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Technical information:

Employment: (202) 691-6559 USDL 08-0585

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Unemployment: (202) 691-6392

 http://www.bls.gov/lau/ For release: 10:00 A.M. (EDT)

Media contact: (202) 691-5902 Tuesday, April 29, 2008

METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: MARCH 2008

Unemployment rates were higher in March than a year earlier in 309 of the 369 metropolitan areas,

lower in 40 areas, and unchanged in 20 areas, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of

Labor reported today. Fourteen areas, 12 of which are located in California, recorded jobless rates of at

least 10.0 percent, while 9 areas registered rates below 3.0 percent. The national unemployment rate in

March was 5.2 percent, not seasonally adjusted, up from 4.5 percent a year earlier.

Metropolitan Area Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)

In March, 45 metropolitan areas reported unemployment rates of at least 7.0 percent, up from 26 areas

a year earlier, while 69 areas recorded rates below 4.0 percent, down from 128 areas in March 2007. Two

agricultural areas in California again registered the highest rates in March: El Centro, 16.4 percent, and

Merced, 13.7 percent. Iowa City, Iowa, and Midland, Texas, posted the lowest jobless rates, 2.6 percent

each. Overall, 193 areas recorded unemployment rates below the U.S. figure of 5.2 percent, 163 areas had

higher rates, and 13 areas had the same rate. (See table 1 and the map.)

Two Florida areas, Cape Coral-Fort Myers and Punta Gorda, registered the largest unemployment rate

increases from a year earlier (+3.0 and +2.9 percentage points, respectively). Twenty-one additional areas

recorded rate increases of 2.0 percentage points or more, and another 96 areas had increases of 1.0 to 1.9

points. Two Oklahoma areas, Lawton and Oklahoma City, reported the only jobless rate decreases of 1.0

percentage point or more in March (-1.2 and -1.1 points, respectively).

Of the 49 metropolitan areas with a Census 2000 population of 1 million or more, Detroit-WarrenLivonia, Mich., continued to record the highest unemployment rate, 8.1 percent in March. The areas posting

the next highest rates were Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif., 7.1 percent, and Providence-Fall RiverWarwick, R.I.-Mass., 6.9 percent. Oklahoma City, Okla., reported the lowest jobless rate among the large

areas, 3.3 percent. Seven additional large areas had rates below 4.0 percent. Forty-four large areas recorded higher unemployment rates than in March 2007, three posted lower rates, and two had no change.

Among the large areas, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif., had the largest over-the-year jobless rate

increase (+1.9 percentage points), followed by Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Fla. (+1.5 points).

Nineteen additional large areas reported rate increases of 1.0 percentage point or more. Oklahoma City,

Okla., registered the largest unemployment rate decrease from a year earlier (-1.1 percentage points). No

other large area had a rate decrease greater than 0.2 percentage point.

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Metropolitan Division Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)

Eleven of the most populous metropolitan areas are composed of 34 metropolitan divisions, which are

essentially separately identifiable employment centers. In March, the division with the highest unemployment

rate again was Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, Mich., 9.1 percent. Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, Mich., and

Lawrence-Methuen-Salem, Mass.-N.H., recorded the next highest rates, 7.5 and 7.3 percent, respectively.

Bethesda-Frederick-Gaithersburg, Md., continued to report the lowest jobless rate among the divisions,

2.7 percent. Five additional divisions registered rates below 4.0 percent. (See table 2.)

In March, 27 of the 34 metropolitan divisions recorded over-the-year unemployment rate increases,

2 had rate decreases, and 5 had rates unchanged from a year earlier. The division with the largest jobless

rate increase was West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, Fla. (+1.5 percentage points). Six additional divisions reported rate increases of 1.0 percentage point or more. No division registered a jobless

rate decline from March 2007 greater than 0.2 percentage point.

In 7 of the 11 metropolitan areas that contain divisions, the ranges between the highest and lowest

division jobless rates were 1.0 percentage point or more in March. The metropolitan area that had the

largest rate difference among its divisions, 3.5 percentage points, was Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass.-

N.H. (Lawrence-Methuen-Salem, Mass.-N.H., 7.3 percent, compared with Framingham, Mass., 3.8 percent).

Metropolitan Area Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)

Among the 310 metropolitan areas for which nonfarm payroll data were available in March, 221 metropolitan areas recorded over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment, 82 reported decreases, and

7 had no change. The largest over-the-year employment increase was posted in Houston-Sugar LandBaytown, Texas (+80,100), followed by New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa.

(+65,500), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+58,200), and Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash. (+35,700).

The largest over-the-year percentage increases in employment were reported in Pascagoula, Miss. (+13.9

percent), Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (+5.7 percent), Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, Wash., and Odessa, Texas

(+5.2 percent each), and Grand Junction, Colo. (+4.4 percent). (See table 3.)

The largest over-the-year decrease in employment occurred in Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Mich. (-45,300),

followed by Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, Calif. (-35,300), Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif.

(-21,700), Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, Fla. (-20,800), Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Fla.

(-17,300), Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla. (-13,900), and Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, Fla. (-13,200). The

largest over-the-year percentage decrease in employment was recorded in Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla.

(-5.8 percent), followed by Flint, Mich., and Naples-Marco Island, Fla. (-5.3 percent each), BlacksburgChristiansburg-Radford, Va. (-4.8 percent), Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, Fla. (-4.3 percent), and SaginawSaginaw Township North, Mich. (-3.5 percent).

Over the year, nonfarm employment increased in 27 of the 38 metropolitan areas with annual average

employment levels above 750,000 in 2007. The largest over-the-year percentage increases in employment

in these large metropolitan areas were reported in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas (+3.2 percent),

Austin-Round Rock, Texas (+2.9 percent), San Antonio, Texas (+2.3 percent), Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue,

Wash. (+2.1 percent), and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+2.0 percent). Among the large areas, the

largest over-the-year percentage decreases were reported in Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Mich. (-2.3 percent), Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif. (-1.7 percent), Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Fla.

(-1.3 percent), Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, Fla. (-0.8 percent), and Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor,

Ohio, and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, Calif. (-0.6 percent each).
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Metropolitan Division Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)

Nonfarm payroll employment data were available in March 2008 for 32 metropolitan divisions, which

are essentially separately identifiable employment centers within a metropolitan area. Twenty of the 32

metropolitan divisions reported over-the-year increases in employment, 11 reported losses, and 1 had no

change. The largest over-the-year increases in nonfarm employment for the metropolitan divisions occurred

in New York-White Plains-Wayne, N.Y.-N.J. (+52,200), Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas (+40,800), SeattleBellevue-Everett, Wash. (+29,400), Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass.-N.H. (+24,200), WashingtonArlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va. (+23,900), and San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City,

Calif. (+20,200). The largest over-the-year declines in nonfarm employment were recorded in DetroitLivonia-Dearborn, Mich. (-28,000), Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, Calif. (-21,700), Warren-Troy-Farmington

Hills, Mich. (-17,300), Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Calif. (-13,600), and Fort Lauderdale-Pompano

Beach-Deerfield Beach, Fla. (-9,800). (See table 4.)

The largest over-the-year percentage increases in employment among the metropolitan divisions were

reported in Tacoma, Wash. (+2.3 percent); San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, Calif. (+2.1 percent);

and Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas; Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas; and Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wash. (+2.0

percent each). The largest over-the-year percentage declines in employment among metropolitan divisions

were seen in Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, Mich. (-3.6 percent), Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, Mich. (-1.5

percent), Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, Calif. (-1.4 percent), West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach,

Fla. (-1.3 percent), and Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, Fla. (-1.2 percent).

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The Regional and State Employment and Unemployment release for April is scheduled to be issued on

Friday, May 16. The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment release for April is scheduled to

be issued on Wednesday, May 28.

Hurricane Katrina

For March, BLS and its state partners continued to make modifications to the usual

estimation procedures for the LAUS program to reflect the impact of Hurricane Katrina

on the labor force statistics in affected areas. These modifications included: (1) modifying

modifying the state population controls to account for displacement due to Katrina; (2)

developing labor force estimates for the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner metropolitan area

using an alternative to the model-based method; and (3) not publishing labor force estimates

for the months immediately following the hurricane for the parishes within the New OrleansMetairie-Kenner metropolitan area or cities within those parishes, where the quality of input

data was severely compromised by the hurricane.

For more information on LAUS procedures and estimates for March 2008, see

Hurricane Information: Katrina and Rita on the BLS Web site at http://www.bls.gov/

Katrina/home.htm or call (202) 691-6392.
Technical Note

This release presents labor force and unemployment data

from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program

(tables 1 and 2) for 377 metropolitan statistical areas and

metropolitan New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs),

including those in Puerto Rico. Estimates for over 30 metropolitan

and NECTA divisions also are presented. Nonfarm payroll

employment estimates from the Current Employment Statistics

(CES) program (tables 3 and 4) are provided for most of the

same areas. State estimates were previously published in the

news release, Regional and State Employment and

Unemployment, and are republished in this release for ease of

reference. The LAUS and CES programs are both federal-state

cooperative endeavors.

Labor force and unemployment—from the LAUS

program

Definitions. The labor force and unemployment data are

based on the same concepts and definitions as those used for

the official national estimates obtained from the Current

Population Survey (CPS), a sample survey of households that

is conducted for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) by the

U.S. Census Bureau. The labor force includes both the employed

and the unemployed. Employed persons are those who did

any work at all for pay or profit in the survey reference week

(the week including the 12th of the month) or worked 15 hours

or more without pay in a family business or farm, plus those

not working who had a job from which they were temporarily

absent, whether or not paid, for such reasons as labormanagement dispute, illness, or vacation. Unemployed persons

are those who did not work at all (in the reference week), had

actively looked for a job (sometime in the 4-week period ending

with the survey reference week), and were currently available

for work; persons on layoff expecting recall need not be looking

for work to be counted as unemployed.

Method of estimation. Effective January 2005, estimates for

all census divisions, states, the District of Columbia, the Los

Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale metropolitan division, and New

York City were produced using updated time-series models with

real-time benchmarking. Model-based estimation was extended

to the following areas and respective balances-of-state: ChicagoNaperville-Joliet, IL Metropolitan Division; ClevelandElyria-Mentor, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area;

Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area;

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division; New

Orleans-Metaire-Kenner, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area; and

Seattle- Bellevue-Everett, WA Metropolitan Division. This will

improve the statistical basis of the estimation for these areas

and provide important tools for anlysis, such as measures of

errors and seasonally adjusted series. For all other substate

areas, estimates are prepared through indirect estimation

procedures. Employment estimates, which are based largely

on “place of work” estimates from the CES program, are adjusted

to refer to place of residence as used in the CPS. Unemployment

estimates are aggregates of persons previously employed in

industries covered by state unemployment (UI) laws and entrants

to the labor force data from the CPS. The substate estimates

of employment and unemployment, which geographically exhaust

the entire state, are adjusted proportionally to ensure that they

add to the independently estimated state or balance-of-state

totals. A detailed description of the estimation procedures is

available from BLS upon request.

Annual revisions. Labor force and unemployment data

shown for the prior year reflect adjustments made at the end

of each year, usually implemented with January estimates. The

adjusted estimates reflect updated population data from the

U.S. Census Bureau, any revisions in the other data sources,

and model reestimation at the state and selected area level. All

substate estimates are adjusted to add to the revised modelbased estimates.

Employment—from the CES program

Definitions. Employment data refer to persons on

establishment payrolls who receive pay for any part of the pay

period that includes the 12th of the month. Persons are counted

at their place of work rather than at their place of residence;

those appearing on more than one payroll are counted on each

payroll. Industries are classified on the basis of their principal

activity in accordance with the 2007 version of the North

American Industry Classification System.

Method of estimation. The employment data are estimated

using a “link relative” technique in which a ratio (link relative)

of current-month employment to that of the previous month

is computed from a sample of establishments reporting for both

months. The estimates of employment for the current month

are obtained by multiplying the estimates for the previous

month by these ratios. Small-domain models are used as the

official estimators for the approximately 39 percent of CES

published series which have insufficient sample for direct

sample-based estimates.

Annual revisions. Employment estimates are adjusted

annually to a complete count of jobs, called benchmarks,

derived principally from tax reports that are submitted by

employers who are covered under state unemployment insurance

(UI) laws. The benchmark information is used to adjust the

monthly estimates between the new benchmark and the

preceding one and also to establish the level of employment

for the new benchmark month. Thus, the benchmarking process

establishes the level of employment, and the sample is used

to measure the month-to-month changes in the level for the

subsequent months.
Reliability of the estimates

The estimates presented in this release are based on sample

survey and administrative data and thus are subject to sampling

and other types of errors. Sampling error is a measure of

sampling variability—that is, variation that occurs by chance

because a sample rather than the entire population is surveyed.

Survey data also are subject to nonsampling errors, such as

those which can be introduced into the data collection and

processing operations. Estimates not directly derived from

sample surveys are subject to additional errors resulting from

the special estimation processes used. The sums of individual

items may not always equal the totals shown in the same tables

because of rounding. With respect to the LAUS program,

unemployment rates are computed from unrounded data rather

than from data that may be displayed in the tables; differences,

however, are generally insignificant.

Labor force and unemployment estimates. Model-based

error measures, including for over-the-month change, are

available for states on the BLS Web site at http://www.bls.gov/

lau/lastderr.htm. Measures of nonsampling error are not

available, but additional information on the subject is provided

in Employment and Earnings Online at http://www.bls.gov/

opub/ee/home.htm.

Employment estimates. Measures of sampling error for state

CES data at the supersector level and for metropolitan area CES

data at the total nonfarm level are available on the BLS Web

site at http://www.bls.gov/sae/790stderr.htm. Information on

recent benchmark revisions for states is available at http://

www.bls.gov/sae/.

Area definitions

The substate area data published in this release reflect the

standards and definitions established by the U.S. Office of

Management and Budget on November 20, 2007. A detailed

list of the geographic definitions is available on the Internet

at http://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm.

Additional information

More complete information on the technical procedures

used to develop these estimates and additional data appear in

Employment and Earnings Online.

Estimates of unadjusted and seasonally adjusted labor force

and unemployment data for states, census regions and divisions,

and eight areas are available in the news release, Regional

and State Employment and Unemployment. Estimates of labor

force and unemployment for all states, metropolitan areas, labor

market areas, counties, cities with a population of 25,000 or

more, and other areas used in the administration of various

federal economic assistance programs are available on the BLS

Web site at http://www.bls.gov/lau/. Employment data from

the CES program are available at http://www.bls.gov/sae/.

