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Technical information: 

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STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT — AUGUST 2021

Unemployment rates were lower in August in 15 states and the District of Columbia and stable in 35 

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

rate decreases from a year earlier and one state was little changed. The national unemployment rate, 5.2 

percent, declined by 0.2 percentage point over the month and was 3.2 points lower than in August 2020.

Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 11 states, decreased in 3 states, and was essentially 

unchanged in 36 states and the District of Columbia in August 2021. Over the year, 49 states and the 

District added nonfarm payroll jobs and 1 state was essentially unchanged.

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

Nevada had the highest unemployment rate in August, 7.7 percent, followed by California and New 

York, 7.5 percent and 7.4 percent, respectively. Nebraska had the lowest jobless rate, 2.2 percent, which 

was also a new series low for the state. (All state series begin in 1976.) In total, 22 states had 

unemployment rates lower than the U.S. figure of 5.2 percent, 13 states and the District of Columbia had 

higher rates, and 15 states had rates that were not appreciably different from that of the nation. (See 

tables A and 1 and map 1.)

In August, Arizona, Louisiana, and New Mexico had the largest over-the-month unemployment rate 

decreases (-0.4 percentage point each). Thirty-five 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.)
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The largest unemployment rate decrease from August 2020 occurred in Hawaii (-7.1 percentage points). 

The next largest over-the-year jobless rate decreases were in Nevada and Rhode Island (-6.8 percentage 

points each), with another six states experiencing declines of 4.0 points or more. (See table C.)

Nonfarm Payroll Employment

Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 11 states, decreased in 3 states, and was essentially 

unchanged in 36 states and the District of Columbia in August 2021. The largest job gains occurred in 

California (+104,300), Texas (+39,300), and New York (+23,500). The largest percentage increases 

occurred in Kentucky (+1.1 percent), Nevada (+0.9 percent), and New Mexico (+0.7 percent). 

Employment decreased in North Carolina (-13,200, or -0.3 percent), Iowa (-6,500, or -0.4 percent), and 

Hawaii (-5,700, or -1.0 percent). (See tables D and 3.)

Over the year, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 49 states and the District of Columbia and 

remained essentially unchanged in 1 state. The largest job increases occurred in California (+874,300), 

Texas (+681,000), and New York (+411,100). The largest percentage increases occurred in Hawaii 

(+9.4 percent), Nevada (+8.3 percent), and Vermont (+6.4 percent). (See table E and map 2.)

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

be released on Wednesday, September 29, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. (ET). The State Employment and 

Unemployment news release for September is scheduled to be released on Friday, October 22, 

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

Establishment and Household Survey Data

Data collection for both surveys was affected by the pandemic. In the establishment survey, more data 

continued to be collected by web than in months prior to the pandemic. In the household survey, for the 

safety of both interviewers and respondents, in-person interviews were conducted only when telephone 

interviews could not be done.

For information on the modifications made to the Current Employment Statistics (CES) estimation and 

methodological procedures due to the impact of COVID-19, see www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbd.htm.

For the August 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. These 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-august-2021.htm extensively discusses the impact of a misclassification in the household survey on 

the national estimates for August 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, which in turn affected the official LAUS 

estimates for August 2021.

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

survey similar to the Current Population Survey. The Puerto Rico Department of Labor has 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 ................................................ 5.2

Alabama ........................................................... 3.1

Alaska .............................................................. 6.4

Arizona ............................................................. 6.2

Arkansas .......................................................... 4.2

California .......................................................... 7.5

Connecticut ....................................................... 7.2

District of Columbia ........................................... 6.5

Georgia ............................................................ 3.5

Hawaii .............................................................. 7.0

Idaho ................................................................ 2.9

Illinois ............................................................... 7.0

Indiana ............................................................. 4.1

Iowa ................................................................. 4.1

Kansas ............................................................. 3.8

Kentucky .......................................................... 4.3

Louisiana .......................................................... 6.2

Minnesota ......................................................... 3.8

Missouri ............................................................ 4.0

Montana ............................................................ 3.5

Nebraska .......................................................... 2.2

Nevada ............................................................. 7.7

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

New Jersey ....................................................... 7.2

New Mexico ....................................................... 7.2

New York .......................................................... 7.4

North Carolina ................................................... 4.3

North Dakota ..................................................... 3.6

Oklahoma .......................................................... 3.2

Pennsylvania ..................................................... 6.4

South Carolina .................................................. 4.2

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

Texas ................................................................ 5.9

Utah ................................................................. 2.6

Vermont ............................................................ 3.0

Virginia ............................................................. 4.0

Wisconsin ......................................................... 3.9

1

 Data are not preliminary.

p

 = preliminary.

