For release 10:00 a.m. (ET) Friday, April 16, 2021 USDL-21-0654

Technical information: 

 Employment: sminfo@bls.gov • www.bls.gov/sae 

 Unemployment: lausinfo@bls.gov • www.bls.gov/lau

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STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT — MARCH 2021

Unemployment rates were lower in March in 20 states and the District of Columbia and stable in 30

states, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty states and the District had jobless rate

increases from a year earlier and 10 states had little or no change. The national unemployment rate, 6.0 

percent, edged down by 0.2 percentage point over the month, but was 1.6 points higher than in March 

2020.

Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 29 states and was essentially unchanged in 21 states and the 

District of Columbia in March 2021. Over the year, nonfarm payroll employment decreased in 46 states 

and the District and was essentially unchanged in 4 states.

This news release presents statistics from two monthly programs. The civilian labor force and 

unemployment data are modeled based largely on a survey of households. These data pertain to 

individuals by where they reside. The employment data are from an establishment survey that measures 

nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. These data pertain to jobs on payrolls defined by 

where the establishments are located. For more information about the concepts and statistical 

methodologies used by these two programs, see the Technical Note.

Unemployment

Hawaii and New York had the highest unemployment rates in March, 9.0 percent and 8.5 percent, 

respectively. Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, and Vermont had the lowest rates, 2.9 percent each. In 

total, 27 states had unemployment rates lower than the U.S. figure of 6.0 percent, 11 states and the 

District of Columbia had higher rates, and 12 states had rates that were not appreciably different from 

that of the nation. (See tables A and 1 and map 1.)

In March, North Carolina had the largest over-the-month unemployment rate decrease (-0.5 percentage 

point), followed by New York and North Dakota (-0.4 point each). Thirty states had jobless rates that 

were not notably different from those of a month earlier, though some had changes that were at least as 

large numerically as the significant changes. (See table B.)

The largest unemployment rate increase from March 2020 occurred in Hawaii (+6.9 percentage points). 

The next largest over-the-year jobless rate increases were in New York (+4.6 percentage points) and 
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Connecticut (+4.5 points), with another five states experiencing rate increases of at least 3.0 points. (See

table C.)

Nonfarm Payroll Employment

Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 29 states and was essentially unchanged in 21 states and the 

District of Columbia in March 2021. The largest job gains occurred in California (+119,600), Texas 

(+99,000), and New York (+63,700). The largest percentage increases occurred in New Mexico (+1.3 

percent), Oregon (+1.1 percent), and Hawaii, Iowa, and Oklahoma (+1.0 percent each). (See tables D 

and 3.)

Over the year, nonfarm payroll employment decreased in 46 states and the District of Columbia and was 

essentially unchanged in 4 states. The largest job declines occurred in California (-1,350,500), New 

York (-880,800), and Florida (-445,800). The largest percentage declines occurred in Hawaii (-16.0 

percent), Nevada (-9.4 percent), and New York (-9.1 percent). (See table E and map 2.)

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The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment news release for March is scheduled to 

be released on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. (ET). The State Employment and 

Unemployment news release for April is scheduled to be released on Friday, May 21, 2021, at 

10:00 a.m. (ET).
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Impact on March 2021

Establishment and Household Survey Data

BLS has continued to review all estimation and methodological procedures for the establishment survey, 

which included the review of data, estimation processes, the application of the birth-death model, and 

seasonal adjustment. Business births and deaths cannot be adequately captured by the establishment 

survey as they occur. Therefore, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program uses a model to 

account for the relatively stable net employment change generated by business births and deaths. Due to 

the impact of COVID-19, the relationship between business births and deaths is no longer stable. 

Typically, reports with zero employment are not included in estimation. For the February final and 

March preliminary estimates, CES included a portion of these reports in the estimates and made 

modifications to the birth-death model. In addition for both months, the establishment survey included a 

portion of the reports that returned to reporting positive employment from reporting zero employment. 

For more information, see www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbd.htm.

In the establishment survey, workers who are paid by their employer for all or any part of the pay period 

including the 12th of the month are counted as employed, even if they were not actually at their jobs. 

Workers who are temporarily or permanently absent from their jobs and are not being paid are not 

counted as employed, even if they are continuing to receive benefits. The length of the reference period 

does vary across the respondents in the establishment survey; one-third of businesses have a weekly pay 

period, slightly over 40 percent a bi-weekly, about 20 percent semi-monthly, and a small amount 

monthly.

For the March 2021 estimates of household employment and unemployment from the Local Area 

Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program, BLS continued to implement level-shift outliers in the 

employment and/or unemployment inputs to the models, based on statistical evaluation of movements in 

each area's inputs. Both the Current Population Survey inputs, which serve as the primary inputs to the 

LAUS models, and the nonfarm payroll employment and unemployment insurance claims covariates 

were examined for outliers. The resulting implementation of level shifts preserved movements in the 

published estimates that the models otherwise would have discounted, without requiring changes to how 

the models create estimates at other points in the time series.

The "Frequently asked questions" document at www.bls.gov/covid19/employment-situation-covid19-

faq-march-2021.htm extensively discusses the impact of a misclassification in the household survey on 

the national estimates for March 2021. Despite the considerable decline in its degree relative to prior 

months, this misclassification continued to be widespread geographically, with BLS analysis indicating 

that most states again were affected to at least some extent. However, according to usual practice, the 

data from the household survey are accepted as recorded. To maintain data integrity, no ad hoc actions 

are taken to reclassify survey responses. Hence, the household survey estimates of employed and 

unemployed people that serve as the primary inputs to the state models were affected to varying degrees 

by the misclassification, which in turn affected the official LAUS estimates for March 2021.

Household data for Puerto Rico are not modeled, but rather are derived from a monthly household 

survey similar to the Current Population Survey. Due to the effects of the pandemic and efforts to 

contain the virus, Puerto Rico had not been able to conduct its household survey for March or April 

2020. Since data collection resumed effective May 2020, the Puerto Rico Department of Labor has 
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reported a misclassification in its household survey similar in nature to the misclassification in the 

Current Population Survey.
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State Rate p

United States 1 ................................................ 6.0

Alabama ........................................................... 3.8

Arkansas .......................................................... 4.4

California .......................................................... 8.3

Connecticut ....................................................... 8.3

District of Columbia ........................................... 7.8

Florida .............................................................. 4.7

Georgia ............................................................ 4.5

Hawaii .............................................................. 9.0

Idaho ................................................................ 3.2

Illinois ............................................................... 7.1

Indiana ............................................................. 3.9

Iowa ................................................................. 3.7

Kansas ............................................................. 3.7

Kentucky .......................................................... 5.0

Louisiana .......................................................... 7.3

Maine ............................................................... 4.8

Michigan ........................................................... 5.1

Minnesota ......................................................... 4.2

Missouri ............................................................ 4.2

Montana ............................................................ 3.8

Nebraska .......................................................... 2.9

Nevada ............................................................. 8.1

New Hampshire ................................................. 3.0

New Jersey ....................................................... 7.7

New Mexico ....................................................... 8.3

New York .......................................................... 8.5

North Carolina ................................................... 5.2

North Dakota ..................................................... 4.4

Ohio ................................................................. 4.7

Oklahoma .......................................................... 4.2

Pennsylvania ..................................................... 7.3

South Carolina .................................................. 5.1

South Dakota .................................................... 2.9

Tennessee ........................................................ 5.0

Texas ................................................................ 6.9

Utah ................................................................. 2.9

Vermont ............................................................ 2.9

Virginia ............................................................. 5.1

Wisconsin ......................................................... 3.8

1

 Data are not preliminary.

p

 = preliminary.

Table A. States with unemployment rates significantly different from that

of the U.S., March 2021, seasonally adjusted
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Table B. States with statistically significant unemployment rate changes from February 2021

to March 2021, seasonally adjusted

February 2021 March 2021 p

Alabama ..................................... 4.0 3.8 -0.2

Arizona ....................................... 6.9 6.7 -.2

California .................................... 8.5 8.3 -.2

District of Columbia ..................... 8.1 7.8 -.3

Georgia ...................................... 4.8 4.5 -.3

Illinois ......................................... 7.4 7.1 -.3

Louisiana .................................... 7.6 7.3 -.3

Massachusetts ............................. 7.0 6.8 -.2

Minnesota ................................... 4.4 4.2 -.2

Montana ...................................... 3.9 3.8 -.1

Nebraska .................................... 3.1 2.9 -.2

Nevada ....................................... 8.4 8.1 -.3

New Hampshire ........................... 3.3 3.0 -.3

New York .................................... 8.9 8.5 -.4

North Carolina ............................. 5.7 5.2 -.5

North Dakota ............................... 4.8 4.4 -.4

Ohio ........................................... 5.0 4.7 -.3

South Dakota .............................. 3.0 2.9 -.1

Utah ........................................... 3.0 2.9 -.1

Washington ................................. 5.6 5.4 -.2

West Virginia .............................. 6.2 5.9 -.3

p

 = preliminary.

State

Rate Over-the-month 

change p
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Table C. States with statistically significant unemployment rate changes from March 2020

to March 2021, seasonally adjusted

March 2020 March 2021 p

Alabama ..................................... 2.6 3.8 1.2

Alaska ........................................ 5.1 6.6 1.5

Arizona ....................................... 5.0 6.7 1.7

Arkansas .................................... 3.9 4.4 .5

California .................................... 4.5 8.3 3.8

Colorado ..................................... 4.7 6.4 1.7

Connecticut ................................. 3.8 8.3 4.5

Delaware .................................... 4.8 6.5 1.7

District of Columbia ..................... 5.2 7.8 2.6

Georgia ...................................... 3.6 4.5 .9

Hawaii ........................................ 2.1 9.0 6.9

Idaho .......................................... 2.7 3.2 .5

Illinois ......................................... 3.7 7.1 3.4

Indiana ....................................... 3.3 3.9 .6

Iowa ........................................... 2.9 3.7 .8

Kansas ....................................... 3.2 3.7 .5

Kentucky .................................... 4.2 5.0 .8

Louisiana .................................... 5.3 7.3 2.0

Maine ......................................... 3.1 4.8 1.7

Maryland ..................................... 3.5 6.2 2.7

Massachusetts ............................. 2.7 6.8 4.1

Michigan ..................................... 3.7 5.1 1.4

Minnesota ................................... 3.5 4.2 .7

Missouri ...................................... 3.7 4.2 .5

Nevada ....................................... 6.4 8.1 1.7

New Jersey ................................. 3.8 7.7 3.9

New Mexico ................................. 5.4 8.3 2.9

New York .................................... 3.9 8.5 4.6

North Carolina ............................. 3.9 5.2 1.3

North Dakota ............................... 2.3 4.4 2.1

Oklahoma .................................... 3.2 4.2 1.0

Oregon ....................................... 3.6 6.0 2.4

Pennsylvania ............................... 5.1 7.3 2.2

Rhode Island ............................... 4.0 7.1 3.1

South Carolina ............................ 3.0 5.1 2.1

Tennessee .................................. 4.0 5.0 1.0

Texas .......................................... 4.9 6.9 2.0

Utah ........................................... 2.5 2.9 .4

Virginia ....................................... 2.6 5.1 2.5

West Virginia .............................. 5.3 5.9 .6

Wisconsin ................................... 3.2 3.8 .6

p

 = preliminary.