Information in this release will be made available to sensory

impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-

5200; TDD message referral phone: 1-800-877-8339.
LABOR FORCE DATA LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Feb. March Feb. March Feb. March

2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p

Alabama ............................................................... 2,165.1 2,185.1 2,168.6 2,190.4 80.9 89.8 69.7 88.7 3.7 4.1 3.2 4.1

Anniston-Oxford ................................................ 54.5 54.8 54.5 54.9 2.0 2.1 1.7 2.2 3.7 3.9 3.2 3.9

Auburn-Opelika ................................................. 64.5 66.6 64.8 66.9 2.2 2.5 1.8 2.5 3.4 3.7 2.8 3.8

Birmingham-Hoover .......................................... 535.8 536.4 535.4 537.6 18.1 19.5 15.6 19.6 3.4 3.6 2.9 3.6

Decatur ............................................................. 71.5 73.4 71.6 73.4 2.6 3.9 2.2 2.8 3.6 5.3 3.0 3.9

Dothan .............................................................. 66.1 66.3 66.4 66.1 2.2 2.6 1.9 2.5 3.3 3.9 2.9 3.8

Florence-Muscle Shoals ................................... 68.0 69.4 68.4 69.4 2.8 3.1 2.3 2.9 4.1 4.5 3.3 4.1

Gadsden ........................................................... 45.6 45.5 45.8 45.6 2.0 2.1 1.7 2.0 4.3 4.5 3.8 4.4

Huntsville .......................................................... 199.5 204.3 199.7 204.9 6.1 6.4 5.0 6.3 3.1 3.1 2.5 3.1

Mobile ............................................................... 184.0 185.2 184.8 186.2 6.8 7.7 5.9 7.7 3.7 4.1 3.2 4.1

Montgomery ...................................................... 169.6 173.0 169.8 173.4 6.3 7.0 5.3 7.2 3.7 4.1 3.1 4.2

Tuscaloosa ....................................................... 99.3 99.9 99.2 100.0 3.2 3.5 2.9 3.6 3.2 3.5 2.9 3.6

Alaska .................................................................. 348.4 350.7 347.8 353.0 24.9 26.9 23.1 26.2 7.2 7.7 6.6 7.4

Anchorage ........................................................ 193.0 194.0 192.1 194.8 11.7 12.6 10.9 12.5 6.1 6.5 5.7 6.4

Fairbanks .......................................................... 45.1 45.0 45.3 45.5 2.7 3.0 2.5 2.9 6.1 6.6 5.6 6.3

Arizona ................................................................ 3,006.6 3,063.2 3,011.6 3,066.9 108.1 121.8 104.8 119.8 3.6 4.0 3.5 3.9

Flagstaff ............................................................ 68.5 70.0 69.0 70.3 2.8 3.0 2.6 2.8 4.0 4.3 3.7 4.0

Lake Havasu City-Kingman .............................. 91.9 93.2 92.6 93.4 4.0 5.0 4.0 4.9 4.3 5.4 4.3 5.2

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale ................................. 2,036.7 2,078.8 2,041.0 2,081.5 65.5 73.8 63.2 73.3 3.2 3.5 3.1 3.5

Prescott ............................................................ 96.6 99.9 97.0 100.1 3.5 4.0 3.4 4.0 3.6 4.0 3.5 4.0

Tucson .............................................................. 459.2 458.8 457.7 459.0 16.2 18.1 15.5 17.7 3.5 4.0 3.4 3.9

Yuma ................................................................ 75.8 79.9 76.3 79.5 6.5 7.2 6.8 7.0 8.6 9.0 8.9 8.8

Arkansas ............................................................. 1,356.9 1,349.9 1,365.3 1,364.5 80.1 77.0 71.2 68.3 5.9 5.7 5.2 5.0

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers ........................ 227.1 227.0 228.3 228.2 9.6 9.6 8.2 8.4 4.2 4.2 3.6 3.7

Fort Smith ......................................................... 138.0 136.6 138.8 137.6 8.3 7.0 7.4 6.1 6.0 5.1 5.3 4.5

Hot Springs ....................................................... 42.4 42.6 42.9 42.9 2.6 2.5 2.3 2.2 6.2 5.8 5.4 5.0

Jonesboro ......................................................... 56.6 56.3 56.8 56.9 3.3 3.1 2.9 2.8 5.8 5.5 5.1 4.9

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway ............... 334.9 334.9 337.5 336.3 17.0 16.3 15.1 14.5 5.1 4.9 4.5 4.3

Pine Bluff .......................................................... 45.1 43.6 45.4 44.1 3.7 3.4 3.4 3.1 8.2 7.7 7.4 7.0

California ............................................................. 18,073.3 18,233.8 18,092.2 18,299.2 970.1 1,115.4 930.0 1,177.0 5.4 6.1 5.1 6.4

Bakersfield ........................................................ 343.3 353.0 339.6 352.6 31.1 35.3 30.0 38.1 9.1 10.0 8.8 10.8

Chico ................................................................ 103.6 105.2 103.5 105.5 7.3 8.2 7.1 8.7 7.0 7.8 6.9 8.2

El Centro ........................................................... 65.4 69.7 64.6 67.7 9.4 12.1 8.8 11.1 14.4 17.3 13.6 16.4

Fresno .............................................................. 416.5 433.1 416.3 433.2 40.9 45.8 37.8 48.2 9.8 10.6 9.1 11.1

Hanford-Corcoran ............................................. 56.8 59.0 57.0 59.6 6.1 6.5 5.3 6.8 10.7 11.0 9.3 11.4

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ............... 6,524.2 6,575.9 6,527.6 6,590.9 295.3 339.6 287.1 361.8 4.5 5.2 4.4 5.5

Madera ............................................................. 62.9 64.1 61.6 63.5 5.4 6.2 5.2 6.7 8.5 9.6 8.5 10.6

Merced .............................................................. 100.7 105.3 100.1 105.7 12.1 14.1 11.2 14.5 12.0 13.4 11.2 13.7

Modesto ............................................................ 229.1 232.9 229.1 235.1 21.5 25.1 20.5 26.7 9.4 10.8 8.9 11.3

Napa ................................................................. 72.4 73.4 72.9 74.1 3.1 3.4 2.9 3.6 4.3 4.7 4.0 4.8

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura ..................... 429.2 425.4 432.3 429.2 20.1 23.4 18.9 23.9 4.7 5.5 4.4 5.6

Redding ............................................................ 83.7 85.7 84.1 86.1 7.0 8.4 6.8 8.7 8.4 9.8 8.1 10.1

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario ................... 1,796.5 1,793.9 1,800.7 1,800.2 96.5 121.0 93.6 127.1 5.4 6.7 5.2 7.1

Sacramento—Arden-Arcade—Roseville .......... 1,055.0 1,064.7 1,057.2 1,069.3 56.9 66.0 54.3 69.2 5.4 6.2 5.1 6.5

Salinas .............................................................. 198.4 202.2 199.2 205.1 21.3 23.1 18.3 23.0 10.7 11.4 9.2 11.2

San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos ..................... 1,538.9 1,541.9 1,541.2 1,548.1 66.1 77.9 64.2 81.7 4.3 5.0 4.2 5.3

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont ..................... 2,223.9 2,237.7 2,226.2 2,246.6 95.6 105.3 92.8 113.1 4.3 4.7 4.2 5.0

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara .................... 876.5 885.1 877.7 890.0 41.2 45.7 39.6 48.7 4.7 5.2 4.5 5.5

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles .......................... 135.9 137.3 136.4 137.8 5.7 6.6 5.5 7.0 4.2 4.8 4.1 5.1

Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta .................. 213.7 216.0 216.3 218.1 10.2 11.1 9.5 11.5 4.7 5.1 4.4 5.3

Santa Cruz-Watsonville .................................... 145.8 149.4 145.2 149.6 11.3 12.0 10.2 12.5 7.7 8.0 7.0 8.3

Santa Rosa-Petaluma ...................................... 259.9 263.4 260.3 264.6 11.4 13.1 11.0 13.8 4.4 5.0 4.2 5.2

Stockton ............................................................ 289.8 299.1 291.9 301.1 25.2 29.5 23.9 30.9 8.7 9.9 8.2 10.3

Vallejo-Fairfield ................................................. 210.2 210.5 210.9 211.8 11.0 12.9 10.6 13.6 5.3 6.1 5.0 6.4

Visalia-Porterville .............................................. 190.1 192.2 190.2 194.0 21.2 22.1 19.7 23.5 11.2 11.5 10.4 12.1

Yuba City .......................................................... 69.4 70.4 69.7 71.0 7.5 8.6 7.2 9.1 10.9 12.3 10.4 12.8

Colorado .............................................................. 2,664.8 2,738.9 2,665.0 2,744.7 107.1 129.6 102.0 129.8 4.0 4.7 3.8 4.7

Boulder ............................................................. 174.6 178.7 174.9 179.4 6.0 7.2 5.8 7.2 3.4 4.0 3.3 4.0

Colorado Springs .............................................. 309.0 319.9 309.9 320.8 13.7 17.5 13.4 18.0 4.4 5.5 4.3 5.6

Denver-Aurora .................................................. 1,355.6 1,392.6 1,356.1 1,400.2 55.7 66.6 52.9 67.1 4.1 4.8 3.9 4.8

Fort Collins-Loveland ........................................ 170.3 176.6 170.6 176.9 6.4 7.6 6.1 7.5 3.8 4.3 3.6 4.2

Grand Junction ................................................. 76.7 80.9 76.9 81.0 2.7 3.2 2.5 3.1 3.5 4.0 3.3 3.9

Greeley ............................................................. 117.2 121.5 116.9 120.5 5.3 6.4 5.1 6.1 4.6 5.2 4.3 5.1

Pueblo .............................................................. 71.3 74.3 72.3 74.5 3.7 4.5 3.5 4.5 5.3 6.0 4.8 6.0

Connecticut ......................................................... 1,837.3 1,866.4 1,849.1 1,874.6 89.0 102.4 80.7 103.6 4.8 5.5 4.4 5.5

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk ........................... 465.8 474.0 469.7 476.7 19.8 23.3 18.0 23.6 4.2 4.9 3.8 4.9

Danbury ............................................................ 90.1 91.7 91.2 92.5 3.4 4.1 3.1 4.0 3.8 4.4 3.4 4.4

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford ............... 578.7 589.2 582.5 593.0 29.3 32.9 26.7 33.5 5.1 5.6 4.6 5.7

New Haven ....................................................... 307.4 310.8 308.2 310.2 15.2 17.5 13.9 17.7 4.9 5.6 4.5 5.7

Norwich-New London ....................................... 148.7 150.2 149.6 150.6 6.9 7.8 6.2 7.9 4.6 5.2 4.1 5.2

Waterbury ......................................................... 100.6 102.3 100.8 103.0 6.3 7.7 5.8 7.9 6.3 7.5 5.7 7.6

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area—Continued

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Feb. March Feb. March Feb. March

2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p

Delaware .............................................................. 439.7 442.0 442.6 445.0 16.5 18.4 15.5 17.6 3.7 4.2 3.5 4.0

Dover ................................................................ 74.7 74.9 75.1 75.2 2.6 3.0 2.4 2.8 3.5 4.0 3.2 3.7

District of Columbia ........................................... 323.5 329.0 324.0 333.0 18.4 19.1 17.4 21.5 5.7 5.8 5.4 6.4

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria ..................... 2,956.5 2,984.2 2,968.5 3,003.4 92.7 100.0 85.6 102.3 3.1 3.3 2.9 3.4

Florida .................................................................. 9,045.8 9,148.6 9,108.2 9,184.5 319.0 413.5 312.3 435.1 3.5 4.5 3.4 4.7

Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice ............................. 332.3 324.8 334.9 327.5 11.1 16.2 11.1 17.4 3.3 5.0 3.3 5.3

Cape Coral-Fort Myers ..................................... 290.8 285.3 293.0 286.6 10.3 17.7 10.2 18.7 3.5 6.2 3.5 6.5

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach .......... 247.4 249.1 249.8 250.8 9.2 12.3 8.9 13.0 3.7 5.0 3.6 5.2

Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin ............... 94.9 97.0 96.6 98.4 2.7 3.5 2.6 3.5 2.9 3.6 2.7 3.6

Gainesville ........................................................ 132.9 136.3 133.2 136.8 3.6 4.2 3.6 4.3 2.7 3.1 2.7 3.2

Jacksonville ...................................................... 653.6 663.8 659.6 669.1 23.2 29.3 22.4 30.7 3.5 4.4 3.4 4.6

Lakeland-Winter Haven .................................... 265.9 268.1 268.6 269.3 10.1 12.8 9.9 13.5 3.8 4.8 3.7 5.0

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach .......... 2,802.7 2,824.2 2,810.0 2,820.4 95.3 115.1 93.7 120.9 3.4 4.1 3.3 4.3

Naples-Marco Island ......................................... 155.5 151.6 157.5 152.6 4.8 7.3 4.7 7.7 3.1 4.8 3.0 5.0

Ocala ................................................................ 134.1 136.4 135.1 137.6 5.4 7.9 5.2 8.3 4.0 5.8 3.9 6.0

Orlando-Kissimmee .......................................... 1,074.4 1,097.1 1,081.0 1,103.0 36.5 47.2 35.8 49.9 3.4 4.3 3.3 4.5

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville ......................... 258.3 260.6 259.7 262.9 10.2 13.2 10.0 13.8 3.9 5.1 3.8 5.3

Palm Coast ....................................................... 30.2 31.0 30.6 31.2 1.7 2.3 1.7 2.4 5.8 7.5 5.6 7.8

Panama City-Lynn Haven ................................. 83.2 85.3 85.0 86.7 3.1 3.8 2.8 3.7 3.7 4.4 3.3 4.3

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent ............................ 204.4 209.5 206.5 210.8 7.1 8.9 7.1 9.2 3.5 4.2 3.4 4.4

Port St. Lucie .................................................... 184.6 187.0 186.2 188.7 7.9 10.9 7.7 11.6 4.3 5.8 4.1 6.2

Punta Gorda ..................................................... 68.8 68.0 69.4 68.6 2.8 4.4 2.8 4.7 4.0 6.5 4.0 6.9

Sebastian-Vero Beach ...................................... 60.1 60.8 60.7 61.4 2.8 3.6 2.7 3.8 4.6 6.0 4.4 6.2

Tallahassee ...................................................... 183.5 185.9 184.7 187.3 5.3 6.2 5.2 6.5 2.9 3.3 2.8 3.5

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater .................... 1,323.8 1,340.6 1,336.9 1,344.2 48.8 64.7 47.7 68.2 3.7 4.8 3.6 5.1

Georgia ................................................................ 4,779.1 4,845.8 4,792.4 4,883.9 205.6 254.4 194.5 256.8 4.3 5.3 4.1 5.3

Albany ............................................................... 75.7 75.5 75.8 75.9 3.6 4.2 3.5 4.1 4.8 5.5 4.6 5.5

Athens-Clarke County ...................................... 103.9 106.0 103.9 106.1 3.6 4.6 3.5 4.6 3.5 4.3 3.4 4.3

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta ........................ 2,710.7 2,756.5 2,718.6 2,781.5 112.9 139.4 106.5 141.4 4.2 5.1 3.9 5.1

Augusta-Richmond County ............................... 255.1 256.1 256.0 258.4 13.8 14.0 12.6 13.6 5.4 5.5 4.9 5.3

Brunswick ......................................................... 52.6 53.2 52.7 53.1 1.9 2.4 1.8 2.3 3.6 4.5 3.3 4.4

Columbus ......................................................... 128.6 128.7 128.3 129.0 6.9 7.1 6.3 7.0 5.4 5.5 4.9 5.4

Dalton ............................................................... 68.0 68.8 68.2 69.2 2.8 4.3 2.9 4.4 4.2 6.3 4.3 6.4

Gainesville ........................................................ 88.5 91.1 89.0 91.7 3.0 4.0 2.8 4.1 3.4 4.4 3.2 4.4

Hinesville-Fort Stewart ..................................... 30.0 30.4 30.2 30.8 1.5 1.6 1.4 1.6 4.9 5.2 4.5 5.0

Macon ............................................................... 111.3 112.1 110.8 112.7 5.4 6.2 5.0 6.2 4.8 5.5 4.5 5.5

Rome ................................................................ 49.2 49.4 49.5 49.6 2.1 2.9 2.4 2.7 4.3 5.8 4.9 5.5

Savannah ......................................................... 177.5 179.3 178.0 181.1 6.1 8.0 5.7 8.0 3.4 4.4 3.2 4.4

Valdosta ............................................................ 67.8 68.7 67.8 68.9 2.4 3.0 2.3 3.0 3.5 4.4 3.4 4.4

Warner Robins .................................................. 68.0 69.2 68.2 69.7 2.4 3.1 2.2 3.0 3.6 4.4 3.3 4.4

Hawaii .................................................................. 650.4 648.4 653.6 659.0 14.3 19.6 15.5 19.6 2.2 3.0 2.4 3.0

Honolulu ........................................................... 451.4 449.4 453.8 456.5 9.7 12.5 10.4 12.3 2.1 2.8 2.3 2.7

Idaho .................................................................... 745.6 750.5 747.7 751.5 27.3 28.9 25.9 28.8 3.7 3.8 3.5 3.8

Boise City-Nampa ............................................. 295.3 295.8 296.7 295.3 9.2 10.8 8.6 10.8 3.1 3.6 2.9 3.6

Coeur d’Alene ................................................... 67.5 71.7 68.0 71.3 3.1 3.5 2.8 3.3 4.6 4.9 4.2 4.6

Idaho Falls ........................................................ 60.3 61.0 61.1 62.0 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.7 2.9 2.8 2.6 2.7

Lewiston ........................................................... 29.3 29.4 30.1 29.5 1.3 1.4 1.1 1.3 4.4 4.9 3.8 4.6

Pocatello ........................................................... 44.7 43.3 44.8 43.3 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.6 3.5 3.6 3.3 3.6

Illinois .................................................................. 6,623.1 6,759.5 6,627.9 6,770.3 343.3 404.7 308.8 386.6 5.2 6.0 4.7 5.7

Bloomington-Normal ......................................... 90.5 92.6 90.5 92.5 3.7 4.6 3.2 4.0 4.1 4.9 3.5 4.3

Champaign-Urbana .......................................... 121.3 123.8 121.7 123.7 5.3 6.4 4.6 5.7 4.4 5.2 3.8 4.6

