"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"	0.9786
10380	"Aguadilla, PR"	0.2984
10420	"Akron, OH"	0.8210
10500	"Albany, GA"	0.7945
10540	"Albany, OR"	1.0472
10580	"Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY"	0.8450
10740	"Albuquerque, NM"	0.9185
10780	"Alexandria, LA"	0.8808
10900	"Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ"	0.9981
11020	"Altoona, PA"	0.8366
11100	"Amarillo, TX"	0.7689
11180	"Ames, IA"	0.8332
11200	"Amherst Town-Northampton, MA"	1.0058
11244	"Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA"	1.2637
11260	"Anchorage, AK"	1.0949
11460	"Ann Arbor, MI"	0.9883
11500	"Anniston-Oxford, AL"	0.7624
11540	"Appleton, WI"	0.9650
11640	"Arecibo, PR"	0.3264
11694	"Arlington-Alexandria-Reston, VA-WV"	1.0295
11700	"Asheville, NC"	0.9073
12020	"Athens-Clarke County, GA"	0.8681
12054	"Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA"	1.0229
12100	"Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ"	1.0659
12220	"Auburn-Opelika, AL"	0.7264
12260	"Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC"	0.8285
12420	"Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX"	0.9508
12540	"Bakersfield-Delano, CA"	1.2102
12580	"Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD"	0.9212
12620	"Bangor, ME"	0.9672
12700	"Barnstable Town, MA"	1.2282
12940	"Baton Rouge, LA"	0.7940
12980	"Battle Creek, MI"	0.8592
13020	"Bay City, MI"	0.8820
13140	"Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX"	0.8587
13220	"Beckley, WV"	0.8207
13380	"Bellingham, WA"	1.0985
13460	"Bend, OR"	1.2316
13740	"Billings, MT"	0.9581
13780	"Binghamton, NY"	0.8859
13820	"Birmingham, AL"	0.8214
13900	"Bismarck, ND"	0.8687
13980	"Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA"	0.8127
14010	"Bloomington, IL"	0.8716
14020	"Bloomington, IN"	0.8905
14260	"Boise City, ID"	0.9438
14454	"Boston, MA"	1.1335
14500	"Boulder, CO"	1.1934
14540	"Bowling Green, KY"	0.8186
14580	"Bozeman, MT"	0.9494
14740	"Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA"	1.1914
14860	"Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT"	1.1374
15180	"Brownsville-Harlingen, TX"	0.7972
15260	"Brunswick-St. Simons, GA"	0.8684
15380	"Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY"	1.0409
15500	"Burlington, NC"	0.8828
15540	"Burlington-South Burlington, VT"	1.0484
15764	"Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA"	1.1056
15804	"Camden, NJ"	1.0973
15940	"Canton-Massillon, OH"	0.8151
15980	"Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL"	0.8801
16020	"Cape Girardeau, MO-IL"	0.7957
16180	"Carson City, NV"	0.9260
16220	"Casper, WY"	0.9197
16300	"Cedar Rapids, IA"	0.8397
16540	"Chambersburg, PA"	0.9117
16580	"Champaign-Urbana, IL"	0.9265
16620	"Charleston, WV"	0.8402
16700	"Charleston-North Charleston, SC"	0.9146
16740	"Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC"	0.9575
16820	"Charlottesville, VA"	0.9397
16860	"Chattanooga, TN-GA"	0.8540
16940	"Cheyenne, WY"	0.9265
16984	"Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg, IL"	1.0102
17020	"Chico, CA"	1.0183
17140	"Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN"	0.9221
17300	"Clarksville, TN-KY"	0.7899
17410	"Cleveland, OH"	0.8973
17420	"Cleveland, TN"	0.7804
17660	"Coeur d'Alene, ID"	0.9626
17780	"College Station-Bryan, TX"	0.8956
17820	"Colorado Springs, CO"	0.9304
17860	"Columbia, MO"	0.9030
17900	"Columbia, SC"	0.9431
