"Table 12A - LTCH PPS Wage Index for Urban Areas for Discharges Occurring from October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027"		
CBSA Code	CBSA Title	LTCH PPS Wage Index
10180	"Abilene, TX"	0.9788
10380	"Aguadilla, PR"	0.2984
10420	"Akron, OH"	0.8212
10500	"Albany, GA"	0.7947
10540	"Albany, OR"	1.0474
10580	"Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY"	0.8451
10740	"Albuquerque, NM"	0.9186
10780	"Alexandria, LA"	0.8809
10900	"Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ"	0.9983
11020	"Altoona, PA"	0.8368
11100	"Amarillo, TX"	0.7690
11180	"Ames, IA"	0.8334
11200	"Amherst Town-Northampton, MA"	1.0059
11244	"Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA"	1.2639
11260	"Anchorage, AK"	1.0951
11460	"Ann Arbor, MI"	0.9885
11500	"Anniston-Oxford, AL"	0.7626
11540	"Appleton, WI"	0.9652
11640	"Arecibo, PR"	0.3264
11694	"Arlington-Alexandria-Reston, VA-WV"	1.0297
11700	"Asheville, NC"	0.9074
12020	"Athens-Clarke County, GA"	0.8682
12054	"Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA"	1.0231
12100	"Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ"	1.0661
12220	"Auburn-Opelika, AL"	0.7266
12260	"Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC"	0.8286
12420	"Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX"	0.9509
12540	"Bakersfield-Delano, CA"	1.2104
12580	"Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD"	0.9214
12620	"Bangor, ME"	0.9674
12700	"Barnstable Town, MA"	1.2284
12940	"Baton Rouge, LA"	0.7942
12980	"Battle Creek, MI"	0.8594
13020	"Bay City, MI"	0.8821
13140	"Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX"	0.8589
13220	"Beckley, WV"	0.8208
13380	"Bellingham, WA"	1.0987
13460	"Bend, OR"	1.2318
13740	"Billings, MT"	0.9582
13780	"Binghamton, NY"	0.8860
13820	"Birmingham, AL"	0.8215
13900	"Bismarck, ND"	0.8689
13980	"Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA"	0.8128
14010	"Bloomington, IL"	0.8718
14020	"Bloomington, IN"	0.8906
14260	"Boise City, ID"	0.9440
14454	"Boston, MA"	1.1337
14500	"Boulder, CO"	1.1936
14540	"Bowling Green, KY"	0.8188
14580	"Bozeman, MT"	0.9496
14740	"Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA"	1.1916
14860	"Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT"	1.1376
15180	"Brownsville-Harlingen, TX"	0.7974
15260	"Brunswick-St. Simons, GA"	0.8685
15380	"Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY"	1.0411
15500	"Burlington, NC"	0.8830
15540	"Burlington-South Burlington, VT"	1.0486
15764	"Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA"	1.1058
15804	"Camden, NJ"	1.0975
15940	"Canton-Massillon, OH"	0.8152
15980	"Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL"	0.8803
16020	"Cape Girardeau, MO-IL"	0.7959
16180	"Carson City, NV"	0.9261
16220	"Casper, WY"	0.9198
16300	"Cedar Rapids, IA"	0.8398
16540	"Chambersburg, PA"	0.9119
16580	"Champaign-Urbana, IL"	0.9266
16620	"Charleston, WV"	0.8404
16700	"Charleston-North Charleston, SC"	0.9147
16740	"Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC"	0.9577
16820	"Charlottesville, VA"	0.9399
16860	"Chattanooga, TN-GA"	0.8541
16940	"Cheyenne, WY"	0.9266
16984	"Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg, IL"	1.0104
17020	"Chico, CA"	1.0185
17140	"Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN"	0.9222
17300	"Clarksville, TN-KY"	0.7901
17410	"Cleveland, OH"	0.8974
17420	"Cleveland, TN"	0.7806
17660	"Coeur d'Alene, ID"	0.9628
17780	"College Station-Bryan, TX"	0.8957
