For release 10:00 a.m. (EST) Wednesday, February 4, 2015 USDL-15-0156 

Technical information: 

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METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT — DECEMBER 2014

Unemployment rates were lower in December than a year earlier in 341 of the 372 metropolitan areas, 

higher in 25 areas, and unchanged in 6 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. 

Fourteen areas had jobless rates of at least 10.0 percent and 158 areas had rates of less than 5.0 percent.

Nonfarm payroll employment increased over the year in 312 metropolitan areas, decreased in 49 areas, 

and was unchanged in 11 areas. The national unemployment rate in December was 5.4 percent, not 

seasonally adjusted, down from 6.5 percent a year earlier. 

Metropolitan Area Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

Yuma, Ariz., and El Centro, Calif., had the highest unemployment rates in December, 22.1 percent and 

21.0 percent, respectively. Midland, Texas, had the lowest unemployment rate, 2.1 percent. A total of 

208 areas had December unemployment rates below the U.S. figure of 5.4 percent, 155 areas had rates 

above it, and 9 areas had rates equal to that of the nation. (See table 1 and the map.) 

Decatur, Ill., had the largest over-the-year unemployment rate decrease in December (-4.9 percentage 

points), followed by Danville, Ill. (-4.8 points). Fifty-one other areas had rate decreases of at least 2.0 

percentage points. Alexandria, La., had the largest over-the-year jobless rate increase (+1.9 percentage 

points). 

Of the 49 metropolitan areas with a Census 2000 population of 1 million or more, Memphis, Tenn.-

Miss.-Ark., had the highest unemployment rate in December, 7.6 percent. Minneapolis-St. PaulBloomington, Minn.-Wis., had the lowest jobless rate among the large areas, 3.3 percent. Forty-eight of 

the large areas had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases, the largest of which occurred in 

Providence-Fall River-Warwick, R.I.-Mass. (-2.9 percentage points), and Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, Ill.-

Ind.-Wis. (-2.7 points). The only rate increase occurred in New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, La. (+1.5 

percentage points). 

Metropolitan Division Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

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

essentially separately identifiable employment centers. In December, Gary, Ind., had the highest 
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unemployment rate among the divisions, 7.8 percent. Framingham, Mass., and San Francisco-San 

Mateo-Redwood City, Calif., had the lowest rates among the divisions, 3.7 percent each. (See table 2.) 

Thirty-three of the metropolitan divisions had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases in December. 

The largest of the declines occurred in Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, Ill. (-2.9 percentage points). The only 

unemployment rate increase was in Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, Fla. (+0.1 percentage point). 

Metropolitan Area Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In December, 312 metropolitan areas had over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment, 49 

had decreases, and 11 had no change. The largest over-the-year employment increases occurred in 

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+136,900), New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-

N.J.-Pa. (+129,000), and Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas (+120,600). The largest over-the-year 

percentage gain in employment occurred in Midland, Texas (+6.0 percent), followed by Longview, 

Texas (+5.2 percent), and Lake Charles, La. (+5.0 percent). (See table 3.) 

The largest over-the-year decreases in employment occurred in Atlantic City-Hammonton, N.J. (-8,100), 

Peoria, Ill. (-1,900), and Syracuse, N.Y. (-1,800). The largest over-the-year percentage decreases in 

employment occurred in Atlantic City-Hammonton, N.J. (-6.0 percent), Steubenville-Weirton, OhioW.Va. (-3.6 percent), and Ocean City, N.J. (-3.2 percent). 

Over the year, nonfarm employment rose in all of the 38 metropolitan areas with annual average 

employment levels above 750,000 in 2013. The largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment 

in these large metropolitan areas occurred in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+4.4 percent), 

followed by Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Fla. (+4.3 percent), and Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas 

(+4.2 percent). 

Metropolitan Division Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

Nonfarm payroll employment data were available in December 2014 for 32 metropolitan divisions, 

which are essentially separately identifiable employment centers within a metropolitan area. All of the 

32 metropolitan divisions had over-the-year employment gains. The largest over-the-year increase in 

employment among the metropolitan divisions occurred in Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas (+108,100), 

followed by New York-White Plains-Wayne, N.Y.-N.J. (+106,900), and Los Angeles-Long BeachGlendale, Calif. (+70,600). (See table 4.) 

The largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment among the metropolitan divisions occurred 

in Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas (+4.9 percent), followed by Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield 

Beach, Fla., and San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, Calif. (+3.7 percent each). 

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The Regional and State Unemployment 2014 Annual Averages news release is scheduled to be 

released on Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. (EST). The Regional and State Employment 

and Unemployment news release for January 2015 is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, March 

17, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment news 

release for January 2015 is scheduled to be released on Friday, March 20, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. 

(EDT). 
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 Upcoming Changes to Current Employment Statistics Data 

Effective with the release of January 2015 estimates on March 17, 2015, all nonfarm payroll 

employment estimates for states and areas presented in tables 3 and 4 of this news release will 

be adjusted to 2014 benchmark levels. Not seasonally adjusted data beginning with April 2013 

and seasonally adjusted data beginning with January 2010 are subject to revision. Some 

seasonally adjusted series may be revised back to 1990. 

Upcoming Changes to Local Area Unemployment Statistics Data 

Effective with the issuance of Regional and State Unemployment 2014 Annual Averages on 

March 4, 2015, the civilian labor force and unemployment data for census regions and divisions 

and all states, the District of Columbia, and the seven modeled substate areas presented in 

tables 1 and 2 of this news release will be replaced with data produced using a new generation 

of time-series models. Revised estimates will be loaded into the BLS time-series database back 

to the series beginnings in 1976, 1990, or 1994 at that time. Both seasonally adjusted and not 

seasonally adjusted data will be affected. The revisions to model-based data at the state level 

and below for 2013 and 2014 also will incorporate updated estimation inputs, while the 

revisions for all model-based data from April 2010 forward will reflect new population controls 

from the U.S. Census Bureau. 

For non-modeled substate areas, data will reflect methodological changes and the incorporation 

of estimation inputs from the American Community Survey effective with the issuance of the 

January 2015 Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment news release on March 20, 

2015. Subsequently on April 21, 2015, comprehensive revisions for substate areas from 2010-

14 will be loaded into the BLS time-series database. More information on all upcoming 

changes to Local Area Unemployment Statistics data is available on the BLS website at 

www.bls.gov/lau/lauschanges2015.htm. 
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Upcoming Changes to Metropolitan Area and Metropolitan Division Delineations 

In addition to the changes described above, both the civilian labor force data presented in tables 

1 and 2 and the nonfarm payroll employment data presented in tables 3 and 4 of this news 

release will reflect implementation of revised metropolitan area and metropolitan division 

delineations effective with the January 2015 issuance on March 20, 2015. The revised 

delineations were issued by the Office of Management and Budget for solely statistical 

purposes through Bulletin No. 13-01 on February 28, 2013, based on the application of updated 

statistical standards to U.S. Census Bureau population and journey-to-work data. The 

Metropolitan New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs) and NECTA Divisions again will 

be used for the six New England states, rather than the county-based delineations, for purposes 

of this news release. Compared with the Census 2000-based delineations, the number of 

metropolitan areas in the U.S. and Puerto Rico will increase from 380 to 394, while the number 

of metropolitan divisions will increase from 34 to 38. The analyses of both unemployment rates 

and nonfarm payroll employment changes for large metropolitan areas will focus on the 51 

areas with 2010 Census populations of 1 million or more. 

Within the BLS time-series database, both civilian labor force and nonfarm payroll 

employment series reconstructed back to January 1990 to reflect the revised metropolitan area 

and metropolitan division delineations will be loaded on March 17, 2015, three days before the 

issuance of the January 2015 Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment news release. 

More information about the upcoming statistical area changes is available on the BLS website 

at www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. 
Technical Note 

This release presents labor force and unemployment data 

from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) 

program (tables 1 and 2) for 372 metropolitan statistical areas 

and metropolitan New England City and Town Areas 

(NECTAs), plus 8 areas in Puerto Rico. Estimates for 34 

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 LAUS program measures 

employment and unemployment on a place-of-residence basis. 

The universe for each is the civilian noninstitutional population 

16 years of age and over. Employed persons are those who did 

any work at all for pay or profit in the 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 were not employed during the reference week 

(based on the definition above), had actively looked for a job 

sometime in the 4-week period ending with the reference week, 

and were currently available for work; persons on layoff 

expecting recall need not be looking for work to be counted as 

unemployed. The labor force is the sum of employed and 

unemployed persons. The unemployment rate is the number of 

unemployed as a percent of the labor force. 

Method of estimation. Estimates for states, the District 

of Columbia, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale 

metropolitan division, and New York City are produced using 

time-series models with real-time benchmarking to national 

CPS totals. Model-based estimation was extended to the 

following areas and their respective balances of state in 2005: 

the Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL Metropolitan Division; 

Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area; 

Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area; 

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

Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area; 

and Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Metropolitan Division. 

(Model-based estimation of the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner 

metropolitan area was suspended following Hurricane Katrina; 

the indirect estimation methods described 

below will be used for this area until further notice.) Modeling 

improves the statistical basis of the estimation for these areas 

and provides important tools for analysis, such as measures of 

errors and seasonally adjusted series. For all other substate 

areas in this release, estimates are prepared through indirect 

estimation procedures using a building-block approach. 

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 insurance (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 model-based estimates reflect updated population data 

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

sources, and model reestimation. All substate estimates are 

reestimated and adjusted to add to the revised model-based 

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 2012 version of the North 

American Industry Classification System. 

Method of estimation. CES State and Area employment 

data are produced using several estimation procedures. Where 

possible these data are produced using a "weighted link 

relative" estimation technique in which a ratio of current-month 

weighted employment to that of the previous-month weighted 

employment is computed from a sample of establishments 

reporting for both months. The estimates of employment for the 

current month are then obtained by multiplying these ratios by 

the previous month’s employment estimates. The weighted link 

relative technique is utilized for data series where the sample 

size meets certain statistical criteria. 

For some employment series, relatively small sample 

sizes limit the reliability of the weighted link-relative estimates. 

In these cases, BLS uses the CES small domain model (SDM) 

to generate employment estimates. The SDM combines the 

direct sample estimates (described above) and forecasts of 
historical (benchmarked) data to decrease the volatility of the 

estimates. For more detailed information about the CES small 

domain model, refer to the BLS Handbook of Methods. 

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. 

Seasonal adjustment. Payroll employment data are 

seasonally adjusted for states, metropolitan areas, and 

metropolitan divisions at the total nonfarm level. For states, 

data are seasonally adjusted at the supersector level as well. In 

some metropolitan areas deemed large enough to be subdivided 

into metropolitan divisions, the seasonally adjusted payroll 

employment totals are computed by aggregating the seasonally 

adjusted total nonfarm estimates for each of the component 

metropolitan divisions. Revisions of historical data for the most 

recent 5 years are made once a year, coincident with annual 

benchmark adjustments. 

Reliability of the estimates 

The estimates presented in this release are based on 

sample surveys, administrative data, and modeling 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 specific estimation processes used. 

The sums of individual items may not always equal the totals 

shown in the same tables because of rounding. Unemployment 

rates are computed from unrounded data and thus may differ 

slightly from rates computed using the rounded data displayed 

in the tables. 

Labor force and unemployment estimates. Measures 

of sampling error are not available for metropolitan areas or 

metropolitan divisions. Model-based error measures for states 

are available on the BLS website at 

www.bls.gov/lau/lastderr.htm. Measures of nonsampling error 

are not available for the areas contained in this 

release. Information on recent data revisions for states and 

local areas is available online at 

www.bls.gov/lau/launews1.htm.

Employment estimates. Measures of sampling error are 

available for metropolitan areas or metropolitan divisions upon 

request. Measures of sampling error for states down to the 

supersector level are available on the BLS website at 

www.bls.gov/sae/790stderr.htm. Measures of nonsampling 

error are not available for the areas contained in this 

release. Information on recent benchmark revisions is available 

online at 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 December 1, 2009. Data reflect 

New England City and Town Area (NECTA) definitions, rather 

than county-based definitions, in the six New England States. 

A detailed list of the geographic definitions is available at 

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 seven substate 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 Internet at www.bls.gov/lau/. 

Employment data from the CES program are available on the 

BLS website at www.bls.gov/sae/. 

Information in this release will be made available to 

sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 

691-5200; Federal Relay Service: (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

November December November December November December

2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p

Alabama ............................................................... 2,123.3 2,108.7 2,113.3 2,098.6 122.2 115.3 120.2 111.6 5.8 5.5 5.7 5.3

Anniston-Oxford ................................................ 49.4 47.8 49.0 47.6 3.2 2.9 3.1 2.7 6.5 6.1 6.3 5.8

Auburn-Opelika ................................................. 70.4 70.5 70.0 69.9 3.1 3.0 3.1 2.8 4.4 4.2 4.5 4.1

Birmingham-Hoover .......................................... 527.7 521.5 525.9 520.3 26.5 25.1 26.0 24.1 5.0 4.8 4.9 4.6

Decatur ............................................................. 70.4 69.4 69.9 69.0 4.0 3.8 3.9 3.7 5.6 5.5 5.6 5.3

Dothan .............................................................. 61.5 61.4 61.6 61.2 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.3 5.7 5.6 5.6 5.4

Florence-Muscle Shoals ................................... 68.6 68.8 68.0 68.9 3.8 4.2 3.8 4.4 5.6 6.1 5.6 6.3

Gadsden ........................................................... 44.9 44.0 44.6 43.6 2.6 2.3 2.5 2.2 5.7 5.3 5.6 5.1

Huntsville .......................................................... 210.8 209.6 208.7 207.7 10.4 10.0 10.2 9.7 4.9 4.8 4.9 4.7

Mobile ............................................................... 181.6 177.3 180.1 176.0 12.3 11.4 11.9 11.0 6.8 6.4 6.6 6.2

Montgomery ...................................................... 165.9 162.7 165.5 162.5 9.9 9.3 9.7 8.9 6.0 5.7 5.9 5.5

Tuscaloosa ....................................................... 101.1 102.6 100.8 101.8 5.4 5.1 5.4 4.9 5.3 5.0 5.4 4.8

Alaska .................................................................. 361.7 362.4 360.6 361.7 22.7 22.3 23.3 23.0 6.3 6.2 6.5 6.3

Anchorage ........................................................ 201.7 202.5 202.3 203.4 10.3 10.5 10.5 10.6 5.1 5.2 5.2 5.2

Fairbanks .......................................................... 45.6 46.6 45.8 46.7 2.5 2.6 2.5 2.6 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.6

Arizona ................................................................ 3,004.3 3,117.0 2,998.3 3,103.7 220.8 211.8 219.1 202.2 7.3 6.8 7.3 6.5

Flagstaff ............................................................ 71.3 73.6 70.4 71.6 5.5 5.1 5.6 5.2 7.8 7.0 7.9 7.3

Lake Havasu City-Kingman .............................. 83.0 84.9 82.4 84.5 7.4 6.8 7.3 6.7 8.9 8.0 8.9 7.9

Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale ................................... 2,043.5 2,134.6 2,043.7 2,127.0 127.3 126.4 127.4 119.9 6.2 5.9 6.2 5.6

Prescott ............................................................ 90.6 94.4 88.8 92.3 6.3 6.0 6.4 5.8 7.0 6.3 7.2 6.3

Tucson .............................................................. 447.3 462.2 445.5 463.0 28.7 28.9 28.6 27.2 6.4 6.3 6.4 5.9