Chicago-Naperville-Joliet .................................. 4,865.4 4,959.9 4,863.7 4,961.9 240.0 284.2 220.6 276.4 4.9 5.7 4.5 5.6

Danville ............................................................. 37.6 38.1 37.6 38.2 2.5 2.8 2.2 2.6 6.6 7.5 5.8 6.9

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island ......................... 203.4 205.6 204.3 206.2 10.1 10.7 9.1 9.8 5.0 5.2 4.5 4.7

Decatur ............................................................. 53.3 54.8 53.7 54.9 3.3 3.6 2.9 3.4 6.1 6.6 5.4 6.1

Kankakee-Bradley ............................................ 55.1 56.9 55.1 57.1 4.0 4.8 3.6 4.4 7.2 8.4 6.5 7.7

Peoria ............................................................... 199.9 204.0 200.4 206.0 9.9 11.4 8.5 10.4 4.9 5.6 4.2 5.0

Rockford ........................................................... 172.9 177.5 173.8 179.3 11.2 14.0 10.3 14.1 6.5 7.9 5.9 7.9

Springfield ......................................................... 113.0 115.0 113.4 115.7 5.7 6.2 4.9 5.7 5.0 5.4 4.3 5.0

Indiana ................................................................. 3,195.9 3,190.5 3,206.4 3,207.4 169.4 167.5 156.4 179.1 5.3 5.3 4.9 5.6

Anderson .......................................................... 61.0 59.3 61.2 60.0 4.5 4.0 4.1 4.4 7.4 6.8 6.7 7.3

Bloomington ...................................................... 96.9 97.1 96.3 96.9 4.7 5.0 4.2 4.6 4.8 5.2 4.4 4.8

Columbus ......................................................... 38.2 37.9 38.4 38.3 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.7 4.6 4.1 3.9 4.6

Elkhart-Goshen ................................................. 101.0 100.0 101.4 100.6 5.2 5.3 4.8 5.9 5.1 5.3 4.7 5.8

Evansville ......................................................... 181.0 180.5 181.8 181.5 9.6 8.8 8.8 9.0 5.3 4.9 4.8 5.0

Fort Wayne ....................................................... 213.1 210.8 213.6 211.5 11.0 11.0 10.5 13.6 5.2 5.2 4.9 6.4

Indianapolis-Carmel .......................................... 883.2 889.9 889.7 895.7 39.6 39.9 37.5 42.9 4.5 4.5 4.2 4.8

Kokomo ............................................................ 45.4 44.8 45.6 45.0 2.8 3.0 2.6 3.2 6.2 6.7 5.7 7.2

Lafayette ........................................................... 96.3 96.1 96.1 96.7 4.3 4.4 4.0 4.8 4.5 4.6 4.1 5.0

Michigan City-La Porte ..................................... 52.4 52.4 52.5 52.8 3.3 3.2 3.0 3.4 6.3 6.2 5.8 6.3

Muncie .............................................................. 56.2 55.5 56.2 56.1 3.4 3.3 3.1 3.8 6.0 5.9 5.5 6.8

South Bend-Mishawaka .................................... 159.9 159.4 160.0 160.7 9.0 8.9 8.6 9.7 5.6 5.6 5.4 6.0

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area—Continued

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Feb. March Feb. March Feb. March

2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p

Indiana—Continued

Terre Haute ...................................................... 80.1 79.2 80.1 79.3 5.1 5.0 4.7 5.2 6.4 6.3 5.8 6.6

Iowa ...................................................................... 1,651.3 1,658.8 1,651.6 1,663.4 71.8 69.5 66.9 65.5 4.3 4.2 4.1 3.9

Ames ................................................................ 48.6 48.9 48.0 48.8 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.3 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.7

Cedar Rapids .................................................... 142.8 141.4 142.2 142.2 6.4 5.7 5.8 5.3 4.5 4.1 4.0 3.7

Des Moines-West Des Moines ......................... 307.3 310.6 305.6 310.9 12.3 12.1 11.2 11.3 4.0 3.9 3.7 3.6

Dubuque ........................................................... 51.9 52.0 51.8 52.0 2.6 2.4 2.4 2.3 5.0 4.7 4.7 4.3

Iowa City ........................................................... 89.8 90.1 89.5 90.1 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.3 3.0 2.8 2.8 2.6

Sioux City ......................................................... 76.8 75.4 76.5 75.7 3.1 2.9 3.1 2.9 4.1 3.9 4.1 3.8

Waterloo-Cedar Falls ........................................ 93.4 94.1 92.6 94.0 3.8 3.7 3.6 3.5 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.7

Kansas ................................................................. 1,472.4 1,472.4 1,472.0 1,482.6 65.2 59.4 58.8 64.7 4.4 4.0 4.0 4.4

Lawrence .......................................................... 62.9 62.5 62.9 62.5 2.5 2.3 2.3 2.4 4.0 3.7 3.7 3.9

Topeka .............................................................. 120.2 120.0 119.5 120.7 6.4 5.6 5.3 6.0 5.3 4.7 4.4 5.0

Wichita .............................................................. 310.2 313.6 310.0 313.8 13.2 11.8 12.2 13.0 4.3 3.8 3.9 4.1

Kentucky ............................................................. 2,029.2 2,022.5 2,038.2 2,026.6 134.6 125.2 120.4 124.1 6.6 6.2 5.9 6.1

Bowling Green .................................................. 62.9 63.6 63.0 63.6 3.6 3.3 3.1 3.2 5.6 5.1 4.9 5.1

Elizabethtown ................................................... 54.5 53.8 54.6 53.7 3.4 3.2 2.9 3.1 6.3 6.0 5.4 5.9

Lexington-Fayette ............................................. 233.8 234.3 235.1 233.8 11.8 11.2 10.4 11.0 5.0 4.8 4.4 4.7

Louisville-Jefferson County .............................. 621.7 622.9 623.4 625.9 37.0 35.0 36.1 35.1 5.9 5.6 5.8 5.6

Owensboro ....................................................... 56.0 56.4 56.0 55.8 3.5 3.3 2.9 2.9 6.3 5.8 5.2 5.2

Louisiana ............................................................. 1,960.2 1,975.4 1,983.2 2,001.5 69.3 69.7 69.8 86.4 3.5 3.5 3.5 4.3

Alexandria ......................................................... 66.1 67.0 67.0 67.5 2.3 2.3 2.4 2.9 3.5 3.5 3.5 4.3

Baton Rouge ..................................................... 356.2 356.5 361.0 360.5 12.4 12.3 12.7 15.3 3.5 3.4 3.5 4.2

Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux ....................... 99.7 100.5 101.0 102.1 2.5 2.5 2.6 3.3 2.5 2.5 2.6 3.2

Lafayette ........................................................... 128.3 131.0 129.9 132.1 3.3 3.3 3.4 4.3 2.5 2.6 2.6 3.2

Lake Charles .................................................... 92.5 91.3 93.3 92.2 3.0 3.3 3.1 3.8 3.2 3.6 3.3 4.2

Monroe ............................................................. 79.6 79.1 79.9 79.8 3.3 3.1 3.3 3.8 4.2 3.9 4.1 4.8

New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner .......................... 497.3 502.6 504.6 509.0 16.1 15.6 16.2 19.5 3.2 3.1 3.2 3.8

Shreveport-Bossier City .................................... 175.4 178.8 177.3 180.5 7.0 7.3 6.9 9.2 4.0 4.1 3.9 5.1

Maine ................................................................... 695.6 696.4 697.1 700.1 38.3 39.8 35.7 40.8 5.5 5.7 5.1 5.8

Bangor .............................................................. 71.1 71.5 71.0 71.8 4.0 3.8 3.7 3.9 5.6 5.3 5.3 5.5

Lewiston-Auburn ............................................... 57.2 57.6 57.3 57.7 3.1 3.2 2.9 3.3 5.5 5.6 5.1 5.8

Portland-South Portland-Biddeford ................... 202.3 201.9 202.8 203.1 7.9 8.4 7.5 8.8 3.9 4.2 3.7 4.3

Maryland .............................................................. 2,954.5 2,970.7 2,967.3 2,983.2 116.1 112.0 103.0 109.8 3.9 3.8 3.5 3.7

Baltimore-Towson ............................................. 1,385.5 1,392.3 1,391.5 1,401.1 55.5 53.5 49.4 53.3 4.0 3.8 3.5 3.8

Cumberland ...................................................... 48.2 49.0 48.2 49.0 3.3 2.9 2.6 2.8 6.8 6.0 5.4 5.8

Hagerstown-Martinsburg .................................. 119.8 120.7 120.2 120.9 6.2 6.4 5.6 6.3 5.2 5.3 4.7 5.2

Salisbury ........................................................... 62.6 63.6 63.4 64.0 3.2 3.2 2.7 3.1 5.1 5.0 4.2 4.8

Massachusetts .................................................... 3,393.0 3,384.6 3,397.5 3,393.4 173.7 167.6 163.4 163.9 5.1 5.0 4.8 4.8

Barnstable Town ............................................... 124.6 123.1 125.4 123.9 8.1 8.2 7.5 7.8 6.5 6.7 6.0 6.3

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy ............................... 2,474.2 2,477.0 2,476.5 2,484.4 113.7 109.1 105.7 106.5 4.6 4.4 4.3 4.3

Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner ......................... 72.6 72.0 72.6 72.1 4.7 4.5 4.5 4.5 6.5 6.3 6.2 6.2

New Bedford ..................................................... 85.6 84.3 85.0 84.1 7.0 6.9 6.3 6.5 8.2 8.2 7.4 7.8

Pittsfield ............................................................ 39.0 38.8 38.8 38.7 2.1 1.9 2.0 1.9 5.3 5.0 5.1 5.0

Springfield ......................................................... 344.4 342.5 345.3 343.3 19.8 19.4 18.7 18.9 5.8 5.7 5.4 5.5

Worcester ......................................................... 290.8 290.3 291.5 290.9 15.7 15.4 14.7 15.1 5.4 5.3 5.0 5.2

Michigan .............................................................. 5,007.9 4,960.5 5,016.6 4,966.9 365.1 384.3 366.7 390.6 7.3 7.7 7.3 7.9

Ann Arbor ......................................................... 191.4 188.7 191.6 188.5 8.8 9.3 8.8 9.3 4.6 4.9 4.6 4.9

Battle Creek ...................................................... 70.2 68.4 70.3 68.7 5.0 5.1 5.0 4.8 7.2 7.4 7.2 7.0

Bay City ............................................................ 55.2 54.3 55.1 54.6 4.1 4.2 4.0 4.3 7.5 7.7 7.3 7.8

Detroit-Warren-Livonia ..................................... 2,131.7 2,115.2 2,140.7 2,113.6 152.7 161.9 158.2 171.7 7.2 7.7 7.4 8.1

Flint ................................................................... 212.1 205.6 211.0 205.4 19.3 19.1 18.0 21.8 9.1 9.3 8.6 10.6

Grand Rapids-Wyoming ................................... 411.9 410.9 411.5 411.6 25.5 26.8 25.2 25.8 6.2 6.5 6.1 6.3

Holland-Grand Haven ....................................... 136.5 135.5 136.7 135.8 8.0 8.8 7.9 8.4 5.9 6.5 5.7 6.1

Jackson ............................................................ 78.1 76.5 78.3 76.6 6.1 6.3 6.1 6.1 7.8 8.3 7.8 7.9

Kalamazoo-Portage .......................................... 177.5 176.0 177.8 177.3 10.5 11.0 10.3 10.5 5.9 6.3 5.8 5.9

Lansing-East Lansing ....................................... 252.2 250.1 251.9 250.7 14.9 15.8 14.7 15.3 5.9 6.3 5.8 6.1

Monroe ............................................................. 77.6 76.6 78.3 77.3 5.0 5.8 5.1 5.8 6.4 7.6 6.5 7.5

Muskegon-Norton Shores ................................. 89.1 89.1 89.1 89.5 6.5 7.0 6.4 6.8 7.3 7.9 7.2 7.6

Niles-Benton Harbor ......................................... 78.3 80.3 78.5 80.8 6.0 6.3 5.7 5.9 7.6 7.8 7.2 7.3

Saginaw-Saginaw Township North ................... 98.3 95.3 98.1 95.8 7.5 7.7 7.3 8.1 7.6 8.1 7.5 8.5

Minnesota ............................................................ 2,910.0 2,900.9 2,914.7 2,920.3 147.2 149.6 144.4 156.3 5.1 5.2 5.0 5.4

Duluth ............................................................... 144.2 144.0 143.6 144.9 8.9 9.0 8.7 9.2 6.2 6.2 6.0 6.4

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington ................... 1,833.8 1,836.9 1,834.7 1,846.6 81.5 83.9 80.9 88.9 4.4 4.6 4.4 4.8

Rochester ......................................................... 102.8 103.9 103.1 104.5 4.6 4.6 4.5 4.8 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.6

St. Cloud ........................................................... 107.0 107.2 107.9 108.5 6.0 6.1 5.8 6.3 5.6 5.7 5.4 5.8

Mississippi .......................................................... 1,305.6 1,311.5 1,306.2 1,325.8 86.2 77.9 81.9 78.7 6.6 5.9 6.3 5.9

Gulfport-Biloxi ................................................... 111.5 112.7 111.6 113.7 6.7 5.6 6.3 5.6 6.0 5.0 5.7 4.9

Hattiesburg ....................................................... 65.8 66.3 65.6 67.0 3.3 3.1 3.3 3.2 5.0 4.7 5.0 4.7

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area—Continued

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Feb. March Feb. March Feb. March

2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p

Mississippi—Continued

Jackson ............................................................ 259.0 258.9 260.2 259.8 14.0 12.1 14.0 12.5 5.4 4.7 5.4 4.8

Pascagoula ....................................................... 68.3 69.8 68.8 70.2 4.3 3.8 4.2 3.7 6.3 5.4 6.1 5.3

Missouri ............................................................... 3,015.9 3,003.1 3,022.1 3,014.9 164.1 181.0 146.1 182.5 5.4 6.0 4.8 6.1

Columbia .......................................................... 92.9 92.7 93.3 93.1 3.7 3.9 3.2 4.0 4.0 4.3 3.4 4.3

Jefferson City .................................................... 77.6 77.4 77.5 77.5 3.7 3.7 3.1 3.8 4.7 4.8 4.0 4.9

Joplin ................................................................ 84.3 83.9 84.3 84.1 4.0 4.2 3.7 4.4 4.7 5.0 4.4 5.2

Kansas City ...................................................... 1,033.2 1,032.8 1,033.2 1,038.2 54.3 55.2 49.5 57.5 5.3 5.3 4.8 5.5

St. Joseph ......................................................... 68.4 68.3 68.5 68.4 3.4 3.6 3.0 3.7 5.0 5.3 4.4 5.4

St. Louis1 .......................................................... 1,440.1 1,427.6 1,439.1 1,439.3 81.1 89.2 72.4 92.1 5.6 6.2 5.0 6.4

Springfield ......................................................... 218.6 220.7 220.4 221.5 9.5 10.9 8.5 10.8 4.3 5.0 3.9 4.9

Montana ............................................................... 494.8 498.0 498.2 501.7 19.2 21.0 18.3 21.9 3.9 4.2 3.7 4.4

Billings .............................................................. 85.6 86.0 86.1 86.2 2.4 2.6 2.2 2.7 2.8 3.1 2.6 3.1

Great Falls ........................................................ 39.0 39.6 39.2 39.4 1.5 1.5 1.3 1.5 3.7 3.9 3.4 3.9

Missoula ........................................................... 59.0 58.1 59.3 58.2 2.1 2.4 2.0 2.4 3.6 4.1 3.3 4.1

Nebraska ............................................................. 973.8 980.0 976.2 986.5 31.7 31.4 28.4 31.7 3.3 3.2 2.9 3.2

Lincoln .............................................................. 167.9 169.2 167.8 170.3 5.0 4.8 4.4 5.0 3.0 2.9 2.6 2.9

Omaha-Council Bluffs ....................................... 446.5 449.1 445.3 450.3 16.4 15.8 14.5 16.0 3.7 3.5 3.3 3.6

Nevada ................................................................. 1,320.7 1,375.6 1,321.6 1,381.3 60.1 78.6 58.3 80.5 4.5 5.7 4.4 5.8

Carson City ....................................................... 28.5 29.1 28.5 29.5 1.6 2.0 1.5 2.0 5.6 6.9 5.2 6.9

Las Vegas-Paradise ......................................... 945.0 984.0 945.9 987.8 41.1 53.5 40.5 55.4 4.3 5.4 4.3 5.6

