BLS Employment & Wages MCP Server

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BLS Employment & Wages is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

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

Uptime history 48 days of history

48 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

551 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check BLS Employment & Wages every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.olyport.com/bls/mcp	streamable-http	answering	559 ms	12 min ago

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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 551 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 551 ms on average, which is faster than 25% 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.