Allied and Miscellaneous Paint Products PPI: From Index Changes to Budget Sensitivity
Allied and Miscellaneous Paint Products, up about 0.3% from a year ago. The source measures allied and miscellaneous paint products. It is not an aggregate index for all paints and coatings, and it cannot be substituted automatically for the coating used on a production line.
The BLS Allied and Miscellaneous Paint Products Producer Price Index (WPU0623) reads 422.95 index (1982=100) for Aug 2026, up about 0.3% from a year ago. The reference period identifies the observation; a later website refresh does not turn it into a daily price. This is a producer price index, not a delivered quote in dollars per unit.
The source measures allied and miscellaneous paint products. It is not an aggregate index for all paints and coatings, and it cannot be substituted automatically for the coating used on a production line.
Apply the change only to exposed spend
Use the supplier's quoted price for the specified coating or allied product. A coating application estimate also needs volume solids, dry film thickness, transfer efficiency and waste. None of those physical properties can be inferred from this PPI.
A useful sensitivity is exposed spend × assumed index change × assumed pass-through. For example, $100,000 of genuinely benchmark-linked spend, a hypothetical 5% move and 60% pass-through produces a $3,000 change. Those are explicit example assumptions, not observed market values. Fixed-price spend, unmatched products and delivery charges should not automatically receive the same increase.
Keep physical efficiency separate
Yield, scrap, consumption and product price affect different parts of a cost calculation. Record them separately so an efficiency improvement is not counted twice or mistaken for an agency price move. Quote comparisons should use cost per accepted unit on the same specification and delivery basis.
A price change in this particular product group does not establish a trend for every coating chemistry. Check the product scope and the terms of a proposed escalation clause before treating the series as relevant.
Source and update notes
The source is BLS series WPU0623, also published by FRED at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU0623. The linked data page provides the current observation and available history. A successful refresh changes readings only when the source returns changed data. Missing or failed observations must retain their original periods and be reported as unavailable or delayed.