17820	"Colorado Springs, CO"	0.9305
17860	"Columbia, MO"	0.9032
17900	"Columbia, SC"	0.9433
17980	"Columbus, GA-AL"	0.7542
18020	"Columbus, IN"	1.0717
18140	"Columbus, OH"	0.9547
18580	"Corpus Christi, TX"	0.9052
18700	"Corvallis, OR"	1.1004
18880	"Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL"	0.8641
19124	"Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX"	0.9640
19140	"Dalton, GA"	0.8978
19300	"Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL"	0.8047
19340	"Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL"	0.7775
19430	"Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH"	0.9321
19460	"Decatur, AL"	0.7250
19500	"Decatur, IL"	0.9361
19660	"Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL"	0.8794
19740	"Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO"	1.0076
19780	"Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA"	0.8976
19804	"Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI"	0.8830
20020	"Dothan, AL"	0.6974
20100	"Dover, DE"	1.0730
20220	"Dubuque, IA"	0.8492
20260	"Duluth, MN-WI"	0.9575
20500	"Durham-Chapel Hill, NC"	0.9648
20580	"Eagle Pass, TX"	0.7750
20740	"Eau Claire, WI"	1.0554
20940	"El Centro, CA"	0.8098
20994	"Elgin, IL"	0.9951
21060	"Elizabethtown, KY"	0.8803
21140	"Elkhart-Goshen, IN"	0.9069
21300	"Elmira, NY"	0.9171
21340	"El Paso, TX"	0.8055
21420	"Enid, OK"	0.8385
21500	"Erie, PA"	0.7982
21660	"Eugene-Springfield, OR"	1.1676
21780	"Evansville, IN"	0.9555
21794	"Everett, WA"	1.2011
21820	"Fairbanks-College, AK"	0.9949
22020	"Fargo, ND-MN"	0.8458
22140	"Farmington, NM"	0.7824
22180	"Fayetteville, NC"	0.8555
22220	"Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR"	0.8242
22380	"Flagstaff, AZ"	1.0049
22420	"Flint, MI"	0.9480
22500	"Florence, SC"	0.8434
22520	"Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL"	0.6810
22540	"Fond du Lac, WI"	0.9316
22660	"Fort Collins-Loveland, CO"	0.9594
22744	"Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Sunrise, FL"	0.9781
22900	"Fort Smith, AR-OK"	0.8166
23060	"Fort Wayne, IN"	1.0299
23104	"Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine, TX"	0.9485
23224	"Frederick-Gaithersburg-Bethesda, MD"	0.9344
23420	"Fresno, CA"	1.0102
23460	"Gadsden, AL"	0.7081
23540	"Gainesville, FL"	0.8443
23580	"Gainesville, GA"	1.0025
23900	"Gettysburg, PA"	0.9304
24020	"Glens Falls, NY"	0.9834
24140	"Goldsboro, NC"	0.8925
24220	"Grand Forks, ND-MN"	0.8038
24260	"Grand Island, NE"	0.9840
24300	"Grand Junction, CO"	1.0739
24340	"Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI"	0.8251
24420	"Grants Pass, OR"	1.1810
24500	"Great Falls, MT"	0.8949
24540	"Greeley, CO"	0.9521
24580	"Green Bay, WI"	0.9457
24660	"Greensboro-High Point, NC"	0.9010
24780	"Greenville, NC"	0.9457
24860	"Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC"	0.8981
25020	"Guayama, PR"	0.3940
25060	"Gulfport-Biloxi, MS"	0.7332
25180	"Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV"	0.9275
25220	"Hammond, LA"	0.7549
25260	"Hanford-Corcoran, CA"	1.1382
25420	"Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA"	0.9789
25500	"Harrisonburg, VA"	1.0290
25540	"Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT"	1.0625
25620	"Hattiesburg, MS"	0.7021
25740	"Helena, MT"	0.8383
25860	"Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC"	0.8910
25940	"Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC"	0.8271
25980	"Hinesville, GA"	0.8667
26140	"Homosassa Springs, FL"	0.8305
