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

2019 2020

Total Men Women

2019 2020 2019 2020 2019 2020

Total, 16 years and over1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,001 12,947 3.7 8.1 3.7 7.8 3.6 8.3

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers2

. . . . . . . . . . . 4,522 10,599 3.5 8.4 3.5 8.1 3.4 8.7

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 85 3.2 11.3 3.4 11.9 2.0 7.4

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 838 4.5 8.7 4.5 8.8 3.8 7.5

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468 1,026 3.0 6.8 2.7 6.4 3.5 7.5

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 638 2.7 6.7 2.7 6.6 3.0 7.0

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 18 4.4 4.4 5.0 4.2 2.2 5.1

Primary metals and fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . 43 111 2.3 6.9 2.2 7.1 3.3 5.9

Machinery manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 68 2.4 5.8 2.2 6.3 3.0 4.1

Computers and electronic products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 45 1.8 4.2 1.7 4.8 2.2 2.7

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 22 1.7 5.6 1.9 5.3 1.1 6.4

Transportation equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 201 2.9 8.2 2.6 7.6 3.6 10.3

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 19 2.2 4.3 2.2 4.2 2.0 4.6

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 29 4.4 7.3 4.3 7.8 4.6 6.2

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 125 3.5 7.8 3.8 7.3 3.0 8.7

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 389 3.3 6.8 2.9 6.1 4.1 8.1

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 132 4.8 7.5 4.2 6.5 5.7 8.7

Beverage and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 17 1.5 5.7 1.1 4.9 2.5 8.1

Textiles, apparel, and leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 52 4.0 11.3 3.1 11.4 4.8 11.3

Paper manufacturing and printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 58 2.5 6.9 2.5 6.1 2.6 9.1

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 25 3.7 11.3 4.0 9.4 – –

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 66 1.8 4.3 1.6 4.0 2.1 5.0

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 39 3.6 6.8 3.1 6.8 5.0 6.7

Wholesale and retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 1,648 4.1 8.3 3.7 7.5 4.5 9.4

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 192 2.8 5.6 2.5 5.5 3.3 5.8

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706 1,456 4.4 8.9 4.1 8.0 4.7 9.9

Transportation and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 688 3.5 9.3 3.3 8.7 3.9 11.3

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 662 3.8 10.4 3.6 9.7 4.2 12.6

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 26 1.8 2.4 1.7 2.5 2.1 2.4

Information3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 186 3.5 7.5 3.5 6.8 3.5 8.5

Publishing, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 27 5.3 7.0 6.2 5.7 4.3 8.4

Motion pictures and sound recording industries. . . . . . . . . 31 92 6.5 20.1 7.4 19.7 5.1 20.8

Broadcasting (except internet). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 12 2.5 3.0 2.5 3.5 2.6 2.1

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 37 2.1 4.4 1.6 4.1 3.1 5.2

Libraries, archives, and other information services. . . . . . 3 6 3.3 8.3 – – – 11.0

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 388 2.1 3.8 2.3 3.7 2.0 4.0

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 218 2.0 2.9 2.1 2.8 1.9 3.0

Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 131 2.0 2.8 2.2 2.8 1.9 2.7

Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 86 2.0 3.2 2.0 2.7 1.9 3.6

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 170 2.5 6.4 2.7 5.9 2.3 7.0

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 131 2.4 5.6 2.4 4.6 2.4 6.7

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 39 3.3 12.1 4.1 12.7 1.6 10.8

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647 1,176 3.6 6.7 3.5 6.1 3.8 7.5

Professional and technical services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 536 2.3 4.5 2.1 4.1 2.7 5.2

Management, administrative, and waste services3

. . . . . . 374 639 6.1 11.0 6.1 10.1 6.1 12.3

Administrative and support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 606 6.4 11.4 6.5 10.5 6.3 12.6

Waste management and remediation services. . . . . . . . 11 29 2.5 7.1 2.7 6.9 1.4 8.0

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621 1,394 2.5 5.7 2.6 5.1 2.5 5.9

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 405 3.5 8.1 3.7 8.1 3.4 8.0

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 988 2.2 5.1 2.1 3.9 2.3 5.5

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 164 1.3 2.5 1.2 2.4 1.3 2.5

Health services, except hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 542 2.4 5.4 2.3 4.0 2.4 5.7

Social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 282 4.0 10.9 4.5 9.3 3.9 11.2

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 2,544 5.2 19.4 5.3 19.6 5.2 19.2

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 586 5.1 23.1 5.0 22.7 5.2 23.6

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605 1,958 5.3 18.5 5.4 18.8 5.1 18.3

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 342 4.7 26.8 4.5 29.6 4.9 24.7

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533 1,616 5.3 17.4 5.5 17.5 5.2 17.3

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 626 3.2 9.8 2.9 7.9 3.4 11.5

Other services, except private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 529 2.9 9.4 2.7 7.9 3.1 11.1

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

2019 2020

Total Men Women

2019 2020 2019 2020 2019 2020

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 138 3.3 8.0 3.2 7.9 3.9 8.5

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 292 3.1 15.8 2.6 13.2 3.2 16.9

Membership associations and organizations. . . . . . . . . . 50 99 2.4 4.8 1.9 4.7 2.8 4.9

Private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 97 5.3 13.0 11.0 10.7 4.7 13.2

Agricultural and related private wage and salary workers2

. . . 129 135 7.4 8.1 6.3 6.8 10.5 11.5

Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496 1,045 2.3 4.8 2.2 3.9 2.4 5.5

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 643 2.7 6.4 2.8 6.3 2.5 6.7

No previous work experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 526 – – – – – –

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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