Reno-Sparks ..................................................... 222.8 232.3 222.9 232.9 10.7 14.5 10.1 14.5 4.8 6.2 4.5 6.2

New Hampshire ................................................... 734.2 737.2 735.9 740.2 31.0 31.4 29.0 31.5 4.2 4.3 3.9 4.3

Manchester ....................................................... 106.9 107.9 107.2 108.6 4.3 4.5 4.1 4.6 4.1 4.2 3.8 4.2

Portsmouth ....................................................... 43.7 44.4 43.8 44.5 1.7 1.7 1.5 1.6 3.8 3.9 3.5 3.7

Rochester-Dover .............................................. 82.2 83.5 82.1 83.9 3.3 3.4 3.1 3.3 4.0 4.1 3.8 4.0

New Jersey .......................................................... 4,456.1 4,486.3 4,461.4 4,481.7 207.4 238.2 195.6 230.8 4.7 5.3 4.4 5.1

Atlantic City-Hammonton .................................. 134.9 135.1 135.2 134.7 9.1 9.3 8.5 8.9 6.7 6.9 6.3 6.6

Ocean City ........................................................ 50.8 51.2 51.0 51.2 5.4 5.7 4.7 5.4 10.6 11.2 9.2 10.6

Trenton-Ewing .................................................. 196.9 198.8 196.8 198.3 8.1 9.3 7.7 9.1 4.1 4.7 3.9 4.6

Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton .............................. 69.2 69.5 69.1 69.0 5.4 5.7 4.8 5.4 7.8 8.2 7.0 7.9

New Mexico ......................................................... 938.4 942.5 938.8 943.6 35.8 32.8 32.6 34.8 3.8 3.5 3.5 3.7

Albuquerque ..................................................... 405.8 406.4 406.4 406.9 14.8 13.9 13.3 14.7 3.6 3.4 3.3 3.6

Farmington ....................................................... 55.5 56.7 55.5 57.1 2.0 1.7 1.7 1.8 3.5 3.0 3.1 3.1

Las Cruces ....................................................... 87.0 87.9 87.0 88.2 3.9 3.5 3.6 3.7 4.5 4.0 4.1 4.2

Santa Fe ........................................................... 78.5 78.8 78.4 78.7 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.4 3.1 2.9 2.8 3.0

New York ............................................................. 9,472.2 9,496.1 9,469.3 9,493.3 459.3 474.3 416.5 480.2 4.8 5.0 4.4 5.1

Albany-Schenectady-Troy ................................ 452.7 452.4 452.0 452.4 20.0 23.2 18.1 23.1 4.4 5.1 4.0 5.1

Binghamton ...................................................... 123.3 123.2 122.9 123.2 6.5 7.0 6.0 7.1 5.3 5.7 4.9 5.7

Buffalo-Niagara Falls ........................................ 575.9 577.7 575.0 577.8 31.1 36.3 28.0 35.8 5.4 6.3 4.9 6.2

Elmira ............................................................... 40.9 41.2 40.8 41.1 2.1 2.3 2.0 2.3 5.2 5.5 4.8 5.5

Glens Falls ........................................................ 66.0 66.5 65.4 66.2 3.7 4.3 3.3 4.2 5.6 6.5 5.0 6.3

Ithaca ................................................................ 56.6 56.4 56.2 56.4 1.9 2.0 1.8 2.2 3.3 3.5 3.3 3.9

Kingston ............................................................ 91.3 91.2 91.5 90.9 4.1 5.0 3.8 4.8 4.5 5.4 4.1 5.2

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island ... 9,277.4 9,317.1 9,287.3 9,314.9 425.2 438.9 392.7 442.4 4.6 4.7 4.2 4.7

 New York City ................................................ 3,836.1 3,842.8 3,837.9 3,839.7 192.2 168.3 174.8 178.1 5.0 4.4 4.6 4.6

Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown .............. 322.8 323.0 322.6 322.9 14.2 16.4 13.2 16.3 4.4 5.1 4.1 5.0

Rochester ......................................................... 529.8 528.2 527.1 527.7 26.2 29.9 23.6 30.2 4.9 5.7 4.5 5.7

Syracuse ........................................................... 327.1 329.2 325.8 329.0 16.8 18.9 15.0 18.8 5.1 5.7 4.6 5.7

Utica-Rome ....................................................... 140.6 141.3 140.4 141.2 7.6 8.6 6.8 8.4 5.4 6.1 4.8 5.9

North Carolina ..................................................... 4,487.9 4,500.1 4,500.5 4,515.6 219.9 244.2 198.2 235.8 4.9 5.4 4.4 5.2

Asheville ........................................................... 202.2 204.8 203.5 204.9 8.1 9.4 7.2 9.0 4.0 4.6 3.6 4.4

Burlington ......................................................... 69.0 69.1 69.2 69.2 3.7 3.9 3.4 3.8 5.4 5.7 4.9 5.4

Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord ............................. 830.2 835.7 834.3 839.7 39.2 44.9 35.9 43.8 4.7 5.4 4.3 5.2

Durham ............................................................. 252.8 254.9 253.5 255.3 10.1 11.0 9.1 10.6 4.0 4.3 3.6 4.2

Fayetteville ....................................................... 148.4 147.0 147.9 146.7 8.3 8.3 7.5 8.0 5.6 5.7 5.1 5.4

Goldsboro ......................................................... 52.7 53.1 52.5 53.3 2.5 2.7 2.2 2.6 4.7 5.1 4.2 4.9

Greensboro-High Point ..................................... 363.6 362.2 364.0 363.2 19.0 20.0 16.7 19.3 5.2 5.5 4.6 5.3

Greenville ......................................................... 87.0 87.4 87.1 88.0 4.6 4.7 4.1 5.0 5.3 5.4 4.7 5.7

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton ................................ 173.6 171.1 173.5 171.6 10.7 11.3 9.8 11.0 6.1 6.6 5.6 6.4

Jacksonville ...................................................... 58.6 60.8 58.6 61.1 2.7 3.1 2.4 2.9 4.6 5.2 4.1 4.8

Raleigh-Cary ..................................................... 531.8 543.6 533.7 543.7 19.9 22.6 18.0 21.9 3.7 4.2 3.4 4.0

Rocky Mount ..................................................... 69.4 69.0 69.4 69.0 4.3 5.0 4.0 5.0 6.2 7.3 5.8 7.3

Wilmington ........................................................ 171.5 172.8 173.7 173.9 7.4 8.9 6.4 8.3 4.3 5.2 3.7 4.8

Winston-Salem ................................................. 236.3 235.7 236.5 236.5 10.7 12.1 9.7 11.6 4.5 5.1 4.1 4.9

North Dakota ....................................................... 358.3 361.4 360.3 365.3 13.8 14.1 14.0 14.5 3.9 3.9 3.9 4.0

Bismarck ........................................................... 61.1 62.4 61.3 62.8 2.2 2.4 2.1 2.4 3.5 3.9 3.5 3.7

Fargo ................................................................ 116.8 118.8 117.1 119.1 3.9 3.9 4.1 4.0 3.4 3.3 3.5 3.4

Grand Forks ...................................................... 56.0 56.5 56.2 57.0 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.3 4.0 3.8 4.0 4.1

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area—Continued

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Feb. March Feb. March Feb. March

2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p

Ohio ..................................................................... 5,906.7 5,903.3 5,929.8 5,936.1 353.1 352.3 331.5 361.9 6.0 6.0 5.6 6.1

Akron ................................................................ 384.0 384.2 384.5 387.4 22.4 22.1 21.1 22.8 5.8 5.7 5.5 5.9

Canton-Massillon .............................................. 202.8 202.7 203.2 204.4 13.3 13.0 12.2 13.4 6.5 6.4 6.0 6.6

Cincinnati-Middletown ...................................... 1,105.8 1,105.0 1,112.0 1,114.7 59.9 57.1 54.3 58.4 5.4 5.2 4.9 5.2

Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor ................................... 1,085.1 1,072.2 1,086.3 1,073.2 66.7 68.3 62.0 68.0 6.1 6.4 5.7 6.3

Columbus ......................................................... 941.7 951.5 945.5 959.8 45.4 45.7 43.4 47.2 4.8 4.8 4.6 4.9

Dayton .............................................................. 424.4 423.1 425.6 426.6 25.4 25.1 23.9 28.8 6.0 5.9 5.6 6.7

Lima .................................................................. 51.8 51.3 51.9 51.8 3.5 3.3 3.2 3.5 6.7 6.5 6.2 6.7

Mansfield .......................................................... 62.2 61.3 62.0 61.4 4.2 4.1 4.0 4.4 6.8 6.7 6.5 7.2

Sandusky .......................................................... 40.4 40.2 40.9 41.1 3.0 3.0 2.7 3.3 7.3 7.4 6.5 8.1

Springfield ......................................................... 70.3 70.5 70.9 70.6 4.4 4.4 4.2 4.4 6.3 6.3 5.9 6.2

Toledo ............................................................... 335.0 334.7 338.5 336.1 21.7 23.6 23.2 24.2 6.5 7.1 6.9 7.2

Weirton-Steubenville ........................................ 56.3 56.5 56.4 56.7 3.9 3.9 3.6 3.9 6.9 6.8 6.3 6.9

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman ....................... 276.4 275.1 276.8 277.2 18.5 18.9 17.5 18.8 6.7 6.9 6.3 6.8

Oklahoma ............................................................ 1,720.8 1,703.4 1,724.9 1,713.3 80.3 59.6 74.5 55.5 4.7 3.5 4.3 3.2

Lawton .............................................................. 45.3 44.9 45.1 45.1 2.2 1.6 2.0 1.5 4.8 3.5 4.5 3.3

Oklahoma City .................................................. 566.8 549.9 568.2 552.8 26.8 19.2 25.0 18.1 4.7 3.5 4.4 3.3

Tulsa ................................................................. 441.5 430.1 442.8 430.8 19.5 15.1 18.1 14.1 4.4 3.5 4.1 3.3

Oregon ................................................................. 1,909.8 1,927.3 1,914.0 1,945.0 113.7 121.9 106.5 123.1 6.0 6.3 5.6 6.3

Bend ................................................................. 80.4 83.6 80.9 84.5 4.6 6.8 4.2 6.7 5.7 8.2 5.2 7.9

Corvallis ............................................................ 42.5 42.6 42.8 43.2 2.1 1.9 1.9 1.9 4.9 4.4 4.5 4.5

Eugene-Springfield ........................................... 181.6 181.0 181.4 182.8 10.9 10.9 10.2 11.3 6.0 6.0 5.6 6.2

Medford ............................................................ 100.7 101.9 101.0 103.1 6.7 7.7 6.3 8.1 6.7 7.6 6.3 7.9

Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton ........................ 1,143.3 1,154.3 1,143.8 1,163.6 61.7 64.7 57.8 65.5 5.4 5.6 5.0 5.6

Salem ............................................................... 187.8 188.9 188.9 191.4 11.9 12.2 11.3 12.2 6.4 6.5 6.0 6.4

Pennsylvania ....................................................... 6,227.9 6,276.9 6,245.0 6,277.4 299.6 351.0 279.8 330.6 4.8 5.6 4.5 5.3

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton ........................... 409.4 413.0 412.1 413.8 19.8 24.2 18.5 23.1 4.8 5.9 4.5 5.6

Altoona ............................................................. 63.6 64.2 63.8 64.3 3.0 3.6 2.8 3.4 4.8 5.5 4.4 5.3

Erie ................................................................... 138.1 140.2 138.6 139.5 7.2 8.7 6.9 8.3 5.2 6.2 5.0 6.0

Harrisburg-Carlisle ............................................ 278.0 280.2 279.1 280.6 10.8 12.8 10.4 12.1 3.9 4.6 3.7 4.3

Johnstown ........................................................ 67.3 67.7 67.3 67.5 3.9 4.5 3.5 4.2 5.7 6.7 5.2 6.3

Lancaster .......................................................... 263.1 266.7 265.3 266.4 9.8 11.2 9.1 10.6 3.7 4.2 3.4 4.0

Lebanon ............................................................ 71.1 72.1 71.3 71.9 2.8 3.1 2.6 2.8 3.9 4.3 3.6 3.9

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington .................... 2,934.4 2,945.9 2,937.0 2,948.3 130.7 151.7 124.2 145.3 4.5 5.2 4.2 4.9

Pittsburgh ......................................................... 1,182.1 1,186.8 1,184.8 1,191.1 57.5 66.6 52.6 62.2 4.9 5.6 4.4 5.2

Reading ............................................................ 200.1 200.8 200.9 200.2 9.3 10.9 8.7 10.4 4.6 5.4 4.3 5.2

Scranton—Wilkes-Barre ................................... 274.5 276.7 275.4 277.2 15.0 18.1 14.0 17.2 5.5 6.5 5.1 6.2

State College .................................................... 72.5 74.1 72.9 74.3 2.7 3.2 2.7 3.1 3.7 4.3 3.6 4.2

Williamsport ...................................................... 59.1 59.2 59.1 59.0 3.3 4.0 3.1 3.8 5.7 6.8 5.2 6.4

York-Hanover ................................................... 221.3 223.4 222.4 223.4 9.4 10.9 8.6 10.0 4.2 4.9 3.9 4.5

Rhode Island ....................................................... 575.5 568.1 572.1 568.4 31.5 37.9 28.4 38.1 5.5 6.7 5.0 6.7

Providence-Fall River-Warwick ........................ 711.2 701.6 709.0 702.4 41.2 47.5 38.7 48.2 5.8 6.8 5.5 6.9

South Carolina .................................................... 2,113.0 2,106.6 2,119.2 2,126.4 131.8 123.8 114.6 118.0 6.2 5.9 5.4 5.5

Anderson .......................................................... 85.4 83.7 85.0 84.7 5.5 5.2 4.8 5.0 6.4 6.2 5.6 5.9

Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville ....... 308.6 309.9 310.4 312.3 14.7 14.3 13.1 14.0 4.8 4.6 4.2 4.5

Columbia .......................................................... 366.5 365.9 366.5 369.0 19.6 18.0 17.8 17.8 5.3 4.9 4.9 4.8

Florence ............................................................ 92.6 95.1 93.0 95.6 6.5 6.1 5.7 5.9 7.1 6.4 6.1 6.1

Greenville-Mauldin-Easley ................................ 310.7 312.5 311.0 315.3 17.1 15.4 15.1 14.8 5.5 4.9 4.8 4.7

Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach-Conway ...... 124.6 126.8 127.9 129.7 7.6 8.4 6.2 7.4 6.1 6.6 4.9 5.7

Spartanburg ...................................................... 133.0 132.0 133.1 133.4 8.4 7.5 7.2 7.2 6.3 5.7 5.4 5.4

Sumter .............................................................. 46.0 43.5 45.9 44.2 3.4 3.3 3.0 3.2 7.4 7.6 6.5 7.3

South Dakota ...................................................... 434.1 436.7 437.6 439.9 15.4 13.4 15.1 13.2 3.5 3.1 3.4 3.0

Rapid City ......................................................... 64.9 65.6 65.3 66.3 2.2 2.0 2.1 1.9 3.4 3.0 3.2 2.9

Sioux Falls ........................................................ 125.8 128.4 126.8 129.0 3.9 3.5 3.9 3.5 3.1 2.7 3.1 2.7

Tennessee ........................................................... 2,998.8 3,024.0 3,009.2 3,033.0 147.9 174.3 139.2 177.5 4.9 5.8 4.6 5.9

Chattanooga ..................................................... 260.3 262.7 261.2 264.2 10.5 13.8 9.9 14.4 4.0 5.3 3.8 5.4

Clarksville ......................................................... 110.3 109.5 109.7 109.6 6.0 6.7 5.3 6.7 5.4 6.1 4.8 6.2

Cleveland .......................................................... 55.0 54.5 55.1 54.5 2.6 3.1 2.5 3.2 4.8 5.7 4.6 5.8

Jackson ............................................................ 55.6 56.6 56.0 56.6 3.0 3.5 2.8 3.5 5.4 6.1 5.0 6.2

Johnson City ..................................................... 98.5 99.3 98.6 99.6 4.4 5.5 4.3 5.5 4.5 5.5 4.3 5.5

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol .................................... 143.6 143.8 144.0 144.3 6.6 7.3 6.1 7.3 4.6 5.1 4.2 5.1

Knoxville ........................................................... 351.3 354.4 352.1 355.7 13.6 16.6 12.6 16.6 3.9 4.7 3.6 4.7

