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

2022 2023

Total Men Women

2022 2023 2022 2023 2022 2023

Total, 16 years and over1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,996 6,080 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.6 3.5

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers2

. . . . . . . . . . . 4,658 4,700 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.7 3.6 3.4

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 16 3.0 2.7 3.3 2.7 1.4 2.9

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 480 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 3.4 3.7

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 444 3.0 2.8 2.8 2.8 3.4 3.0

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 257 2.9 2.6 2.8 2.4 3.3 3.0

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 12 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.7 2.9 4.4

Primary metals and fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . 45 42 2.9 2.6 2.7 2.4 3.8 3.5

Machinery manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 35 2.1 2.4 2.2 2.4 2.0 2.7

Computers and electronic products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 24 1.6 2.1 1.4 1.6 1.8 3.3

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 15 4.7 3.7 3.0 3.8 8.9 3.3

Transportation equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 54 2.5 2.0 2.5 1.9 2.4 2.3

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 11 4.0 3.0 4.5 2.8 1.3 3.8

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 12 4.3 3.3 3.5 2.9 6.5 4.3

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 53 4.0 3.2 4.0 3.4 4.0 2.9

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 186 3.1 3.4 2.9 3.5 3.5 3.0

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 68 3.6 4.0 3.3 4.4 4.1 3.2

Beverage and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 13 3.4 3.6 3.3 4.5 3.7 0.9

Textiles, apparel, and leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 23 3.9 5.5 3.4 7.9 4.4 3.6

Paper manufacturing and printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 24 2.5 3.0 2.1 2.6 3.3 3.9

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 11 3.0 4.6 3.6 5.0 – –

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 35 2.6 2.3 2.5 1.9 2.8 3.0

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 13 3.2 2.6 3.6 3.1 2.5 1.3

Wholesale and retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799 832 4.1 4.2 3.9 4.1 4.4 4.3

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 83 2.4 2.6 2.0 2.3 3.3 3.1

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725 749 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.6 4.5

Transportation and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 342 4.1 4.1 3.9 3.9 4.7 4.7

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 319 4.4 4.5 4.2 4.3 5.0 5.0

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 24 1.9 2.0 1.8 1.8 2.3 2.8

Information3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 88 2.9 3.2 2.5 3.0 3.8 3.6

Publishing, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 21 2.5 3.5 2.5 3.4 2.5 3.7

Motion pictures and sound recording industries. . . . . . . . . 30 24 5.8 5.0 5.4 5.0 6.6 5.1

Broadcasting (except internet). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 9 3.3 3.3 1.8 2.1 5.5 5.0

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 19 1.9 2.1 1.5 1.8 3.1 3.1

Libraries, archives, and other information services. . . . . . 2 3 1.9 3.3 – – 3.2 1.4

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 224 1.9 2.2 1.7 2.2 2.2 2.2

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 164 1.7 2.2 1.6 2.0 1.9 2.3

Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 108 1.6 2.3 1.5 2.0 1.7 2.5

Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 55 1.9 2.0 1.6 2.0 2.1 2.0

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 61 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.5 3.1 2.0

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 49 2.6 2.1 2.3 2.2 2.9 1.9

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 12 2.4 3.3 1.1 3.4 6.3 3.1

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665 704 3.5 3.7 3.2 3.7 3.9 3.7

Professional and technical services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 335 2.2 2.6 1.9 2.5 2.6 2.9

Management, administrative, and waste services3

. . . . . . 386 369 6.1 5.9 5.8 6.1 6.5 5.6

Administrative and support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 357 6.4 6.3 6.1 6.6 6.7 5.8

Waste management and remediation services. . . . . . . . 18 9 4.1 1.9 4.1 2.0 4.1 1.7

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662 625 2.7 2.4 2.7 2.6 2.7 2.4

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 157 3.5 3.0 3.6 3.5 3.4 2.7

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 468 2.5 2.3 2.3 2.2 2.5 2.3

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 103 1.5 1.5 1.8 1.4 1.4 1.6

Health services, except hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 259 2.7 2.4 2.2 2.5 2.9 2.4

Social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 106 3.7 3.6 4.4 3.7 3.6 3.6

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769 740 5.8 5.3 5.4 5.2 6.1 5.4

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 130 5.6 4.6 5.7 4.8 5.4 4.3

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618 610 5.8 5.5 5.3 5.4 6.3 5.7

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 76 6.0 5.7 4.8 5.5 6.8 5.9

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541 534 5.8 5.5 5.3 5.3 6.2 5.6

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 204 3.1 3.1 3.2 2.9 2.9 3.2

Other services, except private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 167 2.8 2.8 3.2 2.8 2.5 2.8

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

2022 2023

Total Men Women

2022 2023 2022 2023 2022 2023

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 51 3.2 2.7 3.2 2.7 3.1 2.7

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 59 3.3 2.9 4.1 3.3 3.0 2.8

Membership associations and organizations. . . . . . . . . . 41 57 2.0 2.8 2.5 2.7 1.6 2.8

Private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 37 5.1 5.3 5.4 7.8 5.1 5.0

Agricultural and related private wage and salary workers2

. . . 86 88 5.6 5.6 5.3 5.0 6.2 7.0

Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 433 2.1 2.0 2.1 2.0 2.0 1.9

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 304 3.2 3.0 3.3 3.1 3.0 2.8

No previous work experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 556 – – – – – –

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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