Table A. States with unemployment rates significantly different from that

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

to August 2021, seasonally adjusted

July 2021 August 2021 p

Arizona ....................................... 6.6 6.2 -0.4

Colorado ..................................... 6.1 5.9 -.2

District of Columbia ..................... 6.7 6.5 -.2

Georgia ...................................... 3.7 3.5 -.2

Hawaii ........................................ 7.3 7.0 -.3

Louisiana .................................... 6.6 6.2 -.4

Missouri ...................................... 4.2 4.0 -.2

Nebraska .................................... 2.3 2.2 -.1

New Mexico ................................. 7.6 7.2 -.4

North Dakota ............................... 3.9 3.6 -.3

Oklahoma .................................... 3.5 3.2 -.3

Oregon ....................................... 5.2 4.9 -.3

Texas .......................................... 6.2 5.9 -.3

Virginia ....................................... 4.2 4.0 -.2

West Virginia .............................. 5.0 4.8 -.2

Wyoming .................................... 5.2 4.9 -.3

p

 = preliminary.

State

Rate Over-the-month 

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

to August 2021, seasonally adjusted

August 2020 August 2021 p

Alabama ..................................... 7.1 3.1 -4.0

Alaska ........................................ 7.2 6.4 -.8

Arizona ....................................... 7.0 6.2 -.8

Arkansas .................................... 6.5 4.2 -2.3

California .................................... 12.3 7.5 -4.8

Colorado ..................................... 7.1 5.9 -1.2

Connecticut ................................. 8.4 7.2 -1.2

Delaware .................................... 7.9 5.4 -2.5

District of Columbia ..................... 8.8 6.5 -2.3

Florida ........................................ 7.9 5.0 -2.9

Georgia ...................................... 7.0 3.5 -3.5

Hawaii ........................................ 14.1 7.0 -7.1

Idaho .......................................... 4.9 2.9 -2.0

Illinois ......................................... 11.1 7.0 -4.1

Indiana ....................................... 7.3 4.1 -3.2

Iowa ........................................... 5.3 4.1 -1.2

Kansas ....................................... 6.2 3.8 -2.4

Kentucky .................................... 5.5 4.3 -1.2

Louisiana .................................... 8.2 6.2 -2.0

Maryland ..................................... 8.6 5.9 -2.7

Massachusetts ............................. 9.3 5.0 -4.3

Michigan ..................................... 8.5 4.7 -3.8

Minnesota ................................... 6.6 3.8 -2.8

Mississippi .................................. 7.8 6.0 -1.8

Missouri ...................................... 6.0 4.0 -2.0

Montana ...................................... 5.8 3.5 -2.3

Nebraska .................................... 4.0 2.2 -1.8

Nevada ....................................... 14.5 7.7 -6.8

New Hampshire ........................... 6.6 3.0 -3.6

New Jersey ................................. 11.0 7.2 -3.8

New Mexico ................................. 9.3 7.2 -2.1

New York .................................... 11.7 7.4 -4.3

North Carolina ............................. 6.8 4.3 -2.5

North Dakota ............................... 6.1 3.6 -2.5

Ohio ........................................... 9.0 5.4 -3.6

Oklahoma .................................... 6.3 3.2 -3.1

Oregon ....................................... 8.4 4.9 -3.5

Pennsylvania ............................... 10.2 6.4 -3.8

Rhode Island ............................... 12.6 5.8 -6.8

South Carolina ............................ 5.4 4.2 -1.2

South Dakota .............................. 4.7 2.9 -1.8

Tennessee .................................. 8.1 4.6 -3.5

Texas .......................................... 6.9 5.9 -1.0

Utah ........................................... 4.8 2.6 -2.2

Vermont ...................................... 5.4 3.0 -2.4

Virginia ....................................... 7.0 4.0 -3.0

Washington ................................. 9.1 5.1 -4.0

West Virginia .............................. 8.5 4.8 -3.7

Wisconsin ................................... 6.1 3.9 -2.2

Wyoming .................................... 6.2 4.9 -1.3

p

 = preliminary.

State

Rate Over-the-year 

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

August 2021, seasonally adjusted

July August

2021 2021 p Level Percent

California .................................... 16,527,800 16,632,100 104,300 0.6

Hawaii ........................................ 582,100 576,400 -5,700 -1.0

Iowa ........................................... 1,534,900 1,528,400 -6,500 -.4

Kentucky .................................... 1,860,400 1,881,200 20,800 1.1

Maryland ..................................... 2,657,900 2,669,800 11,900 .4

Nevada ....................................... 1,338,500 1,350,400 11,900 .9

New Jersey ................................. 3,960,700 3,981,000 20,300 .5

New Mexico ................................. 806,100 811,500 5,400 .7

New York .................................... 8,936,100 8,959,600 23,500 .3

North Carolina ............................. 4,530,900 4,517,700 -13,200 -.3

 

Oregon ....................................... 1,871,900 1,879,800 7,900 .4

Texas .......................................... 12,721,000 12,760,300 39,300 .3

Utah ........................................... 1,613,300 1,620,300 7,000 .4

Washington ................................. 3,400,700 3,417,500 16,800 .5

p

 = preliminary.