Memphis ........................................................... 609.0 613.2 611.1 615.1 32.5 37.0 31.2 37.9 5.3 6.0 5.1 6.2

Morristown ........................................................ 64.4 64.4 64.5 64.4 3.7 4.2 3.4 4.2 5.7 6.6 5.2 6.5

Nashville-Davidson—Murfreesboro—Franklin 775.5 786.2 778.0 791.0 31.3 37.3 29.2 38.5 4.0 4.7 3.8 4.9

Texas ................................................................... 11,418.1 11,501.1 11,422.1 11,590.6 527.7 492.2 479.1 488.9 4.6 4.3 4.2 4.2

Abilene .............................................................. 80.1 80.3 79.8 80.7 3.1 2.8 2.8 2.9 3.8 3.5 3.5 3.5

Amarillo ............................................................. 128.0 128.1 127.7 128.7 4.6 4.1 4.3 4.0 3.6 3.2 3.3 3.1

Austin-Round Rock ........................................... 838.7 855.2 841.7 860.7 31.7 31.0 29.2 31.4 3.8 3.6 3.5 3.6

Beaumont-Port Arthur ....................................... 180.4 178.0 180.4 179.2 9.6 9.8 8.6 9.6 5.3 5.5 4.8 5.4

Brownsville-Harlingen ....................................... 144.0 142.4 143.8 143.3 9.3 8.4 8.2 8.4 6.4 5.9 5.7 5.8

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area—Continued

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Feb. March Feb. March Feb. March

2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p

Texas—Continued

College Station-Bryan ....................................... 104.2 103.4 104.1 104.2 4.0 3.4 3.6 3.5 3.8 3.3 3.5 3.3

Corpus Christi ................................................... 197.9 196.4 198.4 198.2 9.3 8.5 8.4 8.3 4.7 4.3 4.2 4.2

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington .............................. 3,071.8 3,101.0 3,074.8 3,114.9 139.5 132.9 126.6 132.1 4.5 4.3 4.1 4.2

El Paso ............................................................. 291.9 292.5 290.3 294.7 19.1 16.1 16.7 16.3 6.5 5.5 5.7 5.5

Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown ......................... 2,701.0 2,742.6 2,702.6 2,763.2 122.0 114.0 110.9 113.1 4.5 4.2 4.1 4.1

Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood ................................ 150.5 152.2 151.1 153.0 7.3 6.9 6.6 6.8 4.8 4.5 4.4 4.4

Laredo .............................................................. 89.1 88.6 89.1 89.2 4.6 4.4 4.1 4.4 5.2 5.0 4.7 5.0

Longview .......................................................... 104.6 105.7 105.3 106.9 4.4 4.0 4.0 3.9 4.2 3.8 3.8 3.7

Lubbock ............................................................ 140.1 138.2 139.3 138.7 5.3 4.6 5.3 4.6 3.8 3.3 3.8 3.3

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission ................................ 274.0 272.7 271.9 275.3 19.9 17.9 17.5 17.5 7.3 6.6 6.4 6.4

Midland ............................................................. 70.2 72.0 70.6 72.3 2.2 1.9 2.0 1.9 3.1 2.6 2.9 2.6

Odessa ............................................................. 65.8 67.5 65.7 68.0 2.4 2.1 2.2 2.1 3.6 3.1 3.3 3.0

San Angelo ....................................................... 52.8 52.9 52.6 53.0 2.1 1.9 1.9 1.8 3.9 3.5 3.5 3.5

San Antonio ...................................................... 920.6 925.4 920.6 932.6 39.8 37.3 36.9 36.8 4.3 4.0 4.0 3.9

Sherman-Denison ............................................. 55.4 56.1 55.4 56.1 2.6 2.7 2.5 2.6 4.8 4.7 4.4 4.7

Texarkana ......................................................... 62.0 61.6 62.2 62.2 3.3 2.9 3.0 2.7 5.3 4.7 4.8 4.3

Tyler .................................................................. 96.5 95.9 96.4 96.8 4.4 4.3 3.9 4.3 4.5 4.4 4.0 4.4

Victoria .............................................................. 57.1 57.5 56.7 57.8 2.2 2.0 2.0 2.0 3.9 3.5 3.6 3.4

Waco ................................................................ 111.1 112.5 111.3 113.4 4.8 4.4 4.6 4.4 4.3 3.9 4.1 3.9

Wichita Falls ..................................................... 73.7 74.1 73.9 74.4 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9 4.3 4.0 3.9 3.9

Utah ...................................................................... 1,337.2 1,382.6 1,339.6 1,383.5 36.1 45.8 33.3 48.4 2.7 3.3 2.5 3.5

Logan ................................................................ 65.7 67.6 65.6 67.3 1.4 1.7 1.3 1.8 2.1 2.5 1.9 2.7

Ogden-Clearfield .............................................. 256.0 263.2 256.8 264.4 7.1 9.3 6.5 9.6 2.8 3.5 2.5 3.6

Provo-Orem ...................................................... 224.3 232.2 224.6 232.1 5.7 7.4 5.3 8.1 2.5 3.2 2.4 3.5

St. George ........................................................ 61.7 64.1 62.2 64.5 1.8 2.5 1.6 2.6 3.0 3.8 2.6 4.0

Salt Lake City ................................................... 592.8 614.5 593.2 614.1 15.5 19.2 14.4 20.5 2.6 3.1 2.4 3.3

Vermont ............................................................... 354.1 350.6 354.0 350.0 16.4 17.5 15.7 18.4 4.6 5.0 4.4 5.3

Burlington-South Burlington .............................. 111.9 110.7 111.5 110.2 4.2 4.6 4.0 4.8 3.8 4.1 3.6 4.4

Virginia ................................................................ 4,011.9 4,066.3 4,035.0 4,108.0 127.0 154.9 118.2 159.1 3.2 3.8 2.9 3.9

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford ................. 79.2 77.9 79.5 78.5 3.3 3.4 3.1 3.5 4.2 4.4 3.9 4.5

Charlottesville ................................................... 104.0 105.6 105.5 106.8 2.5 3.2 2.4 3.3 2.4 3.0 2.3 3.1

Danville ............................................................. 50.9 51.3 51.1 51.6 3.8 3.7 3.3 3.8 7.4 7.3 6.5 7.4

Harrisonburg ..................................................... 64.8 65.5 64.9 66.3 1.7 2.2 1.7 2.2 2.6 3.4 2.6 3.3

Lynchburg ......................................................... 120.3 123.1 121.0 124.4 4.3 4.8 4.1 5.0 3.6 3.9 3.4 4.0

Richmond ......................................................... 638.7 644.6 639.6 651.1 20.2 25.4 18.9 26.5 3.2 3.9 2.9 4.1

Roanoke ........................................................... 154.1 155.7 155.4 157.7 5.0 6.1 4.6 6.3 3.2 3.9 3.0 4.0

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News ............. 802.1 815.2 809.5 826.4 26.2 33.2 24.7 33.9 3.3 4.1 3.0 4.1

Winchester ........................................................ 64.7 66.6 65.1 67.1 2.3 2.8 2.2 2.9 3.6 4.2 3.3 4.3

Washington ......................................................... 3,373.9 3,449.1 3,386.2 3,466.0 179.0 183.3 159.9 182.4 5.3 5.3 4.7 5.3

Bellingham ........................................................ 105.7 109.0 105.7 110.0 4.9 5.5 4.3 5.6 4.6 5.1 4.1 5.1

Bremerton-Silverdale ........................................ 123.0 124.1 122.8 125.2 6.0 6.2 5.3 6.6 4.8 5.0 4.3 5.3

Kennewick-Pasco-Richland .............................. 113.5 118.7 114.2 120.1 7.5 7.4 6.2 6.8 6.6 6.2 5.4 5.7

Longview .......................................................... 43.7 44.4 43.6 44.6 3.0 3.6 2.6 3.6 7.0 8.1 5.9 8.1

Mount Vernon-Anacortes .................................. 57.1 58.8 57.3 59.4 3.1 3.5 2.7 3.5 5.4 5.9 4.7 5.9

Olympia ............................................................ 127.5 131.4 127.5 132.8 6.2 6.7 5.5 7.1 4.8 5.1 4.3 5.3

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue ................................. 1,808.8 1,851.9 1,820.6 1,853.0 81.0 78.0 75.5 78.6 4.5 4.2 4.1 4.2

Spokane ........................................................... 234.6 237.9 233.6 239.2 13.6 15.2 11.2 14.6 5.8 6.4 4.8 6.1

Wenatchee ....................................................... 57.3 58.6 57.6 59.5 3.7 4.0 3.1 3.7 6.5 6.8 5.4 6.2

Yakima .............................................................. 115.2 118.5 115.9 119.7 9.4 9.8 8.0 9.2 8.1 8.2 6.9 7.7

West Virginia ....................................................... 802.0 804.5 799.3 805.1 45.5 46.2 39.4 43.2 5.7 5.7 4.9 5.4

Charleston ........................................................ 138.5 137.6 138.5 138.7 7.0 6.8 6.2 6.3 5.1 4.9 4.5 4.6

Huntington-Ashland .......................................... 131.7 131.8 132.8 132.9 7.5 7.1 6.8 6.8 5.7 5.4 5.1 5.1

Morgantown ...................................................... 61.7 61.9 61.5 62.4 2.4 2.5 2.3 2.4 4.0 4.0 3.8 3.8

Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna ........................... 78.7 79.6 79.1 79.9 4.7 4.9 4.1 4.5 5.9 6.1 5.2 5.6

Wheeling ........................................................... 68.5 68.0 68.2 68.0 4.1 4.2 3.7 4.1 6.0 6.1 5.5 6.0

Wisconsin ............................................................ 3,077.1 3,078.2 3,075.9 3,085.7 179.2 178.3 170.9 174.1 5.8 5.8 5.6 5.6

Appleton ........................................................... 121.6 121.7 121.3 121.6 6.9 7.0 6.5 6.7 5.7 5.7 5.3 5.5

Eau Claire ......................................................... 90.4 90.8 90.3 90.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.6 5.5 5.5 5.5

Fond du Lac ...................................................... 56.4 56.3 56.2 56.5 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.1 6.0 5.8 5.6 5.5

Green Bay ........................................................ 169.1 169.1 169.0 169.1 9.5 9.6 9.2 9.4 5.6 5.7 5.5 5.6

Janesville .......................................................... 83.6 83.7 84.2 83.7 5.2 5.5 5.4 5.2 6.3 6.5 6.4 6.2

La Crosse ......................................................... 75.1 74.9 74.9 75.1 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.6 4.9 4.8 4.6 4.7

Madison ............................................................ 334.6 335.9 334.3 336.0 14.0 13.9 13.6 14.0 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.2

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis ..................... 799.3 793.4 794.8 794.5 43.5 43.6 41.4 43.1 5.4 5.5 5.2 5.4

Oshkosh-Neenah .............................................. 92.5 92.8 92.6 92.7 4.9 4.9 4.7 4.8 5.3 5.3 5.1 5.1

Racine .............................................................. 99.4 98.8 99.0 98.7 6.7 6.8 6.5 6.5 6.8 6.9 6.6 6.6

Sheboygan ....................................................... 65.2 64.9 65.1 65.0 3.2 3.3 3.0 3.2 4.9 5.0 4.7 4.9

Wausau ............................................................ 75.5 75.0 75.4 75.1 4.1 4.1 3.8 4.1 5.5 5.4 5.1 5.5

Wyoming ............................................................. 282.4 287.9 285.6 291.1 9.8 9.7 10.0 10.9 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.8

Casper .............................................................. 40.1 40.6 40.5 41.0 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.4 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.4

Cheyenne ......................................................... 41.8 42.6 42.0 43.0 1.9 1.8 1.9 1.9 4.4 4.2 4.4 4.5

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area—Continued

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Feb. March Feb. March Feb. March

2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p

Puerto Rico ......................................................... 1,448.7 1,374.3 1,432.1 1,361.9 155.4 145.4 143.9 125.5 10.7 10.6 10.0 9.2

Aguadilla-Isabela-San Sebastian ..................... 120.3 112.0 118.4 110.8 14.8 13.0 13.4 11.2 12.3 11.6 11.3 10.1

Fajardo ............................................................. 30.2 28.9 30.1 28.8 3.9 3.7 3.6 3.2 12.9 12.9 12.0 11.1

Guayama .......................................................... 28.1 27.6 27.7 27.2 4.1 4.1 3.8 3.6 14.6 14.9 13.6 13.3

Mayaguez ......................................................... 38.9 37.4 38.5 37.3 4.7 4.3 4.4 3.8 12.1 11.6 11.4 10.1

Ponce ............................................................... 95.7 92.3 94.7 91.5 10.7 9.9 10.0 8.6 11.2 10.7 10.5 9.4

San German-Cabo Rojo ................................... 54.9 53.1 54.6 52.4 6.4 5.7 6.0 5.0 11.7 10.8 11.0 9.6

San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo ........................... 978.6 922.6 969.1 917.1 97.2 92.0 90.2 79.2 9.9 10.0 9.3 8.6

Yauco ............................................................... 40.3 38.8 39.5 38.1 5.6 5.2 5.1 4.6 13.8 13.5 13.0 12.0

p = preliminary. 1 Area boundaries do not reflect official OMB definitions.

 NOTE: Data refer to place of residence. Data for Puerto Rico are derived from a

monthly household survey similar to the Current Population Survey. Area

definitions are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 08-01,

dated November 20, 2007, and are available at http://www.bls.gov/lau/

lausmsa.htm. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New England

City and Town Areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are county-based.

Some metropolitan areas lie in two or more states. They are listed under the state

that appears first in their titles. Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Iowa-Ill., and

Weirton-Steubenville, W.Va.-Ohio, are the exceptions in that they are listed under

Illinois and Ohio, respectively, for operational reasons. Estimates for the latest

month are subject to revision the following month.
LABOR FORCE DATA LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 2. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state, selected metropolitan area, and metropolitan division 1

(Numbers in thousands)

State, area, and division 

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Feb. March Feb. March Feb. March

2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p 2007 2008 2007 2008p

California .............................................................. 18,073.3 18,233.8 18,092.2 18,299.2 970.1 1,115.4 930.0 1,177.0 5.4 6.1 5.1 6.4

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ................... 6,524.2 6,575.9 6,527.6 6,590.9 295.3 339.6 287.1 361.8 4.5 5.2 4.4 5.5

 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale ................... 4,883.3 4,954.2 4,887.6 4,962.3 236.5 269.1 229.9 287.5 4.8 5.4 4.7 5.8

 Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine ................................ 1,641.0 1,621.7 1,640.0 1,628.5 58.8 70.4 57.2 74.2 3.6 4.3 3.5 4.6

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont ......................... 2,223.9 2,237.7 2,226.2 2,246.6 95.6 105.3 92.8 113.1 4.3 4.7 4.2 5.0

 Oakland-Fremont-Hayward ............................... 1,279.4 1,281.2 1,282.0 1,285.7 58.5 66.0 56.6 70.6 4.6 5.2 4.4 5.5

 San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City ......... 944.5 956.6 944.3 960.9 37.0 39.3 36.2 42.5 3.9 4.1 3.8 4.4

District of Columbia .......................................... 323.5 329.0 324.0 333.0 18.4 19.1 17.4 21.5 5.7 5.8 5.4 6.4

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 2 ...................... 2,956.5 2,984.2 2,968.5 3,003.4 92.7 100.0 85.6 102.3 3.1 3.3 2.9 3.4

 Bethesda-Frederick-Gaithersburg 3 .................. 631.8 631.4 633.3 632.4 18.6 17.8 16.5 17.1 2.9 2.8 2.6 2.7

 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 2 ................... 2,324.7 2,352.8 2,335.2 2,370.9 74.1 82.1 69.1 85.2 3.2 3.5 3.0 3.6

Florida .................................................................... 9,045.8 9,148.6 9,108.2 9,184.5 319.0 413.5 312.3 435.1 3.5 4.5 3.4 4.7

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach .............. 2,802.7 2,824.2 2,810.0 2,820.4 95.3 115.1 93.7 120.9 3.4 4.1 3.3 4.3

 Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield

Beach ............................................................. 982.3 992.3 989.6 994.5 31.2 39.8 30.3 42.4 3.2 4.0 3.1 4.3

 Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall .............................. 1,185.1 1,192.3 1,180.9 1,183.8 40.9 45.3 40.9 46.4 3.5 3.8 3.5 3.9

 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach 635.3 639.6 639.5 642.0 23.1 30.0 22.5 32.1 3.6 4.7 3.5 5.0