State

Rate Over-the-year 

change p
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Table D. States with statistically significant employment changes from February 2021 to

March 2021, seasonally adjusted

February March

2021 2021 p Level Percent

Arizona ....................................... 2,876,300 2,888,500 12,200 0.4

California .................................... 16,014,000 16,133,600 119,600 .7

Florida ........................................ 8,521,400 8,553,600 32,200 .4

Georgia ...................................... 4,464,200 4,486,000 21,800 .5

Hawaii ........................................ 545,100 550,400 5,300 1.0

Illinois ......................................... 5,697,800 5,730,000 32,200 .6

Iowa ........................................... 1,510,800 1,525,900 15,100 1.0

Kansas ....................................... 1,360,200 1,373,000 12,800 .9

Maine ......................................... 605,500 609,600 4,100 .7

Maryland ..................................... 2,615,000 2,628,100 13,100 .5

 

Massachusetts ............................. 3,413,900 3,426,700 12,800 .4

Michigan ..................................... 4,117,400 4,132,800 15,400 .4

Minnesota ................................... 2,783,600 2,805,200 21,600 .8

Missouri ...................................... 2,796,500 2,811,900 15,400 .6

Montana ...................................... 478,000 482,000 4,000 .8

Nebraska .................................... 1,002,100 1,008,100 6,000 .6

New Hampshire ........................... 652,800 657,500 4,700 .7

New Jersey ................................. 3,876,500 3,897,300 20,800 .5

New Mexico ................................. 783,600 794,100 10,500 1.3

New York .................................... 8,784,100 8,847,800 63,700 .7

 

North Carolina ............................. 4,452,300 4,469,600 17,300 .4

North Dakota ............................... 412,500 415,900 3,400 .8

Oklahoma .................................... 1,612,000 1,627,600 15,600 1.0

Oregon ....................................... 1,820,500 1,840,600 20,100 1.1

Pennsylvania ............................... 5,654,500 5,678,500 24,000 .4

Tennessee .................................. 3,039,500 3,054,900 15,400 .5

Texas .......................................... 12,401,800 12,500,800 99,000 .8

Washington ................................. 3,301,500 3,330,200 28,700 .9

Wisconsin ................................... 2,836,900 2,849,800 12,900 .5

p

 = preliminary.

State Over-the-month change p
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Table E. States with statistically significant employment changes from March 2020 to

March 2021, seasonally adjusted

March March

2020 2021 p Level Percent

Alabama ..................................... 2,077,700 2,022,400 -55,300 -2.7

Alaska ........................................ 328,700 304,800 -23,900 -7.3

Arizona ....................................... 2,976,200 2,888,500 -87,700 -2.9

Arkansas .................................... 1,287,800 1,261,700 -26,100 -2.0

California .................................... 17,484,100 16,133,600 -1,350,500 -7.7

Colorado ..................................... 2,806,700 2,672,800 -133,900 -4.8

Connecticut ................................. 1,683,300 1,580,300 -103,000 -6.1

Delaware .................................... 465,200 445,200 -20,000 -4.3

District of Columbia ..................... 798,300 731,900 -66,400 -8.3

Florida ........................................ 8,999,400 8,553,600 -445,800 -5.0

 

Georgia ...................................... 4,637,000 4,486,000 -151,000 -3.3

Hawaii ........................................ 655,200 550,400 -104,800 -16.0

Illinois ......................................... 6,090,700 5,730,000 -360,700 -5.9

Indiana ....................................... 3,138,400 3,031,900 -106,500 -3.4

Iowa ........................................... 1,584,300 1,525,900 -58,400 -3.7

Kansas ....................................... 1,421,900 1,373,000 -48,900 -3.4

Kentucky .................................... 1,945,300 1,861,000 -84,300 -4.3

Louisiana .................................... 1,971,100 1,837,800 -133,300 -6.8

Maine ......................................... 636,600 609,600 -27,000 -4.2

Maryland ..................................... 2,749,700 2,628,100 -121,600 -4.4

 

Massachusetts ............................. 3,699,400 3,426,700 -272,700 -7.4

Michigan ..................................... 4,414,700 4,132,800 -281,900 -6.4

Minnesota ................................... 2,978,100 2,805,200 -172,900 -5.8

Mississippi .................................. 1,156,500 1,122,700 -33,800 -2.9

Missouri ...................................... 2,912,400 2,811,900 -100,500 -3.5

Nebraska .................................... 1,026,200 1,008,100 -18,100 -1.8

Nevada ....................................... 1,431,000 1,296,200 -134,800 -9.4

New Hampshire ........................... 681,900 657,500 -24,400 -3.6

New Jersey ................................. 4,197,200 3,897,300 -299,900 -7.1

New Mexico ................................. 859,100 794,100 -65,000 -7.6

 

New York .................................... 9,728,600 8,847,800 -880,800 -9.1

North Carolina ............................. 4,600,000 4,469,600 -130,400 -2.8

North Dakota ............................... 438,700 415,900 -22,800 -5.2

Ohio ........................................... 5,558,100 5,314,900 -243,200 -4.4

Oklahoma .................................... 1,692,300 1,627,600 -64,700 -3.8

Oregon ....................................... 1,958,400 1,840,600 -117,800 -6.0

Pennsylvania ............................... 6,047,700 5,678,500 -369,200 -6.1

Rhode Island ............................... 502,000 466,900 -35,100 -7.0

South Carolina ............................ 2,184,300 2,117,700 -66,600 -3.0

Tennessee .................................. 3,139,200 3,054,900 -84,300 -2.7

 

Texas .......................................... 12,906,000 12,500,800 -405,200 -3.1

Vermont ...................................... 312,400 288,700 -23,700 -7.6

Virginia ....................................... 4,069,600 3,887,600 -182,000 -4.5

Washington ................................. 3,497,600 3,330,200 -167,400 -4.8

West Virginia .............................. 714,100 681,400 -32,700 -4.6

Wisconsin ................................... 2,978,800 2,849,800 -129,000 -4.3

Wyoming .................................... 287,900 274,800 -13,100 -4.6

p

 = preliminary.

State Over-the-year change p
Technical Note

Special technical note: This technical note describes the 

procedures regularly used on a monthly basis to develop 

estimates from the CES survey and the LAUS program. Due to 

the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the procedures described in 

this technical note have been modified. The modifications are 

briefly described in the box note of this news release. More 

information on the changes to the CES business birth-death 

model is available at www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbd.htm.

This news release presents civilian labor force and 

unemployment data for states and selected substate areas from 

the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program 

(tables 1 and 2). Also presented are nonfarm payroll 

employment estimates by state and industry supersector from 

the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program (tables 3 and 

4). The LAUS and CES programs are both federal-state 

cooperative endeavors.

Civilian labor force and unemployment—from the 

LAUS program

 Definitions. The civilian 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 employed people and unemployed people on a placeof-residence basis. The universe for each is the civilian 

noninstitutional population 16 years of age and older. 

Employed people are those who did any work at all for pay or 

profit in the reference week (typically 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 bad weather, labor-management dispute, 

illness, or vacation. 

 Unemployed people 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; people

on layoff expecting recall need not be looking for work to be 

counted as unemployed. The civilian labor force is the sum of 

employed and unemployed people. The unemployment rate is 

the number of unemployed as a percent of the civilian labor 

force.

 Method of estimation. Estimates for 48 states, the District 

of Columbia, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale 

metropolitan division, New York City, and the balances of 

California and New York State are produced using time-series 

models. This method, which underwent substantial 

enhancement at the beginning of 2021, utilizes data from 

several sources, including the CPS, the CES, and state 

unemployment insurance (UI) programs. Estimates for the state 

of California are derived by summing the estimates for the Los 

Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale metropolitan division and the 

balance of California. Similarly, estimates for New York State

are derived by summing the estimates for New York City and 

the balance of New York State. Estimates for the five additional 

substate areas contained in this release (the Cleveland-Elyria 

and Detroit-Warren-Dearborn metropolitan areas and the 

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, Miami-Miami BeachKendall, and Seattle-Bellevue-Everett metropolitan divisions) 

and their respective balances of state are produced using a 

similar model-based approach.

 Each month, estimates for the nine census divisions first are

modeled using inputs from the CPS only and controlled to the 

national totals. State estimates then are controlled to their 

respective census division totals. Substate and balance-of-state 

estimates for the five areas noted above also are controlled to 

their respective state totals. This tiered process of controlling 

model-based estimates to the U.S. totals is called real-time 

benchmarking. Estimates for Puerto Rico are derived from a 

monthly household survey similar to the CPS. A more detailed 

description of the estimation procedures is available from BLS 

upon request.

 Annual revisions. Civilian labor force and unemployment 

data for prior years reflect adjustments made after the end of 

each year. The adjusted estimates reflect updated population 

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

data sources, and model re-estimation. In most years, historical 

data for the most recent five years are revised near the 

beginning of each calendar year, prior to the release of January 

estimates. With the introduction of a new generation of timesseries models in 2021, historical data were re-estimated back to 

the series beginnings in 1976, 1990, or 1994.

 Seasonal adjustment. The LAUS models decompose the 

estimates of employed and unemployed people into trend, 

seasonal, and irregular components. The benchmarked signals 

of employed and unemployed people first are adjusted using an 

X-11 type of seasonal adjustment filter. The adjusted data then 

are smoothed using a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space 

(RKHS) filter. The smoothed-seasonally adjusted estimates of 

employed and unemployed people are summed to derive the 

civilian labor force, and the unemployment rate then is 

calculated as the unemployed percent of the civilian labor force. 

The resulting smoothed-seasonally adjusted unemployment 

rate estimates are analyzed in this news release and published 

on the BLS website. 

 During estimation for the current year, the smoothedseasonally adjusted estimates for a given month are created 

using an asymmetric filter that incorporates information from 

previous observations only. For annual revisions, historical data 

are smoothed using a two-sided filter.

 Area definitions. The substate area data published in this 

release reflect the delineations that were issued by the U.S. 

Office of Management and Budget on April 10, 2018. A 

detailed list of the geographic definitions is available online at 

www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. 

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 2017 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, the sample of establishments is 

very small or highly variable. In these cases, a model-based 

approach is used in estimation. These models use the direct 

sample estimates (described above), combined with forecasts of 

historical (benchmarked) data to decrease volatility in 

estimation. Two different models (Fay-Herriot Model and 

Small Domain Model) are used depending on the industry level 

being estimated. For more detailed information about each 

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. Information on recent benchmark revisions 

is available online at www.bls.gov/web/laus/benchmark.pdf.

 Seasonal adjustment. Payroll employment data are 

seasonally adjusted at the statewide expanded supersector level. 

In some cases, the seasonally adjusted payroll employment total 

is computed by aggregating the independently adjusted 

supersector series. In other cases, the seasonally adjusted 

payroll employment total is independently adjusted. Revisions 

to historical data for the most recent five years are made once a 

year, coincident with annual benchmark adjustments.

 Payroll employment data are seasonally adjusted 

concurrently, using all available estimates, including those for 

the current month, to develop sample-based seasonal factors.

Concurrent sample-based factors are created every month for 

the current month’s preliminary estimate as well as the previous 

month’s final estimate.

 Caution on aggregating state data. State estimation 

procedures are designed to produce accurate data for each 

individual state. BLS independently develops a national

employment series; state estimates are not forced to sum to 

national totals. Each state series is subject to larger relative 

sampling and nonsampling errors than the national series.