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

August 2021, seasonally adjusted

August August

2020 2021 p Level Percent

Alabama ..................................... 1,969,900 2,030,400 60,500 3.1

Alaska ........................................ 290,800 304,400 13,600 4.7

Arizona ....................................... 2,825,900 2,983,500 157,600 5.6

Arkansas .................................... 1,236,400 1,268,800 32,400 2.6

California .................................... 15,757,800 16,632,100 874,300 5.5

Colorado ..................................... 2,619,200 2,736,600 117,400 4.5

Connecticut ................................. 1,549,500 1,605,300 55,800 3.6

Delaware .................................... 437,800 452,500 14,700 3.4

District of Columbia ..................... 734,000 749,700 15,700 2.1

Florida ........................................ 8,399,500 8,777,200 377,700 4.5

 

Georgia ...................................... 4,360,100 4,559,600 199,500 4.6

Hawaii ........................................ 527,100 576,400 49,300 9.4

Idaho .......................................... 760,200 788,800 28,600 3.8

Illinois ......................................... 5,635,600 5,799,300 163,700 2.9

Indiana ....................................... 2,992,300 3,059,800 67,500 2.3

Iowa ........................................... 1,491,000 1,528,400 37,400 2.5

Kansas ....................................... 1,358,600 1,381,100 22,500 1.7

Kentucky .................................... 1,834,200 1,881,200 47,000 2.6

Louisiana .................................... 1,807,300 1,849,100 41,800 2.3

Maine ......................................... 585,700 617,200 31,500 5.4

 

Maryland ..................................... 2,542,800 2,669,800 127,000 5.0

Massachusetts ............................. 3,318,800 3,503,500 184,700 5.6

Michigan ..................................... 4,043,500 4,172,000 128,500 3.2

Minnesota ................................... 2,751,600 2,852,700 101,100 3.7

Mississippi .................................. 1,104,900 1,132,500 27,600 2.5

Missouri ...................................... 2,766,000 2,839,400 73,400 2.7

Montana ...................................... 468,500 481,700 13,200 2.8

Nebraska .................................... 985,900 1,017,900 32,000 3.2

Nevada ....................................... 1,247,100 1,350,400 103,300 8.3

New Hampshire ........................... 636,700 659,500 22,800 3.6

 

New Jersey ................................. 3,775,200 3,981,000 205,800 5.5

New Mexico ................................. 778,900 811,500 32,600 4.2

New York .................................... 8,548,500 8,959,600 411,100 4.8

North Carolina ............................. 4,356,300 4,517,700 161,400 3.7

North Dakota ............................... 407,200 417,500 10,300 2.5

Ohio ........................................... 5,232,400 5,345,900 113,500 2.2

Oklahoma .................................... 1,607,700 1,636,200 28,500 1.8

Oregon ....................................... 1,811,400 1,879,800 68,400 3.8

Pennsylvania ............................... 5,551,900 5,743,000 191,100 3.4

Rhode Island ............................... 457,300 477,900 20,600 4.5

 

South Carolina ............................ 2,069,300 2,137,800 68,500 3.3

South Dakota .............................. 424,800 437,800 13,000 3.1

Tennessee .................................. 2,973,200 3,094,800 121,600 4.1

Texas .......................................... 12,079,300 12,760,300 681,000 5.6

Utah ........................................... 1,538,900 1,620,300 81,400 5.3

Vermont ...................................... 281,700 299,600 17,900 6.4

Virginia ....................................... 3,830,700 3,913,200 82,500 2.2

Washington ................................. 3,245,800 3,417,500 171,700 5.3

West Virginia .............................. 665,900 690,000 24,100 3.6

Wisconsin ................................... 2,813,600 2,876,800 63,200 2.2

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 timeseries 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 

upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Federal Relay 

Service: (800) 877-8339.
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

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Number Percent of labor force

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,218,586 2,212,718 2,210,686 2,207,682 156,709 73,769 71,678 69,005 7.1 3.3 3.2 3.1

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332,996 350,460 348,944 349,312 24,073 23,130 23,114 22,510 7.2 6.6 6.6 6.4

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,518,731 3,622,830 3,631,819 3,637,988 245,780 244,786 238,243 225,302 7.0 6.8 6.6 6.2

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,341,356 1,358,172 1,355,738 1,357,389 86,531 59,911 58,971 57,210 6.5 4.4 4.3 4.2

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,666,663 18,877,205 18,927,453 18,982,792 2,301,320 1,439,638 1,433,827 1,431,645 12.3 7.6 7.6 7.5

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale1. . . . 4,956,547 5,108,131 5,107,745 5,098,952 850,259 540,451 529,648 517,011 17.2 10.6 10.4 10.1

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,105,843 3,196,410 3,195,484 3,193,199 221,791 197,258 195,976 188,997 7.1 6.2 6.1 5.9

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,841,890 1,813,406 1,809,246 1,810,302 154,168 139,029 132,133 129,963 8.4 7.7 7.3 7.2

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490,233 488,825 489,094 488,950 38,635 28,382 27,180 26,367 7.9 5.8 5.6 5.4