26300	"Hot Springs, AR"	0.8653
26380	"Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA"	0.7123
26420	"Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX"	0.9818
26580	"Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH"	0.8612
26620	"Huntsville, AL"	0.8261
26820	"Idaho Falls, ID"	0.8064
26900	"Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN"	0.9611
26980	"Iowa City, IA"	0.8777
27060	"Ithaca, NY"	1.0049
27100	"Jackson, MI"	0.8281
27140	"Jackson, MS"	0.7993
27180	"Jackson, TN"	0.6923
27260	"Jacksonville, FL"	0.8618
27340	"Jacksonville, NC"	0.7867
27500	"Janesville-Beloit, WI"	0.8862
27620	"Jefferson City, MO"	0.7945
27740	"Johnson City, TN"	0.8010
27780	"Johnstown, PA"	0.8293
27860	"Jonesboro, AR"	0.7551
27900	"Joplin, MO-KS"	0.7352
27980	"Kahului-Wailuku, HI"	1.1163
28020	"Kalamazoo-Portage, MI"	0.8497
28100	"Kankakee, IL"	0.8677
28140	"Kansas City, MO-KS"	0.9251
28420	"Kennewick-Richland, WA"	0.9472
28450	"Kenosha, WI"	0.9164
28660	"Killeen-Temple, TX"	0.8915
28700	"Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA"	0.7976
28740	"Kingston, NY"	1.2301
28880	"Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY"	1.2009
28940	"Knoxville, TN"	0.7546
29020	"Kokomo, IN"	0.9616
29100	"La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN"	0.8986
29180	"Lafayette, LA"	0.7733
29200	"Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN"	0.9198
29340	"Lake Charles, LA"	0.8111
29404	"Lake County, IL"	0.9703
29414	"Lake County-Porter County-Jasper County, IN"	0.8816
29420	"Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ"	0.9110
29460	"Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL"	0.8351
29484	"Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ"	1.1602
29540	"Lancaster, PA"	0.8400
29620	"Lansing-East Lansing, MI"	0.8675
29700	"Laredo, TX"	0.7689
29740	"Las Cruces, NM"	0.8434
29820	"Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV"	1.0759
29940	"Lawrence, KS"	0.8636
30020	"Lawton, OK"	0.6875
30140	"Lebanon, PA"	0.9407
30300	"Lewiston, ID-WA"	0.8964
30340	"Lewiston-Auburn, ME"	0.8896
30460	"Lexington-Fayette, KY"	0.9265
30500	"Lexington Park, MD"	0.8838
30620	"Lima, OH"	0.8708
30700	"Lincoln, NE"	1.0095
30780	"Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR"	0.8240
30860	"Logan, UT-ID"	0.9524
30980	"Longview, TX"	0.8748
31020	"Longview-Kelso, WA"	1.0307
31084	"Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA"	1.2741
31140	"Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN"	0.9327
31180	"Lubbock, TX"	0.8529
31340	"Lynchburg, VA"	0.8354
31420	"Macon-Bibb County, GA"	0.8629
31540	"Madison, WI"	0.9682
31700	"Manchester-Nashua, NH"	0.9891
31740	"Manhattan, KS"	0.8638
31860	"Mankato, MN"	1.1194
31900	"Mansfield, OH"	0.9438
31924	"Marietta, GA"	1.0195
32420	"Mayagez, PR"	0.3514
32580	"McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX"	0.7340
32780	"Medford, OR"	1.1800
32820	"Memphis, TN-MS-AR"	0.8337
32900	"Merced, CA"	1.3308
33124	"Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL"	0.9341
33140	"Michigan City-La Porte, IN"	0.9263
33220	"Midland, MI"	0.8646
33260	"Midland, TX"	0.8307
33340	"Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI"	0.9684
33460	"Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI"	1.0686
33500	"Minot, ND"	0.7296
33540	"Missoula, MT"	0.9178
33660	"Mobile, AL"	0.8003
33700	"Modesto, CA"	1.2903
33740	"Monroe, LA"	0.7403
33780	"Monroe, MI"	0.8407
33860	"Montgomery, AL"	0.7897