17980	"Columbus, GA-AL"	0.7541
18020	"Columbus, IN"	1.0715
18140	"Columbus, OH"	0.9545
18580	"Corpus Christi, TX"	0.9051
18700	"Corvallis, OR"	1.1002
18880	"Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL"	0.8640
19124	"Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX"	0.9638
19140	"Dalton, GA"	0.8976
19300	"Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL"	0.8046
19340	"Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL"	0.7774
19430	"Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH"	0.9319
19460	"Decatur, AL"	0.7249
19500	"Decatur, IL"	0.9360
19660	"Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL"	0.8793
19740	"Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO"	1.0075
19780	"Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA"	0.8974
19804	"Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI"	0.8828
20020	"Dothan, AL"	0.6972
20100	"Dover, DE"	1.0728
20220	"Dubuque, IA"	0.8490
20260	"Duluth, MN-WI"	0.9574
20500	"Durham-Chapel Hill, NC"	0.9647
20580	"Eagle Pass, TX"	0.7748
20740	"Eau Claire, WI"	1.0552
20940	"El Centro, CA"	0.8096
20994	"Elgin, IL"	0.9949
21060	"Elizabethtown, KY"	0.8801
21140	"Elkhart-Goshen, IN"	0.9068
21300	"Elmira, NY"	0.9170
21340	"El Paso, TX"	0.8054
21420	"Enid, OK"	0.8383
21500	"Erie, PA"	0.7981
21660	"Eugene-Springfield, OR"	1.1674
21780	"Evansville, IN"	0.9553
21794	"Everett, WA"	1.2009
21820	"Fairbanks-College, AK"	0.9947
22020	"Fargo, ND-MN"	0.8456
22140	"Farmington, NM"	0.7823
22180	"Fayetteville, NC"	0.8553
22220	"Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR"	0.8241
22380	"Flagstaff, AZ"	1.0048
22420	"Flint, MI"	0.9479
22500	"Florence, SC"	0.8433
22520	"Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL"	0.6809
22540	"Fond du Lac, WI"	0.9314
22660	"Fort Collins-Loveland, CO"	0.9592
22744	"Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Sunrise, FL"	0.9779
22900	"Fort Smith, AR-OK"	0.8164
23060	"Fort Wayne, IN"	1.0297
23104	"Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine, TX"	0.9484
23224	"Frederick-Gaithersburg-Bethesda, MD"	0.9343
23420	"Fresno, CA"	1.0100
23460	"Gadsden, AL"	0.7079
23540	"Gainesville, FL"	0.8441
23580	"Gainesville, GA"	1.0024
23900	"Gettysburg, PA"	0.9302
24020	"Glens Falls, NY"	0.9832
24140	"Goldsboro, NC"	0.8923
24220	"Grand Forks, ND-MN"	0.8037
24260	"Grand Island, NE"	0.9839
24300	"Grand Junction, CO"	1.0737
24340	"Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI"	0.8249
24420	"Grants Pass, OR"	1.1808
24500	"Great Falls, MT"	0.8947
24540	"Greeley, CO"	0.9519
24580	"Green Bay, WI"	0.9455
24660	"Greensboro-High Point, NC"	0.9008
24780	"Greenville, NC"	0.9455
24860	"Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC"	0.8979
25020	"Guayama, PR"	0.3940
25060	"Gulfport-Biloxi, MS"	0.7331
25180	"Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV"	0.9273
25220	"Hammond, LA"	0.7548
25260	"Hanford-Corcoran, CA"	1.1381
25420	"Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA"	0.9788
25500	"Harrisonburg, VA"	1.0289
25540	"Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT"	1.0623
25620	"Hattiesburg, MS"	0.7191
25740	"Helena, MT"	0.8382
25860	"Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC"	0.8908
25940	"Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC"	0.8270
25980	"Hinesville, GA"	0.8666
26140	"Homosassa Springs, FL"	0.8304
26300	"Hot Springs, AR"	0.8652