Yuma ................................................................ 89.6 86.6 88.7 86.0 24.5 20.0 22.7 19.0 27.3 23.1 25.6 22.1

Arkansas ............................................................. 1,324.8 1,320.4 1,315.0 1,317.0 91.3 69.6 94.6 73.9 6.9 5.3 7.2 5.6

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers ........................ 235.9 234.8 234.0 234.1 11.8 9.2 11.8 9.6 5.0 3.9 5.1 4.1

Fort Smith ......................................................... 129.8 126.6 130.0 125.5 9.3 6.9 10.1 6.9 7.1 5.5 7.7 5.5

Hot Springs ....................................................... 40.6 40.1 40.2 40.1 3.0 2.3 3.0 2.4 7.4 5.8 7.5 6.0

Jonesboro ......................................................... 60.0 60.4 59.7 60.4 3.8 2.9 4.0 3.1 6.4 4.8 6.6 5.1

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway ............... 341.6 335.5 337.7 335.4 21.1 16.2 21.2 16.8 6.2 4.8 6.3 5.0

Pine Bluff .......................................................... 41.2 39.7 40.9 39.6 3.9 2.7 4.0 2.9 9.5 6.8 9.7 7.2

California ............................................................. 18,573.0 18,848.9 18,501.3 18,726.4 1,529.5 1,346.2 1,462.7 1,251.8 8.2 7.1 7.9 6.7

Bakersfield-Delano ........................................... 392.4 396.4 390.9 390.8 41.0 37.9 42.5 38.5 10.4 9.6 10.9 9.9

Chico ................................................................ 104.7 104.2 103.4 103.0 9.4 8.1 9.1 7.7 9.0 7.7 8.8 7.5

El Centro ........................................................... 79.8 81.8 80.3 81.4 18.0 18.6 16.9 17.1 22.5 22.7 21.1 21.0

Fresno .............................................................. 438.4 443.0 440.0 440.8 53.6 49.7 53.2 48.3 12.2 11.2 12.1 11.0

Hanford-Corcoran ............................................. 58.7 58.8 58.8 58.1 7.5 6.9 7.5 6.8 12.7 11.7 12.8 11.6

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ............... 6,578.3 6,665.9 6,550.9 6,662.3 546.0 480.7 518.4 447.7 8.3 7.2 7.9 6.7

Madera-Chowchilla ........................................... 66.5 66.7 67.7 67.6 7.3 7.1 7.3 7.1 11.0 10.7 10.8 10.5

Merced .............................................................. 113.8 114.5 112.5 113.9 15.1 14.0 15.5 14.6 13.3 12.2 13.8 12.8

Modesto ............................................................ 235.5 237.0 234.6 233.8 28.6 25.4 28.2 24.4 12.1 10.7 12.0 10.5

Napa ................................................................. 78.0 79.3 76.3 76.4 4.7 4.2 4.6 3.9 6.0 5.3 6.0 5.1

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura ..................... 434.3 437.9 431.3 434.2 31.9 28.4 30.0 25.7 7.3 6.5 7.0 5.9

Redding ............................................................ 80.7 81.0 79.9 79.7 8.0 6.6 7.7 6.5 9.9 8.1 9.6 8.1

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario ................... 1,824.7 1,841.6 1,825.1 1,827.7 169.4 147.5 159.7 131.5 9.3 8.0 8.7 7.2

Sacramento—Arden-Arcade—Roseville .......... 1,039.8 1,052.4 1,037.5 1,042.5 82.6 70.9 78.2 64.7 7.9 6.7 7.5 6.2

Salinas .............................................................. 222.6 223.9 213.1 214.2 20.3 19.1 24.1 23.0 9.1 8.5 11.3 10.7

San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos ..................... 1,585.6 1,622.8 1,578.6 1,606.7 110.6 94.2 102.3 82.9 7.0 5.8 6.5 5.2

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont ..................... 2,358.2 2,415.5 2,355.0 2,398.8 141.1 121.2 130.1 106.4 6.0 5.0 5.5 4.4

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara .................... 952.9 977.8 953.4 976.0 59.9 51.0 55.5 44.9 6.3 5.2 5.8 4.6

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles .......................... 141.1 142.9 137.7 138.5 8.7 7.8 8.0 6.9 6.1 5.5 5.8 5.0

Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta .................. 223.2 228.2 220.1 222.3 14.3 13.1 14.0 12.6 6.4 5.7 6.4 5.7

Santa Cruz-Watsonville .................................... 150.4 152.0 149.9 150.0 13.1 11.6 13.9 12.4 8.7 7.6 9.2 8.3

Santa Rosa-Petaluma ...................................... 261.3 267.9 258.2 263.6 15.7 13.6 14.6 12.3 6.0 5.1 5.7 4.7

Stockton ............................................................ 293.5 294.7 292.7 292.0 35.7 31.6 35.1 30.4 12.2 10.7 12.0 10.4

Vallejo-Fairfield ................................................. 218.2 220.6 217.5 218.5 16.9 14.3 16.0 13.3 7.7 6.5 7.4 6.1

Visalia-Porterville .............................................. 200.3 200.3 199.1 197.7 26.3 24.7 27.1 25.1 13.1 12.3 13.6 12.7

Yuba City .......................................................... 67.8 67.8 67.6 66.6 9.3 8.2 9.3 8.1 13.8 12.1 13.8 12.2

Colorado .............................................................. 2,752.8 2,809.0 2,740.1 2,803.1 168.2 112.6 162.1 111.1 6.1 4.0 5.9 4.0

Boulder ............................................................. 183.0 186.3 181.2 184.5 8.7 5.9 8.1 5.6 4.7 3.2 4.5 3.0

Colorado Springs .............................................. 312.4 307.8 308.5 303.2 22.8 15.7 22.2 15.6 7.3 5.1 7.2 5.1

Denver-Aurora-Broomfield ................................ 1,439.0 1,462.6 1,425.9 1,450.6 84.6 56.9 81.9 56.5 5.9 3.9 5.7 3.9

Fort Collins-Loveland ........................................ 182.6 186.7 181.6 185.0 9.1 6.0 8.6 5.8 5.0 3.2 4.7 3.1

Grand Junction ................................................. 77.2 76.3 76.5 75.9 5.4 3.4 5.4 3.5 7.0 4.5 7.0 4.7

Greeley ............................................................. 128.0 135.0 127.1 134.8 8.0 5.2 7.6 5.2 6.2 3.9 6.0 3.9

Pueblo .............................................................. 75.2 74.9 74.5 74.4 6.5 4.2 6.5 4.2 8.7 5.6 8.7 5.7

Connecticut ......................................................... 1,845.8 1,908.6 1,834.5 1,890.8 129.2 118.0 124.9 107.8 7.0 6.2 6.8 5.7

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk ........................... 469.8 488.6 467.3 484.1 30.8 28.2 29.3 25.6 6.6 5.8 6.3 5.3

Danbury ............................................................ 91.3 94.4 90.9 94.2 5.0 4.4 4.8 4.1 5.5 4.7 5.3 4.3

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford ............... 583.9 602.8 580.3 597.4 40.7 37.4 39.6 34.6 7.0 6.2 6.8 5.8

New Haven ....................................................... 310.4 320.6 308.2 317.2 22.6 20.5 21.6 18.3 7.3 6.4 7.0 5.8

Norwich-New London ....................................... 143.0 146.2 142.0 144.5 10.7 9.6 10.7 8.8 7.5 6.5 7.6 6.1

Waterbury ......................................................... 99.9 102.9 99.5 102.1 9.2 8.4 9.0 7.8 9.3 8.2 9.0 7.6

Delaware .............................................................. 442.8 452.5 442.9 450.6 25.8 22.6 25.9 20.6 5.8 5.0 5.9 4.6

Dover ................................................................ 76.4 77.0 77.2 76.8 4.5 3.8 4.6 3.5 5.9 4.9 5.9 4.6

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

November December November December November December

2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p

District of Columbia ........................................... 365.9 381.2 365.5 375.7 25.9 26.8 25.1 27.0 7.1 7.0 6.9 7.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria ..................... 3,197.4 3,213.2 3,184.3 3,190.9 156.1 144.5 148.0 142.2 4.9 4.5 4.6 4.5

Florida .................................................................. 9,411.4 9,631.1 9,395.0 9,571.0 599.4 541.8 558.1 514.8 6.4 5.6 5.9 5.4

Cape Coral-Fort Myers ..................................... 296.6 302.0 297.9 300.5 18.6 16.5 16.9 15.1 6.3 5.5 5.7 5.0

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin ............... 97.8 100.1 97.0 98.8 4.8 4.5 4.4 4.2 4.9 4.5 4.6 4.2

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach .......... 251.3 255.7 249.4 253.1 16.3 14.3 15.0 13.4 6.5 5.6 6.0 5.3

Gainesville ........................................................ 141.5 143.8 140.0 141.2 7.1 6.6 6.6 6.1 5.0 4.6 4.7 4.3

Jacksonville ...................................................... 704.4 726.3 700.0 723.5 42.4 39.6 39.3 36.6 6.0 5.4 5.6 5.1

Lakeland-Winter Haven .................................... 270.9 274.8 270.2 273.0 20.0 18.2 18.3 16.7 7.4 6.6 6.8 6.1

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach .......... 2,961.5 3,048.6 2,965.5 3,039.7 186.5 168.9 178.0 170.0 6.3 5.5 6.0 5.6

Naples-Marco Island ......................................... 158.9 164.2 159.6 164.6 9.5 8.6 8.6 7.8 6.0 5.2 5.4 4.7

North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota ........................ 311.4 324.8 310.5 323.0 19.4 17.5 17.7 16.1 6.2 5.4 5.7 5.0

Ocala ................................................................ 131.4 131.0 130.4 129.8 9.9 8.9 9.1 8.3 7.5 6.8 7.0 6.4

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford ............................ 1,160.6 1,210.9 1,161.2 1,202.1 70.1 64.4 64.8 59.6 6.0 5.3 5.6 5.0

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville ......................... 261.0 263.0 259.1 261.3 18.7 16.0 17.2 14.8 7.2 6.1 6.6 5.7

Palm Coast ....................................................... 34.8 35.4 34.4 35.1 3.3 2.9 3.0 2.7 9.4 8.1 8.7 7.6

Panama City-Lynn Haven-Panama City Beach 87.9 88.6 86.8 87.0 5.6 5.2 5.3 5.0 6.4 5.9 6.1 5.8

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent ............................ 209.1 213.9 207.5 211.0 13.1 11.8 12.2 10.9 6.3 5.5 5.9 5.2

Port St. Lucie .................................................... 194.1 195.6 193.2 193.9 15.6 12.5 14.2 11.4 8.0 6.4 7.3 5.9

Punta Gorda ..................................................... 71.3 73.9 71.5 73.9 4.5 4.1 4.1 3.8 6.4 5.6 5.7 5.1

Sebastian-Vero Beach ...................................... 63.4 62.8 63.2 62.3 5.1 4.1 4.6 3.7 8.1 6.5 7.3 6.0

Tallahassee ...................................................... 192.2 195.8 189.2 192.5 10.6 10.1 9.8 9.3 5.5 5.2 5.2 4.8

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater .................... 1,327.6 1,342.9 1,325.5 1,331.8 86.7 78.7 80.1 72.8 6.5 5.9 6.0 5.5

Georgia ................................................................ 4,743.9 4,754.4 4,746.1 4,733.3 343.8 316.0 340.2 314.3 7.2 6.6 7.2 6.6

Albany ............................................................... 72.8 71.6 72.6 71.0 5.9 5.2 5.9 5.2 8.1 7.3 8.2 7.3

Athens-Clarke County ...................................... 113.8 113.1 114.3 112.8 5.7 5.6 5.9 5.5 5.0 4.9 5.2 4.9

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta ........................ 2,728.5 2,734.2 2,730.9 2,728.6 190.9 176.2 187.1 175.4 7.0 6.4 6.8 6.4

Augusta-Richmond County ............................... 258.7 263.5 259.7 262.6 18.9 17.5 18.4 17.1 7.3 6.6 7.1 6.5

Brunswick ......................................................... 48.9 48.5 48.5 48.2 4.1 3.6 4.0 3.6 8.4 7.5 8.2 7.4

Columbus ......................................................... 130.8 128.9 130.3 128.1 10.0 9.4 9.9 9.3 7.6 7.3 7.6 7.2

Dalton ............................................................... 57.8 56.6 57.8 56.3 5.4 4.7 5.5 4.6 9.3 8.3 9.4 8.2

Gainesville ........................................................ 91.0 91.9 90.8 91.3 5.3 4.8 5.2 4.8 5.9 5.2 5.7 5.2

Hinesville-Fort Stewart ..................................... 32.7 32.4 32.6 32.2 2.7 2.4 2.6 2.5 8.2 7.5 8.1 7.6

Macon ............................................................... 111.1 110.3 111.2 109.6 8.5 7.6 8.5 7.5 7.6 6.9 7.6 6.8

Rome ................................................................ 47.1 46.5 47.3 46.3 3.6 3.1 3.6 3.2 7.6 6.7 7.7 6.8

Savannah ......................................................... 181.6 182.2 180.1 180.2 12.1 11.1 11.9 11.2 6.7 6.1 6.6 6.2

Valdosta ............................................................ 65.8 66.1 65.7 65.4 4.7 4.5 4.6 4.4 7.2 6.8 7.0 6.7

Warner Robins .................................................. 68.6 67.4 69.1 67.2 4.4 4.3 4.6 4.2 6.4 6.3 6.7 6.2

Hawaii .................................................................. 653.4 670.1 653.3 671.1 30.7 26.9 27.6 24.5 4.7 4.0 4.2 3.7

Honolulu ........................................................... 462.0 474.2 463.1 475.0 19.8 17.8 17.5 16.2 4.3 3.8 3.8 3.4

Idaho .................................................................... 774.7 770.5 772.9 768.0 42.2 29.1 42.3 28.3 5.4 3.8 5.5 3.7

Boise City-Nampa ............................................. 309.8 312.1 310.1 312.1 16.2 11.1 15.8 10.4 5.2 3.6 5.1 3.3

Coeur d’Alene ................................................... 72.5 72.7 72.4 72.6 4.7 3.1 4.8 3.2 6.5 4.3 6.6 4.4

Idaho Falls ........................................................ 64.1 63.9 63.5 63.5 3.0 2.0 3.0 1.9 4.6 3.2 4.7 3.1

Lewiston ........................................................... 28.7 28.4 28.6 28.0 1.5 1.2 1.5 1.2 5.2 4.3 5.3 4.2

Pocatello ........................................................... 43.9 43.5 43.7 43.3 2.3 1.7 2.3 1.7 5.2 4.0 5.3 3.9

Illinois .................................................................. 6,547.7 6,552.9 6,525.4 6,509.6 558.3 390.8 560.9 371.0 8.5 6.0 8.6 5.7

Bloomington-Normal ......................................... 88.1 87.9 87.4 86.4 6.4 4.9 6.3 4.6 7.2 5.6 7.2 5.3

Champaign-Urbana .......................................... 116.6 118.0 115.8 116.0 9.3 6.9 9.3 6.4 8.0 5.9 8.0 5.5

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville .................................. 4,888.4 4,897.1 4,872.4 4,882.9 403.2 283.8 402.5 272.9 8.2 5.8 8.3 5.6