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405,503 405,737 407,200 408,770 35,594 28,465 27,398 26,629 8.8 7.0 6.7 6.5

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,991,016 10,395,981 10,478,498 10,542,917 784,438 523,518 529,945 529,465 7.9 5.0 5.1 5.0

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall1. . . . . . . . . . . 1,301,940 1,313,823 1,329,507 1,340,736 114,617 95,293 91,956 89,771 8.8 7.3 6.9 6.7

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,951,494 5,164,168 5,170,467 5,174,352 345,147 208,381 193,457 181,656 7.0 4.0 3.7 3.5

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643,435 646,147 645,946 647,367 90,683 49,666 47,177 45,559 14.1 7.7 7.3 7.0

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889,123 902,256 902,899 904,795 43,439 27,146 26,696 26,442 4.9 3.0 3.0 2.9

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,251,739 6,180,655 6,206,554 6,217,196 695,651 443,530 437,840 435,938 11.1 7.2 7.1 7.0

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights1. . . 3,560,644 3,626,637 3,633,193 3,634,867 457,332 299,076 296,184 290,806 12.8 8.2 8.2 8.0

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,320,857 3,347,800 3,346,157 3,343,658 243,522 138,487 138,073 137,260 7.3 4.1 4.1 4.1

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,634,482 1,654,560 1,661,401 1,660,056 85,971 66,639 67,616 67,868 5.3 4.0 4.1 4.1

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,509,706 1,512,091 1,514,491 1,515,248 93,916 56,018 57,737 58,029 6.2 3.7 3.8 3.8

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,974,553 1,980,046 1,980,784 1,985,954 108,661 87,903 86,594 84,995 5.5 4.4 4.4 4.3

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,096,160 2,068,698 2,069,445 2,066,009 171,696 143,333 136,220 128,354 8.2 6.9 6.6 6.2

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666,897 674,763 678,229 678,061 34,518 32,471 33,172 33,222 5.2 4.8 4.9 4.9

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,161,767 3,128,395 3,135,820 3,139,520 271,319 193,674 187,594 185,002 8.6 6.2 6.0 5.9

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,614,444 3,696,738 3,701,567 3,709,444 336,838 180,511 180,418 185,417 9.3 4.9 4.9 5.0

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,841,531 4,719,156 4,715,139 4,725,870 412,633 234,721 227,397 223,824 8.5 5.0 4.8 4.7

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,113,946 2,031,941 2,031,536 2,037,823 224,247 90,036 86,616 84,467 10.6 4.4 4.3 4.1

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,107,608 3,030,809 3,029,978 3,030,866 204,317 121,576 117,688 114,964 6.6 4.0 3.9 3.8

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,253,922 1,279,665 1,278,797 1,277,939 97,292 79,463 78,301 77,219 7.8 6.2 6.1 6.0

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,089,395 3,075,721 3,075,368 3,072,710 185,023 133,324 128,606 123,158 6.0 4.3 4.2 4.0

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542,642 537,513 539,397 540,553 31,335 19,667 19,494 19,145 5.8 3.7 3.6 3.5

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,028,809 1,021,094 1,021,405 1,021,927 41,294 25,885 23,860 22,364 4.0 2.5 2.3 2.2

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,523,576 1,569,161 1,577,589 1,571,738 220,836 122,122 121,592 120,398 14.5 7.8 7.7 7.7

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759,862 752,701 751,567 750,915 50,074 21,592 22,081 22,214 6.6 2.9 2.9 3.0

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,519,468 4,417,536 4,425,912 4,430,536 498,957 320,043 321,061 319,937 11.0 7.2 7.3 7.2

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913,887 951,662 954,277 953,661 85,002 74,795 72,474 68,723 9.3 7.9 7.6 7.2

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,399,119 9,418,217 9,355,119 9,339,786 1,098,608 725,706 707,957 691,749 11.7 7.7 7.6 7.4

New York City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,978,475 4,058,111 4,004,063 3,997,898 589,227 431,013 418,597 407,536 14.8 10.6 10.5 10.2

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,911,301 5,000,933 4,999,813 5,011,574 331,558 231,894 222,455 216,607 6.8 4.6 4.4 4.3

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409,122 403,109 403,367 401,948 24,889 16,207 15,821 14,575 6.1 4.0 3.9 3.6

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,803,203 5,578,950 5,604,558 5,638,430 522,877 291,176 300,395 305,227 9.0 5.2 5.4 5.4

Cleveland-Elyria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983,278 1,005,073 1,007,395 1,006,753 83,564 49,968 50,757 52,909 8.5 5.0 5.0 5.3

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,853,864 1,863,951 1,863,423 1,862,422 116,974 69,649 64,754 60,409 6.3 3.7 3.5 3.2

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,086,120 2,168,510 2,170,615 2,170,312 174,549 121,361 113,936 107,417 8.4 5.6 5.2 4.9