Summing state estimates cumulates individual state-level errors 

and can cause significant distortions at an aggregate level. Due 

to these statistical limitations, BLS does not compile a "sum-ofstates" employment series, and cautions users that such a series 

is subject to a relatively large and volatile error structure.

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.

 Use of error measures. Changes in state unemployment 

rates and state nonfarm payroll employment are cited in the 

analysis of this release only if they have been determined to be 

statistically significant at the 90-percent confidence level. 

Furthermore, state unemployment rates for the current month 

generally are cited only if they have been determined to be 

significantly different from the U.S. rate at the 90-percent 

confidence level. The underlying model-based standard error 

measures for unemployment rates and over-the-month and 

over-the-year changes in rates are available at 

www.bls.gov/lau/lastderr.htm. The underlying standard error 

measures for 1-month, 3-month, and 12-month changes in 

payroll employment data at the total nonfarm and supersector 

levels for states, and total nonfarm level for metropolitan areas 

and divisions, are available at 

www.bls.gov/web/laus/790stderr.htm. Measures of 

nonsampling error are not available.

Additional information

 Estimates of civilian labor force and unemployment from the 

LAUS program, as well as nonfarm payroll employment from 

the CES program, for metropolitan areas and metropolitan 

divisions are available in the news release Metropolitan Area 

Employment and Unemployment. Estimates of civilian labor 

force, employed people, unemployed people, and 

unemployment rates for approximately 7,500 subnational areas 

are available online at www.bls.gov/lau/. Employment data 

from the CES program for states and metropolitan areas are 

available online at www.bls.gov/sae/. Information in this 

release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals 

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LABOR FORCE DATA

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and selected area, seasonally adjusted

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Number Percent of labor force

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,234,170 2,257,961 2,248,764 2,236,280 57,895 97,725 91,041 84,670 2.6 4.3 4.0 3.8

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352,404 354,958 351,058 348,617 18,073 23,585 23,305 23,174 5.1 6.6 6.6 6.6

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,587,701 3,571,263 3,580,631 3,587,380 180,953 239,896 247,405 240,454 5.0 6.7 6.9 6.7

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,372,102 1,375,929 1,363,690 1,359,901 53,851 63,524 61,606 60,199 3.9 4.6 4.5 4.4

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,168,665 18,668,523 18,942,703 18,902,983 864,091 1,679,840 1,610,021 1,560,415 4.5 9.0 8.5 8.3

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale1. . . . 4,938,802 4,877,008 5,116,841 5,104,945 265,453 613,077 587,265 579,091 5.4 12.6 11.5 11.3

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,099,232 3,183,395 3,182,752 3,188,532 146,120 211,191 204,661 205,377 4.7 6.6 6.4 6.4

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,915,644 1,839,727 1,712,565 1,729,780 73,444 149,181 145,588 143,238 3.8 8.1 8.5 8.3

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481,344 487,378 488,751 489,462 23,144 29,503 30,966 31,640 4.8 6.1 6.3 6.5

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420,581 409,154 408,389 406,931 21,686 34,354 33,230 31,551 5.2 8.4 8.1 7.8

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,629,624 10,068,685 10,124,393 10,169,969 522,791 481,626 474,337 474,626 4.9 4.8 4.7 4.7

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall1. . . . . . . . . . . 1,358,377 1,288,814 1,294,959 1,296,556 26,137 107,716 106,985 105,347 1.9 8.4 8.3 8.1

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,205,472 5,112,237 5,145,336 5,161,098 186,995 258,460 246,082 231,990 3.6 5.1 4.8 4.5

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671,079 655,766 655,838 649,537 13,993 67,650 60,578 58,750 2.1 10.3 9.2 9.0

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890,190 900,287 899,915 899,375 24,330 31,143 29,856 28,815 2.7 3.5 3.3 3.2

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,345,433 6,146,410 6,138,656 6,129,626 235,624 472,929 454,527 436,373 3.7 7.7 7.4 7.1

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights1. . . 3,686,683 3,572,488 3,578,310 3,577,646 135,324 317,556 310,487 293,543 3.7 8.9 8.7 8.2

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,346,411 3,347,810 3,342,841 3,336,946 111,373 141,379 133,929 130,285 3.3 4.2 4.0 3.9

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,721,723 1,625,153 1,630,927 1,634,307 50,101 58,010 60,695 60,875 2.9 3.6 3.7 3.7

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,495,882 1,502,248 1,508,461 1,510,600 47,476 51,784 57,137 56,468 3.2 3.4 3.8 3.7

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,075,112 1,989,380 1,993,096 1,990,548 86,804 106,401 103,384 99,553 4.2 5.3 5.2 5.0

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,150,787 2,084,330 2,075,645 2,074,153 114,765 158,490 157,179 152,115 5.3 7.6 7.6 7.3

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697,728 671,317 672,049 673,064 21,553 35,047 32,398 32,616 3.1 5.2 4.8 4.8

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,298,663 3,106,287 3,103,085 3,108,329 116,706 198,767 193,520 191,509 3.5 6.4 6.2 6.2

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,728,887 3,756,720 3,740,812 3,745,324 101,708 294,770 262,926 253,040 2.7 7.8 7.0 6.8

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,917,789 4,736,547 4,695,097 4,703,446 182,929 270,762 243,259 239,101 3.7 5.7 5.2 5.1

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,148,346 2,023,783 2,002,390 2,014,707 90,947 105,002 90,674 91,219 4.2 5.2 4.5 4.5

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,118,380 3,025,807 3,031,173 3,023,751 109,501 135,958 133,550 127,007 3.5 4.5 4.4 4.2

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,283,188 1,279,970 1,281,423 1,281,128 76,782 82,191 80,991 80,270 6.0 6.4 6.3 6.3

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,096,593 3,042,955 3,054,095 3,064,712 114,188 130,549 132,538 128,920 3.7 4.3 4.3 4.2

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542,146 532,910 531,262 531,701 20,489 21,219 20,749 19,978 3.8 4.0 3.9 3.8

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,043,236 1,024,822 1,020,915 1,020,135 32,103 32,710 31,948 30,061 3.1 3.2 3.1 2.9

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,587,900 1,536,046 1,547,256 1,552,901 102,089 130,563 130,594 126,356 6.4 8.5 8.4 8.1

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768,900 762,932 761,266 759,400 20,598 27,135 24,757 22,936 2.7 3.6 3.3 3.0

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,576,233 4,403,593 4,400,717 4,422,173 172,081 343,736 341,786 338,601 3.8 7.8 7.8 7.7

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963,348 958,879 959,116 956,691 52,130 83,276 79,688 79,052 5.4 8.7 8.3 8.3

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,490,040 9,283,011 9,289,219 9,524,018 374,316 815,457 825,965 804,942 3.9 8.8 8.9 8.5

New York City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,067,414 3,866,736 3,875,576 4,115,665 155,550 488,330 499,154 479,857 3.8 12.6 12.9 11.7

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,901,843 5,039,506 5,032,870 5,016,589 188,762 297,719 286,655 259,036 3.9 5.9 5.7 5.2

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406,525 404,511 404,881 404,057 9,468 18,244 19,314 17,725 2.3 4.5 4.8 4.4

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,836,682 5,768,594 5,754,831 5,751,459 286,964 306,082 287,758 272,068 4.9 5.3 5.0 4.7

Cleveland-Elyria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,009,421 1,017,142 994,736 997,295 52,624 74,097 50,717 49,485 5.2 7.3 5.1 5.0

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,844,387 1,864,691 1,865,515 1,865,329 59,716 81,269 81,293 79,214 3.2 4.4 4.4 4.2

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,106,741 2,150,483 2,152,231 2,156,152 76,643 133,451 130,917 129,285 3.6 6.2 6.1 6.0

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,525,913 6,294,551 6,336,114 6,337,250 331,852 457,170 469,060 462,470 5.1 7.3 7.4 7.3

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562,287 540,236 538,742 541,555 22,696 39,043 39,163 38,191 4.0 7.2 7.3 7.1

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,367,167 2,360,747 2,377,180 2,388,111 69,844 125,444 123,928 120,783 3.0 5.3 5.2 5.1

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462,755 470,476 472,209 469,154 13,510 14,443 14,149 13,554 2.9 3.1 3.0 2.9

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,328,051 3,317,190 3,308,398 3,314,748 134,201 170,240 162,310 166,704 4.0 5.1 4.9 5.0

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,986,789 14,063,544 14,005,206 14,032,203 680,008 958,561 970,315 967,516 4.9 6.8 6.9 6.9

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,631,706 1,630,721 1,630,643 1,632,094 41,397 50,194 48,899 46,570 2.5 3.1 3.0 2.9

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342,487 314,630 313,180 313,096 9,016 10,109 9,517 9,191 2.6 3.2 3.0 2.9

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,447,482 4,254,052 4,236,621 4,238,239 114,298 227,214 219,727 214,676 2.6 5.3 5.2 5.1

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,932,003 3,835,229 3,837,024 3,849,546 207,210 228,591 215,552 209,467 5.3 6.0 5.6 5.4

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,711,996 1,737,793 1,742,021 1,747,228 86,599 100,369 94,990 93,606 5.1 5.8 5.5 5.4

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805,737 796,469 796,069 795,653 42,686 51,604 49,663 47,273 5.3 6.5 6.2 5.9

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,065,273 3,056,717 3,059,420 3,066,256 98,749 116,894 116,563 117,243 3.2 3.8 3.8 3.8

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299,040 295,132 295,385 295,666 15,283 15,130 15,591 15,747 5.1 5.1 5.3 5.3

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 1,050,739 1,048,203 1,051,542 – 98,128 96,044 92,430 – 9.3 9.2 8.8

1 Metropolitan division.

2 Metropolitan statistical area.

p Preliminary

– Data not available

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. 18-03, dated April 10, 2018, and are available on the BLS website at https://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Estimates for the latest month are subject to revision the following

month.
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 2. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and selected area, not seasonally adjusted

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

February March Number Percent of labor force

2020 2021 2020 2021p

February March February March

2020 2021 2020 2021p 2020 2021 2020 2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,236,698 2,228,554 2,227,126 2,213,630 62,212 83,386 61,666 75,633 2.8 3.7 2.8 3.4

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350,406 346,481 349,989 343,912 18,227 24,507 21,832 24,588 5.2 7.1 6.2 7.1

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,597,043 3,590,240 3,585,541 3,600,382 162,885 253,833 186,149 232,833 4.5 7.1 5.2 6.5

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,371,586 1,353,169 1,367,760 1,358,770 55,507 72,037 57,100 64,739 4.0 5.3 4.2 4.8

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,514,077 19,020,738 19,167,207 18,912,315 844,212 1,598,534 974,161 1,551,202 4.3 8.4 5.1 8.2

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale1. . . . 5,218,494 5,125,343 4,941,316 5,103,370 245,988 556,617 276,380 555,124 4.7 10.9 5.6 10.9

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,163,054 3,178,875 3,079,676 3,156,337 91,030 211,931 153,311 206,319 2.9 6.7 5.0 6.5

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,912,972 1,685,742 1,903,646 1,724,725 76,856 140,032 80,956 143,201 4.0 8.3 4.3 8.3