Danville ............................................................. 35.8 35.2 35.7 34.7 4.4 2.8 4.4 2.6 12.2 8.1 12.4 7.6

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island ......................... 197.3 198.7 197.2 198.1 13.0 11.9 13.6 11.9 6.6 6.0 6.9 6.0

Decatur ............................................................. 52.8 51.4 52.4 50.7 6.5 4.1 6.5 3.8 12.2 7.9 12.4 7.5

Kankakee-Bradley ............................................ 55.7 55.3 55.6 54.4 6.1 4.2 6.2 4.0 10.9 7.6 11.2 7.4

Peoria ............................................................... 194.1 192.8 192.6 188.8 18.1 12.8 18.1 12.2 9.3 6.6 9.4 6.5

Rockford ........................................................... 162.6 162.0 162.1 159.4 18.5 13.1 18.9 12.4 11.4 8.1 11.7 7.8

Springfield ......................................................... 112.0 112.6 111.3 111.2 8.6 6.7 8.6 6.2 7.7 5.9 7.7 5.6

Indiana ................................................................. 3,192.5 3,267.3 3,160.7 3,250.8 213.7 188.3 200.7 187.2 6.7 5.8 6.3 5.8

Anderson .......................................................... 60.0 61.6 59.6 60.9 4.7 4.1 4.5 4.1 7.9 6.6 7.5 6.8

Bloomington ...................................................... 97.3 98.7 94.9 96.7 6.1 5.5 5.4 5.4 6.2 5.6 5.7 5.5

Columbus ......................................................... 41.7 43.4 41.2 43.2 2.2 1.9 2.0 1.8 5.2 4.4 4.8 4.3

Elkhart-Goshen ................................................. 94.8 98.7 93.6 97.6 6.4 5.2 6.0 5.0 6.8 5.3 6.4 5.1

Evansville ......................................................... 181.0 183.1 178.0 181.2 11.1 9.4 10.3 9.0 6.2 5.1 5.8 5.0

Fort Wayne ....................................................... 207.2 214.6 206.0 213.0 13.1 11.3 12.2 11.2 6.3 5.3 5.9 5.2

Indianapolis-Carmel .......................................... 926.7 952.6 914.7 946.6 57.2 51.2 52.6 50.0 6.2 5.4 5.8 5.3

Kokomo ............................................................ 44.0 45.5 43.9 45.4 3.2 2.8 3.0 2.7 7.2 6.1 6.8 6.0

Lafayette ........................................................... 101.6 103.5 100.3 102.8 6.2 5.4 5.5 5.1 6.1 5.2 5.5 5.0

Michigan City-La Porte ..................................... 48.9 49.1 48.6 48.9 4.1 3.7 4.1 3.9 8.4 7.5 8.4 8.0

Muncie .............................................................. 54.6 55.6 54.1 55.1 4.1 3.7 3.8 3.7 7.5 6.7 7.0 6.6

South Bend-Mishawaka .................................... 151.1 152.9 149.6 152.0 11.5 9.2 11.1 9.3 7.6 6.0 7.5 6.1

Terre Haute ...................................................... 77.8 78.6 77.1 77.9 6.5 5.7 6.2 5.8 8.3 7.3 8.1 7.5

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

November December November December November December

2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p

Iowa ...................................................................... 1,677.8 1,714.7 1,672.4 1,705.9 65.7 66.2 73.1 71.4 3.9 3.9 4.4 4.2

Ames ................................................................ 51.6 53.6 51.0 53.2 1.4 1.3 1.6 1.4 2.7 2.5 3.0 2.7

Cedar Rapids .................................................... 146.4 148.1 146.0 147.3 6.2 5.8 6.7 6.1 4.2 3.9 4.6 4.2

Des Moines-West Des Moines ......................... 326.3 331.5 324.5 332.1 12.9 12.5 13.9 13.1 4.0 3.8 4.3 3.9

Dubuque ........................................................... 54.5 57.1 54.8 57.2 2.0 2.0 2.3 2.3 3.6 3.4 4.2 3.9

Iowa City ........................................................... 96.6 99.8 95.7 99.2 2.6 2.5 2.9 2.7 2.7 2.6 3.0 2.7

Sioux City ......................................................... 78.5 79.8 78.3 79.7 3.2 3.3 3.5 3.3 4.1 4.1 4.5 4.2

Waterloo-Cedar Falls ........................................ 96.4 97.7 95.6 97.2 3.7 4.3 4.1 4.5 3.8 4.4 4.3 4.7

Kansas ................................................................. 1,479.9 1,497.6 1,474.4 1,497.4 67.3 58.9 67.2 59.7 4.5 3.9 4.6 4.0

Lawrence .......................................................... 62.0 63.3 61.5 64.0 2.4 2.2 2.5 2.2 3.9 3.5 4.0 3.5

Manhattan ......................................................... 61.9 64.3 62.0 63.2 2.7 2.3 2.7 2.4 4.3 3.6 4.4 3.7

Topeka .............................................................. 118.5 120.2 118.7 120.6 5.9 5.1 5.9 5.2 5.0 4.2 5.0 4.4

Wichita .............................................................. 297.8 300.1 296.9 301.1 15.6 14.2 15.6 14.4 5.2 4.7 5.3 4.8

Kentucky ............................................................. 2,045.8 2,000.3 2,035.3 1,975.0 154.5 116.5 150.7 99.9 7.6 5.8 7.4 5.1

Bowling Green .................................................. 66.6 66.2 65.9 65.4 4.2 3.3 4.0 2.7 6.3 5.0 6.1 4.2

Elizabethtown ................................................... 56.6 55.0 56.3 54.3 4.0 3.0 3.8 2.5 7.0 5.5 6.8 4.7

Lexington-Fayette ............................................. 240.7 238.7 241.0 234.8 15.0 11.6 14.2 9.3 6.2 4.9 5.9 4.0

Louisville-Jefferson County .............................. 637.4 630.6 633.7 625.1 44.6 34.5 42.8 29.8 7.0 5.5 6.8 4.8

Owensboro ....................................................... 58.0 56.6 57.8 56.2 3.6 2.8 3.5 2.3 6.2 4.9 6.1 4.2

Louisiana ............................................................. 2,102.8 2,186.0 2,078.1 2,181.2 105.8 138.2 97.0 134.2 5.0 6.3 4.7 6.2

Alexandria ......................................................... 66.6 68.3 65.9 68.3 3.5 4.6 3.2 4.6 5.2 6.8 4.8 6.7

Baton Rouge ..................................................... 393.7 410.1 388.5 407.9 18.7 24.2 17.1 23.4 4.8 5.9 4.4 5.7

Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux ....................... 109.9 114.3 108.5 114.3 3.8 5.2 3.3 4.8 3.4 4.5 3.0 4.2

Lafayette ........................................................... 145.5 151.6 144.2 151.1 5.5 7.5 4.9 7.0 3.8 4.9 3.4 4.6

Lake Charles .................................................... 97.0 102.8 96.1 104.0 4.5 5.8 4.0 5.6 4.6 5.6 4.2 5.3

Monroe ............................................................. 82.1 84.9 81.3 84.9 4.3 5.8 4.0 5.7 5.3 6.8 5.0 6.7

New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner .......................... 560.0 581.9 553.0 580.6 28.2 37.0 25.6 35.6 5.0 6.4 4.6 6.1

Shreveport-Bossier City .................................... 177.7 184.0 176.0 183.3 10.0 12.5 9.1 12.0 5.6 6.8 5.2 6.5

Maine ................................................................... 706.3 697.3 702.9 695.8 44.2 37.6 43.6 34.7 6.3 5.4 6.2 5.0

Bangor .............................................................. 74.5 72.9 74.0 72.7 4.2 3.8 4.1 3.4 5.7 5.2 5.6 4.6

Lewiston-Auburn ............................................... 58.6 58.2 58.4 58.3 3.4 2.8 3.2 2.6 5.7 4.9 5.5 4.4

Portland-South Portland-Biddeford ................... 210.0 209.6 208.8 209.0 10.8 8.8 10.2 7.8 5.1 4.2 4.9 3.7

Maryland .............................................................. 3,111.0 3,093.4 3,090.3 3,076.5 184.1 163.3 173.6 163.5 5.9 5.3 5.6 5.3

Baltimore-Towson ............................................. 1,472.8 1,468.2 1,459.9 1,462.0 89.8 80.6 84.1 80.1 6.1 5.5 5.8 5.5

Cumberland ...................................................... 49.4 49.1 49.3 48.8 3.2 2.9 3.2 3.1 6.5 5.9 6.6 6.3

Hagerstown-Martinsburg .................................. 124.3 121.8 124.2 121.9 7.7 7.1 7.7 7.2 6.2 5.8 6.2 5.9

Salisbury ........................................................... 63.1 61.8 63.0 61.6 5.1 4.4 4.9 4.6 8.0 7.2 7.7 7.5

Massachusetts .................................................... 3,483.7 3,575.8 3,473.8 3,548.6 232.1 187.5 232.1 170.8 6.7 5.2 6.7 4.8

Barnstable Town ............................................... 130.6 134.6 128.8 131.5 9.5 7.8 9.9 7.7 7.3 5.8 7.7 5.8

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy ............................... 2,564.2 2,634.4 2,558.6 2,616.8 152.9 124.9 151.0 111.6 6.0 4.7 5.9 4.3

Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner ......................... 71.4 72.4 71.6 71.9 6.2 4.9 6.3 4.5 8.8 6.7 8.8 6.2

New Bedford ..................................................... 88.7 89.5 88.3 89.1 9.1 7.0 9.2 6.6 10.3 7.8 10.5 7.4

Pittsfield ............................................................ 37.8 38.3 38.0 38.2 2.7 2.1 2.8 2.1 7.3 5.6 7.3 5.4

Springfield ......................................................... 341.9 351.1 340.4 347.9 25.9 21.9 26.1 20.4 7.6 6.3 7.7 5.9

Worcester ......................................................... 292.4 301.1 291.9 298.9 21.1 17.1 20.9 15.6 7.2 5.7 7.2 5.2

Michigan .............................................................. 4,686.0 4,720.3 4,672.4 4,721.0 356.3 269.0 361.6 264.5 7.6 5.7 7.7 5.6

Ann Arbor ......................................................... 186.1 190.3 183.4 189.4 9.6 6.6 9.5 6.1 5.1 3.5 5.2 3.2

Battle Creek ...................................................... 65.1 65.9 64.4 65.8 4.2 3.1 4.4 3.0 6.4 4.6 6.8 4.6

Bay City ............................................................ 51.6 52.6 51.3 52.6 3.9 2.7 4.2 2.9 7.6 5.1 8.2 5.5

Detroit-Warren-Livonia ..................................... 2,029.4 1,996.9 2,026.4 1,996.9 166.6 139.9 162.6 132.9 8.2 7.0 8.0 6.7

Flint ................................................................... 184.8 185.9 184.0 187.2 16.1 10.5 16.2 10.4 8.7 5.6 8.8 5.6

Grand Rapids-Wyoming ................................... 401.1 422.9 401.6 423.3 22.5 15.6 23.4 15.4 5.6 3.7 5.8 3.6

Holland-Grand Haven ....................................... 131.6 138.7 131.2 138.5 7.4 5.2 7.9 5.1 5.7 3.7 6.0 3.6

Jackson ............................................................ 69.9 70.2 69.7 70.1 5.4 3.7 5.6 3.7 7.7 5.2 8.0 5.3

Kalamazoo-Portage .......................................... 159.2 164.0 157.9 163.8 10.4 7.3 10.9 7.3 6.5 4.5 6.9 4.5

Lansing-East Lansing ....................................... 235.6 241.5 234.2 239.9 14.0 9.9 14.5 9.8 5.9 4.1 6.2 4.1

Monroe ............................................................. 70.7 71.4 69.9 71.5 4.8 3.2 4.8 3.2 6.8 4.5 6.9 4.4

Muskegon-Norton Shores ................................. 82.5 84.1 82.7 84.3 6.4 4.2 6.8 4.2 7.7 5.0 8.2 5.0

Niles-Benton Harbor ......................................... 71.2 71.1 70.7 71.0 5.6 3.7 5.8 3.7 7.8 5.1 8.2 5.2

Saginaw-Saginaw Township North ................... 89.8 93.4 90.4 93.3 7.0 4.8 7.2 4.9 7.8 5.2 8.0 5.2

Minnesota ............................................................ 2,973.2 2,989.9 2,965.9 2,985.2 127.1 96.3 137.9 109.2 4.3 3.2 4.6 3.7

Duluth ............................................................... 145.9 143.7 145.3 143.1 8.0 5.9 8.5 6.4 5.5 4.1 5.8 4.4

Mankato-North Mankato ................................... 59.1 60.7 58.5 60.5 1.9 1.3 2.1 1.6 3.2 2.2 3.5 2.6

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington ................... 1,866.5 1,883.0 1,862.8 1,876.2 77.1 57.0 80.4 61.8 4.1 3.0 4.3 3.3

Rochester ......................................................... 104.7 104.7 104.4 104.8 3.7 2.8 4.0 3.2 3.5 2.6 3.8 3.1

St. Cloud ........................................................... 109.0 109.9 108.5 109.8 4.5 3.7 5.2 4.3 4.1 3.3 4.8 3.9

See footnotes at end of table.
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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

November December November December November December

2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p

Mississippi .......................................................... 1,268.4 1,241.5 1,266.4 1,247.1 92.9 79.7 92.1 88.1 7.3 6.4 7.3 7.1

Gulfport-Biloxi ................................................... 111.5 108.1 111.0 108.2 7.6 6.8 7.6 7.4 6.8 6.3 6.8 6.9

Hattiesburg ....................................................... 66.0 65.0 65.8 65.4 3.9 3.5 4.0 3.9 6.0 5.5 6.0 6.0

Jackson ............................................................ 260.0 253.0 259.3 254.0 15.0 12.7 15.1 14.0 5.8 5.0 5.8 5.5

Pascagoula ....................................................... 70.0 69.3 70.0 69.0 5.5 4.9 5.4 5.4 7.8 7.0 7.7 7.8

Missouri ............................................................... 3,011.6 3,053.2 3,005.6 3,060.5 171.5 156.8 173.1 160.9 5.7 5.1 5.8 5.3

Cape Girardeau-Jackson .................................. 47.2 47.7 47.6 47.5 2.9 2.3 2.9 2.3 6.0 4.8 6.0 4.8

Columbia .......................................................... 101.7 102.5 100.8 102.4 3.9 3.6 3.7 3.4 3.8 3.5 3.7 3.3

Jefferson City .................................................... 75.9 76.3 75.9 76.5 3.8 3.2 3.7 3.4 5.0 4.2 4.9 4.4

Joplin ................................................................ 87.3 87.4 86.6 87.4 4.4 3.8 4.3 3.7 5.0 4.4 4.9 4.2

Kansas City ...................................................... 1,027.0 1,042.9 1,021.2 1,052.8 56.4 52.3 56.6 52.4 5.5 5.0 5.5 5.0

St. Joseph ......................................................... 71.9 72.8 71.9 73.2 3.6 3.0 3.5 3.1 5.0 4.2 4.8 4.2

St. Louis1 .......................................................... 1,402.3 1,419.7 1,399.1 1,419.0 93.1 80.1 93.2 79.3 6.6 5.6 6.7 5.6

Springfield ......................................................... 222.8 223.6 222.3 224.8 10.6 9.7 10.5 9.7 4.7 4.3 4.7 4.3

