United States

Producer Price Index

Average prices received by domestic producers for their output.

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Source: BLS · WPSFD4

Stored official data

Producer Price Index - United States in United States was 156.5 on April 1, 2026, higher by 2.12 (+1.4%) from the prior observation. Charted from monthly observations in index.

Latest156.50

MoM+1.38%

YoY+5.99%

10Y Avg129.05

Latest observationApril 1, 2026

Model surprise-1.01

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Min109.70

Mean128.59

Max156.50

Latest observationApril 1, 2026

Source evidence

Tier 1 - critical

Source note Provider health

Source

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Native key

WPSFD4

Freshness

Stored · 2026-04-01

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Public domain

Research notes

69 · Caution

Fallback data

ComparabilityInflation baskets and base periods differ: Compare growth rates or normalized indexes, and prefer the same concept family when comparing countries or providers.Seasonal-adjustment status needs attention: Prefer same-adjustment comparisons, or transform to year-over-year changes before cross-series comparison.Concept mapping is not explicit: Treat cross-country or cross-provider comparisons as provisional until concept, unit, adjustment, and geography are explicitly aligned.

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QualitySource authority: 100/100. Source kind is classified as official national.Metadata completeness: 100/100. 100% of core provider, geography, unit, frequency, citation, methodology, and revision metadata fields are populated.Timeliness and freshness: 28/100. 124 observations available; latest observation 2026-04-01; outside 45-day freshness window; platform fetch 2026-05-24T21:37:45.604Z; release status none; data status fallbackRevision and vintage depth: 78/100. BLS does not expose a true vintage API. Each observation carries a footnote code that tags it as preliminary (P), revised (R), or final.

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CitationProducer Price Index - United States (BLS: WPSFD4, United States, retrieved Jul 12, 2026)

Retrieved Jul 12, 2026

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Series details

SourceBLS

CategoryPrices

FrequencyMonthly

UnitIndex

Latest observationApril 1, 2026

Platform last fetchMay 24, 2026

Transformslevel, mom, yoy, index 100

About this series

Average prices received by domestic producers for their output.

The reading right now

As of April 2026, Producer Price Index for United States stood at 156.5. That is up 2.12 from the prior month. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 142, ranging from a low of 124 in April 2021 to a high of 156.5 in April 2026. The current reading sits 27.4 above its trailing ten-year mean of 129.1.

Computed from the observation series on this page. Numbers update when the underlying provider revises the data.