26380	"Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA"	0.7122
26420	"Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX"	0.9817
26580	"Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH"	0.8611
26620	"Huntsville, AL"	0.8259
26820	"Idaho Falls, ID"	0.8062
26900	"Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN"	0.9609
26980	"Iowa City, IA"	0.8776
27060	"Ithaca, NY"	1.0048
27100	"Jackson, MI"	0.8280
27140	"Jackson, MS"	0.7991
27180	"Jackson, TN"	0.6921
27260	"Jacksonville, FL"	0.8616
27340	"Jacksonville, NC"	0.7866
27500	"Janesville-Beloit, WI"	0.8861
27620	"Jefferson City, MO"	0.7944
27740	"Johnson City, TN"	0.8008
27780	"Johnstown, PA"	0.8292
27860	"Jonesboro, AR"	0.7550
27900	"Joplin, MO-KS"	0.7351
27980	"Kahului-Wailuku, HI"	1.1161
28020	"Kalamazoo-Portage, MI"	0.8496
28100	"Kankakee, IL"	0.8675
28140	"Kansas City, MO-KS"	0.9249
28420	"Kennewick-Richland, WA"	0.9470
28450	"Kenosha, WI"	0.9163
28660	"Killeen-Temple, TX"	0.8913
28700	"Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA"	0.7974
28740	"Kingston, NY"	1.2299
28880	"Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY"	1.2007
28940	"Knoxville, TN"	0.7545
29020	"Kokomo, IN"	0.9615
29100	"La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN"	0.8985
29180	"Lafayette, LA"	0.7731
29200	"Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN"	0.9197
29340	"Lake Charles, LA"	0.8110
29404	"Lake County, IL"	0.9701
29414	"Lake County-Porter County-Jasper County, IN"	0.8815
29420	"Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ"	0.9109
29460	"Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL"	0.8349
29484	"Lakewood-New Brunswick, NJ"	1.1600
29540	"Lancaster, PA"	0.8399
29620	"Lansing-East Lansing, MI"	0.8674
29700	"Laredo, TX"	0.7687
29740	"Las Cruces, NM"	0.8433
29820	"Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV"	1.0757
29940	"Lawrence, KS"	0.8635
30020	"Lawton, OK"	0.6874
30140	"Lebanon, PA"	0.9406
30300	"Lewiston, ID-WA"	0.8962
30340	"Lewiston-Auburn, ME"	0.8895
30460	"Lexington-Fayette, KY"	0.9263
30500	"Lexington Park, MD"	0.8837
30620	"Lima, OH"	0.8706
30700	"Lincoln, NE"	1.0093
30780	"Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR"	0.8239
30860	"Logan, UT-ID"	0.9523
30980	"Longview, TX"	0.8747
31020	"Longview-Kelso, WA"	1.0306
31084	"Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA"	1.2739
31140	"Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN"	0.9326
31180	"Lubbock, TX"	0.8528
31340	"Lynchburg, VA"	0.8353
31420	"Macon-Bibb County, GA"	0.8628
31540	"Madison, WI"	0.9681
31700	"Manchester-Nashua, NH"	0.9890
31740	"Manhattan, KS"	0.8636
31860	"Mankato, MN"	1.1192
31900	"Mansfield, OH"	0.9436
31924	"Marietta, GA"	1.0194
32420	"Mayagez, PR"	0.3513
32580	"McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX"	0.7339
32780	"Medford, OR"	1.1798
32820	"Memphis, TN-MS-AR"	0.8336
32900	"Merced, CA"	1.3306
33124	"Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL"	0.9339
33140	"Michigan City-La Porte, IN"	0.9261
33220	"Midland, MI"	0.8645
33260	"Midland, TX"	0.8305
33340	"Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI"	0.9682
33460	"Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI"	1.0684
33500	"Minot, ND"	0.7295
33540	"Missoula, MT"	0.9176
33660	"Mobile, AL"	0.8001
33700	"Modesto, CA"	1.2900
33740	"Monroe, LA"	0.7402
33780	"Monroe, MI"	0.8406
33860	"Montgomery, AL"	0.7896
33874	"Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County, PA"	0.9511