Montana ............................................................... 510.4 516.4 507.6 514.8 26.9 21.6 27.5 22.0 5.3 4.2 5.4 4.3

Billings .............................................................. 89.6 91.9 89.0 91.2 3.5 2.8 3.5 2.7 3.9 3.1 4.0 3.0

Great Falls ........................................................ 41.4 41.7 41.1 41.4 1.8 1.6 1.9 1.5 4.4 3.8 4.7 3.7

Missoula ........................................................... 61.1 62.6 60.2 62.0 2.9 2.3 3.1 2.5 4.8 3.7 5.1 4.0

Nebraska ............................................................. 1,019.2 1,019.7 1,015.8 1,014.5 33.7 25.6 35.2 28.9 3.3 2.5 3.5 2.9

Lincoln .............................................................. 176.3 180.7 175.8 181.4 5.2 3.8 5.5 4.6 3.0 2.1 3.1 2.5

Omaha-Council Bluffs ....................................... 459.2 461.2 457.6 463.5 16.9 13.6 17.7 15.0 3.7 2.9 3.9 3.2

Nevada ................................................................. 1,365.9 1,372.7 1,361.2 1,362.5 120.4 95.3 119.1 91.5 8.8 6.9 8.7 6.7

Carson City ....................................................... 26.5 26.2 26.4 25.9 2.4 1.9 2.4 1.8 9.2 7.2 9.2 7.0

Las Vegas-Paradise ......................................... 986.2 992.3 982.1 984.2 88.9 70.6 87.6 67.8 9.0 7.1 8.9 6.9

Reno-Sparks ..................................................... 224.2 224.0 224.2 221.6 18.5 14.4 18.5 13.8 8.3 6.4 8.2 6.2

New Hampshire ................................................... 739.5 744.2 737.8 741.7 36.5 28.8 35.7 28.3 4.9 3.9 4.8 3.8

Manchester ....................................................... 108.4 109.1 107.9 109.0 5.2 4.0 5.0 3.9 4.8 3.6 4.7 3.6

Portsmouth ....................................................... 46.0 46.4 45.4 45.8 2.0 1.6 2.0 1.5 4.4 3.4 4.3 3.2

Rochester-Dover .............................................. 84.8 84.7 84.2 84.4 3.8 3.0 3.8 2.9 4.5 3.5 4.5 3.5

New Jersey .......................................................... 4,486.2 4,535.5 4,476.8 4,545.1 310.2 269.1 299.2 260.7 6.9 5.9 6.7 5.7

Atlantic City-Hammonton .................................. 128.4 123.7 128.4 124.2 13.6 14.0 13.4 14.1 10.6 11.3 10.5 11.3

Ocean City ........................................................ 53.5 51.9 53.2 52.0 6.6 6.4 6.8 6.6 12.4 12.3 12.7 12.7

Trenton-Ewing .................................................. 206.7 211.6 206.9 212.5 11.3 9.8 10.8 9.5 5.4 4.6 5.2 4.5

Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton .............................. 67.0 65.5 67.0 65.9 7.0 6.0 7.0 6.2 10.4 9.2 10.5 9.4

New Mexico ......................................................... 928.7 934.2 927.1 926.2 58.9 57.7 58.5 50.8 6.3 6.2 6.3 5.5

Albuquerque ..................................................... 392.0 394.3 391.1 390.9 25.8 25.1 25.6 21.9 6.6 6.4 6.5 5.6

Farmington ....................................................... 55.8 56.3 55.4 55.8 3.4 3.3 3.3 2.9 6.0 5.8 6.0 5.2

Las Cruces ....................................................... 94.4 94.5 93.9 93.8 6.4 6.3 6.4 5.7 6.8 6.7 6.8 6.1

Santa Fe ........................................................... 75.0 75.1 74.9 74.4 3.7 3.7 3.8 3.2 5.0 4.9 5.0 4.2

New York ............................................................. 9,577.9 9,493.9 9,538.8 9,487.3 654.8 552.0 628.7 536.5 6.8 5.8 6.6 5.7

Albany-Schenectady-Troy ................................ 441.9 431.0 437.9 430.0 24.2 20.4 23.7 19.8 5.5 4.7 5.4 4.6

Binghamton ...................................................... 114.5 110.9 113.2 110.2 7.9 6.6 7.8 6.7 6.9 6.0 6.9 6.1

Buffalo-Niagara Falls ........................................ 569.1 551.5 563.6 549.2 37.4 31.8 36.9 31.0 6.6 5.8 6.5 5.7

Elmira ............................................................... 38.7 37.3 38.6 37.2 2.8 2.2 2.7 2.1 7.3 5.9 7.0 5.7

Glens Falls ........................................................ 63.7 61.8 63.6 61.7 4.3 3.6 4.5 3.7 6.8 5.8 7.1 6.0

Ithaca ................................................................ 59.4 58.1 58.3 57.5 2.5 2.2 2.3 2.0 4.2 3.8 4.0 3.5

Kingston ............................................................ 85.8 83.4 85.1 82.8 5.7 4.7 5.5 4.5 6.6 5.6 6.5 5.4

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island ... 9,529.0 9,591.6 9,506.3 9,603.4 658.8 558.4 627.5 538.2 6.9 5.8 6.6 5.6

 New York City ................................................ 4,048.2 4,109.2 4,037.7 4,121.5 322.8 270.4 304.8 263.0 8.0 6.6 7.5 6.4

Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown .............. 317.7 308.1 315.8 307.1 19.2 15.8 18.2 14.8 6.0 5.1 5.8 4.8

Rochester ......................................................... 518.3 502.5 515.8 502.4 32.2 27.3 31.5 26.9 6.2 5.4 6.1 5.4

Syracuse ........................................................... 314.3 303.7 313.9 302.4 20.7 17.6 20.4 17.3 6.6 5.8 6.5 5.7

Utica-Rome ....................................................... 133.6 129.0 133.4 128.7 9.1 7.8 9.1 7.9 6.8 6.0 6.8 6.1

North Carolina ..................................................... 4,678.2 4,625.9 4,621.7 4,560.7 325.5 247.9 305.8 238.9 7.0 5.4 6.6 5.2

Asheville ........................................................... 217.2 219.5 214.8 216.7 11.3 8.7 10.7 8.6 5.2 4.0 5.0 4.0

Burlington ......................................................... 72.3 72.0 71.5 71.4 4.9 3.7 4.6 3.6 6.8 5.2 6.4 5.1

Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill ............................ 925.6 922.4 916.1 911.8 64.9 50.3 60.8 47.9 7.0 5.5 6.6 5.3

Durham-Chapel Hill .......................................... 273.1 272.1 271.0 270.0 14.2 11.8 13.4 11.5 5.2 4.3 4.9 4.3

Fayetteville ....................................................... 164.3 159.4 162.4 158.1 13.3 10.0 12.4 9.6 8.1 6.2 7.7 6.1

Goldsboro ......................................................... 54.1 53.3 54.0 52.4 3.8 3.1 3.6 3.0 7.0 5.8 6.6 5.7

Greensboro-High Point ..................................... 369.0 361.9 363.3 359.1 26.8 19.8 25.1 18.9 7.3 5.5 6.9 5.3

Greenville ......................................................... 97.8 96.6 96.6 95.1 6.7 5.2 6.4 4.9 6.9 5.4 6.6 5.2

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton ................................ 166.2 161.7 163.7 159.1 12.4 9.2 11.7 8.8 7.5 5.7 7.1 5.5

Jacksonville ...................................................... 68.1 67.9 67.0 66.9 4.6 3.8 4.4 3.8 6.7 5.7 6.5 5.6

Raleigh-Cary ..................................................... 614.2 620.1 608.2 614.0 33.4 26.9 31.3 26.0 5.4 4.3 5.1 4.2

Rocky Mount ..................................................... 66.9 64.5 66.2 63.4 6.8 5.1 6.4 4.9 10.2 7.9 9.6 7.7

Wilmington ........................................................ 184.2 183.4 181.0 178.8 13.3 9.9 12.7 9.7 7.2 5.4 7.0 5.4

Winston-Salem ................................................. 241.3 236.9 237.9 233.9 15.4 11.5 14.4 11.2 6.4 4.9 6.1 4.8

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

November December November December November December

2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p

North Dakota ....................................................... 397.8 414.3 396.9 413.3 9.2 9.7 10.7 11.7 2.3 2.3 2.7 2.8

Bismarck ........................................................... 61.6 64.0 61.5 64.2 1.4 1.6 1.7 1.9 2.2 2.5 2.7 3.0

Fargo ................................................................ 120.0 124.5 120.1 124.9 3.0 2.7 3.5 3.6 2.5 2.2 2.9 2.9

Grand Forks ...................................................... 54.6 54.7 54.2 54.1 1.6 1.4 1.8 1.7 3.0 2.6 3.4 3.1

Ohio ..................................................................... 5,777.4 5,746.9 5,727.7 5,707.4 398.8 258.9 379.0 267.7 6.9 4.5 6.6 4.7

Akron ................................................................ 374.5 371.3 372.9 368.6 24.9 16.0 24.1 16.5 6.6 4.3 6.5 4.5

Canton-Massillon .............................................. 201.4 200.0 199.7 198.8 14.0 8.9 13.7 9.3 7.0 4.5 6.9 4.7

Cincinnati-Middletown ...................................... 1,099.5 1,098.9 1,087.8 1,089.5 71.5 47.1 66.7 44.7 6.5 4.3 6.1 4.1

Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor ................................... 1,046.6 1,044.4 1,033.1 1,035.0 75.4 56.8 72.3 61.9 7.2 5.4 7.0 6.0

Columbus ......................................................... 993.6 988.0 986.7 983.6 58.3 36.9 53.7 36.2 5.9 3.7 5.4 3.7

Dayton .............................................................. 398.4 398.3 393.5 395.5 28.9 17.8 26.9 17.7 7.3 4.5 6.8 4.5

Lima .................................................................. 49.1 48.4 48.9 48.2 3.6 2.1 3.4 2.2 7.3 4.4 6.9 4.5

Mansfield .......................................................... 56.6 55.8 56.4 55.5 4.4 2.8 4.3 2.9 7.7 5.0 7.6 5.2

Sandusky .......................................................... 39.7 39.6 38.8 39.3 2.9 1.8 2.8 2.1 7.2 4.6 7.3 5.2

Springfield ......................................................... 69.6 69.6 69.3 69.3 4.5 2.8 4.2 2.9 6.4 4.1 6.0 4.1

Steubenville-Weirton ........................................ 54.0 52.0 53.4 51.3 4.5 3.2 4.2 3.3 8.3 6.2 7.9 6.5

Toledo ............................................................... 320.9 314.9 316.9 315.4 24.5 15.2 23.6 15.9 7.6 4.8 7.4 5.1

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman ....................... 264.1 260.2 262.5 257.2 20.2 12.9 19.2 13.1 7.6 5.0 7.3 5.1

Oklahoma ............................................................ 1,831.9 1,807.6 1,817.6 1,792.1 95.6 75.9 94.1 68.7 5.2 4.2 5.2 3.8

Lawton .............................................................. 48.3 46.7 48.0 46.4 3.1 2.4 3.0 2.1 6.4 5.1 6.2 4.6

Oklahoma City .................................................. 616.9 613.6 610.2 608.2 30.2 24.2 29.8 21.7 4.9 3.9 4.9 3.6

Tulsa ................................................................. 458.1 446.0 454.6 444.1 24.9 19.7 24.5 17.8 5.4 4.4 5.4 4.0

Oregon ................................................................. 1,927.7 1,967.0 1,912.3 1,944.5 131.9 131.1 131.9 121.8 6.8 6.7 6.9 6.3

Bend ................................................................. 77.6 78.7 76.8 77.7 6.6 6.1 6.7 5.8 8.5 7.8 8.8 7.5

Corvallis ............................................................ 43.9 44.4 43.4 43.7 2.1 2.3 2.2 2.1 4.8 5.1 5.1 4.7

Eugene-Springfield ........................................... 174.2 176.4 172.9 175.5 11.5 11.8 11.6 10.8 6.6 6.7 6.7 6.2

Medford ............................................................ 98.4 99.1 97.7 97.9 8.1 7.8 8.1 7.2 8.2 7.8 8.3 7.4

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro ........................... 1,173.4 1,206.0 1,169.0 1,196.0 75.1 75.6 75.0 68.9 6.4 6.3 6.4 5.8

Salem ............................................................... 191.3 194.1 188.3 190.3 13.7 13.4 13.7 12.3 7.2 6.9 7.2 6.4

Pennsylvania ....................................................... 6,431.0 6,366.7 6,396.9 6,339.5 419.3 290.8 394.8 289.9 6.5 4.6 6.2 4.6

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton ........................... 425.9 423.7 424.9 423.4 28.7 20.6 27.6 20.3 6.7 4.9 6.5 4.8

Altoona ............................................................. 64.2 64.2 64.2 63.8 3.8 2.6 3.8 2.8 5.9 4.1 5.9 4.4

Erie ................................................................... 139.5 138.1 138.8 137.0 9.5 6.3 9.0 6.4 6.8 4.6 6.5 4.6

Harrisburg-Carlisle ............................................ 287.1 284.7 285.9 282.7 16.2 11.1 14.9 10.8 5.6 3.9 5.2 3.8

Johnstown ........................................................ 66.8 65.7 66.3 65.2 5.0 3.4 4.8 3.5 7.4 5.2 7.3 5.4

Lancaster .......................................................... 268.0 265.0 267.7 263.3 14.0 9.7 13.0 9.5 5.2 3.7 4.9 3.6

Lebanon ............................................................ 74.1 73.2 74.1 73.0 3.7 2.7 3.5 2.6 5.0 3.6 4.7 3.5

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington .................... 2,993.4 2,974.4 2,968.4 2,971.5 203.8 153.2 189.9 147.2 6.8 5.2 6.4 5.0

Pittsburgh ......................................................... 1,240.0 1,242.0 1,230.3 1,232.8 73.9 53.4 70.4 53.9 6.0 4.3 5.7 4.4

Reading ............................................................ 203.9 201.2 203.1 200.6 13.2 9.0 12.1 8.8 6.5 4.5 6.0 4.4

Scranton—Wilkes-Barre ................................... 279.4 275.2 278.9 275.0 22.4 15.0 21.5 15.3 8.0 5.4 7.7 5.6

State College .................................................... 78.8 79.0 77.8 76.7 3.8 2.6 3.5 2.6 4.8 3.3 4.5 3.4

Williamsport ...................................................... 63.1 63.1 63.1 63.2 4.3 2.9 4.3 3.1 6.9 4.7 6.8 4.9

York-Hanover ................................................... 224.5 224.7 224.1 222.9 13.9 9.6 13.0 9.6 6.2 4.3 5.8 4.3

Rhode Island ....................................................... 555.4 554.9 550.4 553.7 48.6 36.6 48.9 33.2 8.7 6.6 8.9 6.0

Providence-Fall River-Warwick ........................ 691.9 692.8 686.7 690.6 61.8 46.2 62.7 42.6 8.9 6.7 9.1 6.2

South Carolina .................................................... 2,157.3 2,184.5 2,147.3 2,183.2 141.5 138.5 134.5 135.3 6.6 6.3 6.3 6.2

Anderson .......................................................... 87.5 88.3 87.1 88.4 4.9 4.9 4.6 4.7 5.6 5.6 5.3 5.4

Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville ....... 332.1 335.0 328.4 336.8 18.2 18.7 17.2 18.1 5.5 5.6 5.2 5.4

Columbia .......................................................... 372.5 373.6 370.6 369.7 21.8 22.0 20.4 21.2 5.8 5.9 5.5 5.7

Florence ............................................................ 92.2 93.2 92.1 93.3 7.0 6.7 6.7 6.6 7.6 7.2 7.2 7.1

Greenville-Mauldin-Easley ................................ 315.1 320.7 314.4 320.5 17.0 17.4 15.8 16.6 5.4 5.4 5.0 5.2

Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach-Conway ...... 125.2 127.5 123.0 126.3 9.7 9.5 9.7 10.2 7.8 7.4 7.9 8.1

Spartanburg ...................................................... 139.2 139.6 138.7 140.1 8.5 8.1 8.0 7.8 6.1 5.8 5.7 5.5

Sumter .............................................................. 43.8 44.0 43.6 44.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.0 7.3 7.0 7.0 6.8

South Dakota ...................................................... 447.9 453.1 444.1 450.8 15.0 14.4 16.1 15.8 3.3 3.2 3.6 3.5

Rapid City ......................................................... 65.8 67.6 65.4 67.7 2.3 2.3 2.5 2.3 3.6 3.4 3.8 3.5

Sioux Falls ........................................................ 133.6 137.2 132.8 138.0 3.9 3.7 4.2 4.3 2.9 2.7 3.1 3.1

Tennessee ........................................................... 3,043.6 3,011.0 3,020.5 2,985.3 226.1 192.3 219.7 192.4 7.4 6.4 7.3 6.4

Chattanooga ..................................................... 254.2 252.0 252.9 250.8 17.1 15.3 16.9 15.3 6.7 6.1 6.7 6.1

Clarksville ......................................................... 115.2 112.0 114.8 110.9 9.4 7.8 9.1 7.3 8.2 6.9 7.9 6.5

Cleveland .......................................................... 57.2 57.1 56.5 56.9 3.9 3.4 3.7 3.3 6.8 5.9 6.6 5.8

Jackson ............................................................ 55.9 55.1 55.7 54.7 4.3 3.7 4.1 3.6 7.7 6.6 7.4 6.6

Johnson City ..................................................... 95.4 93.3 95.0 92.1 6.6 5.7 6.5 5.8 6.9 6.1 6.8 6.2

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

November December November December November December

2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p

Tennessee—Continued

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol .................................... 143.0 140.7 142.2 140.1 9.5 8.3 9.2 8.3 6.7 5.9 6.5 6.0

Knoxville ........................................................... 354.9 357.1 351.3 353.0 21.7 19.0 21.2 18.9 6.1 5.3 6.0 5.4

Memphis ........................................................... 598.7 584.0 594.2 581.8 52.1 44.1 50.7 44.4 8.7 7.6 8.5 7.6

Morristown ........................................................ 61.2 59.8 60.8 59.3 5.1 4.2 5.0 4.2 8.4 7.0 8.2 7.0

Nashville-Davidson—Murfreesboro—Franklin 845.2 850.7 839.6 843.7 48.1 42.9 46.3 42.2 5.7 5.0 5.5 5.0

Texas ................................................................... 12,882.2 13,068.9 12,864.2 13,005.4 751.5 604.5 722.5 538.7 5.8 4.6 5.6 4.1

Abilene .............................................................. 84.3 83.2 84.4 82.6 3.9 3.0 3.7 2.7 4.6 3.6 4.4 3.2

Amarillo ............................................................. 135.2 133.8 134.8 132.4 5.6 4.4 5.4 3.8 4.2 3.3 4.0 2.9

Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos ...................... 1,017.2 1,031.0 1,016.1 1,023.2 48.1 39.8 45.7 34.9 4.7 3.9 4.5 3.4

Beaumont-Port Arthur ....................................... 184.0 182.3 183.0 181.5 17.4 12.6 16.9 11.6 9.5 6.9 9.2 6.4

Brownsville-Harlingen ....................................... 164.8 163.3 165.2 162.4 15.8 12.5 15.5 11.7 9.6 7.7 9.4 7.2

College Station-Bryan ....................................... 123.1 123.0 121.4 121.9 5.5 4.3 5.2 3.7 4.4 3.5 4.3 3.0

Corpus Christi ................................................... 219.0 222.2 217.9 221.1 12.4 10.5 12.0 9.6 5.7 4.7 5.5 4.3

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington .............................. 3,428.4 3,483.6 3,412.6 3,478.0 195.0 159.1 186.5 140.4 5.7 4.6 5.5 4.0

El Paso ............................................................. 326.4 324.7 324.7 322.3 26.7 20.7 25.6 18.3 8.2 6.4 7.9 5.7

Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown ......................... 3,135.1 3,211.9 3,130.9 3,198.0 178.8 145.9 171.5 130.7 5.7 4.5 5.5 4.1

Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood ................................ 172.4 173.1 172.8 172.3 11.6 9.5 11.1 8.3 6.7 5.5 6.4 4.8

Laredo .............................................................. 102.4 102.8 102.3 102.0 6.2 5.0 6.0 4.4 6.1 4.9 5.9 4.4

Longview .......................................................... 115.4 118.5 114.9 117.9 6.1 4.7 5.8 4.1 5.2 4.0 5.1 3.5

Lubbock ............................................................ 150.0 151.3 150.1 150.6 6.7 5.3 6.3 4.6 4.4 3.5 4.2 3.0

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission ................................ 320.7 322.3 321.8 320.7 33.1 26.5 33.4 25.2 10.3 8.2 10.4 7.8

Midland ............................................................. 96.0 100.2 96.2 99.9 2.9 2.3 2.8 2.1 3.0 2.3 2.9 2.1

Odessa ............................................................. 85.7 88.2 85.6 88.1 3.1 2.5 3.0 2.3 3.7 2.8 3.5 2.6

San Angelo ....................................................... 57.3 57.5 57.5 57.0 2.6 2.1 2.5 1.8 4.6 3.6 4.4 3.1

San Antonio-New Braunfels ............................. 1,050.5 1,063.5 1,048.8 1,058.7 57.8 45.5 55.1 39.8 5.5 4.3 5.3 3.8

Sherman-Denison ............................................. 58.8 59.0 58.4 58.8 3.4 2.7 3.3 2.4 5.8 4.5 5.6 4.0

Texarkana ......................................................... 62.7 62.1 62.4 61.5 4.3 3.3 4.3 3.1 6.9 5.2 7.0 5.0

Tyler .................................................................. 105.0 103.9 104.2 103.5 6.4 4.8 6.0 4.2 6.1 4.7 5.8 4.1

Victoria .............................................................. 63.6 64.7 63.7 64.4 3.0 2.3 2.9 2.0 4.8 3.6 4.6 3.1

Waco ................................................................ 115.0 113.7 114.8 113.2 6.4 5.1 6.0 4.4 5.5 4.5 5.2 3.9

Wichita Falls ..................................................... 70.5 69.2 70.9 69.2 3.8 3.1 3.7 2.7 5.4 4.5 5.2 3.9

Utah ...................................................................... 1,437.8 1,442.3 1,438.2 1,429.7 52.8 47.5 52.9 44.5 3.7 3.3 3.7 3.1

Logan ................................................................ 70.5 71.6 70.8 71.3 2.0 1.8 1.9 1.6 2.8 2.5 2.7 2.3

Ogden-Clearfield .............................................. 273.4 273.3 271.0 268.9 10.2 9.4 10.2 9.0 3.7 3.5 3.8 3.3

Provo-Orem ...................................................... 253.3 253.1 252.9 250.4 8.6 7.6 8.7 7.0 3.4 3.0 3.4 2.8

St. George ........................................................ 63.0 63.2 62.9 62.1 2.6 2.4 2.6 2.3 4.1 3.7 4.2 3.7

Salt Lake City ................................................... 640.9 637.8 644.8 634.4 23.1 20.6 22.8 18.9 3.6 3.2 3.5 3.0

Vermont ............................................................... 350.1 352.0 348.7 350.7 14.0 13.9 13.2 13.7 4.0 4.0 3.8 3.9

Burlington-South Burlington .............................. 116.2 115.7 114.5 114.6 3.8 3.9 3.6 3.8 3.3 3.4 3.1 3.3

Virginia ................................................................ 4,219.8 4,237.8 4,209.5 4,215.3 211.2 192.2 203.6 190.9 5.0 4.5 4.8 4.5

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford ................. 84.9 84.8 84.4 84.1 4.3 3.8 4.1 3.8 5.1 4.5 4.9 4.6

Charlottesville ................................................... 112.3 114.1 110.9 112.4 4.4 4.2 4.2 4.2 3.9 3.7 3.8 3.7

Danville ............................................................. 50.0 49.3 49.9 49.0 3.4 3.1 3.3 3.1 6.8 6.4 6.6 6.4

Harrisonburg ..................................................... 67.4 68.2 67.6 67.7 3.2 2.8 3.0 2.8 4.8 4.1 4.5 4.2

Lynchburg ......................................................... 120.1 118.6 119.8 117.8 6.7 6.0 6.4 6.0 5.5 5.1 5.3 5.1

Richmond ......................................................... 671.3 682.2 669.0 678.9 35.6 32.7 34.4 32.2 5.3 4.8 5.1 4.7

Roanoke ........................................................... 157.5 156.0 157.4 155.7 8.1 7.3 7.8 7.2 5.1 4.7 4.9 4.6

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News ............. 822.5 827.5 821.9 824.6 45.8 41.6 43.9 41.3 5.6 5.0 5.3 5.0

Winchester ........................................................ 68.6 68.9 68.4 68.3 3.2 2.9 3.2 2.9 4.7 4.2 4.6 4.2

Washington ......................................................... 3,447.8 3,509.5 3,437.7 3,485.9 222.7 215.2 226.6 215.8 6.5 6.1 6.6 6.2

Bellingham ........................................................ 104.0 105.6 103.4 105.6 6.2 6.5 6.5 6.7 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.4

Bremerton-Silverdale ........................................ 116.5 116.4 116.8 116.3 6.9 7.1 7.0 7.2 6.0 6.1 6.0 6.2

Kennewick-Pasco-Richland .............................. 128.5 133.3 126.1 130.0 10.4 10.3 11.2 11.4 8.1 7.7 8.9 8.8

Longview .......................................................... 41.9 42.1 41.7 42.2 3.7 3.7 3.8 3.7 8.9 8.8 9.2 8.9

Mount Vernon-Anacortes .................................. 55.3 55.9 55.1 55.3 4.2 4.1 4.3 4.2 7.6 7.3 7.9 7.6

Olympia ............................................................ 126.6 126.9 126.2 127.0 7.9 8.1 8.1 8.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.5

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue ................................. 1,908.3 1,940.4 1,913.1 1,933.1 106.6 98.1 103.0 92.7 5.6 5.1 5.4 4.8

Spokane ........................................................... 224.5 226.7 225.1 227.6 15.4 15.8 16.7 17.3 6.9 7.0 7.4 7.6

Wenatchee-East Wenatchee ............................ 57.7 60.4 56.0 59.5 4.0 4.0 4.2 4.4 6.9 6.6 7.6 7.4

Yakima .............................................................. 120.6 124.3 117.1 122.2 10.6 10.9 12.2 13.2 8.8 8.8 10.4 10.8

West Virginia ....................................................... 788.6 784.7 782.8 774.6 44.1 43.2 44.1 41.8 5.6 5.5 5.6 5.4

Charleston ........................................................ 131.7 132.0 130.7 130.6 6.7 7.0 6.9 6.8 5.1 5.3 5.3 5.2

Huntington-Ashland .......................................... 126.4 124.7 125.5 123.5 7.8 6.5 7.5 6.1 6.2 5.2 6.0 5.0

Morgantown ...................................................... 68.0 69.4 67.1 68.3 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.3 3.5 3.4 3.8 3.4

Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna ........................... 75.1 75.3 74.4 74.5 4.3 3.6 4.3 3.6 5.7 4.7 5.8 4.8

Wheeling ........................................................... 68.5 68.4 67.8 67.8 4.4 3.5 4.2 3.5 6.4 5.1 6.2 5.2

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

November December November December November December

2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p

Wisconsin ............................................................ 3,072.7 3,117.4 3,059.2 3,102.3 183.5 146.9 178.3 153.7 6.0 4.7 5.8 5.0

Appleton ........................................................... 124.0 125.6 123.5 125.2 6.5 5.2 6.4 5.4 5.2 4.2 5.1 4.3

Eau Claire ......................................................... 92.4 93.8 91.7 93.3 4.6 4.0 4.8 4.2 5.0 4.3 5.2 4.5

Fond du Lac ...................................................... 56.2 56.9 55.6 56.5 3.0 2.4 3.0 2.6 5.3 4.3 5.4 4.6

Green Bay ........................................................ 173.7 175.1 172.2 174.9 9.6 7.5 9.3 8.0 5.5 4.3 5.4 4.6

Janesville .......................................................... 81.1 81.8 80.7 81.7 5.7 4.5 5.6 4.7 7.1 5.5 6.9 5.7

La Crosse ......................................................... 78.9 79.6 78.9 79.3 3.5 2.9 3.6 3.0 4.4 3.6 4.5 3.8

Madison ............................................................ 353.8 364.2 352.4 362.3 14.8 12.2 14.1 12.2 4.2 3.4 4.0 3.4

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis ..................... 797.7 813.4 793.8 804.3 53.1 42.2 49.5 41.7 6.7 5.2 6.2 5.2

Oshkosh-Neenah .............................................. 95.6 96.8 95.4 95.6 5.2 4.1 4.9 4.1 5.4 4.3 5.2 4.3

Racine .............................................................. 97.5 97.9 97.5 97.5 7.6 5.8 7.4 6.1 7.8 6.0 7.6 6.3

Sheboygan ....................................................... 61.6 62.4 61.4 62.3 3.2 2.5 3.0 2.5 5.2 4.0 4.9 3.9

Wausau ............................................................ 72.1 72.1 72.1 72.4 4.2 3.2 4.0 3.2 5.8 4.4 5.6 4.5

Wyoming ............................................................. 306.7 310.8 305.5 308.9 13.2 13.0 13.6 12.2 4.3 4.2 4.5 4.0

Casper .............................................................. 45.6 45.8 45.3 45.4 1.7 1.7 1.9 1.6 3.8 3.7 4.1 3.6

Cheyenne ......................................................... 46.7 47.1 46.5 47.0 2.0 2.2 2.2 2.1 4.3 4.6 4.7 4.5

Puerto Rico ......................................................... 1,196.4 1,149.8 1,206.0 1,147.9 168.6 155.6 185.4 138.7 14.1 13.5 15.4 12.1

Aguadilla-Isabela-San Sebastian ..................... 99.5 97.9 99.7 97.0 15.8 14.0 17.3 12.5 15.9 14.3 17.4 12.9

Fajardo ............................................................. 24.5 23.7 24.7 23.8 3.9 3.6 4.4 3.2 16.0 15.1 17.6 13.4

Guayama .......................................................... 22.8 21.0 23.0 20.9 4.9 4.4 5.4 4.1 21.5 21.2 23.4 19.4

Mayaguez ......................................................... 32.2 30.5 32.3 30.5 5.4 4.5 5.8 4.0 16.7 14.7 18.1 13.0

Ponce ............................................................... 83.5 79.1 83.8 79.5 12.0 11.2 13.1 10.1 14.4 14.2 15.7 12.7