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495,454 489,296 482,043 491,224 22,248 32,489 25,293 32,599 4.5 6.6 5.2 6.6

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425,308 407,673 420,428 403,736 20,714 30,949 22,944 28,128 4.9 7.6 5.5 7.0

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,501,385 10,221,907 10,566,114 10,271,970 321,065 516,995 531,061 543,013 3.1 5.1 5.0 5.3

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall1. . . . . . . . . . . 1,385,366 1,314,453 1,331,833 1,285,555 22,521 103,447 29,164 105,441 1.6 7.9 2.2 8.2

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,236,253 5,154,233 5,201,099 5,174,235 177,360 229,290 192,874 208,021 3.4 4.4 3.7 4.0

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675,724 658,637 670,957 651,735 11,645 56,643 14,196 55,875 1.7 8.6 2.1 8.6

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889,882 896,782 884,713 894,390 26,414 40,053 29,288 36,108 3.0 4.5 3.3 4.0

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,359,497 6,097,520 6,307,742 6,103,570 237,430 475,543 253,673 434,049 3.7 7.8 4.0 7.1

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights1. . . 3,700,823 3,564,997 3,683,584 3,573,292 135,881 313,004 144,554 275,065 3.7 8.8 3.9 7.7

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,360,761 3,300,840 3,313,299 3,296,498 114,552 155,827 123,603 153,805 3.4 4.7 3.7 4.7

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,736,013 1,650,496 1,709,220 1,640,146 55,416 82,098 60,457 72,510 3.2 5.0 3.5 4.4

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,505,032 1,500,139 1,487,454 1,507,020 49,549 58,056 52,338 57,536 3.3 3.9 3.5 3.8

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,073,203 1,974,131 2,071,046 1,981,069 90,378 100,063 100,710 99,174 4.4 5.1 4.9 5.0

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,138,252 2,041,035 2,146,472 2,059,165 90,410 144,228 113,933 135,345 4.2 7.1 5.3 6.6

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692,530 666,069 692,623 668,089 23,859 37,182 29,481 36,120 3.4 5.6 4.3 5.4

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,296,282 3,084,074 3,287,072 3,106,449 113,812 189,122 127,045 186,611 3.5 6.1 3.9 6.0

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,758,153 3,708,222 3,712,130 3,702,706 117,212 269,738 116,907 243,164 3.1 7.3 3.1 6.6

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,919,562 4,643,494 4,894,999 4,686,955 185,581 238,534 217,985 242,722 3.8 5.1 4.5 5.2

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,141,857 1,978,549 2,138,004 2,016,622 85,710 84,678 103,866 90,940 4.0 4.3 4.9 4.5

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,118,067 3,009,494 3,111,045 3,003,073 112,407 146,150 139,838 136,004 3.6 4.9 4.5 4.5

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,277,395 1,268,332 1,281,468 1,265,696 68,048 77,591 79,363 79,454 5.3 6.1 6.2 6.3

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,092,673 3,057,225 3,084,107 3,067,023 118,969 158,791 134,961 135,460 3.8 5.2 4.4 4.4

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542,851 528,910 539,456 530,458 22,794 26,270 25,551 23,429 4.2 5.0 4.7 4.4

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,044,596 1,013,732 1,039,301 1,015,073 31,919 32,022 36,687 28,495 3.1 3.2 3.5 2.8

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,611,382 1,552,065 1,586,360 1,548,115 57,476 124,289 105,533 117,885 3.6 8.0 6.7 7.6

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773,709 752,724 766,392 749,817 22,946 23,667 24,141 24,024 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,596,012 4,403,221 4,560,340 4,436,700 181,355 363,133 189,899 344,023 3.9 8.2 4.2 7.8

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966,815 955,199 955,595 947,531 49,236 78,941 52,848 75,461 5.1 8.3 5.5 8.0

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,524,311 9,215,509 9,463,134 9,436,946 394,346 889,674 419,555 798,744 4.1 9.7 4.4 8.5

New York City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,118,532 3,895,874 4,077,377 4,109,346 154,712 515,129 170,851 462,131 3.8 13.2 4.2 11.2

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,112,398 5,001,539 4,890,781 4,992,356 174,325 280,026 193,957 229,665 3.4 5.6 4.0 4.6

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405,223 400,731 402,014 400,457 11,444 21,993 12,846 19,348 2.8 5.5 3.2 4.8

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,882,748 5,704,897 5,821,848 5,721,419 292,656 316,838 337,584 280,126 5.0 5.6 5.8 4.9

Cleveland-Elyria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,065,483 975,492 1,004,201 982,983 57,479 47,254 62,192 47,913 5.4 4.8 6.2 4.9

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,851,114 1,863,302 1,834,662 1,854,700 57,949 95,622 61,962 75,918 3.1 5.1 3.4 4.1

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,106,874 2,135,709 2,098,879 2,153,827 75,501 142,236 89,389 140,284 3.6 6.7 4.3 6.5

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,528,280 6,322,924 6,471,607 6,290,511 328,362 502,160 361,564 460,786 5.0 7.9 5.6 7.3

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562,428 536,759 558,186 539,748 24,047 42,248 27,014 38,993 4.3 7.9 4.8 7.2

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,368,555 2,379,174 2,354,415 2,392,993 70,660 122,983 73,206 115,056 3.0 5.2 3.1 4.8

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460,964 468,708 459,393 466,772 14,905 16,798 16,100 15,309 3.2 3.6 3.5 3.3

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,341,965 3,298,451 3,306,102 3,298,593 128,090 160,386 142,819 167,333 3.8 4.9 4.3 5.1

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,262,779 14,047,933 13,953,661 14,096,630 501,576 1,058,776 704,889 1,009,732 3.5 7.5 5.1 7.2

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,640,139 1,641,809 1,626,054 1,636,857 43,633 59,216 47,156 47,017 2.7 3.6 2.9 2.9

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343,087 309,693 340,422 312,734 8,861 9,659 9,779 10,172 2.6 3.1 2.9 3.3

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,461,764 4,224,831 4,436,793 4,249,613 111,375 226,104 123,223 217,904 2.5 5.4 2.8 5.1

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,988,229 3,874,189 3,930,706 3,892,706 177,565 246,890 229,593 238,866 4.5 6.4 5.8 6.1

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,766,052 1,766,168 1,719,132 1,757,694 45,152 98,744 90,813 99,161 2.6 5.6 5.3 5.6

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805,171 790,202 794,966 783,020 46,326 54,312 49,152 47,923 5.8 6.9 6.2 6.1

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,070,731 3,057,176 3,041,275 3,070,311 107,685 148,925 115,879 146,583 3.5 4.9 3.8 4.8

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297,365 295,352 297,605 294,787 14,440 19,312 17,589 17,370 4.9 6.5 5.9 5.9

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,056,845 1,044,854 – 1,068,462 82,583 80,964 – 78,891 7.8 7.7 – 7.4

1 Metropolitan division.

2 Metropolitan statistical area.

p Preliminary

– Data not available

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. 18-03, dated April 10, 2018, and are available on the BLS website at https://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Estimates for the latest month are subject to revision the following

month.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and selected industry sector, seasonally adjusted

[In thousands]

State

Total1 Construction Manufacturing

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,077.7 2,014.3 2,020.9 2,022.4 94.0 95.4 94.6 94.1 270.8 264.1 267.1 267.9

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328.7 303.7 305.0 304.8 16.6 17.0 16.7 16.5 12.9 12.6 12.7 12.7

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,976.2 2,877.6 2,876.3 2,888.5 175.5 173.7 172.4 174.3 180.7 177.5 177.7 178.8

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,287.8 1,259.0 1,258.3 1,261.7 53.6 55.2 54.5 54.6 160.1 157.4 160.9 161.7

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,484.1 15,857.9 16,014.0 16,133.6 893.3 877.7 880.2 886.2 1,322.7 1,242.1 1,248.4 1,249.8

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,806.7 2,657.1 2,666.2 2,672.8 179.6 172.7 172.6 172.5 150.8 144.8 145.7 145.9

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,683.3 1,571.8 1,574.9 1,580.3 59.8 56.1 56.0 57.1 160.1 152.1 152.1 152.8

Delaware2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465.2 443.3 442.9 445.2 23.2 22.5 22.7 23.3 27.1 25.0 24.8 25.0

District of Columbia2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798.3 732.5 731.4 731.9 15.5 15.6 15.6 15.6 1.2 1.0 1.0 1.0

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,999.4 8,492.5 8,521.4 8,553.6 573.7 565.4 563.0 566.8 387.7 378.0 380.8 380.5

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,637.0 4,451.2 4,464.2 4,486.0 208.2 201.7 201.7 205.6 403.3 387.1 389.3 391.1

Hawaii2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655.2 542.5 545.1 550.4 36.9 37.1 36.7 36.3 13.7 11.2 11.2 11.4

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772.9 780.1 782.7 783.8 55.5 59.5 59.5 59.4 69.1 69.4 69.1 69.2

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,090.7 5,660.5 5,697.8 5,730.0 224.7 218.8 216.4 222.7 578.2 545.9 547.3 547.4

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,138.4 3,031.3 3,030.0 3,031.9 147.8 150.2 145.7 149.0 533.7 520.8 526.5 525.5

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,584.3 1,515.2 1,510.8 1,525.9 79.6 79.3 73.0 80.5 223.4 218.4 218.1 219.9

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,421.9 1,363.5 1,360.2 1,373.0 64.8 63.4 60.2 66.2 170.7 157.8 157.3 158.0

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,945.3 1,852.3 1,857.7 1,861.0 81.1 79.2 78.7 78.4 249.1 240.0 241.6 243.1

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,971.1 1,834.9 1,834.9 1,837.8 133.3 117.2 116.5 116.8 137.8 128.2 127.0 127.3

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636.6 603.0 605.5 609.6 30.6 30.6 30.6 30.4 53.6 52.6 52.9 52.9

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,749.7 2,613.8 2,615.0 2,628.1 166.2 161.7 162.2 164.6 112.4 109.4 107.7 108.3

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,699.4 3,394.2 3,413.9 3,426.7 166.2 163.6 162.0 164.5 242.5 228.5 230.8 230.6

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,414.7 4,057.1 4,117.4 4,132.8 177.9 174.8 171.5 174.4 617.1 573.7 573.9 573.7

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,978.1 2,771.2 2,783.6 2,805.2 127.1 122.4 117.0 124.9 322.7 308.2 307.6 309.5

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,156.5 1,123.2 1,119.3 1,122.7 44.9 44.7 44.4 44.9 145.7 142.0 142.2 141.6

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,912.4 2,807.7 2,796.5 2,811.9 128.3 125.2 123.8 127.7 276.1 270.3 266.6 269.7

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487.6 477.7 478.0 482.0 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.5 21.1 20.6 20.7 21.5

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,026.2 999.3 1,002.1 1,008.1 56.4 56.2 56.2 57.7 99.7 99.3 99.3 99.7

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,431.0 1,286.9 1,291.5 1,296.2 99.1 91.5 92.4 91.1 59.4 57.0 57.8 58.7

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681.9 648.3 652.8 657.5 28.8 27.6 27.9 27.9 70.8 66.4 66.7 67.6

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,197.2 3,865.7 3,876.5 3,897.3 163.4 149.5 145.1 148.9 249.8 239.0 240.2 242.3