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,252,470 6,319,978 6,301,955 6,294,587 638,395 433,373 411,744 405,951 10.2 6.9 6.5 6.4

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529,982 536,881 536,074 534,689 66,705 31,885 30,815 30,936 12.6 5.9 5.7 5.8

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,402,563 2,396,359 2,402,803 2,404,270 130,549 107,067 103,454 101,527 5.4 4.5 4.3 4.2

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453,588 470,397 470,703 471,296 21,405 13,469 13,541 13,643 4.7 2.9 2.9 2.9

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,377,475 3,334,155 3,333,802 3,333,062 273,108 164,663 158,337 154,153 8.1 4.9 4.7 4.6

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,095,792 14,068,729 14,105,493 14,128,367 977,406 908,950 876,677 835,862 6.9 6.5 6.2 5.9

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,642,626 1,649,932 1,662,442 1,667,705 78,088 44,221 43,435 42,569 4.8 2.7 2.6 2.6

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322,293 314,662 316,149 317,435 17,252 9,649 9,625 9,664 5.4 3.1 3.0 3.0

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,376,496 4,233,868 4,241,771 4,247,321 308,054 183,808 176,193 168,515 7.0 4.3 4.2 4.0

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,886,077 3,887,109 3,906,287 3,922,950 353,229 201,633 199,207 198,825 9.1 5.2 5.1 5.1

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,728,933 1,747,413 1,750,977 1,754,817 141,139 89,657 89,218 88,723 8.2 5.1 5.1 5.1

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789,505 793,498 793,063 792,717 67,379 42,026 39,933 38,159 8.5 5.3 5.0 4.8

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,050,916 3,094,690 3,104,354 3,109,892 186,240 121,470 121,562 122,633 6.1 3.9 3.9 3.9

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296,712 296,342 295,672 294,759 18,434 16,125 15,430 14,521 6.2 5.4 5.2 4.9

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,059,856 1,065,859 1,066,895 1,071,268 88,278 85,846 87,484 89,554 8.3 8.1 8.2 8.4

1 Metropolitan division.

2 Metropolitan statistical area.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data refer to place of residence. Data for Puerto Rico are derived from a monthly household survey similar to the Current Population Survey. Area definitions are based on Office of

Management and Budget Bulletin No. 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

July August Number Percent of labor force

2020 2021 2020 2021p

July August July August

2020 2021 2020 2021p 2020 2021 2020 2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,236,392 2,226,916 2,234,629 2,217,056 177,309 76,058 163,319 76,347 7.9 3.4 7.3 3.4

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353,072 355,856 339,540 353,087 35,864 21,021 20,973 17,925 10.2 5.9 6.2 5.1

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,609,819 3,644,623 3,518,126 3,635,739 394,487 233,367 249,959 194,517 10.9 6.4 7.1 5.4

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,356,900 1,369,922 1,347,895 1,357,858 102,232 62,998 84,611 51,514 7.5 4.6 6.3 3.8

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,789,689 19,162,864 18,690,463 19,024,443 2,548,914 1,505,402 2,299,887 1,424,252 13.6 7.9 12.3 7.5

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale1. . . . 4,934,935 5,100,852 4,938,493 5,023,764 899,935 521,312 862,109 485,418 18.2 10.2 17.5 9.7

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,083,369 3,193,950 3,125,930 3,195,524 230,437 190,072 219,516 171,287 7.5 6.0 7.0 5.4

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,928,598 1,835,117 1,854,836 1,804,681 222,745 126,865 154,840 110,390 11.5 6.9 8.3 6.1

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492,039 492,377 490,448 489,621 42,346 27,031 37,775 26,151 8.6 5.5 7.7 5.3

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407,168 419,413 406,441 410,599 38,812 27,612 36,135 26,045 9.5 6.6 8.9 6.3

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,113,079 10,646,695 10,003,284 10,627,415 1,205,307 545,882 803,812 526,445 11.9 5.1 8.0 5.0

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall1. . . . . . . . . . . 1,266,534 1,366,295 1,296,605 1,358,384 192,170 88,702 118,303 90,370 15.2 6.5 9.1 6.7

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,982,393 5,168,565 4,930,238 5,147,836 403,003 164,586 343,514 161,600 8.1 3.2 7.0 3.1

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643,980 646,745 645,049 648,554 91,356 44,339 91,155 43,013 14.2 6.9 14.1 6.6

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895,098 912,147 891,663 912,060 50,728 26,396 38,766 24,077 5.7 2.9 4.3 2.6

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,232,556 6,318,805 6,275,238 6,239,394 771,918 442,160 690,102 425,859 12.4 7.0 11.0 6.8

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights1. . . 3,608,831 3,674,676 3,584,783 3,638,501 479,716 295,890 465,537 272,362 13.3 8.1 13.0 7.5

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,336,724 3,354,296 3,339,458 3,334,878 298,074 142,656 238,890 133,638 8.9 4.3 7.2 4.0

