Reference rates for construction labor, materials, fuel, and equipment — pulled live from the Federal Reserve's FRED API.
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Summary of Escalation Rates
Compound annual growth rate by lookback window.
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Methodology. Each rate is the Compound Annual Growth Rate over the
stated lookback window, computed from quarterly-averaged FRED observations:
((latest ÷ N-quarters-ago)4/N − 1) × 100. This matches FRED's
pca transformation and the construction-industry convention for escalation
reference rates. Source values are pulled monthly from the FRED API via a GitHub Action.
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Historical Trend
All series normalized for comparison.
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§ 03
Escalation Calculator
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Escalated Amount
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