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859.1 777.8 783.6 794.1 51.9 48.2 48.9 48.7 28.8 26.0 26.5 27.0

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,728.6 8,768.6 8,784.1 8,847.8 405.6 382.7 366.3 376.3 432.8 401.4 401.6 402.3

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,600.0 4,438.5 4,452.3 4,469.6 235.0 232.3 233.4 233.7 473.3 455.4 457.0 461.3

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438.7 411.1 412.5 415.9 28.2 27.1 26.3 27.7 26.5 25.4 25.3 25.3

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,558.1 5,304.3 5,302.2 5,314.9 229.5 223.2 223.6 226.5 692.4 657.7 657.2 659.4

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,692.3 1,620.5 1,612.0 1,627.6 81.4 79.3 76.0 79.7 138.2 128.5 128.2 129.6

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,958.4 1,805.2 1,820.5 1,840.6 111.8 109.0 108.9 109.6 195.1 184.8 184.5 186.5

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,047.7 5,640.1 5,654.5 5,678.5 263.4 251.6 252.3 251.4 568.8 537.0 537.8 542.0

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502.0 463.2 464.6 466.9 20.2 19.7 19.9 20.4 39.6 37.8 38.0 38.3

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,184.3 2,105.0 2,113.0 2,117.7 106.6 103.1 105.8 107.6 256.5 246.0 245.6 246.6

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440.5 432.0 433.0 435.3 23.9 24.1 24.5 24.8 44.4 43.5 43.3 43.4

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,139.2 3,028.8 3,039.5 3,054.9 131.8 128.8 128.1 128.9 353.8 344.2 345.4 346.8

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,906.0 12,404.2 12,401.8 12,500.8 779.9 726.6 725.4 744.5 907.9 858.9 859.9 867.4

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,568.7 1,570.1 1,578.7 1,583.5 114.2 117.9 120.2 120.6 137.2 138.5 140.9 141.3

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312.4 287.4 287.1 288.7 15.3 14.7 14.8 15.1 29.8 28.6 28.6 28.8

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,069.6 3,897.4 3,886.8 3,887.6 207.2 207.5 205.7 206.3 242.8 235.0 234.7 236.7

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,497.6 3,271.9 3,301.5 3,330.2 223.3 222.2 224.1 225.5 290.1 260.2 262.6 262.4

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714.1 676.3 679.7 681.4 33.2 30.4 30.7 30.8 46.6 44.4 44.3 44.5

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,978.8 2,837.7 2,836.9 2,849.8 126.7 123.0 119.5 122.1 478.2 467.5 469.4 471.5

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287.9 273.0 273.8 274.8 22.9 20.2 19.8 20.0 9.9 9.4 9.6 9.5

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887.3 847.4 848.8 851.2 27.8 29.7 29.7 29.8 76.0 76.7 77.3 77.6

Virgin Islands3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.1 34.1 34.4 34.4 4.7 2.8 2.8 2.9 – – – –

1

Includes mining and logging, information, and other services (except public administration), not shown separately.

2 Mining and logging is combined with construction.

3 Missing series (denoted by ’-’) are not published seasonally adjusted because the seasonal component, which is small relative to the trend-cycle and irregular components,

cannot be separated with sufficient precision.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates are currently estimated from 2020 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmarks are

preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and selected industry sector, seasonally adjusted-Continued

[In thousands]

State

Trade, transportation, and utilities Financial activities Professional and business services

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382.4 377.2 381.2 381.6 97.8 96.0 95.2 97.0 252.5 251.5 251.8 251.2

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.0 58.9 59.4 59.7 11.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 28.3 26.6 26.5 25.7

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.8 563.9 570.6 571.9 233.8 230.3 229.9 230.8 449.4 432.8 432.3 434.3

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251.8 252.7 251.9 251.1 64.3 63.9 64.1 64.8 144.7 143.3 143.5 143.7

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,053.7 2,952.7 2,962.6 2,994.8 846.0 809.0 807.9 807.3 2,733.9 2,609.7 2,621.6 2,643.6

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482.4 484.4 486.0 487.3 176.0 175.3 173.6 173.1 447.6 439.2 436.4 439.7

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293.1 290.6 291.4 289.3 122.5 118.9 118.6 119.2 217.8 203.3 205.6 203.0

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.4 80.9 81.4 81.0 47.6 47.0 46.8 47.0 64.6 61.6 61.5 62.0

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.1 29.3 29.3 29.1 29.8 28.2 28.0 28.0 174.4 165.0 165.0 165.0

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,812.8 1,748.5 1,757.4 1,763.7 602.1 597.5 598.9 599.8 1,399.7 1,366.2 1,376.1 1,381.7

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949.6 946.9 951.1 951.6 254.9 250.0 249.1 250.6 726.6 707.0 711.0 716.8

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.0 100.5 101.7 102.1 29.8 26.5 26.5 26.8 74.4 66.2 67.2 68.4

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147.2 153.6 154.0 154.5 37.2 39.7 40.0 40.7 99.8 101.0 101.4 99.7

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,202.2 1,179.0 1,179.4 1,181.4 414.7 403.0 402.2 401.5 940.0 913.1 911.9 918.2

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598.9 606.0 601.2 598.2 142.7 140.7 140.3 141.0 344.9 334.1 332.9 329.2

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309.3 307.2 307.3 308.0 110.2 109.8 110.2 110.8 140.0 136.0 135.0 136.4

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266.8 267.9 266.1 267.5 78.0 76.3 75.9 75.7 174.9 170.6 171.3 173.3

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405.6 404.5 403.0 404.0 95.3 95.4 95.1 95.7 217.6 211.5 212.5 213.4

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375.7 362.0 364.2 364.2 93.8 87.1 88.2 88.4 215.0 204.1 205.9 205.4

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.0 113.8 114.4 114.7 33.3 32.7 32.4 32.4 69.8 69.1 69.3 69.5

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471.7 461.5 460.4 459.7 141.4 137.0 135.1 135.8 458.3 451.6 455.8 459.0

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578.0 552.8 554.5 555.4 222.5 218.6 219.2 219.2 610.7 588.5 596.2 594.9

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794.6 774.6 777.6 781.2 228.6 224.1 224.6 224.7 649.9 612.6 616.0 618.1

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528.1 503.9 505.2 509.1 195.8 194.4 194.1 193.6 381.7 356.7 355.7 361.2

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.7 232.7 232.8 233.2 44.1 42.3 42.0 42.1 109.1 107.7 108.3 110.8

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539.7 542.1 541.2 540.9 176.4 172.9 171.9 170.2 383.6 373.3 370.4 372.6

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.1 94.5 94.5 93.8 26.6 26.0 25.7 26.2 44.4 45.2 45.0 44.7

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195.9 195.4 194.7 196.2 75.4 74.4 73.8 74.0 121.2 117.9 118.8 118.7

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266.3 271.4 273.6 275.1 70.3 67.9 67.7 67.8 199.4 180.3 181.6 183.7

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.0 136.8 138.8 138.8 34.4 33.8 34.2 34.3 84.9 87.4 87.5 88.3

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889.7 842.5 843.3 846.6 251.6 248.5 249.3 249.7 687.0 649.3 653.3 653.5

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.8 132.0 133.2 133.4 35.6 32.2 31.9 32.1 113.3 108.7 108.5 110.1

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,540.7 1,388.1 1,389.8 1,395.0 732.7 702.7 701.5 699.3 1,349.0 1,240.0 1,249.9 1,260.7

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855.5 865.7 868.9 870.0 257.9 257.2 257.3 258.0 653.0 657.9 664.8 668.6

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.3 89.4 89.3 89.0 24.9 24.6 24.6 24.7 33.0 31.0 31.2 31.9

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,032.7 1,030.7 1,030.7 1,032.2 307.7 307.9 308.2 309.1 727.2 697.0 698.1 700.3

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306.5 304.5 304.1 304.0 78.2 76.9 75.8 75.6 194.9 184.9 183.7 185.4

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360.9 358.2 360.2 361.5 104.7 102.2 103.1 103.1 255.2 245.7 246.8 248.1

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,126.7 1,100.4 1,100.7 1,101.9 333.4 323.3 323.3 323.4 811.4 771.6 769.8 770.6

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.0 74.4 74.2 74.5 35.4 34.2 34.2 34.6 68.3 63.8 64.4 64.5

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410.2 408.0 412.6 414.2 107.2 105.7 105.6 106.2 290.8 286.3 287.1 287.5

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.0 85.9 86.4 86.5 28.7 28.2 28.2 28.3 33.6 32.2 32.2 32.8

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640.9 640.9 642.8 649.6 174.8 170.9 169.9 169.7 431.4 428.2 432.5 433.9

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,534.0 2,521.8 2,537.5 2,547.8 818.1 815.8 816.1 826.0 1,824.7 1,821.5 1,807.9 1,822.7

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289.7 299.1 300.5 301.2 93.3 97.4 97.6 97.4 225.4 236.8 236.2 236.3

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.4 50.9 50.5 50.7 12.3 11.9 11.8 11.8 29.8 29.6 29.6 29.7

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658.5 655.3 655.6 653.4 214.1 207.7 207.2 206.1 775.6 766.8 766.3 768.6

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651.3 641.7 646.9 648.7 162.8 157.3 158.1 158.3 442.8 433.6 435.6 436.3

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.8 122.1 122.2 123.0 29.8 28.7 28.2 28.5 68.7 66.5 66.6 66.9

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535.6 528.0 528.2 528.0 155.0 150.3 150.0 151.3 321.5 319.1 321.2 319.5

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.7 50.8 51.3 51.3 11.2 10.9 11.0 11.2 19.0 18.7 18.8 18.5

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.9 168.9 169.9 170.7 45.2 43.1 43.2 43.3 124.4 119.5 118.7 119.1

Virgin Islands1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.0 6.5 6.4 6.4 – – – – – – – –

1 Missing series (denoted by ’-’) are not published seasonally adjusted because the seasonal component, which is small relative to the trend-cycle and irregular

components, cannot be separated with sufficient precision.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates are currently estimated from 2020 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmarks are

preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and selected industry sector, seasonally adjusted-Continued

[In thousands]

State

Education and health services Leisure and hospitality Government

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Mar.

2020

Jan.

2021

Feb.

2021

Mar.

