HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

26. Unemployed persons by industry, class of worker, and sex

[Numbers in thousands]

Industry and class of worker

Total unemployed Unemployment rates

2020 2021

Total Men Women

2020 2021 2020 2021 2020 2021

Total, 16 years and over1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,947 8,623 8.1 5.3 7.8 5.5 8.3 5.2

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers2

. . . . . . . . . . . 10,599 6,889 8.4 5.4 8.1 5.5 8.7 5.4

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 74 11.3 11.2 11.9 12.0 7.4 6.3

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838 640 8.7 6.5 8.8 6.6 7.5 5.9

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,026 642 6.8 4.3 6.4 4.2 7.5 4.6

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638 387 6.7 4.1 6.6 4.1 7.0 4.1

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 25 4.4 5.9 4.2 5.5 5.1 7.3

Primary metals and fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . 111 56 6.9 3.6 7.1 3.8 5.9 2.6

Machinery manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 37 5.8 3.1 6.3 3.0 4.1 3.2

Computers and electronic products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 22 4.2 2.1 4.8 1.9 2.7 2.6

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 20 5.6 4.4 5.3 3.9 6.4 5.6

Transportation equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 113 8.2 4.5 7.6 4.7 10.3 4.1

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 17 4.3 4.0 4.2 4.4 4.6 2.4

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 20 7.3 5.4 7.8 5.1 6.2 6.3

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 78 7.8 5.1 7.3 5.2 8.7 4.9

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 255 6.8 4.7 6.1 4.3 8.1 5.2

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 95 7.5 5.5 6.5 4.6 8.7 6.7

Beverage and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 14 5.7 4.1 4.9 3.6 8.1 5.5

Textiles, apparel, and leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 30 11.3 6.8 11.4 6.9 11.3 6.6

Paper manufacturing and printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 36 6.9 4.7 6.1 4.1 9.1 6.3

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 20 11.3 9.2 9.4 9.8 – –

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 39 4.3 2.7 4.0 2.7 5.0 2.7

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 22 6.8 4.1 6.8 4.3 6.7 3.7

Wholesale and retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,648 1,171 8.3 5.9 7.5 5.5 9.4 6.4

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 150 5.6 4.3 5.5 3.8 5.8 5.7

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,456 1,021 8.9 6.2 8.0 5.9 9.9 6.5

Transportation and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688 501 9.3 6.3 8.7 5.9 11.3 7.6

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662 470 10.4 6.8 9.7 6.4 12.6 8.3

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 31 2.4 3.0 2.5 3.2 2.4 2.3

Information3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 137 7.5 5.4 6.8 5.2 8.5 5.8

Publishing, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 16 7.0 4.3 5.7 4.2 8.4 4.5

Motion pictures and sound recording industries. . . . . . . . . 92 62 20.1 12.9 19.7 12.5 20.8 13.7

Broadcasting (except internet). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 17 3.0 4.4 3.5 4.4 2.1 4.5

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 30 4.4 3.4 4.1 2.9 5.2 4.5

Libraries, archives, and other information services. . . . . . 6 4 8.3 4.3 – – 11.0 4.1

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388 290 3.8 2.9 3.7 3.1 4.0 2.7

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 183 2.9 2.5 2.8 2.9 3.0 2.2

Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 121 2.8 2.6 2.8 3.0 2.7 2.3

Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 62 3.2 2.4 2.7 2.7 3.6 2.1

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 107 6.4 3.9 5.9 3.8 7.0 4.1

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 88 5.6 3.6 4.6 3.0 6.7 4.2

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 19 12.1 6.2 12.7 7.5 10.8 2.2

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,176 926 6.7 5.2 6.1 4.7 7.5 5.9

Professional and technical services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536 385 4.5 3.2 4.1 2.8 5.2 3.8

Management, administrative, and waste services3

. . . . . . 639 540 11.0 9.3 10.1 8.6 12.3 10.4

Administrative and support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 513 11.4 9.6 10.5 8.9 12.6 10.5

Waste management and remediation services. . . . . . . . 29 24 7.1 6.5 6.9 5.9 8.0 9.1

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,394 859 5.7 3.5 5.1 3.2 5.9 3.6

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 212 8.1 4.3 8.1 4.2 8.0 4.3

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988 647 5.1 3.3 3.9 2.9 5.5 3.5

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 128 2.5 1.9 2.4 2.2 2.5 1.8

Health services, except hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542 374 5.4 3.6 4.0 3.0 5.7 3.8

Social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 145 10.9 5.9 9.3 4.6 11.2 6.1

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,544 1,306 19.4 10.1 19.6 10.3 19.2 9.9

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586 241 23.1 10.0 22.7 10.3 23.6 9.6

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,958 1,065 18.5 10.1 18.8 10.3 18.3 10.0

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 178 26.8 14.5 29.6 14.9 24.7 14.3

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,616 886 17.4 9.5 17.5 9.7 17.3 9.3

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626 345 9.8 5.4 7.9 5.2 11.5 5.5

Other services, except private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529 277 9.4 4.8 7.9 5.1 11.1 4.5

See footnotes at end of table.

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HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

26. Unemployed persons by industry, class of worker, and sex — Continued

[Numbers in thousands]

Industry and class of worker

Total unemployed Unemployment rates

2020 2021

Total Men Women

2020 2021 2020 2021 2020 2021

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 94 8.0 5.1 7.9 5.0 8.5 5.2

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 117 15.8 6.3 13.2 8.0 16.9 5.6

Membership associations and organizations. . . . . . . . . . 99 66 4.8 3.3 4.7 3.5 4.9 3.1

Private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 68 13.0 9.4 10.7 7.5 13.2 9.6

Agricultural and related private wage and salary workers2

. . . 135 121 8.1 7.6 6.8 7.2 11.5 8.5

Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,045 571 4.8 2.7 3.9 2.6 5.5 2.8

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643 524 6.4 4.9 6.3 5.1 6.7 4.7

No previous work experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526 518 – – – – – –

1

Includes a small number of persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces.

2

Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated.

3

Includes other industries, not shown separately.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values

not shown where base is less than 50,000).

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