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,643,799 1,683,018 1,631,247 1,647,396 97,420 67,876 79,510 62,712 5.9 4.0 4.9 3.8

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,518,534 1,538,271 1,508,539 1,509,879 111,208 72,351 96,273 60,966 7.3 4.7 6.4 4.0

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,981,728 1,995,108 1,976,599 1,991,642 120,009 94,148 102,890 74,395 6.1 4.7 5.2 3.7

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,983,701 2,089,612 2,101,254 2,060,627 198,185 132,366 174,030 113,530 10.0 6.3 8.3 5.5

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703,421 703,353 684,574 695,007 59,187 35,265 29,554 30,842 8.4 5.0 4.3 4.4

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,192,506 3,198,938 3,176,646 3,150,758 280,225 185,608 268,849 181,422 8.8 5.8 8.5 5.8

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,610,552 3,751,308 3,664,525 3,752,473 364,930 212,560 334,996 203,481 10.1 5.7 9.1 5.4

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,863,144 4,805,709 4,883,260 4,777,722 464,045 241,641 404,670 209,550 9.5 5.0 8.3 4.4

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,120,611 2,077,798 2,137,372 2,074,033 245,317 93,268 226,810 76,940 11.6 4.5 10.6 3.7

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,163,899 3,050,504 3,126,078 3,036,134 239,267 103,672 195,939 102,067 7.6 3.4 6.3 3.4

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,262,877 1,292,782 1,255,536 1,271,875 121,084 87,029 96,874 75,231 9.6 6.7 7.7 5.9

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,140,441 3,099,297 3,093,781 3,056,710 228,801 119,647 187,462 106,901 7.3 3.9 6.1 3.5

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552,688 549,555 547,995 547,971 34,476 17,489 28,535 15,687 6.2 3.2 5.2 2.9

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,042,865 1,034,150 1,031,473 1,022,095 49,400 21,733 39,782 18,780 4.7 2.1 3.9 1.8

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,514,424 1,547,673 1,523,321 1,533,342 254,963 126,825 219,299 109,306 16.8 8.2 14.4 7.1

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770,338 760,531 768,870 757,045 62,617 25,914 48,630 21,649 8.1 3.4 6.3 2.9

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,657,034 4,496,967 4,548,021 4,437,037 631,398 339,199 494,604 298,831 13.6 7.5 10.9 6.7

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945,825 957,319 915,617 950,043 126,619 73,983 85,672 59,762 13.4 7.7 9.4 6.3

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,462,424 9,382,033 9,477,391 9,339,555 1,400,143 689,652 1,096,540 667,488 14.8 7.4 11.6 7.1

New York City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,899,031 3,986,087 3,987,015 3,974,794 732,516 405,227 592,670 389,273 18.8 10.2 14.9 9.8

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,977,349 5,049,442 4,913,809 5,027,377 460,754 232,513 337,266 221,865 9.3 4.6 6.9 4.4

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413,915 411,327 415,991 406,692 24,952 14,950 24,206 13,041 6.0 3.6 5.8 3.2

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,803,597 5,699,962 5,850,096 5,683,876 551,931 337,903 505,548 291,845 9.5 5.9 8.6 5.1

Cleveland-Elyria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994,711 1,036,127 990,490 1,004,690 91,227 60,703 79,764 53,399 9.2 5.9 8.1 5.3

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,851,561 1,866,548 1,851,733 1,851,843 135,038 57,548 112,985 51,570 7.3 3.1 6.1 2.8

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,054,752 2,190,809 2,110,616 2,176,876 204,520 105,813 176,159 98,497 10.0 4.8 8.3 4.5

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,516,443 6,363,999 6,307,843 6,325,232 879,551 428,251 646,398 423,494 13.5 6.7 10.2 6.7

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538,898 539,649 535,226 535,396 74,281 31,277 67,083 32,304 13.8 5.8 12.5 6.0

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,454,331 2,439,076 2,414,177 2,417,092 193,284 104,586 130,920 102,212 7.9 4.3 5.4 4.2

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461,807 479,266 459,134 475,721 23,651 12,686 21,131 13,572 5.1 2.6 4.6 2.9

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,184,398 3,354,367 3,371,004 3,316,531 298,721 156,612 262,028 141,194 9.4 4.7 7.8 4.3

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,010,729 14,191,587 14,090,773 14,192,497 1,349,002 850,567 973,671 759,139 9.6 6.0 6.9 5.3

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,648,720 1,672,081 1,646,330 1,674,828 91,049 44,211 78,638 42,593 5.5 2.6 4.8 2.5

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330,100 324,858 325,514 322,573 21,934 10,276 16,427 9,543 6.6 3.2 5.0 3.0

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,363,071 4,315,705 4,401,474 4,265,719 354,094 174,890 312,141 161,621 8.1 4.1 7.1 3.8

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,931,051 3,971,158 3,886,399 3,959,766 419,461 196,909 335,071 197,106 10.7 5.0 8.6 5.0