2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252.0 237.7 236.4 238.7 204.2 189.7 190.4 185.2 394.8 383.1 383.9 385.0

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.1 49.2 49.4 49.4 35.6 27.1 27.3 27.4 79.5 76.5 76.8 76.8

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475.4 465.5 465.1 466.9 327.5 279.9 280.6 282.0 423.6 407.0 399.9 401.6

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194.2 187.5 186.7 188.4 120.8 111.4 109.1 109.7 213.5 205.3 205.2 204.9

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,855.0 2,724.5 2,737.9 2,739.1 1,984.7 1,257.7 1,365.7 1,408.1 2,611.8 2,405.0 2,397.2 2,399.4

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351.4 339.0 340.0 341.1 338.1 264.8 277.3 276.2 461.9 436.8 435.0 435.8

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348.8 324.3 322.9 328.3 150.7 118.9 121.0 122.6 234.4 221.0 220.9 221.3

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.5 77.0 76.8 77.7 50.7 44.1 43.4 43.9 67.4 65.3 65.6 65.1

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130.1 123.9 122.8 122.6 77.2 37.6 39.5 40.1 238.3 241.7 240.8 240.9

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,362.2 1,308.4 1,311.4 1,317.1 1,239.2 990.7 994.1 1,003.2 1,130.6 1,080.7 1,081.2 1,080.5

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615.3 589.6 593.0 595.5 487.5 421.5 427.2 429.4 694.0 672.0 667.7 669.8

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.2 81.9 81.7 82.0 124.7 74.6 77.1 80.4 127.4 116.3 115.1 115.2

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.5 112.9 114.1 114.9 83.6 82.3 82.7 83.2 127.5 125.8 126.0 126.2

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945.8 886.4 886.4 891.5 602.7 411.9 443.7 457.4 827.8 775.8 784.0 781.4

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478.9 461.5 463.2 464.9 304.4 272.7 273.8 276.9 427.6 402.7 403.7 405.7

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236.1 221.0 220.9 221.7 141.4 118.7 120.2 121.8 263.9 249.3 250.5 251.5

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203.6 198.1 197.9 198.9 127.3 111.3 114.1 115.7 260.0 247.1 246.4 246.8

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.3 275.5 276.2 276.1 197.1 167.1 166.9 166.1 310.8 290.1 294.8 294.8

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326.4 314.0 313.3 313.2 229.7 192.7 195.4 197.2 330.9 316.8 313.1 313.2

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.3 124.6 124.7 126.1 68.5 54.4 55.5 57.0 102.1 95.8 96.3 96.9

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471.1 447.2 448.4 449.5 271.0 213.7 216.6 219.2 508.8 497.3 493.7 496.6

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820.4 751.9 755.7 758.7 361.9 257.5 268.3 274.3 463.4 429.1 423.6 425.3

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685.7 643.1 643.7 644.3 418.3 285.9 340.3 346.2 615.7 569.7 569.2 569.3

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560.8 539.1 540.8 541.1 268.6 194.8 210.0 214.3 426.7 403.0 406.3 404.6

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.5 139.1 138.3 139.1 136.0 124.0 122.3 122.2 242.3 235.4 233.8 234.0

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497.1 484.2 480.0 488.1 303.2 257.1 261.6 262.2 439.4 422.0 421.3 421.3

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.7 78.5 78.2 79.0 67.3 62.1 63.0 64.3 91.5 88.6 88.6 89.4

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155.8 155.3 156.3 157.5 91.9 82.0 82.5 83.4 174.6 165.8 167.7 167.8

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147.5 144.3 144.8 143.6 349.5 247.7 249.2 250.1 167.3 161.2 158.6 159.2

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123.9 116.9 117.4 118.4 71.4 61.0 61.4 62.4 89.3 84.3 84.7 85.4

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723.8 666.3 669.6 673.8 386.2 293.1 299.1 304.8 604.9 566.9 565.5 566.3

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.3 134.9 135.4 136.6 98.7 71.4 74.9 81.0 188.2 172.3 172.1 172.9

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,151.5 1,996.6 2,009.9 2,021.4 911.2 609.7 622.2 642.3 1,501.5 1,441.4 1,433.9 1,436.4

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630.2 597.4 597.8 599.2 506.7 435.1 437.1 441.2 738.0 699.1 698.0 698.4

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.7 65.5 66.2 66.0 39.6 34.9 35.7 36.1 83.2 79.9 80.4 80.5

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941.8 899.6 892.0 895.6 554.3 480.9 486.5 485.4 788.0 744.6 743.0 744.1

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.4 233.3 231.1 233.6 171.2 162.9 163.7 169.0 353.6 341.1 340.9 341.6

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314.1 294.1 295.1 296.1 211.0 139.0 148.8 162.7 299.8 275.0 275.1 275.3

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,304.3 1,233.9 1,231.2 1,239.7 560.0 426.4 441.4 447.5 706.0 669.2 667.3 669.2

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.6 100.4 99.9 100.7 58.2 45.9 46.2 46.7 65.1 61.7 62.0 61.6

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260.6 251.3 252.0 251.4 264.8 238.1 235.7 235.7 377.7 362.3 364.5 364.4

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.3 74.1 74.0 74.3 46.2 42.0 42.6 43.3 80.0 78.4 78.5 78.4

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447.0 431.1 429.8 429.2 343.1 292.4 296.9 300.0 442.7 425.9 426.6 429.1

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,772.2 1,706.2 1,706.6 1,717.2 1,377.9 1,216.6 1,211.9 1,235.0 2,001.2 1,959.4 1,957.1 1,949.5

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212.1 209.0 209.7 211.0 152.4 141.8 142.0 141.7 253.4 243.0 243.6 244.3

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.3 62.4 62.1 62.4 35.6 24.4 24.7 25.0 55.8 50.8 50.9 51.0

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554.6 530.8 532.8 532.5 407.1 337.7 331.8 330.5 739.0 705.1 702.2 702.2

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506.8 502.7 505.0 507.6 339.4 237.4 250.7 264.1 593.2 542.7 543.1 549.0

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.7 128.3 128.0 128.5 72.6 62.8 64.0 65.0 154.6 146.0 148.0 146.7

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467.3 447.6 446.7 448.7 279.4 225.4 227.8 231.8 411.7 382.5 379.2 381.0

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.7 28.5 28.1 28.2 37.2 35.6 36.2 36.8 68.4 66.0 65.8 65.9

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.1 111.2 110.6 111.4 80.5 70.9 73.0 72.3 204.1 195.8 194.8 195.2

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4 2.1 2.1 2.1 6.2 4.4 4.5 4.6 10.9 10.5 10.5 10.5

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates are currently estimated from 2020 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmarks are

preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 4. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and selected industry sector, not seasonally adjusted

[In thousands]

State

Total Mining and logging Construction

February March February March February March

2020 2021 2020 2021p2020 2021 2020 2021p2020 2021 2020 2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,073.8 2,010.4 2,070.4 2,019.5 9.9 9.8 9.6 9.8 93.6 92.0 94.4 92.6

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317.3 293.9 316.9 294.8 13.3 10.0 13.2 10.4 14.3 14.5 14.5 14.4

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,007.6 2,885.6 2,987.7 2,901.7 12.7 12.5 12.8 12.6 175.2 170.4 174.4 173.6

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,287.6 1,249.3 1,287.9 1,258.7 5.5 5.2 5.6 5.3 51.8 52.7 52.7 53.3

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,604.1 15,945.6 17,439.8 16,080.9 21.6 18.4 21.5 18.5 891.9 860.4 876.3 866.5

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,797.5 2,649.6 2,788.4 2,662.3 26.4 18.8 26.2 19.4 172.8 165.7 174.9 167.5

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,675.7 1,552.4 1,664.5 1,564.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.4 53.3 50.4 54.9 52.5

Delaware1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459.3 434.1 459.6 439.5 – – – – 22.5 21.5 22.9 22.6

District of Columbia1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801.9 729.1 799.5 730.9 – – – – 15.2 15.3 15.3 15.3

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,110.4 8,539.9 9,047.4 8,599.5 5.5 5.5 5.4 5.5 574.5 558.5 572.6 564.1

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,646.2 4,444.1 4,628.8 4,474.4 9.6 9.5 9.6 9.6 206.5 200.0 206.9 205.2

Hawaii1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663.9 547.8 657.8 553.4 – – – – 36.8 36.7 36.6 36.2

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763.8 771.5 766.4 776.3 3.6 3.5 3.3 3.4 51.9 55.9 53.4 56.7

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,044.4 5,605.3 6,020.3 5,661.5 7.2 6.0 7.4 6.3 202.0 187.2 207.1 204.0

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,131.8 2,994.7 3,118.7 3,010.4 5.7 4.9 5.7 5.2 138.7 134.3 140.9 140.3

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,567.2 1,486.1 1,566.3 1,506.5 2.0 2.0 2.2 2.1 67.4 61.2 70.2 69.6

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,418.7 1,347.7 1,414.6 1,368.0 6.4 5.6 6.3 5.7 61.0 55.3 62.9 63.3

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,935.2 1,833.9 1,929.5 1,845.0 8.4 7.2 8.2 7.1 75.4 73.5 77.8 75.0

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,988.6 1,826.7 1,968.5 1,833.8 35.0 27.2 34.7 28.3 135.5 115.5 134.0 115.7

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621.9 587.2 618.5 590.0 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.1 28.1 27.1 28.0 27.3

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,741.2 2,578.5 2,725.9 2,610.5 1.3 1.2 1.3 1.2 161.7 155.2 162.6 160.5

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,668.2 3,344.4 3,641.8 3,367.7 0.9 0.8 0.9 0.9 153.4 148.0 155.0 152.9

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,396.8 4,056.6 4,373.5 4,090.0 6.5 6.7 6.5 6.7 159.5 155.0 162.9 161.8

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,949.2 2,733.7 2,925.7 2,758.3 6.3 5.8 6.3 5.9 109.8 100.1 111.2 109.0

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,158.1 1,113.4 1,153.0 1,118.9 6.4 5.5 6.4 5.6 44.1 43.1 45.0 44.5

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,892.3 2,759.9 2,891.8 2,797.2 4.3 4.3 4.4 4.3 120.9 113.8 123.8 122.6

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478.6 466.4 478.7 473.0 6.8 6.3 6.7 6.3 27.0 26.6 28.0 28.1

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,018.5 986.8 1,017.3 999.8 0.9 0.9 0.9 1.0 51.6 50.9 53.4 54.3

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,434.1 1,281.7 1,426.2 1,290.9 14.7 14.3 14.8 14.7 97.3 89.6 97.4 90.5

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683.5 644.8 676.6 648.0 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 26.8 26.1 27.1 25.9

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,158.3 3,806.5 4,145.0 3,846.8 1.4 1.3 1.4 1.4 152.9 133.4 155.6 140.8

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858.6 778.8 856.2 790.6 25.3 17.4 25.0 17.7 51.0 48.1 51.3 48.2

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,727.1 8,664.5 9,644.9 8,757.5 4.8 4.8 4.9 5.0 381.9 336.3 383.2 350.5

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,602.5 4,422.4 4,589.0 4,460.5 5.8 5.6 5.8 5.7 231.4 229.1 232.4 231.5

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432.8 404.1 431.9 409.1 20.5 13.1 20.4 14.1 23.1 21.5 23.4 23.4

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,532.3 5,219.9 5,497.2 5,257.8 10.2 8.5 10.2 8.9 210.8 199.8 214.0 209.4

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,693.1 1,598.7 1,688.8 1,620.6 38.4 24.9 37.6 25.6 79.9 74.3 80.5 78.2

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,957.2 1,803.2 1,945.6 1,828.9 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.0 108.3 103.8 108.5 105.2

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,024.4 5,580.9 6,001.3 5,625.1 25.5 20.8 25.3 21.1 242.6 232.2 247.5 236.0

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497.9 452.4 493.9 457.6 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 18.3 17.8 18.5 18.5

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,175.8 2,091.9 2,174.0 2,108.3 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.5 105.3 105.5 105.5 107.2

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433.5 424.2 432.4 427.6 0.9 0.8 0.9 0.9 20.6 21.6 21.2 22.5

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,134.5 3,023.6 3,127.7 3,045.7 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.1 128.1 124.8 129.3 127.4

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,926.2 12,346.4 12,869.4 12,477.5 235.0 179.4 232.4 184.5 776.4 714.4 777.0 739.9

