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The May 2026 Consumer Price Index report is scheduled to be released Wednesday, June 10, at 8:30 a.m. ET, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report is not live yet; once it posts, readers should check the headline CPI, core CPI, food, energy and shelter figures before drawing conclusions from the inflation data.
BLS lists the Consumer Price Index for May 2026 for Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. ET. The agency’s current-year release calendar also lists Real Earnings for May 2026 at the same time, followed by the Producer Price Index for May 2026 on Thursday, June 11.
The CPI release is a national U.S. inflation report. It is not a regional or state-level update, though the BLS release includes selected area tables and more detailed category data.
The cleanest source is the BLS Consumer Price Index news release. The new May release should replace the current April summary after the scheduled publication time.
Readers should make sure they are looking at the May 2026 release, not the April 2026 report. The date at the top of the BLS release and the headline line naming the reference month are the first clues.
Start with the all-items CPI-U, which is the headline Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. The first paragraph of the BLS release typically gives the seasonally adjusted monthly change and the 12-month change before seasonal adjustment.
CPI-W and C-CPI-U: related indexes that matter for some wage, benefit and technical uses, but they are not the main headline CPI-U figure most readers are looking for.
The monthly CPI number and the 12-month CPI number answer different questions. The monthly figure shows how prices changed from April to May after seasonal adjustment. The 12-month figure shows how prices changed from May 2025 to May 2026 before seasonal adjustment.
Core CPI can move differently from headline CPI because food and energy are excluded. A lower or higher headline number may be driven by gasoline or other energy prices, while core CPI can give a clearer view of broader price pressure outside those volatile categories.
The BLS release also includes detailed tables. Those tables are useful for checking whether the monthly move came from one category or was spread across many parts of the consumer basket.
The actual May inflation readings were not available from BLS at the last check. Any numbers circulating before the release should be treated as forecasts or estimates unless they are published by BLS after 8:30 a.m. ET on June 10.
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This article should be updated after the report goes live with the new headline CPI-U change, the 12-month inflation rate, core CPI, food, energy, shelter and any notable BLS explanation of what drove the move.
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