34060	"Morgantown, WV"	0.8983
34100	"Morristown, TN"	0.6792
34580	"Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA"	1.0307
34620	"Muncie, IN"	0.8686
34740	"Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI"	0.8932
34820	"Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC"	0.8152
34900	"Napa, CA"	1.4284
34940	"Naples-Marco Island, FL"	0.8930
34980	"Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN"	0.9110
35004	"Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY"	1.2630
35084	"Newark, NJ"	1.1274
35300	"New Haven, CT"	1.0869
35380	"New Orleans-Metairie, LA"	0.8105
35614	"New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ"	1.3352
35660	"Niles, MI"	0.8567
35840	"North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL"	0.9258
35980	"Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT"	1.0460
36084	"Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA"	1.7249
36100	"Ocala, FL"	0.8621
36220	"Odessa, TX"	0.8368
36260	"Ogden, UT"	0.9290
36420	"Oklahoma City, OK"	0.8968
36500	"Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA"	1.1218
36540	"Omaha, NE-IA"	1.0487
36740	"Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL"	0.9064
36780	"Oshkosh-Neenah, WI"	0.9358
36980	"Owensboro, KY"	0.8648
37100	"Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA"	1.3221
37140	"Paducah, KY-IL"	0.8781
37340	"Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL"	0.9599
37460	"Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL"	0.8288
37620	"Parkersburg-Vienna, WV"	0.8105
37860	"Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL"	0.7816
37900	"Peoria, IL"	0.9187
37964	"Philadelphia, PA"	1.0440
38060	"Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ"	1.0042
38240	"Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC"	0.8360
38300	"Pittsburgh, PA"	0.8169
38340	"Pittsfield, MA"	0.9912
38540	"Pocatello, ID"	0.8596
38660	"Ponce, PR"	0.3615
38860	"Portland-South Portland, ME"	1.0301
38900	"Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA"	1.1572
38940	"Port St. Lucie, FL"	0.8608
39150	"Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ"	1.0278
39300	"Providence-Warwick, RI-MA"	1.0158
39340	"Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT"	0.9606
39380	"Pueblo, CO"	0.9137
39460	"Punta Gorda, FL"	0.8507
39540	"Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI"	0.9667
39580	"Raleigh-Cary, NC"	0.9954
39660	"Rapid City, SD"	0.8754
39740	"Reading, PA"	0.9457
39820	"Redding, CA"	1.3957
39900	"Reno, NV"	0.9925
40060	"Richmond, VA"	0.9024
40140	"Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA"	1.1618
40220	"Roanoke, VA"	0.8280
40340	"Rochester, MN"	1.1594
40380	"Rochester, NY"	0.9769
40420	"Rockford, IL"	0.9092
40484	"Rockingham County-Strafford County, NH"	0.9852
40580	"Rocky Mount, NC"	0.9107
40660	"Rome, GA"	0.9351
40900	"Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA"	1.5750
40980	"Saginaw, MI"	0.8431
41060	"St. Cloud, MN"	0.9163
41100	"St. George, UT"	0.9761
41140	"St. Joseph, MO-KS"	0.8205
41180	"St. Louis, MO-IL"	0.9795
41304	"St. Petersburg-Clearwater-Largo, FL"	0.8626
41420	"Salem, OR"	1.1153
41500	"Salinas, CA"	1.7200
41540	"Salisbury, MD"	0.9406
41620	"Salt Lake City-Murray, UT"	0.9657
41660	"San Angelo, TX"	0.8677
41700	"San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX"	0.8681
41740	"San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA"	1.2554