Illinois .................................................................... 6,623.1 6,759.5 6,627.9 6,770.3 343.3 404.7 308.8 386.6 5.2 6.0 4.7 5.7

Chicago-Naperville-Joliet 2 ................................... 4,865.4 4,959.9 4,863.7 4,961.9 240.0 284.2 220.6 276.4 4.9 5.7 4.5 5.6

 Chicago-Naperville-Joliet ................................... 4,087.4 4,176.3 4,084.0 4,172.7 194.8 235.7 178.8 229.6 4.8 5.6 4.4 5.5

 Gary 3 ................................................................ 330.9 328.3 331.5 330.3 19.3 18.8 18.1 18.7 5.8 5.7 5.5 5.7

 Lake County-Kenosha County 2 ........................ 447.1 455.3 448.2 458.9 25.8 29.7 23.7 28.1 5.8 6.5 5.3 6.1

Massachusetts ................................................... 3,393.0 3,384.6 3,397.5 3,393.4 173.7 167.6 163.4 163.9 5.1 5.0 4.8 4.8

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy 2 ................................ 2,474.2 2,477.0 2,476.5 2,484.4 113.7 109.1 105.7 106.5 4.6 4.4 4.3 4.3

 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy ................................ 1,496.0 1,498.8 1,496.6 1,502.8 64.3 61.1 59.3 59.2 4.3 4.1 4.0 3.9

 Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton ............................ 124.3 124.5 124.7 125.2 7.1 7.0 6.7 6.8 5.7 5.6 5.3 5.4

 Framingham ...................................................... 145.1 145.4 145.4 145.9 5.9 5.7 5.5 5.5 4.1 3.9 3.8 3.8

 Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury 2 ................ 120.2 120.3 120.2 120.7 6.0 5.8 5.5 5.8 5.0 4.8 4.5 4.8

 Lawrence-Methuen-Salem 2 .............................. 69.2 68.9 69.5 69.1 5.2 5.0 5.1 5.0 7.5 7.3 7.3 7.3

 Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford 2 ............................ 151.7 151.5 152.0 151.9 7.8 7.5 7.3 7.3 5.1 4.9 4.8 4.8

 Nashua 2 ........................................................... 178.2 178.8 178.7 179.6 7.5 7.5 7.0 7.6 4.2 4.2 3.9 4.2

 Peabody ............................................................ 126.4 125.7 126.2 125.9 6.4 6.1 6.0 6.0 5.1 4.8 4.7 4.7

 Taunton-Norton-Raynham ................................. 63.2 63.2 63.2 63.3 3.4 3.5 3.3 3.4 5.4 5.5 5.2 5.4

Michigan ............................................................... 5,007.9 4,960.5 5,016.6 4,966.9 365.1 384.3 366.7 390.6 7.3 7.7 7.3 7.9

Detroit-Warren-Livonia ......................................... 2,131.7 2,115.2 2,140.7 2,113.6 152.7 161.9 158.2 171.7 7.2 7.7 7.4 8.1

 Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn ................................... 876.8 864.2 879.2 864.4 69.3 73.5 71.8 78.3 7.9 8.5 8.2 9.1

 Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills ........................... 1,255.0 1,250.9 1,261.6 1,249.2 83.3 88.4 86.5 93.4 6.6 7.1 6.9 7.5

New York .............................................................. 9,472.2 9,496.1 9,469.3 9,493.3 459.3 474.3 416.5 480.2 4.8 5.0 4.4 5.1

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island 2 .... 9,277.4 9,317.1 9,287.3 9,314.9 425.2 438.9 392.7 442.4 4.6 4.7 4.2 4.7

 Edison-New Brunswick 3 ................................... 1,185.9 1,192.7 1,189.1 1,193.9 50.3 59.0 47.2 56.5 4.2 4.9 4.0 4.7

 Nassau-Suffolk .................................................. 1,468.3 1,478.2 1,471.6 1,480.3 59.6 68.7 54.1 67.4 4.1 4.6 3.7 4.6

 New York-White Plains-Wayne 2 ....................... 5,532.3 5,550.3 5,535.4 5,547.2 264.9 253.4 243.5 262.1 4.8 4.6 4.4 4.7

 Newark-Union 3 ................................................. 1,090.8 1,095.9 1,091.3 1,093.4 50.3 57.9 47.9 56.4 4.6 5.3 4.4 5.2

Pennsylvania ....................................................... 6,227.9 6,276.9 6,245.0 6,277.4 299.6 351.0 279.8 330.6 4.8 5.6 4.5 5.3

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 2 ..................... 2,934.4 2,945.9 2,937.0 2,948.3 130.7 151.7 124.2 145.3 4.5 5.2 4.2 4.9

 Camden 3 .......................................................... 658.7 665.6 659.0 664.6 30.7 35.1 28.6 33.2 4.7 5.3 4.3 5.0

 Philadelphia ....................................................... 1,916.1 1,921.5 1,917.2 1,922.6 85.5 101.5 82.2 97.6 4.5 5.3 4.3 5.1

 Wilmington 3 ...................................................... 359.6 358.8 360.9 361.1 14.5 15.2 13.4 14.5 4.0 4.2 3.7 4.0

Texas ...................................................................... 11,418.1 11,501.1 11,422.1 11,590.6 527.7 492.2 479.1 488.9 4.6 4.3 4.2 4.2

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington .................................. 3,071.8 3,101.0 3,074.8 3,114.9 139.5 132.9 126.6 132.1 4.5 4.3 4.1 4.2

 Dallas-Plano-Irving ............................................ 2,051.6 2,076.7 2,054.8 2,083.0 93.2 90.1 84.6 89.5 4.5 4.3 4.1 4.3

 Fort Worth-Arlington .......................................... 1,020.2 1,024.3 1,020.0 1,031.9 46.3 42.8 41.9 42.6 4.5 4.2 4.1 4.1

Washington ......................................................... 3,373.9 3,449.1 3,386.2 3,466.0 179.0 183.3 159.9 182.4 5.3 5.3 4.7 5.3

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue ..................................... 1,808.8 1,851.9 1,820.6 1,853.0 81.0 78.0 75.5 78.6 4.5 4.2 4.1 4.2

 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett .................................... 1,423.4 1,456.1 1,435.9 1,453.6 61.0 56.0 57.6 55.1 4.3 3.8 4.0 3.8

 Tacoma .............................................................. 385.4 395.8 384.7 399.4 20.0 22.1 17.9 23.5 5.2 5.6 4.7 5.9

p = preliminary. 1 These 11 areas contain all of the 34 metropolitan divisions. 2 Part of the area (or division) is in one or more adjacent states. 3 All of the division is in one or more adjacent states.

 NOTE: Data refer to place of residence. Area definitions are based on Office of

Management and Budget Bulletin No. 08-01, dated November 20, 2007, and are

available at http://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Areas in the six New England

states are Metropolitan New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs), while areas

in other states are county-based. Some metropolitan areas lie in two or more states.

They are listed under the state that corresponds to the first city in their title.

Metropolitan divisions are listed under their metropolitan areas. Some divisions lie in

more than one state, and some, like Camden, N.J., are totally outside the states

under which their metropolitan areas are listed. Three sets of metropolitan areas

and divisions have similar or identical titles. For Washington-Arlington-Alexandria,

D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va., the metropolitan area and division titles are identical. For the

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass.-N.H., and Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, Ill.-Ind.-Wis.,

metropolitan areas, the division titles are similar but include only Massachusetts and

Illinois, respectively. Estimates for the latest month are subject to revision the

following month.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area 

February March Change from March 2007 to

March 2008 p

2007 2008 2007 2008p Number Percent

Alabama ................................................................................. 1,987.3 2,004.2 2,004.4 2,015.6 11.2 0.6

Anniston-Oxford .................................................................. 52.7 53.2 53.1 53.3 .2 .4

Auburn-Opelika ................................................................... 53.6 55.8 54.5 56.4 1.9 3.5

Birmingham-Hoover ............................................................ 529.4 529.6 532.7 532.0 -.7 -.1

Decatur ............................................................................... 57.5 57.9 58.0 59.0 1.0 1.7

Dothan ................................................................................ 62.8 62.6 63.5 62.9 -.6 -.9

Florence-Muscle Shoals ..................................................... 56.6 57.5 57.4 57.9 .5 .9

Huntsville ............................................................................ 206.3 211.4 208.0 212.7 4.7 2.3

Mobile ................................................................................. 182.1 182.6 184.1 184.0 -.1 -.1

Montgomery ........................................................................ 176.7 180.0 178.3 180.9 2.6 1.5

Tuscaloosa ......................................................................... 98.1 98.5 98.5 99.0 .5 .5

Alaska .................................................................................... 303.0 304.7 305.8 307.2 1.4 .5

Anchorage .......................................................................... 163.0 164.4 164.0 165.3 1.3 .8

Arizona .................................................................................. 2,668.5 2,669.3 2,686.3 2,678.8 -7.5 -.3

Flagstaff .............................................................................. 63.6 63.9 64.6 64.4 -.2 -.3

Lake Havasu City-Kingman ................................................ 54.6 53.6 55.4 54.0 -1.4 -2.5

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale ................................................... 1,908.3 1,909.3 1,921.2 1,916.9 -4.3 -.2

Prescott .............................................................................. 64.2 65.8 64.8 65.9 1.1 1.7

Tucson ................................................................................ 387.5 381.2 388.7 381.2 -7.5 -1.9

Yuma .................................................................................. 55.6 57.0 56.0 57.1 1.1 2.0

Arkansas ............................................................................... 1,193.3 1,198.2 1,207.8 1,207.2 -.6 .0

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers .......................................... 206.4 208.1 208.7 209.0 .3 .1

Fort Smith ........................................................................... 123.4 124.6 125.1 126.1 1.0 .8

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway ................................. 341.2 345.3 344.7 348.0 3.3 1.0

California ............................................................................... 15,047.2 15,066.1 15,151.5 15,134.9 -16.6 -.1

Bakersfield .......................................................................... 236.3 240.5 237.7 241.5 3.8 1.6

Chico .................................................................................. 75.9 76.8 76.3 77.0 .7 .9

Fresno ................................................................................ 302.8 306.0 306.0 308.4 2.4 .8

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ................................. 5,615.7 5,577.1 5,644.1 5,608.8 -35.3 -.6

Merced ................................................................................ 58.0 58.7 58.3 59.0 .7 1.2

Modesto .............................................................................. 157.5 157.1 158.8 157.9 -.9 -.6

Napa ................................................................................... 61.4 62.1 62.1 62.7 .6 1.0

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura ....................................... 295.4 291.0 297.3 291.7 -5.6 -1.9

Redding .............................................................................. 63.6 64.6 64.2 64.9 .7 1.1

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario ..................................... 1,267.4 1,252.7 1,275.0 1,253.3 -21.7 -1.7

Sacramento—Arden-Arcade—Roseville ............................ 895.9 900.1 902.8 903.6 .8 .1

Salinas ................................................................................ 126.8 129.6 126.9 129.0 2.1 1.7

San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos ....................................... 1,297.1 1,297.4 1,305.1 1,303.4 -1.7 -.1

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont ....................................... 2,012.9 2,028.8 2,024.3 2,035.9 11.6 .6

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara ...................................... 898.6 906.9 904.6 911.8 7.2 .8

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles ............................................ 102.9 104.1 104.0 104.7 .7 .7

Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta .................................... 172.1 173.6 173.5 174.3 .8 .5

Santa Cruz-Watsonville ...................................................... 94.9 96.6 95.2 97.1 1.9 2.0

Santa Rosa-Petaluma ........................................................ 187.2 189.6 188.7 190.6 1.9 1.0

Stockton .............................................................................. 207.7 212.1 210.2 213.0 2.8 1.3

Vallejo-Fairfield ................................................................... 125.5 124.6 126.8 125.3 -1.5 -1.2

Visalia-Porterville ................................................................ 112.6 112.5 113.6 113.2 -.4 -.4

Colorado ................................................................................ 2,280.5 2,327.2 2,306.3 2,344.8 38.5 1.7

Boulder .............................................................................. 163.9 166.5 165.6 167.8 2.2 1.3

Colorado Springs ................................................................ 254.8 259.4 257.6 261.3 3.7 1.4

Denver-Aurora .................................................................... 1,209.0 1,232.0 1,221.4 1,241.1 19.7 1.6

Fort Collins-Loveland .......................................................... 131.3 136.0 133.1 136.8 3.7 2.8

Grand Junction ................................................................... 60.4 63.4 61.4 64.1 2.7 4.4

Greeley ............................................................................... 79.8 82.7 81.0 83.0 2.0 2.5

Pueblo ................................................................................ 57.8 58.6 58.2 58.9 .7 1.2

Connecticut ........................................................................... 1,668.4 1,681.0 1,671.9 1,683.4 11.5 .7

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk ............................................. 412.1 417.5 413.8 419.0 5.2 1.3

Danbury .............................................................................. 68.2 69.1 68.9 69.8 .9 1.3

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford ................................. 548.7 556.0 550.2 558.5 8.3 1.5

New Haven ......................................................................... 275.0 275.0 273.8 273.0 -.8 -.3

Norwich-New London ......................................................... 133.1 133.9 133.9 134.2 .3 .2

Waterbury ........................................................................... 68.1 68.1 68.0 68.4 .4 .6

Delaware ................................................................................ 425.1 428.0 430.4 431.3 .9 .2

Dover .................................................................................. 64.8 64.9 65.3 65.3 .0 .0

District of Columbia ............................................................. 690.3 697.6 693.1 698.7 5.6 .8

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria ....................................... 2,949.1 2,975.6 2,972.9 2,995.4 22.5 .8

Florida .................................................................................... 8,077.4 8,041.3 8,141.6 8,063.7 -77.9 -1.0

Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice ............................................... 303.7 290.9 306.0 292.8 -13.2 -4.3

Cape Coral-Fort Myers ....................................................... 238.6 225.2 240.0 226.1 -13.9 -5.8

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach ............................ 174.2 172.4 176.2 173.1 -3.1 -1.8

Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin ................................. 84.7 85.0 86.2 86.2 .0 .0

Gainesville .......................................................................... 134.8 137.4 135.1 137.6 2.5 1.9

Jacksonville ........................................................................ 629.4 630.6 635.2 634.6 -.6 -.1

Lakeland-Winter Haven ...................................................... 217.0 214.4 218.9 215.7 -3.2 -1.5

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach ............................ 2,447.4 2,437.2 2,463.7 2,442.9 -20.8 -.8

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area—Continued

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area 

February March Change from March 2007 to

March 2008 p

2007 2008 2007 2008p Number Percent

Florida—Continued 

Naples-Marco Island ........................................................... 137.2 131.1 139.0 131.6 -7.4 -5.3

Ocala .................................................................................. 106.9 105.7 107.9 106.5 -1.4 -1.3

Orlando-Kissimmee ............................................................ 1,098.8 1,102.2 1,104.4 1,108.8 4.4 .4

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville ........................................... 213.1 211.5 214.1 213.0 -1.1 -.5

Panama City-Lynn Haven ................................................... 75.1 75.9 77.1 77.4 .3 .4

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent .............................................. 173.5 175.8 174.6 176.4 1.8 1.0

Port St. Lucie ...................................................................... 135.9 134.6 137.2 135.6 -1.6 -1.2

Tallahassee ........................................................................ 179.5 180.4 180.8 181.5 .7 .4

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater ...................................... 1,306.4 1,296.2 1,318.5 1,301.2 -17.3 -1.3

Georgia .................................................................................. 4,114.8 4,151.1 4,130.9 4,161.3 30.4 .7

Albany ................................................................................. 64.8 64.4 64.7 64.6 -.1 -.2

Athens-Clarke County ........................................................ 81.8 82.9 81.6 82.7 1.1 1.3

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta .......................................... 2,432.8 2,462.3 2,444.8 2,471.2 26.4 1.1

Augusta-Richmond County ................................................. 214.2 216.9 215.9 218.0 2.1 1.0

Columbus ........................................................................... 121.0 121.2 121.3 121.1 -.2 -.2

Dalton ................................................................................. 78.3 77.5 78.3 77.6 -.7 -.9

Gainesville .......................................................................... 75.2 76.9 75.6 77.2 1.6 2.1

Macon ................................................................................. 100.0 100.2 99.7 100.4 .7 .7

Savannah ........................................................................... 160.4 161.0 161.0 161.8 .8 .5

Valdosta .............................................................................. 56.2 56.4 56.1 56.4 .3 .5

