Producer Price Index for finished goods within BLS's final demand series family, covering goods sold to final demand, both consumer goods and capital equipment, rather than as inputs to further production. Index base: 1982 = 100.
Latest value
282.086
Index · as of Aug 2026
Year-over-year change
+6.3%
BLS
Month-over-month change
+0.7%
Latest value is 1 month old. Next update expected around Sep 2026.
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Price history
Data & insights
Key figures
From Jan 2024 to Aug 2026 the index went from 252.4 to 282.1, a change of +11.8%.
Highest reading in that period: 284.4 in May 2026. Lowest: 252.4 in Jan 2024.
Largest one-month rise: +2.4% in May 2026. Largest one-month fall: -1.3% in Jun 2026.
The year-over-year change stayed within 10% either way in each of the last 20 months, so a 10% annual cap or floor would not have been reached.
Volatility (12mo)
±1.19%
Std. dev. of month-over-month change
Strongest average month-over-month move historically: February (+1.2% avg).
What this means for your clause
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.
Draft a clause
A starting point citing this series by name and code. Replace the bracketed terms with your contract's actual scope before use.
The [affected portion] of the Contract Price shall be adjusted using US PPI — Finished Goods (BLS series WPUFD49207), published by BLS.
Base Period: the index value published for August 2026 (or the month of contract signing, if different) is the Base Value.
Adjustment: at each Adjustment Date, the Current Value is the most recently published three-month average of the index (the Averaging Window). The Escalation Factor equals Current Value divided by Base Value.
Cap: the Escalation Factor applied under this clause shall not exceed 1.10 or fall below 0.90 (a 10% cap and floor) in any single Adjustment Date, regardless of the index's actual movement.
[Replace bracketed terms with your contract's actual affected-portion definition and adjustment-date schedule before use. This is a drafting starting point, not legal advice.]
PPI measures what producers receive for an input, close to the actual production cost of a purchased material or component. CPI measures what consumers pay at retail, which layers on distribution and retail markup that has nothing to do with the underlying production cost of the input. Most B2B materials and component contracts should index PPI. CPI fits labor-adjacent cost-of-living escalators and consumer-facing service contracts.
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