41780	"Sandusky, OH"	0.7923
41884	"San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA"	1.8214
41940	"San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA"	1.8419
41980	"San Juan-Bayamn-Caguas, PR"	0.3717
42020	"San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA"	1.2812
42034	"San Rafael, CA"	1.7208
42100	"Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA"	1.7001
42140	"Santa Fe, NM"	1.0209
42200	"Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA"	1.3109
42220	"Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA"	1.5970
42340	"Savannah, GA"	0.8276
42540	"Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA"	0.8631
42644	"Seattle-Bellevue-Kent, WA"	1.2481
42680	"Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL"	0.8788
42700	"Sebring, FL"	0.8855
43100	"Sheboygan, WI"	0.8991
43300	"Sherman-Denison, TX"	0.8531
43340	"Shreveport-Bossier City, LA"	0.8259
43420	"Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ"	0.8611
43580	"Sioux City, IA-NE-SD"	0.8417
43620	"Sioux Falls, SD-MN"	0.8120
43640	"Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA"	0.7989
43780	"South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI"	0.9261
43900	"Spartanburg, SC"	0.9294
44060	"Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA"	1.1014
44100	"Springfield, IL"	0.9540
44140	"Springfield, MA"	0.9601
44180	"Springfield, MO"	0.7621
44220	"Springfield, OH"	0.8917
44300	"State College, PA"	1.0844
44420	"Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA"	0.9005
44700	"Stockton-Lodi, CA"	1.4502
44940	"Sumter, SC"	0.8849
45060	"Syracuse, NY"	1.0598
45104	"Tacoma-Lakewood, WA"	1.2491
45220	"Tallahassee, FL"	0.7365
45294	"Tampa, FL"	0.8681
45460	"Terre Haute, IN"	0.8954
45500	"Texarkana, TX-AR"	0.9282
45780	"Toledo, OH"	0.8859
45820	"Topeka, KS"	0.8416
45900	"Traverse City, MI"	0.8302
45940	"Trenton-Princeton, NJ"	1.0341
46060	"Tucson, AZ"	0.8803
46140	"Tulsa, OK"	0.8282
46220	"Tuscaloosa, AL"	0.7881
46300	"Twin Falls, ID"	0.9183
46340	"Tyler, TX"	0.8538
46520	"Urban Honolulu, HI"	1.1262
46540	"Utica-Rome, NY"	0.8945
46660	"Valdosta, GA"	0.6916
46700	"Vallejo, CA"	1.6573
47020	"Victoria, TX"	0.8356
47220	"Vineland, NJ"	1.0859
47260	"Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC"	0.9326
47300	"Visalia, CA"	0.9441
47380	"Waco, TX"	0.9222
47460	"Walla Walla, WA"	0.9061
47580	"Warner Robins, GA"	0.7718
47664	"Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI"	0.8692
47764	"Washington, DC-MD"	1.0615
47930	"Waterbury-Shelton, CT"	0.9754
47940	"Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA"	0.7278
48060	"Watertown-Fort Drum, NY"	0.8747
48140	"Wausau, WI"	0.8565
48260	"Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH"	0.7439
48300	"Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA"	0.9528
48424	"West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL"	0.8855
48540	"Wheeling, WV-OH"	0.8436
48620	"Wichita, KS"	0.8254
48660	"Wichita Falls, TX"	0.8411
48680	"Wildwood-The Villages, FL"	0.8687
48700	"Williamsport, PA"	0.7901
48864	"Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ"	1.0875
48900	"Wilmington, NC"	0.9747
49020	"Winchester, VA-WV"	0.9409
49180	"Winston-Salem, NC"	0.9796
49340	"Worcester, MA"	1.0396
49420	"Yakima, WA"	1.0095
49620	"York-Hanover, PA"	0.9141
49660	"Youngstown-Warren, OH"	0.7852
49700	"Yuba City, CA"	1.4099
49740	"Yuma, AZ"	0.9579