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,567.2 1,568.1 1,565.3 1,579.1 9.0 8.2 9.2 8.3 109.8 114.6 111.4 117.0

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315.7 287.9 312.4 290.2 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 13.5 12.1 13.4 12.5

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,055.2 3,843.2 4,046.2 3,864.4 7.6 6.8 7.6 7.1 201.6 198.7 203.1 201.5

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,478.7 3,265.0 3,471.5 3,305.2 5.5 5.3 5.5 5.3 216.1 217.9 218.8 222.1

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707.7 668.8 706.7 676.8 19.7 19.0 19.5 19.3 27.8 26.7 29.0 28.7

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,950.2 2,790.1 2,940.2 2,810.2 3.6 3.3 3.6 3.4 113.9 105.4 115.7 110.9

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.8 266.6 281.4 268.6 19.8 14.5 19.5 14.9 20.3 17.5 20.7 18.2

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878.0 847.4 887.1 851.0 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 27.0 29.5 27.4 29.8

Virgin Islands1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.9 34.5 40.4 34.5 – – – – 4.7 2.8 4.8 2.9

1 Mining and logging is combined with construction.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates are currently estimated from 2020 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmarks are

preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 4. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and selected industry sector, not seasonally adjustedContinued

[In thousands]

State

Manufacturing Trade, transportation, and utilities Information

February March February March February March

2020 2021 2020 2021p

2020 2021 2020 2021p2020 2021 2020 2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270.4 266.6 270.6 268.3 379.7 378.9 379.2 380.5 20.8 18.7 20.5 19.0

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.4 11.7 11.9 11.7 60.3 55.7 60.3 56.4 5.1 4.7 5.1 4.7

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.3 176.9 180.2 178.1 550.6 567.1 550.0 569.1 50.1 45.3 49.2 44.5

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.1 160.5 160.0 161.3 249.1 248.6 249.5 248.4 12.6 11.5 12.6 11.3

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,319.3 1,238.2 1,316.8 1,243.4 3,038.8 2,939.8 3,012.1 2,955.8 592.4 523.1 587.7 528.3

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.1 145.4 150.4 145.3 477.6 483.3 476.7 484.4 78.2 74.1 77.9 74.3

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160.0 150.8 159.5 151.9 289.0 285.3 287.7 284.2 31.4 27.6 31.2 27.5

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.0 24.6 27.0 24.8 79.4 80.4 79.1 79.8 3.9 3.6 3.9 3.6

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 1.0 1.2 1.0 32.7 29.2 32.7 29.0 20.7 19.1 20.7 19.2

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389.5 380.1 387.8 381.4 1,815.7 1,755.7 1,806.2 1,760.6 139.6 129.4 137.8 130.2

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404.7 389.6 403.8 390.9 943.6 944.1 941.6 947.5 120.4 112.8 121.8 113.9

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.7 11.1 13.7 11.3 125.2 101.6 124.0 101.9 9.9 6.5 8.0 6.5

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.7 68.3 68.8 68.6 144.8 151.5 145.3 152.6 8.0 6.9 7.9 6.9

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578.9 544.8 576.8 545.8 1,186.8 1,162.6 1,185.9 1,164.3 93.9 86.2 93.5 85.7

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535.9 523.7 534.1 524.9 590.9 591.2 591.0 590.3 28.3 25.1 28.1 24.6

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222.7 216.7 222.4 218.5 304.4 302.5 304.4 302.7 20.5 17.8 20.4 17.7

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170.1 156.4 169.7 157.8 263.6 262.6 262.8 264.2 18.2 16.4 18.1 16.3

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.8 241.2 249.0 243.0 401.3 397.4 400.6 398.4 21.5 20.0 21.4 20.1

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.9 125.4 137.7 126.7 375.5 360.9 373.7 361.6 22.9 17.5 21.5 17.2

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.7 51.9 52.6 51.8 114.1 111.2 113.6 110.6 7.0 6.4 6.8 6.4

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.7 107.2 111.3 107.8 463.8 451.6 462.2 452.1 35.6 31.3 35.3 30.8

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241.4 229.0 241.2 229.2 568.4 544.1 564.3 545.1 94.0 87.8 94.0 88.5

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618.1 570.7 615.1 570.2 782.4 760.9 780.0 767.1 55.0 48.9 54.9 49.5

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319.2 302.5 319.1 305.4 520.9 495.8 517.5 501.1 45.8 40.1 45.2 39.8

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147.2 142.5 145.9 141.0 228.6 231.0 228.1 231.3 10.4 9.4 10.3 9.3

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275.7 266.2 275.3 270.1 533.6 532.7 533.4 535.3 47.3 44.4 47.2 43.7

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.8 20.4 20.7 21.1 92.9 93.0 92.6 92.4 6.1 5.7 6.0 5.8

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.6 98.8 99.6 99.3 193.7 191.3 193.2 194.1 17.2 15.7 17.1 15.7

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.3 57.5 59.5 58.4 262.7 270.7 262.2 272.1 15.3 13.3 14.7 13.1

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.4 66.3 70.5 67.1 137.6 135.7 137.3 135.7 12.4 11.6 12.4 11.7

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.0 238.5 249.3 241.2 875.2 831.4 874.3 834.2 71.0 65.1 70.3 66.0

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.4 26.0 28.2 26.6 135.9 131.5 135.4 131.8 9.9 8.4 10.4 8.0

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431.9 399.2 429.9 402.5 1,522.0 1,365.4 1,511.8 1,369.3 292.3 265.0 293.5 269.3

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474.2 456.2 472.3 459.5 846.4 857.8 846.7 861.1 76.2 76.6 76.2 77.0

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.1 24.8 26.2 25.0 92.0 88.0 92.1 88.0 5.9 5.7 6.0 5.7

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692.4 657.3 690.0 659.5 1,018.5 1,016.4 1,016.1 1,018.0 68.3 62.8 67.8 63.0

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.1 127.4 138.9 129.3 302.5 299.1 303.0 300.1 19.8 17.4 19.7 17.3

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193.7 181.9 192.8 184.4 356.1 355.0 354.8 356.5 35.3 32.9 34.6 32.7

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567.6 533.9 566.9 540.1 1,115.4 1,084.4 1,113.3 1,086.3 88.6 79.7 87.6 79.9

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.8 37.8 39.6 38.4 75.8 72.5 75.7 72.7 5.8 5.0 5.7 4.9

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.8 245.5 256.1 246.1 405.4 407.7 406.0 410.8 25.7 25.0 26.0 24.9

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.3 43.0 44.2 43.3 84.3 85.1 84.3 85.0 5.5 4.7 5.4 4.8

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353.8 346.6 352.9 347.4 636.8 638.3 634.8 643.5 45.5 43.4 45.1 43.4

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909.5 858.2 906.6 866.7 2,513.9 2,520.1 2,506.0 2,529.1 210.9 200.3 209.2 201.6

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.9 140.4 136.8 140.9 287.0 297.6 286.6 298.6 39.7 38.1 39.5 39.0

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.8 28.2 29.5 28.6 53.2 49.9 52.5 49.7 4.3 3.9 4.2 3.9

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241.9 234.1 241.8 236.6 649.9 645.1 649.2 644.0 68.1 64.4 68.5 63.0

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.5 260.6 287.7 260.5 640.3 636.3 641.0 639.1 148.2 151.9 148.9 153.3

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.5 44.2 46.4 44.5 122.8 119.2 122.3 121.0 7.9 7.2 7.9 7.3

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474.4 464.9 474.2 467.6 526.0 518.0 526.6 517.4 46.9 45.0 46.8 44.6

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.8 9.4 9.7 9.4 50.6 50.2 50.5 50.2 3.2 2.8 3.2 2.8

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.2 77.1 76.0 77.5 171.9 169.3 171.6 170.0 18.6 14.6 18.8 14.9

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 7.2 6.5 7.2 6.4 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.5

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates are currently estimated from 2020 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmarks are

preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 4. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and selected industry sector, not seasonally adjustedContinued

[In thousands]

State

Financial activities Professional and business services Education and health services

February March February March February March

2020 2021 2020 2021p

2020 2021 2020 2021p2020 2021 2020 2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.1 94.3 97.1 96.2 251.5 249.6 251.4 249.3 252.5 237.5 250.1 238.3

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1 10.4 11.1 10.4 27.2 25.7 27.4 24.9 51.4 49.8 51.3 49.8

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233.9 231.0 233.5 230.3 451.1 432.3 447.0 432.6 480.2 466.7 477.3 469.1

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.1 63.5 63.9 64.3 145.4 143.2 145.9 144.2 196.0 187.2 195.3 189.2

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847.8 807.4 840.6 803.5 2,753.3 2,609.0 2,713.3 2,632.7 2,886.3 2,746.0 2,876.1 2,746.7

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.9 173.1 175.3 172.0 439.8 428.2 439.0 432.4 354.6 342.3 351.5 342.7

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121.8 117.9 121.6 118.9 211.9 200.8 213.3 199.5 353.3 325.1 349.3 328.0

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.7 46.5 47.5 46.8 62.7 60.1 63.1 61.3 81.7 76.7 81.6 77.7

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.7 27.8 29.8 27.7 174.2 164.3 173.9 163.9 133.5 125.5 133.6 125.3

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602.7 598.0 601.0 599.0 1,409.8 1,376.0 1,394.5 1,380.2 1,375.9 1,315.1 1,366.9 1,322.7

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.5 249.4 254.1 250.8 726.6 706.7 723.3 710.8 620.2 594.8 617.7 597.9

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.9 26.5 29.8 26.8 74.8 67.2 74.3 68.6 88.5 81.7 88.0 82.1

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.9 39.7 36.9 40.4 97.5 99.5 98.4 98.3 115.5 114.7 115.3 115.4

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410.8 400.3 411.4 399.3 925.8 888.5 915.7 889.7 952.6 891.7 949.8 896.4

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.2 139.7 141.3 139.6 338.8 323.0 337.4 320.8 483.2 466.5 479.9 468.9

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.7 109.5 109.5 110.1 137.2 132.3 136.8 133.5 241.0 223.5 239.7 224.8

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.7 75.4 77.3 75.2 172.5 167.9 172.4 171.0 205.6 198.2 203.4 199.7

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.9 94.6 94.4 95.4 214.0 208.5 213.4 209.4 291.3 277.3 289.6 276.4

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.9 88.3 93.4 88.1 218.3 204.9 215.0 204.5 326.2 313.5 323.6 313.2

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.8 31.9 32.8 32.0 68.6 67.8 67.9 67.6 130.8 125.1 130.2 126.5

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.3 134.1 140.5 134.6 452.1 448.2 452.5 453.9 477.9 450.0 472.8 452.3

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221.0 217.6 220.1 217.1 597.6 581.5 595.5 580.1 831.8 759.3 826.3 762.6

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227.5 222.7 226.2 222.8 649.3 610.8 646.0 613.0 692.6 646.3 687.4 647.6

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194.9 192.9 194.3 192.2 377.2 348.7 371.5 352.9 566.1 540.5 561.2 541.4

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.1 41.8 43.9 41.9 110.4 105.9 108.5 110.0 147.5 139.2 146.6 139.8

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.2 171.1 174.8 169.2 379.7 366.5 379.4 370.9 501.4 483.5 496.2 489.8