Warner Robins .................................................................... 58.4 59.1 58.8 59.4 .6 1.0

Hawaii .................................................................................... 623.0 627.6 626.6 630.8 4.2 .7

Honolulu ............................................................................. 454.2 457.7 457.2 459.8 2.6 .6

Idaho ...................................................................................... 635.5 638.8 642.3 643.2 .9 .1

Boise City-Nampa ............................................................... 273.5 270.4 276.3 271.9 -4.4 -1.6

Coeur d’Alene ..................................................................... 52.8 56.6 54.1 57.2 3.1 5.7

Illinois .................................................................................... 5,845.5 5,885.2 5,903.2 5,924.5 21.3 .4

Bloomington-Normal ........................................................... 90.7 91.2 91.0 91.3 .3 .3

Champaign-Urbana ............................................................ 112.3 112.9 113.6 113.2 -.4 -.4

Chicago-Naperville-Joliet .................................................... 4,450.3 4,480.8 4,489.7 4,505.8 16.1 .4

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island ........................................... 183.7 185.3 186.4 186.8 .4 .2

Decatur ............................................................................... 53.3 54.5 54.4 54.5 .1 .2

Peoria ................................................................................. 182.9 185.3 185.1 186.8 1.7 .9

Rockford ............................................................................. 157.6 158.8 159.8 159.0 -.8 -.5

Springfield ........................................................................... 109.2 110.0 110.6 110.5 -.1 -.1

Indiana ................................................................................... 2,924.6 2,948.8 2,965.4 2,966.5 1.1 .0

Bloomington ........................................................................ 82.9 84.1 83.1 84.4 1.3 1.6

Elkhart-Goshen ................................................................... 127.0 126.4 129.0 127.3 -1.7 -1.3

Evansville ........................................................................... 175.6 177.5 178.3 179.5 1.2 .7

Fort Wayne ......................................................................... 215.0 213.9 217.1 212.7 -4.4 -2.0

Indianapolis-Carmel ............................................................ 890.3 905.2 905.0 912.1 7.1 .8

Lafayette ............................................................................. 94.3 94.9 95.2 95.7 .5 .5

Muncie ................................................................................ 53.4 53.2 54.3 53.7 -.6 -1.1

South Bend-Mishawaka ...................................................... 141.9 143.2 143.0 143.9 .9 .6

Terre Haute ........................................................................ 73.2 72.9 74.1 73.1 -1.0 -1.3

Iowa ........................................................................................ 1,485.7 1,497.2 1,496.4 1,508.1 11.7 .8

Cedar Rapids ...................................................................... 135.1 135.4 135.5 136.6 1.1 .8

Des Moines-West Des Moines ........................................... 314.0 319.6 316.0 321.5 5.5 1.7

Dubuque ............................................................................. 54.4 55.1 54.8 55.3 .5 .9

Iowa City ............................................................................. 89.1 89.9 89.7 90.4 .7 .8

Sioux City ........................................................................... 73.5 72.3 73.5 72.9 -.6 -.8

Waterloo-Cedar Falls .......................................................... 88.2 89.6 88.2 89.8 1.6 1.8

Kansas ................................................................................... 1,351.9 1,371.1 1,372.9 1,382.8 9.9 .7

Topeka ................................................................................ 108.1 109.3 110.0 110.5 .5 .5

Wichita ................................................................................ 295.7 302.0 300.1 303.5 3.4 1.1

Kentucky ............................................................................... 1,830.9 1,855.5 1,849.8 1,870.1 20.3 1.1

Bowling Green .................................................................... 60.7 62.5 61.3 62.7 1.4 2.3

Lexington-Fayette ............................................................... 251.4 253.7 253.9 255.1 1.2 .5

Louisville-Jefferson County ................................................ 611.7 620.5 615.0 626.4 11.4 1.9

Louisiana ............................................................................... 1,895.4 1,935.3 1,915.5 1,945.8 30.3 1.6

Alexandria ........................................................................... 64.1 65.2 65.0 65.4 .4 .6

Baton Rouge ....................................................................... 365.5 369.9 369.5 371.8 2.3 .6

Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux ......................................... 93.9 95.3 94.8 96.3 1.5 1.6

Lafayette ............................................................................. 146.4 150.8 147.7 151.8 4.1 2.8

Lake Charles ...................................................................... 92.3 91.9 93.0 92.4 -.6 -.6

Monroe ............................................................................... 78.5 78.7 78.7 79.0 .3 .4

New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner ............................................ 508.5 521.1 515.2 525.0 9.8 1.9

Shreveport-Bossier City ...................................................... 176.1 180.6 177.5 181.6 4.1 2.3

Maine ..................................................................................... 596.2 597.1 599.1 599.3 .2 .0

Bangor ................................................................................ 65.1 64.9 65.2 65.5 .3 .5

Portland-South Portland-Biddeford ..................................... 189.0 189.6 190.1 190.1 .0 .0

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area—Continued

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area 

February March Change from March 2007 to

March 2008 p

2007 2008 2007 2008p Number Percent

Maryland ................................................................................ 2,552.7 2,585.5 2,586.3 2,611.2 24.9 1.0

Baltimore-Towson .............................................................. 1,293.0 1,305.7 1,309.0 1,317.9 8.9 .7

Hagerstown-Martinsburg .................................................... 100.5 100.8 101.4 101.4 .0 .0

Salisbury ............................................................................. 55.1 55.5 56.1 56.3 .2 .4

Massachusetts ...................................................................... 3,206.1 3,233.2 3,221.1 3,248.6 27.5 .9

Barnstable Town ................................................................. 90.7 90.5 91.9 91.4 -.5 -.5

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy ................................................ 2,436.4 2,460.1 2,446.3 2,471.9 25.6 1.0

New Bedford ....................................................................... 66.2 65.7 66.2 65.6 -.6 -.9

Springfield ........................................................................... 293.1 293.3 294.2 294.4 .2 .1

Worcester ........................................................................... 245.0 246.1 245.9 247.0 1.1 .4

Michigan ................................................................................ 4,213.0 4,160.7 4,234.0 4,161.6 -72.4 -1.7

Ann Arbor ........................................................................... 200.1 199.0 201.7 198.4 -3.3 -1.6

Battle Creek ........................................................................ 58.2 57.0 58.6 57.4 -1.2 -2.0

Detroit-Warren-Livonia ....................................................... 1,951.3 1,910.4 1,955.4 1,910.1 -45.3 -2.3

Flint ..................................................................................... 148.9 144.8 149.8 141.8 -8.0 -5.3

Grand Rapids-Wyoming ..................................................... 387.7 387.6 389.4 389.3 -.1 .0

Holland-Grand Haven ......................................................... 112.0 110.6 113.1 111.5 -1.6 -1.4

Jackson .............................................................................. 57.9 56.8 58.3 56.9 -1.4 -2.4

Kalamazoo-Portage ............................................................ 145.4 145.2 146.8 146.4 -.4 -.3

Lansing-East Lansing ......................................................... 224.5 223.8 225.8 224.4 -1.4 -.6

Muskegon-Norton Shores ................................................... 63.6 64.0 63.9 64.3 .4 .6

Niles-Benton Harbor ........................................................... 61.8 64.1 62.5 64.7 2.2 3.5

Saginaw-Saginaw Township North ..................................... 89.3 86.7 89.7 86.6 -3.1 -3.5

Minnesota .............................................................................. 2,711.9 2,725.4 2,722.2 2,739.7 17.5 .6

Duluth ................................................................................. 130.2 131.9 130.8 132.5 1.7 1.3

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington ..................................... 1,767.1 1,776.7 1,772.1 1,785.4 13.3 .8

Rochester ........................................................................... 104.0 105.9 104.6 106.5 1.9 1.8

St. Cloud ............................................................................. 100.7 102.4 101.6 103.1 1.5 1.5

Mississippi ............................................................................ 1,144.5 1,150.6 1,148.3 1,157.7 9.4 .8

Gulfport-Biloxi ..................................................................... 107.8 111.0 108.6 111.6 3.0 2.8

Hattiesburg ......................................................................... 60.4 61.5 60.5 61.9 1.4 2.3

Jackson .............................................................................. 258.4 262.1 260.7 262.0 1.3 .5

Pascagoula ......................................................................... 56.5 58.9 51.9 59.1 7.2 13.9

Missouri ................................................................................ 2,741.7 2,759.3 2,785.3 2,778.4 -6.9 -.2

Columbia ............................................................................ 91.7 93.5 93.4 94.1 .7 .7

Jefferson City ...................................................................... 78.2 79.2 79.2 79.6 .4 .5

Joplin .................................................................................. 78.9 79.8 79.8 80.2 .4 .5

Kansas City ....................................................................... 991.6 1,007.7 1,007.1 1,014.9 7.8 .8

St. Joseph ........................................................................... 58.6 59.2 59.6 59.8 .2 .3

St. Louis 1 ........................................................................... 1,331.2 1,335.4 1,348.3 1,342.9 -5.4 -.4

Springfield .......................................................................... 196.6 201.2 200.7 203.2 2.5 1.2

Montana ................................................................................. 430.2 438.1 436.4 442.2 5.8 1.3

Billings ................................................................................ 77.7 79.4 79.0 80.1 1.1 1.4

Missoula ............................................................................. 56.2 56.2 57.1 56.8 -.3 -.5

Nebraska ............................................................................... 940.7 958.5 947.4 963.3 15.9 1.7

Lincoln ................................................................................ 170.8 173.4 171.7 175.1 3.4 2.0

Omaha-Council Bluffs ......................................................... 454.7 461.2 457.1 463.2 6.1 1.3

Nevada ................................................................................... 1,283.1 1,284.8 1,290.7 1,286.8 -3.9 -.3

Las Vegas-Paradise ........................................................... 923.9 925.6 927.9 925.5 -2.4 -.3

Reno-Sparks ....................................................................... 220.8 220.7 222.2 221.1 -1.1 -.5

New Hampshire ..................................................................... 633.9 642.2 635.8 645.1 9.3 1.5

Manchester ......................................................................... 99.3 100.4 99.6 101.2 1.6 1.6

Portsmouth ......................................................................... 53.7 54.8 53.9 54.9 1.0 1.9

Rochester-Dover ................................................................ 56.4 57.1 56.2 57.6 1.4 2.5

New Jersey ............................................................................ 3,989.4 4,003.2 4,020.6 4,029.5 8.9 .2

Atlantic City-Hammonton .................................................... 146.0 145.7 147.4 147.0 -.4 -.3

Trenton-Ewing .................................................................... 234.8 237.1 235.8 237.8 2.0 .8

Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton ................................................ 61.5 60.9 61.7 61.2 -.5 -.8

New Mexico ........................................................................... 833.9 839.7 842.3 847.6 5.3 .6

Albuquerque ....................................................................... 391.6 394.0 395.9 397.2 1.3 .3

Las Cruces ......................................................................... 67.8 69.1 68.6 69.7 1.1 1.6

Santa Fe ............................................................................. 64.5 65.4 65.0 65.9 .9 1.4

New York ............................................................................... 8,571.5 8,650.6 8,627.9 8,698.2 70.3 .8

Albany-Schenectady-Troy .................................................. 441.5 442.5 444.2 444.8 .6 .1

Binghamton ........................................................................ 112.4 113.2 112.9 113.5 .6 .5

Buffalo-Niagara Falls .......................................................... 537.5 539.8 541.2 542.3 1.1 .2

Glens Falls .......................................................................... 52.0 52.7 51.8 52.7 .9 1.7

Ithaca .................................................................................. 64.5 64.9 64.2 64.9 .7 1.1

Kingston .............................................................................. 63.7 63.9 64.4 64.0 -.4 -.6

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island ..................... 8,412.3 8,483.9 8,473.7 8,539.2 65.5 .8

Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown ................................ 250.5 251.4 251.8 252.1 .3 .1

Rochester ........................................................................... 508.1 508.2 509.5 510.2 .7 .1

Syracuse ............................................................................. 316.7 320.2 318.1 321.3 3.2 1.0

Utica-Rome ......................................................................... 130.2 131.4 131.2 131.8 .6 .5

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area—Continued

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area 

February March Change from March 2007 to

March 2008 p

2007 2008 2007 2008p Number Percent

North Carolina ....................................................................... 4,076.8 4,141.6 4,117.2 4,162.8 45.6 1.1

Asheville ............................................................................. 172.6 178.1 174.9 178.8 3.9 2.2

Burlington ........................................................................... 59.9 61.0 60.6 61.4 .8 1.3

Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord ............................................... 844.1 860.6 853.3 867.8 14.5 1.7

Durham ............................................................................... 283.3 290.4 285.6 292.2 6.6 2.3

Fayetteville ......................................................................... 127.5 128.6 127.9 128.9 1.0 .8

Greensboro-High Point ....................................................... 368.0 373.1 371.6 376.0 4.4 1.2

Greenville ........................................................................... 75.9 78.2 76.6 78.4 1.8 2.3

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton .................................................. 162.6 162.7 163.7 163.8 .1 .1

Raleigh-Cary ....................................................................... 502.8 523.3 507.4 525.5 18.1 3.6

Rocky Mount ....................................................................... 64.5 64.3 64.8 64.3 -.5 -.8

Wilmington .......................................................................... 142.7 146.0 145.8 147.9 2.1 1.4

Winston-Salem ................................................................... 217.9 220.5 219.3 222.4 3.1 1.4

North Dakota ......................................................................... 349.6 356.3 352.6 358.6 6.0 1.7

Bismarck ............................................................................. 58.7 59.5 59.1 60.4 1.3 2.2

Fargo .................................................................................. 115.6 117.7 116.2 118.3 2.1 1.8

Grand Forks ........................................................................ 53.1 54.1 53.3 54.2 .9 1.7

Ohio ....................................................................................... 5,321.0 5,325.1 5,369.0 5,361.6 -7.4 -.1

Akron .................................................................................. 333.1 334.7 334.8 336.1 1.3 .4

Canton-Massillon ................................................................ 169.0 169.5 170.6 170.4 -.2 -.1

Cincinnati-Middletown ........................................................ 1,022.7 1,030.0 1,035.7 1,037.2 1.5 .1

Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor ..................................................... 1,052.6 1,049.1 1,061.5 1,055.2 -6.3 -.6

Columbus ........................................................................... 922.5 934.4 929.5 939.4 9.9 1.1

Dayton ................................................................................ 399.2 399.0 402.4 397.4 -5.0 -1.2

Lima .................................................................................... 55.1 54.6 55.4 55.0 -.4 -.7

Mansfield ............................................................................ 57.2 56.3 57.1 56.2 -.9 -1.6

Springfield ........................................................................... 51.6 51.5 52.2 51.8 -.4 -.8

Toledo ................................................................................. 322.5 320.8 324.8 321.0 -3.8 -1.2

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman ......................................... 235.7 235.2 237.5 236.9 -.6 -.3

Oklahoma .............................................................................. 1,543.8 1,569.7 1,565.2 1,580.9 15.7 1.0

Oklahoma City .................................................................... 560.4 566.8 567.7 570.4 2.7 .5

Tulsa ................................................................................... 420.7 423.2 426.3 426.0 -.3 -.1

Oregon ................................................................................... 1,704.5 1,721.4 1,717.7 1,728.1 10.4 .6

Bend ................................................................................... 69.2 70.6 70.4 71.3 .9 1.3

Eugene-Springfield ............................................................. 155.2 155.4 155.9 155.9 .0 .0

Medford .............................................................................. 82.0 82.6 82.8 83.1 .3 .4

Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton .......................................... 1,022.8 1,034.5 1,029.6 1,038.5 8.9 .9

Salem ................................................................................. 149.0 150.3 150.5 150.9 .4 .3

Pennsylvania ......................................................................... 5,690.8 5,722.3 5,742.4 5,756.7 14.3 .2

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton ............................................. 337.0 338.5 341.8 342.2 .4 .1

Altoona ............................................................................... 61.1 61.6 61.6 62.1 .5 .8

Erie ..................................................................................... 131.3 132.7 132.4 133.0 .6 .5

Harrisburg-Carlisle .............................................................. 325.2 328.3 327.7 330.5 2.8 .9

Johnstown .......................................................................... 60.7 61.1 61.2 61.2 .0 .0

Lancaster ............................................................................ 232.6 235.5 235.1 237.1 2.0 .9

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington ...................................... 2,771.8 2,789.8 2,791.2 2,804.5 13.3 .5

Pittsburgh ........................................................................... 1,119.4 1,128.9 1,131.5 1,139.4 7.9 .7