San German-Cabo Rojo ................................... 44.6 41.5 44.6 41.4 7.5 6.1 8.2 5.4 16.9 14.6 18.4 13.0

San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo ........................... 804.4 773.2 811.7 773.2 102.4 96.6 113.0 85.7 12.7 12.5 13.9 11.1

Yauco ............................................................... 33.9 32.8 34.3 32.8 5.8 5.1 6.4 4.8 17.1 15.6 18.8 14.6

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

 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. 10-02,

dated December 1, 2009, and are available on the BLS website at

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., is the exception in that it is listed under Illinois 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

November December November December November December

2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p 2013 2014 2013 2014p

California .............................................................. 18,573.0 18,848.9 18,501.3 18,726.4 1,529.5 1,346.2 1,462.7 1,251.8 8.2 7.1 7.9 6.7

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ................... 6,578.3 6,665.9 6,550.9 6,662.3 546.0 480.7 518.4 447.7 8.3 7.2 7.9 6.7

 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale ................... 4,964.6 5,024.0 4,941.5 5,034.8 452.9 398.2 432.8 375.9 9.1 7.9 8.8 7.5

 Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine ................................ 1,613.8 1,642.0 1,609.5 1,627.5 93.1 82.5 85.6 71.7 5.8 5.0 5.3 4.4

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont ......................... 2,358.2 2,415.5 2,355.0 2,398.8 141.1 121.2 130.1 106.4 6.0 5.0 5.5 4.4

 Oakland-Fremont-Hayward ............................... 1,321.3 1,345.7 1,317.6 1,334.1 89.2 76.3 82.5 67.4 6.8 5.7 6.3 5.1

 San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City ......... 1,036.9 1,069.8 1,037.4 1,064.7 51.9 44.9 47.6 38.9 5.0 4.2 4.6 3.7

District of Columbia .......................................... 365.9 381.2 365.5 375.7 25.9 26.8 25.1 27.0 7.1 7.0 6.9 7.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 2 ...................... 3,197.4 3,213.2 3,184.3 3,190.9 156.1 144.5 148.0 142.2 4.9 4.5 4.6 4.5

 Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick 3 ......................... 657.7 655.8 653.3 650.0 30.3 27.6 27.9 26.7 4.6 4.2 4.3 4.1

 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 2 ................... 2,539.7 2,557.4 2,531.0 2,541.0 125.8 117.0 120.2 115.5 5.0 4.6 4.7 4.5

Florida .................................................................... 9,411.4 9,631.1 9,395.0 9,571.0 599.4 541.8 558.1 514.8 6.4 5.6 5.9 5.4

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach .............. 2,961.5 3,048.6 2,965.5 3,039.7 186.5 168.9 178.0 170.0 6.3 5.5 6.0 5.6

 Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield

Beach ............................................................. 1,030.5 1,070.4 1,034.8 1,065.3 56.0 51.8 51.6 47.9 5.4 4.8 5.0 4.5

 Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall .............................. 1,281.1 1,313.7 1,282.1 1,315.0 88.3 82.1 87.8 90.3 6.9 6.2 6.8 6.9

 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach 649.9 664.5 648.5 659.4 42.3 35.0 38.6 31.8 6.5 5.3 6.0 4.8

Illinois .................................................................... 6,547.7 6,552.9 6,525.4 6,509.6 558.3 390.8 560.9 371.0 8.5 6.0 8.6 5.7

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville 2 ................................... 4,888.4 4,897.1 4,872.4 4,882.9 403.2 283.8 402.5 272.9 8.2 5.8 8.3 5.6

 Chicago-Joliet-Naperville ................................... 4,111.8 4,109.9 4,098.6 4,104.5 340.4 232.1 338.5 219.8 8.3 5.6 8.3 5.4

 Gary 3 ................................................................ 327.3 332.4 325.2 330.5 26.2 24.8 25.9 25.6 8.0 7.4 8.0 7.8

 Lake County-Kenosha County 2 ........................ 449.2 454.8 448.7 447.8 36.6 26.9 38.2 27.5 8.1 5.9 8.5 6.1

Massachusetts ................................................... 3,483.7 3,575.8 3,473.8 3,548.6 232.1 187.5 232.1 170.8 6.7 5.2 6.7 4.8

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy 2 ................................ 2,564.2 2,634.4 2,558.6 2,616.8 152.9 124.9 151.0 111.6 6.0 4.7 5.9 4.3

 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy ................................ 1,556.0 1,603.8 1,550.8 1,591.9 88.1 72.4 86.7 63.3 5.7 4.5 5.6 4.0

 Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton ............................ 129.5 132.7 129.0 131.6 9.1 7.6 9.1 6.9 7.1 5.7 7.1 5.2

 Framingham ...................................................... 149.6 154.2 149.6 153.0 7.8 6.3 7.9 5.7 5.2 4.1 5.3 3.7

 Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury 2 ................ 126.0 128.5 126.1 127.8 7.8 6.4 7.7 6.0 6.2 5.0 6.1 4.7

 Lawrence-Methuen-Salem 2 .............................. 75.1 75.3 75.1 74.7 7.8 6.2 7.7 5.7 10.5 8.2 10.3 7.6

 Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford 2 ............................ 155.2 159.9 155.3 159.4 10.2 8.4 10.1 7.6 6.6 5.2 6.5 4.7

 Nashua 2 ........................................................... 179.7 181.9 179.9 181.2 9.4 7.3 9.2 7.3 5.2 4.0 5.1 4.0

 Peabody ............................................................ 130.2 133.8 130.0 133.0 8.4 6.9 8.3 6.2 6.5 5.2 6.4 4.6

 Taunton-Norton-Raynham ................................. 63.0 64.3 62.7 64.2 4.2 3.4 4.2 3.1 6.7 5.3 6.7 4.9

Michigan ............................................................... 4,686.0 4,720.3 4,672.4 4,721.0 356.3 269.0 361.6 264.5 7.6 5.7 7.7 5.6

Detroit-Warren-Livonia ......................................... 2,029.4 1,996.9 2,026.4 1,996.9 166.6 139.9 162.6 132.9 8.2 7.0 8.0 6.7

 Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn ................................... 815.2 798.5 813.9 799.0 75.1 63.4 73.0 59.4 9.2 7.9 9.0 7.4

 Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills ........................... 1,214.2 1,198.4 1,212.5 1,197.9 91.5 76.5 89.6 73.5 7.5 6.4 7.4 6.1

New York .............................................................. 9,577.9 9,493.9 9,538.8 9,487.3 654.8 552.0 628.7 536.5 6.8 5.8 6.6 5.7

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island 2 .... 9,529.0 9,591.6 9,506.3 9,603.4 658.8 558.4 627.5 538.2 6.9 5.8 6.6 5.6

 Edison-New Brunswick 3 ................................... 1,210.7 1,223.8 1,207.4 1,224.8 76.2 64.9 73.5 62.6 6.3 5.3 6.1 5.1

 Nassau-Suffolk .................................................. 1,480.4 1,452.6 1,476.7 1,449.5 78.6 67.2 75.5 63.5 5.3 4.6 5.1 4.4

 New York-White Plains-Wayne 2 ....................... 5,752.6 5,815.7 5,737.9 5,828.5 430.7 363.2 407.9 351.1 7.5 6.2 7.1 6.0

 Newark-Union 3 ................................................. 1,085.2 1,099.5 1,084.3 1,100.6 73.3 63.1 70.6 61.0 6.8 5.7 6.5 5.5

Pennsylvania ....................................................... 6,431.0 6,366.7 6,396.9 6,339.5 419.3 290.8 394.8 289.9 6.5 4.6 6.2 4.6

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 2 ..................... 2,993.4 2,974.4 2,968.4 2,971.5 203.8 153.2 189.9 147.2 6.8 5.2 6.4 5.0

 Camden 3 .......................................................... 646.7 652.3 643.1 654.7 46.7 40.1 45.2 38.7 7.2 6.1 7.0 5.9

 Philadelphia ....................................................... 1,989.6 1,956.0 1,968.6 1,951.6 135.8 94.7 123.6 91.3 6.8 4.8 6.3 4.7

 Wilmington 3 ...................................................... 357.2 366.2 356.7 365.2 21.2 18.4 21.2 17.3 5.9 5.0 5.9 4.7

Texas ...................................................................... 12,882.2 13,068.9 12,864.2 13,005.4 751.5 604.5 722.5 538.7 5.8 4.6 5.6 4.1

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington .................................. 3,428.4 3,483.6 3,412.6 3,478.0 195.0 159.1 186.5 140.4 5.7 4.6 5.5 4.0

 Dallas-Plano-Irving ............................................ 2,283.4 2,327.5 2,273.7 2,323.8 131.3 106.8 125.6 94.3 5.7 4.6 5.5 4.1

 Fort Worth-Arlington .......................................... 1,145.0 1,156.1 1,138.9 1,154.2 63.7 52.3 60.9 46.1 5.6 4.5 5.3 4.0

Washington ......................................................... 3,447.8 3,509.5 3,437.7 3,485.9 222.7 215.2 226.6 215.8 6.5 6.1 6.6 6.2

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue ..................................... 1,908.3 1,940.4 1,913.1 1,933.1 106.6 98.1 103.0 92.7 5.6 5.1 5.4 4.8

 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett .................................... 1,529.8 1,556.5 1,535.5 1,547.0 79.3 70.6 75.4 65.0 5.2 4.5 4.9 4.2

 Tacoma .............................................................. 378.5 384.0 377.6 386.1 27.4 27.5 27.6 27.7 7.2 7.2 7.3 7.2

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. p = preliminary. 

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

Management and Budget Bulletin No. 10-02, dated December 1, 2009, available at

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-Joliet-Naperville, 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

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2013 to December

2014p

2013 2014 2013 2014p Number Percent

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,920.7 1,955.6 1,919.9 1,951.7 31.8 1.7

Anniston-Oxford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.9 45.5 45.7 45.3 -0.4 -0.9

Auburn-Opelika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.2 60.9 59.3 61.1 1.8 3.0

Birmingham-Hoover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513.3 517.9 514.9 519.9 5.0 1.0

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.7 54.2 54.5 54.2 -0.3 -0.6

Dothan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.2 57.6 57.6 57.8 0.2 0.3

Florence-Muscle Shoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.3 57.2 56.2 57.3 1.1 2.0

Gadsden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.4 37.4 37.2 37.1 -0.1 -0.3

Huntsville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214.7 218.1 213.8 217.0 3.2 1.5

Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.8 173.1 173.6 173.0 -0.6 -0.3

Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169.6 169.7 170.2 170.5 0.3 0.2

Tuscaloosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.1 102.2 98.0 101.8 3.8 3.9

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324.5 324.4 320.8 323.0 2.2 0.7

Anchorage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177.7 177.0 177.3 177.2 -0.1 -0.1

Fairbanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.6 38.9 38.4 38.9 0.5 1.3

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,567.5 2,632.9 2,576.6 2,639.9 63.3 2.5

Flagstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.9 65.2 63.5 63.2 -0.3 -0.5

Lake Havasu City-Kingman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.8 46.1 45.6 46.2 0.6 1.3

Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,854.8 1,908.5 1,862.7 1,912.5 49.8 2.7

Prescott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.3 59.7 57.4 58.8 1.4 2.4

Tucson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366.8 372.2 367.9 375.6 7.7 2.1

Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.4 51.7 53.0 52.8 -0.2 -0.4

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,191.7 1,211.6 1,187.5 1,210.1 22.6 1.9

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218.6 221.3 218.1 221.1 3.0 1.4

Fort Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.1 117.4 117.3 116.7 -0.6 -0.5

Hot Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.1 37.5 37.1 37.6 0.5 1.3

Jonesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.2 54.7 53.2 54.8 1.6 3.0

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348.2 350.3 345.9 350.9 5.0 1.4

Pine Bluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.7 35.3 35.7 35.2 -0.5 -1.4

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,426.8 15,770.9 15,446.4 15,768.2 321.8 2.1

Bakersfield-Delano. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.0 259.8 255.4 259.3 3.9 1.5

Chico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.3 76.7 75.9 76.6 0.7 0.9

El Centro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.9 54.0 53.6 54.7 1.1 2.1

Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312.2 320.5 311.7 320.1 8.4 2.7

Hanford-Corcoran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.8 37.3 36.9 37.2 0.3 0.8

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,673.0 5,770.2 5,674.2 5,778.3 104.1 1.8

Madera-Chowchilla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.7 35.1 35.3 34.7 -0.6 -1.7

Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.4 63.4 61.6 63.4 1.8 2.9

Modesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158.1 161.5 158.6 160.9 2.3 1.5

Napa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.6 70.0 67.3 68.0 0.7 1.0

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291.2 295.7 291.5 297.3 5.8 2.0

Redding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 62.6 61.3 62.2 0.9 1.5

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,258.3 1,285.0 1,265.0 1,289.7 24.7 2.0

Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875.6 895.5 876.9 894.8 17.9 2.0

Salinas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.1 129.6 127.1 128.9 1.8 1.4

San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,330.6 1,375.5 1,331.6 1,376.1 44.5 3.3

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,142.3 2,210.3 2,149.2 2,215.1 65.9 3.1

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983.3 1,018.7 987.6 1,026.9 39.3 4.0

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107.6 109.3 105.8 107.2 1.4 1.3

Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.9 179.0 174.2 177.7 3.5 2.0

Santa Cruz-Watsonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.3 96.3 94.8 96.6 1.8 1.9

Santa Rosa-Petaluma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187.4 193.2 185.8 191.8 6.0 3.2

Stockton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204.6 208.6 203.8 208.2 4.4 2.2

Vallejo-Fairfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.0 130.5 128.0 130.1 2.1 1.6

Visalia-Porterville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.3 116.8 115.0 116.1 1.1 1.0

Yuba City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.4 39.7 39.6 39.5 -0.1 -0.3

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,417.4 2,473.3 2,426.5 2,489.4 62.9 2.6

Boulder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.7 180.5 176.6 181.1 4.5 2.5

Colorado Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260.1 260.0 258.0 258.3 0.3 0.1

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2013 to December

2014p

2013 2014 2013 2014p Number Percent

Colorado - Continued

Denver-Aurora-Broomfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,315.5 1,354.5 1,313.7 1,357.3 43.6 3.3

Fort Collins-Loveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.4 149.5 146.8 149.4 2.6 1.8

Grand Junction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.8 61.2 61.2 60.8 -0.4 -0.7

Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.9 96.8 92.4 96.7 4.3 4.7

Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.3 61.1 60.3 61.2 0.9 1.5

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,680.0 1,703.6 1,681.2 1,707.8 26.6 1.6

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416.0 424.8 418.1 425.6 7.5 1.8

Danbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.4 71.5 70.9 72.3 1.4 2.0

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558.3 564.6 558.5 565.3 6.8 1.2

New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280.0 283.6 280.0 283.8 3.8 1.4

Norwich-New London. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.6 128.1 127.0 127.9 0.9 0.7

Waterbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.8 66.6 66.0 67.0 1.0 1.5

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436.5 447.7 435.9 447.6 11.7 2.7

Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.2 67.6 67.9 67.5 -0.4 -0.6

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750.8 765.8 748.6 763.2 14.6 2.0

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,107.9 3,128.4 3,106.6 3,127.4 20.8 0.7

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,736.9 7,961.2 7,766.7 7,999.4 232.7 3.0

Cape Coral-Fort Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222.6 226.0 224.5 228.0 3.5 1.6