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.3 25.6 26.3 26.0 43.2 43.4 43.2 43.2 80.5 78.4 80.2 79.6

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.0 73.1 75.0 73.6 119.4 117.3 119.6 117.6 157.2 156.5 156.4 158.2

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.9 67.8 69.8 67.7 200.7 180.0 197.5 182.1 149.0 145.2 147.6 142.5

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.2 34.0 34.1 34.1 83.3 86.0 83.1 86.0 129.1 118.5 126.8 119.2

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249.9 247.9 249.7 248.0 669.3 636.9 673.5 641.0 733.4 670.4 729.3 678.7

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.8 31.7 35.4 31.8 112.7 107.0 112.1 109.1 142.4 136.1 141.7 137.1

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729.4 695.7 726.2 694.1 1,333.6 1,231.6 1,326.4 1,246.3 2,198.8 2,028.5 2,187.7 2,045.0

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255.9 255.1 255.8 257.0 652.9 658.2 649.8 663.6 634.8 598.9 630.1 601.4

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.0 24.6 24.8 24.7 32.6 30.3 32.2 30.9 68.0 65.9 67.9 65.7

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306.0 305.6 305.1 306.4 717.9 677.7 712.7 682.4 947.8 896.5 942.1 901.2

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.9 75.8 77.7 75.2 193.5 179.4 193.0 182.4 242.8 231.0 241.7 233.2

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.6 102.6 103.5 102.3 255.0 244.3 252.3 246.5 318.2 297.4 317.1 298.8

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331.3 321.5 331.0 321.8 797.3 757.1 796.9 756.7 1,324.2 1,242.9 1,317.7 1,253.0

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.6 33.8 35.2 34.2 66.6 61.9 66.4 62.0 111.2 101.4 111.2 102.6

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.3 104.3 106.2 104.8 289.6 284.8 288.5 285.0 262.2 251.8 261.5 252.3

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.5 28.0 28.5 28.1 32.8 32.1 33.0 32.5 75.1 74.4 74.7 74.9

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.2 168.6 173.9 169.1 428.6 428.2 426.1 429.7 450.8 431.9 449.8 430.1

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815.4 811.3 813.9 821.4 1,826.2 1,793.3 1,810.9 1,813.1 1,776.1 1,706.2 1,768.4 1,715.5

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.8 97.2 92.7 96.7 222.0 230.9 222.2 232.3 216.9 211.2 215.6 213.2

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.2 11.7 12.2 11.7 29.0 28.8 28.7 28.6 66.1 62.9 67.6 65.0

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.1 206.8 212.7 205.2 770.2 756.4 768.0 760.4 561.7 533.9 558.6 534.5

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.6 157.1 161.6 156.6 436.9 427.6 437.4 431.1 511.8 507.6 509.8 511.9

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.7 28.0 29.7 28.4 67.8 65.5 67.9 66.2 133.0 128.3 132.7 128.7

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.5 149.0 153.7 150.0 319.3 315.7 315.5 315.3 469.3 447.8 467.9 449.9

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1 10.9 11.1 11.1 18.1 18.2 18.1 17.8 29.3 28.5 29.0 28.4

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.0 43.2 45.2 43.2 123.9 118.4 124.4 118.5 118.6 110.4 120.2 112.2

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.0 1.8 1.9 1.8 3.6 3.4 3.6 3.4 2.4 2.1 2.4 2.1

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates are currently estimated from 2020 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmarks are

preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 4. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and selected industry sector, not seasonally adjustedContinued

[In thousands]

State

Leisure and hospitality Other services Government

February March February March February March

2020 2021 2020 2021p

2020 2021 2020 2021p2020 2021 2020 2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204.0 185.4 202.4 184.4 99.4 91.0 99.2 92.5 394.9 386.6 395.9 388.6

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.3 23.2 31.0 23.7 10.9 10.3 10.8 10.4 80.0 77.9 80.3 78.0

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340.6 281.2 334.8 288.1 94.8 90.0 94.2 90.5 438.1 412.2 434.3 413.2

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.8 104.2 119.4 107.4 66.1 65.1 65.9 65.9 216.1 207.6 217.1 208.1

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,028.3 1,336.8 1,968.7 1,391.2 588.9 450.0 575.3 458.3 2,635.5 2,416.5 2,651.4 2,436.0

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343.7 275.7 336.7 276.1 114.7 106.0 113.6 107.5 462.7 437.0 466.2 440.7

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148.4 111.1 142.6 115.8 64.6 57.2 63.5 57.6 241.5 225.8 240.4 228.1

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.2 38.4 47.2 39.8 18.6 16.1 18.5 16.5 67.6 66.2 68.8 66.6

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.7 37.9 77.2 40.1 77.7 69.6 77.6 69.7 237.3 239.4 237.5 239.7

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,287.5 997.9 1,269.8 1,026.9 355.8 324.3 352.4 327.5 1,153.9 1,099.4 1,153.0 1,101.4

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494.8 416.5 484.5 424.3 167.6 149.4 166.3 150.1 697.7 671.3 699.2 673.4

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.1 77.1 125.1 80.3 28.2 21.5 28.0 21.5 129.8 117.9 130.3 118.2

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.4 79.4 81.0 81.1 26.5 24.9 26.5 24.7 129.0 127.2 129.6 128.2

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598.4 415.7 582.2 440.9 255.2 232.3 252.8 234.7 832.8 790.0 837.7 794.4

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304.5 260.9 298.1 269.4 127.2 111.9 125.0 111.6 436.4 413.5 437.2 414.8

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138.0 111.2 136.0 115.9 57.6 55.0 57.2 55.0 266.7 254.4 267.5 256.6

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126.5 109.2 124.9 112.9 51.6 49.1 51.2 48.8 265.5 251.6 265.6 253.1

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195.9 157.6 192.6 159.9 68.2 60.9 68.6 62.3 314.5 295.7 313.9 298.0

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235.7 191.5 228.8 196.4 73.7 66.2 72.4 66.3 334.0 315.8 333.7 315.8

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.5 44.7 58.1 46.3 22.1 20.6 22.0 20.8 104.0 98.3 104.3 98.6

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265.8 198.5 258.3 206.2 113.2 101.0 111.3 102.7 516.8 500.2 517.8 508.4

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354.1 234.8 337.1 245.5 137.2 110.3 135.2 111.2 468.4 431.2 472.2 434.6

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412.9 312.2 401.4 325.2 165.1 142.5 163.4 143.3 627.9 579.9 629.7 582.8

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.1 194.1 254.4 199.7 113.9 100.0 113.1 100.9 433.0 413.2 431.9 410.0

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133.9 119.2 132.8 119.8 40.5 40.5 40.5 39.7 245.0 235.3 245.0 236.0

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294.4 241.3 294.5 253.2 115.8 109.0 115.8 109.1 444.0 427.1 447.0 429.0

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.7 59.5 64.2 60.9 18.9 18.5 18.7 19.1 91.4 89.0 92.1 90.5

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.0 78.3 89.5 80.8 37.3 35.5 37.0 36.0 175.6 168.5 175.6 169.2

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352.7 244.5 350.1 248.7 42.7 37.2 41.8 38.3 169.8 161.6 170.8 162.8

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.4 56.1 66.7 56.3 25.3 21.3 24.6 21.6 94.1 88.3 93.1 89.5

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367.9 266.3 360.4 277.4 172.0 141.4 166.5 140.7 615.3 573.9 614.7 577.4

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.4 72.5 97.3 78.9 28.4 25.8 28.2 25.9 190.4 174.3 191.2 175.5

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914.9 569.4 870.5 593.9 412.1 332.3 401.4 336.5 1,505.4 1,436.3 1,509.4 1,445.1

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.9 416.6 495.0 430.1 168.3 155.2 167.6 156.6 755.7 713.1 757.3 717.0

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.6 34.2 38.5 35.1 15.6 14.3 15.5 14.5 84.4 81.7 84.9 82.0

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546.6 454.4 535.9 461.8 211.2 188.8 204.3 188.8 802.6 752.1 799.0 758.4

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171.0 158.9 169.7 167.3 68.2 65.3 68.2 65.8 360.0 345.2 358.8 346.2

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208.5 140.1 205.0 156.7 64.8 58.4 63.8 59.0 306.2 280.3 306.7 280.8

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551.0 407.4 536.4 420.8 260.9 224.7 257.6 227.2 720.0 676.3 721.1 682.2

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.7 39.7 52.9 41.5 22.6 19.9 22.3 20.1 66.3 62.4 66.2 62.5

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260.4 221.3 259.3 229.6 79.8 74.0 79.5 74.6 379.9 367.5 381.0 368.5

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.1 38.4 42.9 39.1 16.8 17.1 16.7 17.3 80.6 79.0 80.6 79.2

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338.2 285.0 336.1 292.9 123.5 118.2 123.2 119.5 450.8 434.4 452.3 438.6

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,388.5 1,184.4 1,371.6 1,224.5 447.4 394.9 441.3 400.9 2,026.9 1,983.9 2,032.1 1,980.3

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155.3 142.7 153.1 143.8 41.4 41.0 41.2 41.5 256.4 246.2 257.0 247.8

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.1 27.2 36.9 27.0 10.1 9.4 9.9 9.4 57.7 53.1 56.8 53.1

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401.5 310.7 394.9 320.5 195.4 177.6 193.8 179.5 744.2 708.7 748.0 712.1

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338.0 239.5 330.8 255.9 131.5 114.6 131.1 115.7 598.3 546.6 598.9 553.7

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.3 60.8 70.9 62.7 23.6 21.2 23.5 21.0 156.6 148.7 156.9 149.0

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270.0 206.4 264.9 213.9 151.8 145.5 151.5 147.1 421.5 389.1 419.8 390.1

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.8 32.9 34.3 33.3 16.1 15.7 16.2 16.0 68.7 66.0 69.1 66.5

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.2 72.9 80.5 72.3 18.0 16.2 18.0 16.3 199.0 195.2 204.4 195.7

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 4.6 6.3 4.6 1.8 1.5 1.8 1.5 10.6 10.5 11.0 10.5

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates are currently estimated from 2020 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmarks are

preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available.
TEXAS

N.M.

CALIF.

NEV.

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ARIZ.

ORE.

S.D.

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UTAH ILL.

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LA.

PA.

IDAHO

FLA.

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KY.

WIS.

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IOWA

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MISS.

IND.

OHIO

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TENN.

W.VA.

MD.

Map 1. Unemployment rates by state, seasonally March 2021

(U.S. rate = 6.0 percent)

HAWAII

ALASKA
WASH.

ORE.

CALIF.

IDAHO

NEV.

ARIZ.

MONT.

WYO.

COLO.

N.M.

N.D.

S.D.

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TEXAS

MINN.

IOWA

MO.

ARK.

LA.

WIS.

ILL.

MICH.

IND. OHIO

KY.

TENN.

MISS. ALA. GA.

S.C.

N.C.

VA. W.VA.

PA.

N.Y.

MAINE

N.H.

VT.

MASS.

R.I.

N.J.

CONN.

DEL.

FLA.

MD. UTAH

ALASKA

HAWAII

D.C.

Above -3.0%

-4.9% to -3.0%

-7.0% to -5.0%

-9.0% to -7.1%

Below -9.0%

Map 2. Percentage change in nonfarm employment by state,

seasonally adjusted, March 2020 - March 2021