Reading .............................................................................. 172.3 172.2 173.6 172.6 -1.0 -.6

Scranton—Wilkes-Barre ..................................................... 256.8 258.7 259.5 260.6 1.1 .4

State College ...................................................................... 72.9 74.6 73.5 75.2 1.7 2.3

Williamsport ........................................................................ 53.2 52.9 53.5 53.0 -.5 -.9

York-Hanover ..................................................................... 176.6 181.8 181.4 182.9 1.5 .8

Rhode Island ......................................................................... 483.5 477.6 485.9 477.0 -8.9 -1.8

Providence-Fall River-Warwick .......................................... 572.4 566.3 575.1 565.9 -9.2 -1.6

South Carolina ...................................................................... 1,916.2 1,934.7 1,939.6 1,949.6 10.0 .5

Anderson ............................................................................ 64.3 63.4 64.5 64.0 -.5 -.8

Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville ......................... 291.7 297.8 295.4 298.9 3.5 1.2

Columbia ............................................................................ 361.8 368.7 363.7 369.6 5.9 1.6

Florence .............................................................................. 86.6 90.7 87.7 91.0 3.3 3.8

Greenville-Mauldin-Easley .................................................. 312.4 321.5 315.0 323.3 8.3 2.6

Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach-Conway ........................ 118.2 120.9 122.9 124.8 1.9 1.5

Spartanburg ........................................................................ 124.4 125.9 125.9 126.8 .9 .7

South Dakota ........................................................................ 392.8 400.6 396.4 403.2 6.8 1.7

Rapid City ........................................................................... 58.1 59.0 58.7 60.0 1.3 2.2

Sioux Falls .......................................................................... 129.1 132.4 130.5 133.6 3.1 2.4

Tennessee ............................................................................. 2,753.7 2,763.4 2,784.0 2,783.2 -.8 .0

Chattanooga ....................................................................... 245.1 245.9 247.1 247.3 .2 .1

Clarksville ........................................................................... 85.1 84.4 85.2 85.4 .2 .2

Jackson .............................................................................. 61.2 62.1 62.2 62.7 .5 .8

Johnson City ....................................................................... 81.1 81.7 81.5 82.4 .9 1.1

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol ...................................................... 120.6 120.9 121.5 121.9 .4 .3

Knoxville ............................................................................. 332.5 335.7 335.4 338.1 2.7 .8

Memphis ............................................................................. 632.1 636.6 638.1 639.6 1.5 .2

Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin ........................ 747.8 759.4 755.6 766.5 10.9 1.4

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area—Continued

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area 

February March Change from March 2007 to

March 2008 p

2007 2008 2007 2008p Number Percent

Texas ..................................................................................... 10,206.6 10,446.3 10,301.8 10,511.0 209.2 2.0

Abilene ................................................................................ 65.0 66.3 65.2 66.6 1.4 2.1

Amarillo ............................................................................... 110.3 111.8 110.9 112.7 1.8 1.6

Austin-Round Rock ............................................................. 743.5 766.9 751.5 773.3 21.8 2.9

Beaumont-Port Arthur ......................................................... 164.1 163.9 165.7 164.8 -.9 -.5

Brownsville-Harlingen ......................................................... 122.9 123.8 124.3 124.8 .5 .4

College Station-Bryan ......................................................... 91.3 92.8 92.3 93.0 .7 .8

Corpus Christi ..................................................................... 174.2 176.3 176.6 177.7 1.1 .6

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington ................................................ 2,889.5 2,958.4 2,917.2 2,975.4 58.2 2.0

El Paso ............................................................................... 267.0 274.6 269.0 276.1 7.1 2.6

Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown ........................................... 2,495.0 2,581.7 2,518.9 2,599.0 80.1 3.2

Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood .................................................. 119.4 122.7 121.1 123.4 2.3 1.9

Laredo ................................................................................ 85.8 86.9 86.8 87.5 .7 .8

Longview ............................................................................ 93.7 96.8 95.6 97.6 2.0 2.1

Lubbock .............................................................................. 127.9 128.3 127.9 129.0 1.1 .9

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission .................................................. 209.0 214.0 210.1 215.3 5.2 2.5

Midland ............................................................................... 64.2 66.6 64.9 67.1 2.2 3.4

Odessa ............................................................................... 57.9 60.8 58.1 61.1 3.0 5.2

San Antonio ........................................................................ 820.1 839.8 826.4 845.3 18.9 2.3

Texarkana ........................................................................... 55.5 56.6 56.2 57.0 .8 1.4

Tyler .................................................................................... 92.2 93.2 93.0 94.0 1.0 1.1

Waco .................................................................................. 106.1 109.8 107.1 110.4 3.3 3.1

Wichita Falls ....................................................................... 61.6 62.9 62.5 63.2 .7 1.1

Utah ........................................................................................ 1,226.7 1,255.5 1,238.5 1,265.0 26.5 2.1

Ogden-Clearfield ................................................................ 197.1 200.2 199.3 202.3 3.0 1.5

Provo-Orem ........................................................................ 187.3 191.3 188.7 192.4 3.7 2.0

St. George .......................................................................... 52.1 53.5 52.9 54.2 1.3 2.5

Salt Lake City ..................................................................... 628.6 643.4 632.4 646.5 14.1 2.2

Vermont ................................................................................. 306.8 307.2 306.4 306.8 .4 .1

Burlington-South Burlington ................................................ 113.2 113.4 112.9 113.1 .2 .2

Virginia .................................................................................. 3,705.7 3,724.7 3,737.1 3,748.5 11.4 .3

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford ................................... 72.1 68.6 72.4 68.9 -3.5 -4.8

Charlottesville ..................................................................... 100.5 101.9 102.2 102.6 .4 .4

Harrisonburg ....................................................................... 64.1 64.8 64.2 65.0 .8 1.2

Lynchburg ........................................................................... 106.9 109.0 107.7 109.9 2.2 2.0

Richmond ........................................................................... 627.8 629.7 630.2 633.5 3.3 .5

Roanoke ............................................................................. 160.9 161.9 162.7 163.2 .5 .3

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News ............................... 759.3 766.1 767.6 774.7 7.1 .9

Winchester .......................................................................... 57.3 58.7 57.8 59.0 1.2 2.1

Washington ........................................................................... 2,873.7 2,927.1 2,891.4 2,940.4 49.0 1.7

Bellingham .......................................................................... 82.9 85.8 83.6 86.3 2.7 3.2

Bremerton-Silverdale .......................................................... 84.8 85.7 85.7 86.2 .5 .6

Kennewick-Pasco-Richland ................................................ 87.3 92.6 88.9 93.5 4.6 5.2

Olympia .............................................................................. 99.6 103.1 100.7 103.8 3.1 3.1

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue ................................................... 1,709.1 1,747.2 1,716.8 1,752.5 35.7 2.1

Spokane ............................................................................. 213.9 216.4 216.1 217.6 1.5 .7

Yakima ................................................................................ 76.5 79.2 77.5 79.7 2.2 2.8

West Virginia ......................................................................... 741.5 745.3 752.0 753.6 1.6 .2

Charleston .......................................................................... 147.7 148.8 150.2 150.6 .4 .3

Huntington-Ashland ............................................................ 117.1 118.9 119.5 120.3 .8 .7

Morgantown ........................................................................ 60.2 61.2 60.7 61.9 1.2 2.0

Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna ............................................. 71.1 72.5 72.5 73.2 .7 1.0

Wheeling ............................................................................. 66.9 66.8 67.4 66.8 -.6 -.9

Wisconsin .............................................................................. 2,810.0 2,812.2 2,830.0 2,825.1 -4.9 -.2

Appleton ............................................................................. 116.2 116.4 116.8 116.6 -.2 -.2

Eau Claire ........................................................................... 81.8 82.2 81.9 82.7 .8 1.0

Green Bay .......................................................................... 165.7 166.3 166.6 166.8 .2 .1

Janesville ............................................................................ 68.3 68.4 69.0 68.7 -.3 -.4

La Crosse ........................................................................... 73.4 73.4 73.8 73.8 .0 .0

Madison .............................................................................. 340.8 343.0 342.3 344.2 1.9 .6

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis ....................................... 843.0 841.5 846.0 844.7 -1.3 -.2

Oshkosh-Neenah ................................................................ 91.5 91.9 92.4 92.3 -.1 -.1

Racine ................................................................................ 78.8 78.1 79.2 78.7 -.5 -.6

Sheboygan ......................................................................... 62.7 62.7 63.2 63.0 -.2 -.3

Wausau .............................................................................. 71.9 71.5 72.2 71.8 -.4 -.6

Wyoming ............................................................................... 276.9 285.8 280.3 287.8 7.5 2.7

Cheyenne ........................................................................... 42.9 44.1 43.2 44.4 1.2 2.8

Puerto Rico ........................................................................... 1,025.1 1,011.9 1,030.0 1,013.9 -16.1 -1.6

Ponce ................................................................................. 65.4 66.6 65.9 66.5 .6 .9

San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo ............................................. 766.0 756.5 769.6 757.3 -12.3 -1.6

Virgin Islands ........................................................................ 45.7 46.3 45.9 46.4 .5 1.1

1 Area boundaries do not reflect official OMB definitions. p = preliminary.

 NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates subsequent to the current

benchmark are provisional and will be revised when new information becomes available.

 Area definitions are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 08-01,

dated November 20, 2007, and are available at http://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. 

Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New England City and Town

Areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are county-based. Some metropolitan

areas lie in two or more states. They are listed under the state that appears first in their

titles. Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Iowa-Ill., and Weirton-Steubenville, W. Va.-Ohio,

are the exceptions in that they are listed under Illinois and Ohio, respectively, for

operational reasons. Data reflect the conversion to the 2007 version of the North

American IndustryClassification System (NAICS) as the basis for the assignment and

tabulation ofeconomic data by industry, replacing NAICS 2002. For more details, see

http://www.bls.gov/sae/saenaics07.htm. 
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 4. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state, selected metropolitan area, and metropolitan division

(Numbers in thousands)

State, area, and division 

February March Change from March 2007 to

March 2008 p

2007 2008 2007 2008p Number Percent

California ............................................................................... 15,047.2 15,066.1 15,151.5 15,134.9 -16.6 -0.1

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ................................. 5,615.7 5,577.1 5,644.1 5,608.8 -35.3 -.6

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale .................................. 4,103.5 4,088.8 4,127.2 4,113.6 -13.6 -.3

Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine ............................................... 1,512.2 1,488.3 1,516.9 1,495.2 -21.7 -1.4

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont ....................................... 2,012.9 2,028.8 2,024.3 2,035.9 11.6 .6

Oakland-Fremont-Hayward .............................................. 1,039.5 1,036.0 1,047.1 1,038.5 -8.6 -.8

San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City ........................ 973.4 992.8 977.2 997.4 20.2 2.1

District of Columbia ............................................................. 690.3 697.6 693.1 698.7 5.6 .8

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 1 .................................... 2,949.1 2,975.6 2,972.9 2,995.4 22.5 .8

Bethesda-Frederick-Gaithersburg 2 ................................. 566.8 567.8 572.3 570.9 -1.4 -.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 1 .................................. 2,382.3 2,407.8 2,400.6 2,424.5 23.9 1.0

Florida .................................................................................... 8,077.4 8,041.3 8,141.6 8,063.7 -77.9 -1.0

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach ............................ 2,447.4 2,437.2 2,463.7 2,442.9 -20.8 -.8

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach .......... 794.1 786.4 799.1 789.3 -9.8 -1.2

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall ............................................. 1,063.4 1,064.9 1,070.5 1,067.2 -3.3 -.3

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach ............... 589.9 585.9 594.1 586.4 -7.7 -1.3

Illinois .................................................................................... 5,845.5 5,885.2 5,903.2 5,924.5 21.3 .4

Chicago-Naperville-Joliet 1 ................................................. 4,450.3 4,480.8 4,489.7 4,505.8 16.1 .4

Chicago-Naperville-Joliet .................................................. 3,788.0 3,813.2 3,819.9 3,832.9 13.0 .3

Gary 2 ............................................................................... 276.5 278.1 280.2 280.5 .3 .1

Lake County-Kenosha County 1 ....................................... 385.9 389.5 389.8 392.4 2.6 .7

Massachusetts ...................................................................... 3,206.1 3,233.2 3,221.1 3,248.6 27.5 .9

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy 1 .............................................. 2,436.4 2,460.1 2,446.3 2,471.9 25.6 1.0

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy ............................................... 1,671.4 1,694.1 1,677.2 1,701.4 24.2 1.4

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton ........................................... 87.6 88.4 88.7 89.4 .7 .8

Framingham ..................................................................... 153.4 155.6 154.4 156.4 2.0 1.3

Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury 1 ............................... 76.5 77.3 76.9 77.4 .5 .7

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford 1 ........................................... 117.3 117.8 117.9 118.1 .2 .2

Nashua 1 .......................................................................... 130.6 131.4 131.3 131.9 .6 .5

Peabody ........................................................................... 99.3 99.1 99.3 99.3 .0 .0

Michigan ................................................................................ 4,213.0 4,160.7 4,234.0 4,161.6 -72.4 -1.7

Detroit-Warren-Livonia ....................................................... 1,951.3 1,910.4 1,955.4 1,910.1 -45.3 -2.3

Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn .................................................. 786.6 759.5 786.0 758.0 -28.0 -3.6

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills .......................................... 1,164.7 1,150.9 1,169.4 1,152.1 -17.3 -1.5

New York ............................................................................... 8,571.5 8,650.6 8,627.9 8,698.2 70.3 .8

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island 1 .................. 8,412.3 8,483.9 8,473.7 8,539.2 65.5 .8

Edison-New Brunswick2 ................................................... 1,012.9 1,014.4 1,022.7 1,025.0 2.3 .2

Nassau-Suffolk ................................................................. 1,232.0 1,246.9 1,244.7 1,256.1 11.4 .9

New York-White Plains-Wayne 1 ...................................... 5,147.7 5,201.5 5,180.8 5,233.0 52.2 1.0

Newark-Union 2 ................................................................ 1,019.7 1,021.1 1,025.5 1,025.1 -.4 .0

Pennsylvania ......................................................................... 5,690.8 5,722.3 5,742.4 5,756.7 14.3 .2

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 1 ................................... 2,771.8 2,789.8 2,791.2 2,804.5 13.3 .5

Camden 2 ......................................................................... 531.1 535.6 534.8 539.9 5.1 1.0

Philadelphia ...................................................................... 1,893.4 1,905.6 1,904.9 1,913.5 8.6 .5

Wilmington 2 ..................................................................... 347.3 348.6 351.5 351.1 -.4 -.1

Texas ..................................................................................... 10,206.6 10,446.3 10,301.8 10,511.0 209.2 2.0

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington ................................................ 2,889.5 2,958.4 2,917.2 2,975.4 58.2 2.0

Dallas-Plano-Irving ........................................................... 2,037.4 2,087.1 2,057.5 2,098.3 40.8 2.0

Fort Worth-Arlington ......................................................... 852.1 871.3 859.7 877.1 17.4 2.0

Washington ........................................................................... 2,873.7 2,927.1 2,891.4 2,940.4 49.0 1.7

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue ................................................... 1,709.1 1,747.2 1,716.8 1,752.5 35.7 2.1

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett ................................................... 1,433.2 1,463.6 1,438.6 1,468.0 29.4 2.0

Tacoma ............................................................................. 275.9 283.6 278.2 284.5 6.3 2.3

1 Part of the area is in one or more adjacent states. 2 All of the area is in one or more adjacent states. p = preliminary.

 NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates subsequent to the current

benchmark are provisional and will be revised when new information becomes available.

Area definitions are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 08-01,

dated November 20, 2007, and are available at http://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm.

Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New England City and Town

Areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are county-based. Some metropolitan

areas lie in two or more states. They are listed under the state that appears first in their

titles. Some divisions lie in more than one state, and some, like Camden, N.J., are

totally outside the states under which their metropolitan areas are listed. Data reflect

the conversion to the 2007 version of the North American Industry Classification System

(NAICS) as the basis for the assignment and tabulation of economic data by industry,

replacing NAICS 2002. For more details, see http://www.bls.gov/sae/saenaics07.htm. 
Unemployment rates for metropolitan areas,

not seasonally adjusted, March 2008

NOTE: Map includes data for 369 metropolitan

areas based on Office of Managementand Budget Bulletin No. 08-01.

(U.S. rate = 5.2 percent)

Above U.S. averageU.S. average or below