33874	"Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County, PA"	0.9513
34060	"Morgantown, WV"	0.8984
34100	"Morristown, TN"	0.6793
34580	"Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA"	1.0309
34620	"Muncie, IN"	0.8687
34740	"Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI"	0.8933
34820	"Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC"	0.8154
34900	"Napa, CA"	1.4287
34940	"Naples-Marco Island, FL"	0.8932
34980	"Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN"	0.9112
35004	"Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY"	1.2632
35084	"Newark, NJ"	1.1275
35300	"New Haven, CT"	1.0871
35380	"New Orleans-Metairie, LA"	0.8106
35614	"New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ"	1.3354
35660	"Niles, MI"	0.8568
35840	"North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL"	0.9260
35980	"Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT"	1.0462
36084	"Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA"	1.7252
36100	"Ocala, FL"	0.8623
36220	"Odessa, TX"	0.8370
36260	"Ogden, UT"	0.9292
36420	"Oklahoma City, OK"	0.8969
36500	"Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA"	1.1219
36540	"Omaha, NE-IA"	1.0489
36740	"Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL"	0.9066
36780	"Oshkosh-Neenah, WI"	0.9360
36980	"Owensboro, KY"	0.8650
37100	"Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA"	1.3224
37140	"Paducah, KY-IL"	0.8782
37340	"Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL"	0.9601
37460	"Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL"	0.8290
37620	"Parkersburg-Vienna, WV"	0.8106
37860	"Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL"	0.7818
37900	"Peoria, IL"	0.9188
37964	"Philadelphia, PA"	1.0442
38060	"Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ"	1.0044
38240	"Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC"	0.8361
38300	"Pittsburgh, PA"	0.8171
38340	"Pittsfield, MA"	0.9913
38540	"Pocatello, ID"	0.8597
38660	"Ponce, PR"	0.3616
38860	"Portland-South Portland, ME"	1.0302
38900	"Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA"	1.1574
38940	"Port St. Lucie, FL"	0.8609
39150	"Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ"	1.0280
39300	"Providence-Warwick, RI-MA"	1.0160
39340	"Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT"	0.9608
39380	"Pueblo, CO"	0.9139
39460	"Punta Gorda, FL"	0.8509
39540	"Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI"	0.9669
39580	"Raleigh-Cary, NC"	0.9956
39660	"Rapid City, SD"	0.8755
39740	"Reading, PA"	0.9458
39820	"Redding, CA"	1.3959
39900	"Reno, NV"	0.9927
40060	"Richmond, VA"	0.9025
40140	"Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA"	1.1620
40220	"Roanoke, VA"	0.8281
40340	"Rochester, MN"	1.1596
40380	"Rochester, NY"	0.9771
40420	"Rockford, IL"	0.9093
40484	"Rockingham County-Strafford County, NH"	0.9854
40580	"Rocky Mount, NC"	0.9108
40660	"Rome, GA"	0.9353
40900	"Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA"	1.5752
40980	"Saginaw, MI"	0.8432
41060	"St. Cloud, MN"	0.9164
41100	"St. George, UT"	0.9762
41140	"St. Joseph, MO-KS"	0.8207
41180	"St. Louis, MO-IL"	0.9796
41304	"St. Petersburg-Clearwater-Largo, FL"	0.8628
41420	"Salem, OR"	1.1155
41500	"Salinas, CA"	1.7203
41540	"Salisbury, MD"	0.9407
41620	"Salt Lake City-Murray, UT"	0.9659
41660	"San Angelo, TX"	0.8679
41700	"San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX"	0.8682