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,724,697 1,767,151 1,732,288 1,769,257 163,069 93,414 137,176 87,870 9.5 5.3 7.9 5.0

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794,028 800,059 793,761 794,840 75,343 36,400 65,786 33,895 9.5 4.5 8.3 4.3

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,090,324 3,165,804 3,079,474 3,130,288 224,423 129,295 179,297 125,946 7.3 4.1 5.8 4.0

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301,260 296,818 299,955 294,925 20,340 13,098 17,661 10,969 6.8 4.4 5.9 3.7

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,062,180 1,071,440 1,069,818 1,087,221 77,104 98,980 90,330 99,221 7.3 9.2 8.4 9.1

1 Metropolitan division.

2 Metropolitan statistical area.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data refer to place of residence. Data for Puerto Rico are derived from a monthly household survey similar to the Current Population Survey. Area definitions are based on Office of

Management and Budget Bulletin No. 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

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,969.9 2,023.9 2,028.8 2,030.4 91.0 88.7 89.6 87.7 257.0 268.7 267.1 267.6

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.8 300.8 305.2 304.4 15.8 16.8 16.9 16.8 10.2 11.8 11.2 11.6

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,825.9 2,951.1 2,977.0 2,983.5 172.5 174.7 174.3 175.7 174.5 179.5 179.7 179.5

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,236.4 1,266.8 1,270.3 1,268.8 52.7 53.4 52.4 51.9 152.8 160.9 161.4 160.5

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,757.8 16,414.6 16,527.8 16,632.1 842.5 877.1 877.8 878.4 1,245.3 1,258.3 1,255.7 1,258.6

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,619.2 2,718.8 2,731.0 2,736.6 172.7 171.9 170.5 170.5 146.0 145.5 145.7 145.4

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,549.5 1,590.9 1,602.0 1,605.3 56.6 55.4 56.7 57.2 151.5 151.3 151.7 152.8

Delaware2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437.8 447.3 451.7 452.5 22.3 23.0 23.3 23.6 25.3 24.5 24.5 24.5

District of Columbia2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734.0 745.4 750.4 749.7 15.3 15.7 15.7 15.8 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,399.5 8,688.2 8,761.7 8,777.2 558.7 570.6 570.9 570.4 372.7 381.4 381.9 382.3

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,360.1 4,528.5 4,564.6 4,559.6 199.4 205.1 205.9 203.6 380.5 391.4 390.7 391.3

Hawaii2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527.1 572.6 582.1 576.4 35.8 37.7 37.4 37.0 11.4 11.5 11.5 11.4

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760.2 787.9 790.3 788.8 55.9 59.2 59.2 58.7 68.0 68.4 67.7 67.5

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,635.6 5,758.7 5,796.8 5,799.3 214.2 223.8 226.6 225.9 548.9 544.1 547.8 551.7

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,992.3 3,048.1 3,064.2 3,059.8 143.3 144.9 144.8 145.1 508.7 530.1 535.9 531.6

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,491.0 1,525.4 1,534.9 1,528.4 75.1 75.2 75.5 74.8 213.2 220.8 222.9 221.3

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,358.6 1,376.2 1,382.4 1,381.1 62.9 65.2 64.8 62.4 157.1 159.1 160.7 164.0

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,834.2 1,863.5 1,860.4 1,881.2 76.2 80.7 81.5 80.6 236.3 242.1 245.2 250.9

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,807.3 1,836.5 1,847.2 1,849.1 115.2 115.3 116.3 117.3 128.4 125.6 125.1 126.3

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585.7 616.3 618.4 617.2 30.1 29.4 29.8 30.0 46.9 52.8 53.3 53.4

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,542.8 2,638.5 2,657.9 2,669.8 158.0 159.0 159.2 159.8 106.7 107.5 108.5 109.8

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,318.8 3,459.3 3,500.9 3,503.5 153.9 163.4 165.7 167.2 227.0 232.8 236.4 236.1

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,043.5 4,134.6 4,167.3 4,172.0 170.4 176.5 177.4 176.1 568.2 570.9 570.9 572.6

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,751.6 2,831.3 2,848.4 2,852.7 122.2 126.5 127.3 127.9 304.5 309.3 312.8 315.1

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,104.9 1,131.1 1,136.6 1,132.5 44.0 45.1 45.1 44.6 139.2 141.8 143.9 142.3

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,766.0 2,820.7 2,832.1 2,839.4 125.3 127.5 127.7 128.4 266.2 268.4 270.8 275.3

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468.5 481.1 484.0 481.7 30.8 30.2 30.1 29.9 20.5 21.4 21.6 21.2

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985.9 1,009.9 1,014.4 1,017.9 54.0 56.3 56.2 55.8 97.1 99.9 100.8 101.3

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,247.1 1,331.1 1,338.5 1,350.4 92.5 92.0 90.8 93.8 55.3 60.2 60.2 60.0

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636.7 653.9 660.2 659.5 27.8 27.6 27.1 28.3 66.9 66.8 66.9 66.4

