Reference rates for construction labor, materials, fuel, equipment, subcontractor trades, and project-type input composites — pulled live from the Federal Reserve's FRED API.
Summary of Escalation Rates
Compound annual growth rate by lookback window.
| BLS Code | Type | Description | 6-mo | 12-mo | 24-mo | 36-mo | 48-mo | 60-mo | Latest Index |
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Methodology. Each rate is the Compound Annual Growth Rate over the
stated lookback window, computed from native-frequency FRED observations. For each window
the start point is the observation nearest to N months before the latest, and the rate uses
the true elapsed months: ((latest ÷ start)12/N − 1) × 100. Monthly
series (PPI) use monthly data; quarterly series (ECI) use quarterly. Source values are pulled
monthly from the FRED API via a GitHub Action.
Historical Trend
All series normalized for comparison.
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