food & Agriculture
Used as a general escalator in packaged food supply and co-manufacturing agreements that blend many ingredient inputs rather than one single raw ingredient. It is priced at the manufacturing plant gate, so it already reflects some raw ingredient cost pass-through, and pairing it with a raw-material index in the same clause can double-count that movement.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3254--3254-- · Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
Cited in pharmaceutical supply and procurement agreements, particularly government and institutional purchasing contracts, as a broad benchmark across the whole drug and biologics manufacturing group. A contract for one drug class or a single molecule needs its own price term since this index averages across a very mixed product set.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU325412325412 · Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
The more precise choice over PCU3254 (Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing) when a supply contract is specifically for finished-dose prescription or over-the-counter preparations rather than biologics or diagnostics, which the wider group index also folds in.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCU3391--3391-- · Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
Used in hospital and institutional procurement contracts for durable medical equipment and disposable supplies. It covers everything from surgical instruments to bandages in one figure, so a large capital equipment purchase, an imaging machine for instance, is better priced against its own line item than escalated off this blended industry index.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCUOMFG--OMFG-- · General Producer & Consumer Prices
Used as a fallback escalator in general manufacturing supply contracts with no single dominant material or a genuinely diversified bill of materials. It is too broad for any contract where one input drives most of the cost, since it averages across every manufacturing industry from food to aerospace.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPUFD49207 · General Producer & Consumer Prices
Cited in retail, distribution, and consumer goods supply contracts as a general finished-goods benchmark, one step removed from raw material and intermediate-goods PPI series. A contract for a raw input rather than a finished product should not use this series, since it already has labor, packaging, and distributor margin built in.
View live value →BLS · BLS_WPU03T15M05 · General Producer & Consumer Prices
Used in industrial supply contracts that want to track non-energy cost movement specifically, stripping out the fuel-price swings that would otherwise dominate a broader industrial commodities index. Works best as a companion series alongside a separate fuel surcharge clause rather than as a single blended escalator.
View live value →BLS · BLS_PCUATRNWRATRNWR · General Producer & Consumer Prices
Referenced in logistics and freight services contracts as a broad transportation-sector benchmark. It blends trucking, rail, air, and warehousing together, so a contract for one mode specifically, over-the-road trucking for instance, gets a closer match from a dedicated freight index than from this combined sector aggregate.
View live value →BLS · BLS_CUUR0000SA0 · General Producer & Consumer Prices
The most cited inflation index in escalation clauses of every kind, from service and license fees to the materials term of the airframe formula in aircraft purchase agreements, where it carries 35% of the adjustment. It tracks consumer prices, so it drifts from a supplier's real costs when one input dominates.
View live value →BLS · BLS_CIU2013000000000I · Labor & Wages
The labor term in the airframe escalation formula of aircraft purchase agreements, where it carries 65% of the adjustment against CPI-U for the rest. Also a sound labor escalator for any manufacturing supply contract, since it counts benefits as well as pay.
View live value →BLS · BLS_CIU2023211000000I · Labor & Wages
The labor term in engine price revision formulas, where engine makers escalate on aerospace wages alongside producer price indexes for industrial goods and metals. Narrower than the manufacturing ECI, so it tracks aerospace pay directly.
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