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.0 81.7 79.8 81.5 1.7 2.1

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160.2 162.0 160.0 162.3 2.3 1.4

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.6 134.1 131.6 133.4 1.8 1.4

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623.5 640.1 623.4 646.6 23.2 3.7

Lakeland-Winter Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199.2 201.9 199.9 203.5 3.6 1.8

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,392.9 2,472.8 2,414.4 2,487.2 72.8 3.0

Naples-Marco Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.3 132.8 130.2 135.0 4.8 3.7

North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259.8 270.9 261.2 273.2 12.0 4.6

Ocala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.7 92.6 93.5 93.4 -0.1 -0.1

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,087.6 1,134.9 1,093.5 1,141.0 47.5 4.3

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195.4 196.9 195.5 198.4 2.9 1.5

Palm Coast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.5 20.9 20.5 21.1 0.6 2.9

Panama City-Lynn Haven-Panama City Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.6 72.9 72.2 72.5 0.3 0.4

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.8 165.3 161.7 165.3 3.6 2.2

Port St. Lucie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.8 131.9 130.4 132.8 2.4 1.8

Punta Gorda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.1 45.5 44.5 46.3 1.8 4.0

Sebastian-Vero Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.6 46.7 46.8 46.9 0.1 0.2

Tallahassee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171.9 174.1 170.6 173.5 2.9 1.7

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,196.2 1,208.3 1,198.5 1,212.8 14.3 1.2

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,093.8 4,195.5 4,088.2 4,196.4 108.2 2.6

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.3 62.0 62.1 61.8 -0.3 -0.5

Athens-Clarke County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.0 92.4 91.7 92.5 0.8 0.9

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,446.8 2,508.5 2,449.3 2,514.0 64.7 2.6

Augusta-Richmond County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217.7 226.3 219.1 226.3 7.2 3.3

Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.5 40.8 40.1 40.9 0.8 2.0

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123.0 123.3 122.4 123.3 0.9 0.7

Dalton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.0 63.9 63.6 63.9 0.3 0.5

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.0 80.6 77.6 80.2 2.6 3.4

Hinesville-Fort Stewart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.0 20.1 20.0 20.0 0.0 0.0

Macon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 101.0 99.7 100.9 1.2 1.2

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.4 39.8 39.5 39.6 0.1 0.3

Savannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163.4 167.5 161.7 166.1 4.4 2.7

Valdosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.4 55.2 54.1 54.8 0.7 1.3

Warner Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.0 58.7 58.9 58.7 -0.2 -0.3

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632.2 638.5 632.0 641.4 9.4 1.5

Honolulu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466.7 470.5 466.8 472.4 5.6 1.2

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643.6 653.9 638.7 648.2 9.5 1.5

Boise City-Nampa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279.6 286.4 278.4 286.1 7.7 2.8

Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.7 58.4 56.1 57.7 1.6 2.9

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2013 to December

2014p

2013 2014 2013 2014p Number Percent

Idaho - Continued

Idaho Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.8 52.8 51.2 52.3 1.1 2.1

Lewiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.9 27.3 26.8 26.7 -0.1 -0.4

Pocatello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.4 37.8 37.2 37.5 0.3 0.8

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,885.4 5,925.6 5,862.8 5,914.9 52.1 0.9

Bloomington-Normal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.3 89.4 89.8 88.9 -0.9 -1.0

Champaign-Urbana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.6 110.8 108.8 110.4 1.6 1.5

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,509.4 4,544.7 4,497.7 4,537.7 40.0 0.9

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.0 29.1 28.8 29.1 0.3 1.0

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183.8 182.6 183.6 182.3 -1.3 -0.7

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.0 51.9 51.6 51.6 0.0 0.0

Kankakee-Bradley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.7 44.7 44.6 44.4 -0.2 -0.4

Peoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179.1 178.6 178.7 176.8 -1.9 -1.1

Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148.6 149.7 148.4 149.2 0.8 0.5

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.9 111.6 111.6 111.7 0.1 0.1

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,999.1 3,050.6 2,980.6 3,039.0 58.4 2.0

Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.6 41.6 40.8 41.2 0.4 1.0

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.8 85.1 83.7 83.8 0.1 0.1

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.2 51.9 50.1 52.2 2.1 4.2

Elkhart-Goshen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.6 126.2 119.7 125.5 5.8 4.8

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179.4 182.1 177.6 181.3 3.7 2.1

Fort Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.9 221.0 214.4 220.5 6.1 2.8

Indianapolis-Carmel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 952.0 973.1 948.7 974.2 25.5 2.7

Kokomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.0 46.4 45.1 46.5 1.4 3.1

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.2 102.4 100.8 102.5 1.7 1.7

Michigan City-La Porte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.4 42.3 42.5 42.0 -0.5 -1.2

Muncie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.6 53.2 52.6 53.0 0.4 0.8

South Bend-Mishawaka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.7 137.5 136.6 137.3 0.7 0.5

Terre Haute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.7 71.9 71.6 71.6 0.0 0.0

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,561.8 1,579.1 1,549.3 1,565.5 16.2 1.0

Ames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.2 53.9 51.5 53.3 1.8 3.5

Cedar Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.2 143.0 141.6 141.4 -0.2 -0.1

Des Moines-West Des Moines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343.8 346.9 341.8 345.4 3.6 1.1

Dubuque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.8 62.1 59.9 61.7 1.8 3.0

Iowa City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.4 102.0 98.5 101.0 2.5 2.5

Sioux City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.4 77.4 76.9 77.3 0.4 0.5

Waterloo-Cedar Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.9 93.5 93.0 92.8 -0.2 -0.2

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,400.4 1,409.4 1,392.0 1,404.6 12.6 0.9

Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.5 54.2 52.7 54.6 1.9 3.6

Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.5 59.8 57.4 58.4 1.0 1.7

Topeka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.3 112.9 111.3 112.2 0.9 0.8

Wichita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293.6 294.0 291.5 292.6 1.1 0.4

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,850.8 1,890.8 1,856.1 1,888.9 32.8 1.8

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.4 67.3 65.3 67.5 2.2 3.4

Elizabethtown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.0 50.1 50.1 50.2 0.1 0.2

Lexington-Fayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259.9 266.5 262.2 266.3 4.1 1.6

Louisville-Jefferson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634.5 649.1 635.2 650.1 14.9 2.3

Owensboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.4 54.0 53.2 54.3 1.1 2.1

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,979.6 1,999.1 1,974.9 2,004.1 29.2 1.5

Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.3 62.8 63.3 62.9 -0.4 -0.6

Baton Rouge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392.4 399.6 392.3 398.4 6.1 1.6

Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.8 103.3 101.7 103.9 2.2 2.2

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162.4 166.1 163.1 166.0 2.9 1.8

Lake Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.1 97.5 94.6 99.3 4.7 5.0

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.2 79.5 79.1 79.8 0.7 0.9

New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.7 560.9 554.1 561.8 7.7 1.4

Shreveport-Bossier City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.3 174.4 172.5 174.7 2.2 1.3

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607.5 613.9 605.2 610.5 5.3 0.9

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2013 to December

2014p

2013 2014 2013 2014p Number Percent

Maine - Continued

Bangor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.6 67.6 67.4 67.4 0.0 0.0

Lewiston-Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.8 50.3 49.4 50.3 0.9 1.8

Portland-South Portland-Biddeford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195.8 200.4 195.3 199.0 3.7 1.9

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,622.8 2,637.9 2,621.8 2,641.7 19.9 0.8

Baltimore-Towson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,356.3 1,371.3 1,353.3 1,375.2 21.9 1.6

Cumberland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.2 40.5 40.1 40.4 0.3 0.7

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.1 104.7 105.2 105.9 0.7 0.7

Salisbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.5 54.3 53.5 54.5 1.0 1.9

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,403.9 3,462.3 3,397.3 3,459.3 62.0 1.8

Barnstable Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.9 101.3 97.4 99.2 1.8 1.8

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,590.8 2,639.9 2,588.7 2,638.9 50.2 1.9

Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.3 49.7 49.6 49.6 0.0 0.0

New Bedford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.2 72.0 70.8 72.5 1.7 2.4

Pittsfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.0 36.3 36.0 36.3 0.3 0.8

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297.1 302.9 295.6 301.8 6.2 2.1

Worcester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.9 257.0 250.2 257.0 6.8 2.7

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,166.0 4,208.1 4,144.3 4,188.0 43.7 1.1

Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.8 215.1 210.9 213.6 2.7 1.3

Battle Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.5 59.3 58.7 58.8 0.1 0.2

Bay City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.0 38.3 37.4 37.8 0.4 1.1

Detroit-Warren-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,886.1 1,900.4 1,875.4 1,895.1 19.7 1.1

Flint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.2 139.9 138.7 140.6 1.9 1.4

Grand Rapids-Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411.8 429.4 411.6 427.5 15.9 3.9

Holland-Grand Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.0 121.7 115.9 120.8 4.9 4.2

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.0 54.7 54.8 54.4 -0.4 -0.7

Kalamazoo-Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.3 141.6 138.1 140.7 2.6 1.9

Lansing-East Lansing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227.1 229.3 225.8 226.5 0.7 0.3

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.0 42.1 41.7 41.8 0.1 0.2

Muskegon-Norton Shores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.4 62.8 62.3 62.8 0.5 0.8

Niles-Benton Harbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.0 60.4 60.6 59.8 -0.8 -1.3

Saginaw-Saginaw Township North. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.2 91.5 88.9 90.8 1.9 2.1

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,818.4 2,865.7 2,809.2 2,842.5 33.3 1.2

Duluth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.8 134.2 134.2 133.2 -1.0 -0.7

Mankato-North Mankato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.0 58.1 55.6 57.7 2.1 3.8

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,823.8 1,861.2 1,819.6 1,851.7 32.1 1.8

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.1 109.0 108.0 108.6 0.6 0.6

St. Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.8 107.1 104.8 106.5 1.7 1.6

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,127.2 1,126.2 1,125.0 1,125.1 0.1 0.0

Gulfport-Biloxi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.0 107.2 107.7 107.2 -0.5 -0.5

Hattiesburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.1 61.8 61.0 62.1 1.1 1.8

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261.3 261.6 260.7 262.3 1.6 0.6

Pascagoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.9 59.6 58.1 58.9 0.8 1.4

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,772.4 2,815.9 2,765.2 2,810.4 45.2 1.6

Cape Girardeau-Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.9 45.6 45.3 45.4 0.1 0.2

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.3 104.9 103.4 104.4 1.0 1.0

Jefferson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.0 77.5 77.0 77.4 0.4 0.5

Joplin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.4 83.7 82.7 83.5 0.8 1.0

Kansas City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,017.5 1,029.2 1,011.2 1,033.5 22.3 2.2

St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.5 64.4 63.5 64.5 1.0 1.6

St. Louis1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,325.9 1,345.4 1,325.9 1,343.0 17.1 1.3

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204.4 205.2 203.7 205.6 1.9 0.9

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450.1 456.7 448.7 456.0 7.3 1.6

Billings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.7 84.4 82.5 84.3 1.8 2.2

Great Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.8 36.8 36.7 36.6 -0.1 -0.3

Missoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.2 60.7 58.4 60.1 1.7 2.9

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989.1 996.5 985.7 993.2 7.5 0.8

Lincoln. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.8 190.6 184.7 189.9 5.2 2.8

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2013 to December

2014p

2013 2014 2013 2014p Number Percent

Nebraska - Continued

Omaha-Council Bluffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483.1 484.9 480.4 484.5 4.1 0.9

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,203.2 1,231.7 1,203.1 1,230.8 27.7 2.3

Carson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.6 27.4 27.6 27.3 -0.3 -1.1

Las Vegas-Paradise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866.5 888.4 864.3 887.3 23.0 2.7

Reno-Sparks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.9 205.7 203.2 204.8 1.6 0.8

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646.0 652.5 648.3 656.7 8.4 1.3

Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.8 102.8 102.0 103.6 1.6 1.6

Portsmouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.4 58.4 57.0 57.9 0.9 1.6

Rochester-Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.6 57.7 57.6 57.8 0.2 0.3

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,980.7 3,993.9 3,961.6 3,990.2 28.6 0.7

Atlantic City-Hammonton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.6 126.0 134.0 125.9 -8.1 -6.0

Ocean City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.1 36.6 37.5 36.3 -1.2 -3.2

Trenton-Ewing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251.4 255.9 251.6 256.5 4.9 1.9

Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.5 58.1 58.0 58.0 0.0 0.0

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815.7 830.0 815.0 828.5 13.5 1.7

Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371.4 374.7 371.0 374.4 3.4 0.9

Farmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.4 50.9 50.0 50.8 0.8 1.6

Las Cruces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.8 72.0 71.6 71.6 0.0 0.0

Santa Fe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.1 62.3 62.3 62.2 -0.1 -0.2

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,059.4 9,147.2 9,045.3 9,150.5 105.2 1.2

Albany-Schenectady-Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454.2 457.9 451.2 457.8 6.6 1.5

Binghamton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.3 108.4 107.3 107.8 0.5 0.5

Buffalo-Niagara Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558.9 560.0 553.9 558.4 4.5 0.8

Elmira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.2 39.4 39.5 39.4 -0.1 -0.3

Glens Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.9 52.9 52.7 52.9 0.2 0.4

Ithaca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.9 72.3 70.9 72.1 1.2 1.7

Kingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.0 61.7 60.7 61.5 0.8 1.3

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,842.6 8,952.2 8,841.3 8,970.3 129.0 1.5

Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258.4 258.6 257.7 258.7 1.0 0.4

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522.9 523.6 521.6 524.9 3.3 0.6

Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319.1 318.3 319.4 317.6 -1.8 -0.6

Utica-Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.7 129.4 129.4 129.2 -0.2 -0.2

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,132.3 4,237.7 4,125.6 4,241.0 115.4 2.8

Asheville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177.7 183.9 177.9 183.7 5.8 3.3

Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.4 61.3 59.6 61.3 1.7 2.9

Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892.0 915.0 893.6 914.3 20.7 2.3

Durham-Chapel Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.2 294.4 291.3 295.6 4.3 1.5

Fayetteville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.9 133.0 133.3 133.6 0.3 0.2

Goldsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.7 43.9 43.8 43.9 0.1 0.2

Greensboro-High Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351.9 355.8 350.9 357.7 6.8 1.9

Greenville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.8 84.0 82.6 84.1 1.5 1.8

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147.0 147.5 146.8 146.8 0.0 0.0

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.5 50.5 49.3 50.5 1.2 2.4

Raleigh-Cary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555.4 575.2 556.9 576.3 19.4 3.5

Rocky Mount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.1 55.8 55.8 55.6 -0.2 -0.4

Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.0 147.5 143.1 145.6 2.5 1.7

Winston-Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211.3 213.3 211.2 213.0 1.8 0.9

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456.4 479.3 454.0 478.5 24.5 5.4

Bismarck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.6 72.9 70.1 72.4 2.3 3.3

Fargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.4 140.8 134.9 140.0 5.1 3.8

Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.1 58.9 57.5 57.9 0.4 0.7

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,314.1 5,369.2 5,292.4 5,352.7 60.3 1.1

Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332.7 333.7 333.1 332.9 -0.2 -0.1

Canton-Massillon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.6 173.9 171.4 173.6 2.2 1.3

Cincinnati-Middletown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,037.1 1,056.7 1,033.0 1,054.7 21.7 2.1

Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,035.7 1,048.0 1,031.3 1,043.7 12.4 1.2

