Wholesale prices rose 6.3 percent.

WASHINGTON — Prices charged by American producers jumped in September at the fastest yearly pace since December 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday. The producer-price index rose 1.3 percent in the month, seasonally adjusted, the largest monthly gain since March 2022. Over the year it rose 6.3 percent. Goods rose 2.6 percent in the month. Energy rose 10.8 percent. Services rose 0.8 percent. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected a 0.6 percent monthly increase. The Federal Reserve meets Oct. 27 and 28. This is the wholesale index, not a stock-market close.

The same week, the Associated Press reported that Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment for 2027 will be 3.6 percent, about $75 a month for the nearly 72 million beneficiaries. The raise does not match the wholesale jump. Wednesday’s consumer index, 3.7 percent over the year, is the number a household sees. This note is what producers charge before that.

Producer prices rose 1.3 percent in September and 6.3 percent over the year.

The photograph is a warehouse floor, forklifts moving cartons, workers scanning boxes. It is goods in motion, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics and not a price the desk is posting as today’s average. The Economy desk files the 6.3 percent. The voter poll is the front.