# Prices and Cost of Living

**Agency:** Commerce  
**Account:** Salaries and Expenses  
**Source document:** Bureau of Labor Statistics · p. 9  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/commerce/prices-and-cost-of-living  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 248.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 238.3 |

## Commerce discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $7.00B, FY2026 $11.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Produces the Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index, and international price indexes used to measure inflation and index federal benefits and contracts.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Commerce › Bureau of Labor Statistics › Salaries and Expenses › Prices and Cost of Living


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*