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BLS Employment & Wages MCP Server

com.olyport/bls
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BLS Employment & Wages is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Unemployment rates, labor force, and Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Uptime history 39 hours of history
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
537 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add bls --transport http https://mcp.olyport.com/bls/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bls": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/bls/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.bls]
url = "https://mcp.olyport.com/bls/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bls": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/bls/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bls": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/bls/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

county
get_county_employment
Get county-level unemployment rate, employment, and labor force data. Returns three time series for a specific county: unemployment rate (percent), employment count, and labor force size. Args: state: Two-letter US state abbreviation (e.g. 'WA', 'CA', 'NY'). county_fips: Three-digit county FIPS code as a string (e.g. '033' for King County, WA). start_year: Start year for data (default 2020). end_year: End year for data (default 2025).
cpi
get_cpi_data
Get national Consumer Price Index (CPI) data. Returns the CPI-U (All Urban Consumers, All Items) monthly time series. This is the headline CPI measure used for inflation tracking. Base period: 1982-84=100. Args: start_year: Start year for data (default 2020). end_year: End year for data (default 2025).
labor
get_labor_force_data
Get labor force participation, employment, and unemployment counts for a state. Returns three time series: labor force size, employment count, and unemployment count. All values are in thousands of persons. Args: state: Two-letter US state abbreviation (e.g. 'WA', 'CA', 'NY'). start_year: Start year for data (default 2020). end_year: End year for data (default 2025).
unemployment
get_unemployment_rate
Get unemployment rate time series from BLS LAUS data. Returns monthly unemployment rates for a state or county. Data is returned in chronological order with year, period, and percentage value. Args: state: Two-letter US state abbreviation (e.g. 'WA', 'CA', 'NY'). county_fips: Optional 3-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '033' for King County). If provided, returns county-level data; otherwise state-level. start_year: Start year for data (default 2020, min 4-digit year). end_year: End year for data (default 2025).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.olyport.com/bls/mcp streamable-http answering 525 ms 14 min ago

BLS Employment & Wages — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can BLS Employment & Wages do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_county_employment, get_cpi_data, get_labor_force_data, get_unemployment_rate. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is BLS Employment & Wages working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 537 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect BLS Employment & Wages?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does BLS Employment & Wages need an API key?
No. BLS Employment & Wages completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is BLS Employment & Wages?
It answers our handshake in 537 ms on average, which is faster than 20% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.