41740	"San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA"	1.2556
41780	"Sandusky, OH"	0.7925
41884	"San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA"	1.8217
41940	"San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA"	1.8422
41980	"San Juan-Bayamn-Caguas, PR"	0.3718
42020	"San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA"	1.2814
42034	"San Rafael, CA"	1.7211
42100	"Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA"	1.7004
42140	"Santa Fe, NM"	1.0211
42200	"Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA"	1.3111
42220	"Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA"	1.5973
42340	"Savannah, GA"	0.8278
42540	"Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA"	0.8633
42644	"Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA"	1.2483
42680	"Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL"	0.8789
42700	"Sebring, FL"	0.8857
43100	"Sheboygan, WI"	0.8993
43300	"Sherman-Denison, TX"	0.8533
43340	"Shreveport-Bossier City, LA"	0.8261
43420	"Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ"	0.8612
43580	"Sioux City, IA-NE-SD"	0.8419
43620	"Sioux Falls, SD-MN"	0.8122
43640	"Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA"	0.7991
43780	"South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI"	0.9263
43900	"Spartanburg, SC"	0.9295
44060	"Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA"	1.1016
44100	"Springfield, IL"	0.9541
44140	"Springfield, MA"	0.9603
44180	"Springfield, MO"	0.7622
44220	"Springfield, OH"	0.8918
44300	"State College, PA"	1.0846
44420	"Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA"	0.9006
44700	"Stockton-Lodi, CA"	1.4504
44940	"Sumter, SC"	0.8850
45060	"Syracuse, NY"	1.0600
45104	"Tacoma-Lakewood, WA"	1.2493
45220	"Tallahassee, FL"	0.7366
45294	"Tampa, FL"	0.8682
45460	"Terre Haute, IN"	0.8956
45500	"Texarkana, TX-AR"	0.9283
45780	"Toledo, OH"	0.8860
45820	"Topeka, KS"	0.8417
45900	"Traverse City, MI"	0.8303
45940	"Trenton-Princeton, NJ"	1.0343
46060	"Tucson, AZ"	0.8804
46140	"Tulsa, OK"	0.8283
46220	"Tuscaloosa, AL"	0.7882
46300	"Twin Falls, ID"	0.9185
46340	"Tyler, TX"	0.8539
46520	"Urban Honolulu, HI"	1.1264
46540	"Utica-Rome, NY"	0.8947
46660	"Valdosta, GA"	0.6917
46700	"Vallejo, CA"	1.6576
47020	"Victoria, TX"	0.8358
47220	"Vineland, NJ"	1.0861
47260	"Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC"	0.9327
47300	"Visalia, CA"	0.9443
47380	"Waco, TX"	0.9224
47460	"Walla Walla, WA"	0.9063
47580	"Warner Robins, GA"	0.7719
47664	"Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI"	0.8694
47764	"Washington, DC-MD"	1.0617
47930	"Waterbury-Shelton, CT"	0.9755
47940	"Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA"	0.7279
48060	"Watertown-Fort Drum, NY"	0.8748
48140	"Wausau, WI"	0.8567
48260	"Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH"	0.7441
48300	"Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA"	0.9530
48424	"West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL"	0.8857
48540	"Wheeling, WV-OH"	0.8438
48620	"Wichita, KS"	0.8256
48660	"Wichita Falls, TX"	0.8412
48680	"Wildwood-The Villages, FL"	0.8689
48700	"Williamsport, PA"	0.7903
48864	"Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ"	1.0876
48900	"Wilmington, NC"	0.9749
49020	"Winchester, VA-WV"	0.9411
49180	"Winston-Salem, NC"	0.9798
49340	"Worcester, MA"	1.0397
49420	"Yakima, WA"	1.0097
49620	"York-Hanover, PA"	0.9142
49660	"Youngstown-Warren, OH"	0.7853
49700	"Yuba City, CA"	1.4102
49740	"Yuma, AZ"	0.9581