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993.5 998.2 992.6 1,000.9 8.3 0.8

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2013 to December

2014p

2013 2014 2013 2014p Number Percent

Ohio - Continued

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379.0 385.7 376.4 385.2 8.8 2.3

Lima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.4 53.5 53.3 53.5 0.2 0.4

Mansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.5 52.6 52.6 52.6 0.0 0.0

Sandusky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.0 36.6 35.1 36.2 1.1 3.1

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.2 53.9 53.3 54.1 0.8 1.5

Steubenville-Weirton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.7 43.4 44.5 42.9 -1.6 -3.6

Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313.4 313.1 310.7 314.9 4.2 1.4

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227.8 228.1 227.4 225.9 -1.5 -0.7

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,658.1 1,689.4 1,655.3 1,692.1 36.8 2.2

Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.4 44.3 44.6 44.8 0.2 0.4

Oklahoma City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621.4 638.2 619.8 638.2 18.4 3.0

Tulsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439.3 442.8 438.7 444.5 5.8 1.3

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,707.1 1,754.8 1,704.9 1,755.8 50.9 3.0

Bend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.5 67.1 64.8 66.3 1.5 2.3

Corvallis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.8 39.8 39.5 39.7 0.2 0.5

Eugene-Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147.8 149.2 147.1 150.1 3.0 2.0

Medford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.6 79.8 79.6 80.3 0.7 0.9

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,055.1 1,086.9 1,055.0 1,087.2 32.2 3.1

Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148.4 150.5 146.7 149.1 2.4 1.6

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,830.8 5,866.1 5,796.8 5,851.6 54.8 0.9

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348.6 351.0 347.0 351.4 4.4 1.3

Altoona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 62.3 61.0 61.9 0.9 1.5

Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.2 132.5 130.3 131.6 1.3 1.0

Harrisburg-Carlisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332.4 333.8 331.2 332.5 1.3 0.4

Johnstown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.4 59.3 58.8 58.8 0.0 0.0

Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234.2 237.3 233.7 236.7 3.0 1.3

Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.8 52.1 51.8 52.3 0.5 1.0

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,795.7 2,792.9 2,777.6 2,798.5 20.9 0.8

Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,171.5 1,181.8 1,162.7 1,175.3 12.6 1.1

Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.3 173.8 171.8 173.9 2.1 1.2

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.3 256.9 256.0 257.1 1.1 0.4

State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.2 80.5 78.1 78.1 0.0 0.0

Williamsport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.7 57.9 56.5 58.0 1.5 2.7

York-Hanover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178.1 181.2 178.1 179.9 1.8 1.0

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478.2 483.4 473.0 480.9 7.9 1.7

Providence-Fall River-Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565.2 573.7 560.5 570.9 10.4 1.9

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,923.9 1,974.1 1,923.2 1,969.6 46.4 2.4

Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.1 68.3 67.0 68.5 1.5 2.2

Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312.7 319.3 310.9 320.9 10.0 3.2

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367.1 371.7 366.8 367.1 0.3 0.1

Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.0 88.0 86.0 87.7 1.7 2.0

Greenville-Mauldin-Easley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317.1 327.0 318.4 326.7 8.3 2.6

Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach-Conway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.2 121.3 114.8 118.7 3.9 3.4

Spartanburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.0 134.3 132.0 134.7 2.7 2.0

Sumter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.4 39.0 38.3 39.1 0.8 2.1

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418.7 421.0 416.3 419.6 3.3 0.8

Rapid City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.0 62.8 61.8 63.0 1.2 1.9

Sioux Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.8 146.7 144.7 146.5 1.8 1.2

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,805.3 2,862.0 2,798.2 2,865.5 67.3 2.4

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241.0 244.3 240.7 245.4 4.7 2.0

Clarksville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.0 89.6 89.4 89.6 0.2 0.2

Cleveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.3 46.2 45.2 46.9 1.7 3.8

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.2 63.0 62.3 63.3 1.0 1.6

Johnson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.1 79.2 79.3 78.8 -0.5 -0.6

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.7 121.3 120.7 121.7 1.0 0.8

Knoxville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338.4 348.2 336.8 347.9 11.1 3.3

Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613.8 615.8 612.7 618.6 5.9 1.0

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2013 to December

2014p

2013 2014 2013 2014p Number Percent

Tennessee - Continued

Morristown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.1 47.4 47.0 47.2 0.2 0.4

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828.8 851.3 828.7 854.3 25.6 3.1

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,378.2 11,821.5 11,387.0 11,847.5 460.5 4.0

Abilene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.8 67.6 67.9 67.7 -0.2 -0.3

Amarillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.2 115.5 114.7 115.1 0.4 0.3

Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884.4 911.6 884.9 910.4 25.5 2.9

Beaumont-Port Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157.8 161.3 157.4 162.0 4.6 2.9

Brownsville-Harlingen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.6 137.9 136.0 138.3 2.3 1.7

College Station-Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.8 108.1 105.6 108.3 2.7 2.6

Corpus Christi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189.9 195.2 189.4 195.7 6.3 3.3

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,149.1 3,261.6 3,142.5 3,279.4 136.9 4.4

El Paso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.6 296.3 290.5 297.2 6.7 2.3

Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,830.6 2,953.3 2,840.1 2,960.7 120.6 4.2

Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.9 136.0 133.4 136.6 3.2 2.4

Laredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.4 99.3 97.7 99.6 1.9 1.9

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.0 106.7 101.7 107.0 5.3 5.2

Lubbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.7 138.9 135.6 139.2 3.6 2.7

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238.2 245.2 238.9 246.3 7.4 3.1

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.6 93.0 87.9 93.2 5.3 6.0

Odessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.1 77.1 74.4 77.5 3.1 4.2

San Angelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.2 49.0 48.4 48.9 0.5 1.0

San Antonio-New Braunfels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915.8 943.9 918.5 947.0 28.5 3.1

Sherman-Denison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.9 45.5 44.7 45.8 1.1 2.5

Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.5 56.1 55.5 56.1 0.6 1.1

Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.4 98.8 98.0 99.7 1.7 1.7

Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.9 57.0 55.0 57.1 2.1 3.8

Waco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107.5 107.9 107.6 108.1 0.5 0.5

Wichita Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.8 57.5 58.2 58.1 -0.1 -0.2

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,317.4 1,362.0 1,316.0 1,366.7 50.7 3.9

Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.1 57.8 57.2 57.8 0.6 1.0

Ogden-Clearfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208.5 213.8 206.3 212.0 5.7 2.8

Provo-Orem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211.4 217.3 210.3 217.8 7.5 3.6

St. George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.9 54.4 52.6 54.2 1.6 3.0

Salt Lake City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671.0 689.7 675.5 696.6 21.1 3.1

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310.7 314.1 314.0 317.6 3.6 1.1

Burlington-South Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.4 121.0 119.3 121.2 1.9 1.6

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,797.0 3,816.7 3,785.3 3,814.0 28.7 0.8

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.3 76.6 75.4 76.1 0.7 0.9

Charlottesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.9 108.4 105.3 107.5 2.2 2.1

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.3 39.8 40.2 39.8 -0.4 -1.0

Harrisonburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.5 66.5 65.5 66.7 1.2 1.8

Lynchburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.6 102.5 102.9 102.4 -0.5 -0.5

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641.3 654.1 638.7 653.9 15.2 2.4

Roanoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160.4 159.3 160.2 159.8 -0.4 -0.2

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754.2 762.2 753.7 762.0 8.3 1.1

Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.0 60.7 59.6 60.4 0.8 1.3

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,023.3 3,107.0 3,016.5 3,099.4 82.9 2.7

Bellingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.5 88.0 85.5 87.8 2.3 2.7

Bremerton-Silverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.6 84.8 84.9 84.4 -0.5 -0.6

Kennewick-Pasco-Richland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.5 106.7 102.5 105.8 3.3 3.2

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.7 38.3 37.4 38.2 0.8 2.1

Mount Vernon-Anacortes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.0 47.7 46.5 47.2 0.7 1.5

Olympia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.0 105.7 104.7 105.7 1.0 1.0

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,807.8 1,869.9 1,811.7 1,869.2 57.5 3.2

Spokane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217.0 221.2 215.8 220.2 4.4 2.0

Wenatchee-East Wenatchee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.8 42.3 40.1 41.5 1.4 3.5

Yakima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.6 82.9 80.0 81.4 1.4 1.8

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774.0 781.3 770.1 778.1 8.0 1.0

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2013 to December

2014p

2013 2014 2013 2014p Number Percent

West Virginia - Continued

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.0 146.3 145.2 146.6 1.4 1.0

Huntington-Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.9 116.2 115.8 116.2 0.4 0.3

Morgantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.2 71.9 69.3 71.5 2.2 3.2

Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.8 71.6 70.5 71.4 0.9 1.3

Wheeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.4 70.2 69.1 70.2 1.1 1.6

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,864.9 2,922.9 2,852.5 2,905.5 53.0 1.9

Appleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.6 121.4 119.1 121.3 2.2 1.8

Eau Claire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.8 85.9 84.1 85.4 1.3 1.5

Fond du Lac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.7 48.3 47.1 47.8 0.7 1.5

Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.0 173.9 170.4 173.5 3.1 1.8

Janesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.6 66.6 65.3 66.7 1.4 2.1

La Crosse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.5 79.2 78.4 79.0 0.6 0.8

Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364.1 375.2 362.8 374.4 11.6 3.2

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836.2 859.0 834.3 852.2 17.9 2.1

Oshkosh-Neenah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.2 97.0 95.1 95.5 0.4 0.4

Racine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.5 76.7 75.7 76.3 0.6 0.8

Sheboygan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.5 60.4 59.1 60.4 1.3 2.2

Wausau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.5 68.6 68.6 69.0 0.4 0.6

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.3 293.1 290.0 294.3 4.3 1.5

Casper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.5 42.7 42.7 42.6 -0.1 -0.2

Cheyenne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.6 46.5 46.6 46.8 0.2 0.4

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933.9 933.1 953.5 945.1 -8.4 -0.9

Aguadilla-Isabela-San Sebastian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.4 47.5 47.8 48.1 0.3 0.6

Fajardo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.3 15.6 15.6 15.9 0.3 1.9

Guayama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.4 14.6 15.5 14.8 -0.7 -4.5

Mayaguez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.7 35.8 36.3 36.5 0.2 0.6

Ponce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.9 61.9 63.9 63.3 -0.6 -0.9

San German-Cabo Rojo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.5 18.9 19.6 19.3 -0.3 -1.5

San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695.3 691.4 710.0 700.6 -9.4 -1.3

Yauco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.8 13.6 14.0 13.9 -0.1 -0.7

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.4 38.1 38.4 38.3 -0.1 -0.3

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 preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes

available. Area definitions are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 10-02, dated December 1, 2009, and available at 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. is the exception since it is listed under

Illinois for operational reasons.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 4. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state, selected metropolitan area, and metropolitan division

[In thousands]

State, area, and division

November December

Change from

December 2013 to December

2014p

2013 2014 2013 2014p Number Percent

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,426.8 15,770.9 15,446.4 15,768.2 321.8 2.1

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,673.0 5,770.2 5,674.2 5,778.3 104.1 1.8

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,193.9 4,255.7 4,192.4 4,263.0 70.6 1.7

Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,479.1 1,514.5 1,481.8 1,515.3 33.5 2.3

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,142.3 2,210.3 2,149.2 2,215.1 65.9 3.1

Oakland-Fremont-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,050.8 1,077.1 1,051.6 1,076.5 24.9 2.4

San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,091.5 1,133.2 1,097.6 1,138.6 41.0 3.7

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750.8 765.8 748.6 763.2 14.6 2.0

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,107.9 3,128.4 3,106.6 3,127.4 20.8 0.7

Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574.9 578.3 576.4 578.6 2.2 0.4

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,533.0 2,550.1 2,530.2 2,548.8 18.6 0.7

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,736.9 7,961.2 7,766.7 7,999.4 232.7 3.0

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,392.9 2,472.8 2,414.4 2,487.2 72.8 3.0

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761.2 789.6 767.8 796.4 28.6 3.7

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,079.6 1,117.3 1,090.9 1,121.2 30.3 2.8

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552.1 565.9 555.7 569.6 13.9 2.5

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,885.4 5,925.6 5,862.8 5,914.9 52.1 0.9

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,509.4 4,544.7 4,497.7 4,537.7 40.0 0.9

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,830.5 3,857.4 3,819.2 3,855.7 36.5 1.0

Gary2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276.8 278.1 277.2 277.5 0.3 0.1

Lake County-Kenosha County1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402.1 409.2 401.3 404.5 3.2 0.8

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,403.9 3,462.3 3,397.3 3,459.3 62.0 1.8

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,590.8 2,639.9 2,588.7 2,638.9 50.2 1.9

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,798.4 1,835.2 1,792.8 1,834.1 41.3 2.3

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.8 96.2 94.0 95.5 1.5 1.6

Framingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163.3 166.4 163.6 165.8 2.2 1.3

Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.0 83.1 82.2 83.3 1.1 1.3

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121.3 124.8 121.6 125.4 3.8 3.1

Nashua1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.4 131.9 130.9 132.0 1.1 0.8

Peabody. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.5 106.4 104.6 106.7 2.1 2.0

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,166.0 4,208.1 4,144.3 4,188.0 43.7 1.1

Detroit-Warren-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,886.1 1,900.4 1,875.4 1,895.1 19.7 1.1

Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725.3 726.6 721.3 727.3 6.0 0.8

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,160.8 1,173.8 1,154.1 1,167.8 13.7 1.2

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,059.4 9,147.2 9,045.3 9,150.5 105.2 1.2

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,842.6 8,952.2 8,841.3 8,970.3 129.0 1.5

Edison-New Brunswick2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,031.2 1,032.2 1,026.0 1,030.1 4.1 0.4

Nassau-Suffolk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,297.0 1,311.8 1,298.1 1,311.8 13.7 1.1

New York-White Plains-Wayne1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,515.7 5,605.1 5,519.8 5,626.7 106.9 1.9

Newark-Union2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 998.7 1,003.1 997.4 1,001.7 4.3 0.4

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,830.8 5,866.1 5,796.8 5,851.6 54.8 0.9

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,795.7 2,792.9 2,777.6 2,798.5 20.9 0.8

Camden2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511.5 514.5 507.6 515.7 8.1 1.6

Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,935.7 1,921.1 1,921.8 1,925.4 3.6 0.2

Wilmington2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348.5 357.3 348.2 357.4 9.2 2.6

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,378.2 11,821.5 11,387.0 11,847.5 460.5 4.0

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,149.1 3,261.6 3,142.5 3,279.4 136.9 4.4

Dallas-Plano-Irving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,211.0 2,301.3 2,205.2 2,313.3 108.1 4.9

Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938.1 960.3 937.3 966.1 28.8 3.1

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,023.3 3,107.0 3,016.5 3,099.4 82.9 2.7

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,807.8 1,869.9 1,811.7 1,869.2 57.5 3.2

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,526.4 1,581.4 1,532.4 1,579.8 47.4 3.1

Tacoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.4 288.5 279.3 289.4 10.1 3.6

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 preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available. Area definitions are

based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 10-02, dated December 1, 2009, and available at 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.
Above U.S. average

U.S. average or below

Map includes data for 372 metropolitan areas based

on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 10-

02. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New England City and Town areas (NECTAs), 

while areas in other states are county-based.

NOTE:

Unemployment rates for metropolitan areas,

not seasonally adjusted, December 2014

(U.S. rate = 5.4 percent)