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,775.2 3,939.5 3,960.7 3,981.0 150.8 145.7 149.2 149.7 235.9 242.7 244.4 246.3

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778.9 800.0 806.1 811.5 46.8 48.6 48.5 49.1 26.6 27.6 27.9 27.9

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,548.5 8,891.8 8,936.1 8,959.6 369.2 356.2 354.9 357.5 397.4 405.4 408.9 411.3

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,356.3 4,505.2 4,530.9 4,517.7 226.0 237.2 240.7 240.3 446.0 465.3 469.2 469.2

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407.2 416.8 417.1 417.5 25.2 26.5 26.7 26.6 25.1 25.6 25.9 26.0

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,232.4 5,321.7 5,348.3 5,345.9 217.8 223.3 224.2 223.6 648.9 658.4 661.7 662.6

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,607.7 1,631.3 1,630.3 1,636.2 76.3 80.8 78.9 80.7 129.1 129.9 128.7 128.7

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,811.4 1,854.1 1,871.9 1,879.8 107.2 107.9 108.6 108.7 181.5 183.2 183.9 184.5

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,551.9 5,703.0 5,737.9 5,743.0 244.0 245.9 243.6 245.7 530.3 540.3 546.9 550.0

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457.3 471.5 477.1 477.9 18.7 21.4 21.1 21.3 37.2 39.5 40.5 39.9

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,069.3 2,119.3 2,134.7 2,137.8 102.4 107.1 109.8 110.3 242.2 247.7 249.2 249.4

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424.8 435.9 438.3 437.8 24.7 25.6 25.6 25.6 42.5 43.9 44.5 44.6

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,973.2 3,094.9 3,090.4 3,094.8 128.5 127.5 128.8 131.4 334.9 347.4 347.6 350.8

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,079.3 12,627.4 12,721.0 12,760.3 717.5 726.0 723.7 724.0 850.9 874.4 882.8 880.6

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,538.9 1,598.0 1,613.3 1,620.3 115.8 121.5 121.6 121.6 135.1 144.6 145.5 145.3

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.7 295.2 300.9 299.6 14.3 14.0 13.9 13.8 27.8 29.7 30.4 30.0

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,830.7 3,900.2 3,902.7 3,913.2 200.0 204.6 204.8 205.4 231.6 236.4 236.6 236.7

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,245.8 3,376.4 3,400.7 3,417.5 214.0 224.8 225.8 224.2 263.6 259.8 260.8 262.8

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665.9 687.7 690.2 690.0 27.7 29.9 30.1 29.9 43.8 45.8 46.2 45.6

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,813.6 2,870.7 2,887.2 2,876.8 122.9 122.1 121.8 121.9 451.2 473.7 476.3 473.6

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268.5 272.4 273.0 272.6 20.7 19.4 19.5 19.1 9.3 9.7 9.9 9.7

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830.7 855.9 858.5 859.2 25.8 28.4 29.2 29.1 74.4 77.6 78.1 77.9

Virgin Islands3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.0 34.9 35.0 35.1 3.2 2.9 2.9 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

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375.5 383.0 382.1 382.4 96.4 96.2 96.6 97.5 240.1 244.9 246.3 247.1

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.4 58.7 59.7 58.6 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.6 25.1 26.2 26.2 26.1

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551.5 580.7 583.2 583.0 231.8 233.3 235.4 234.7 424.0 441.8 450.4 455.0

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247.1 251.2 251.2 250.1 63.7 65.9 65.9 65.5 136.8 146.8 147.5 148.3

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,882.4 2,988.4 2,991.3 2,990.5 804.2 808.8 806.6 809.8 2,536.3 2,672.2 2,680.6 2,694.6

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468.2 489.6 486.2 487.3 171.1 174.8 174.2 173.0 424.6 442.9 447.6 449.1

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278.7 285.4 287.3 287.7 119.1 117.4 117.1 117.7 201.9 208.0 209.5 211.1

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.8 82.5 83.5 82.5 47.2 46.3 46.6 46.7 61.3 60.3 61.1 61.5

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.1 29.1 28.8 28.9 28.8 28.0 27.8 28.0 164.7 167.1 167.4 167.6

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,741.6 1,783.4 1,793.0 1,785.9 591.1 608.0 612.9 621.8 1,354.1 1,392.7 1,404.5 1,412.4

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920.2 954.4 956.1 955.1 248.6 249.9 253.9 254.9 684.6 732.4 741.4 747.3

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.3 104.6 104.8 105.1 26.3 27.5 27.7 27.3 62.4 69.7 70.3 70.1

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147.5 154.8 154.8 153.7 37.7 41.2 41.8 41.6 98.8 99.6 99.7 99.9

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,163.2 1,186.9 1,189.7 1,187.4 403.9 400.2 399.3 399.0 867.2 909.5 912.5 912.5

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593.1 600.5 605.5 605.4 139.7 140.0 138.8 139.0 323.5 324.6 327.4 327.3

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298.8 302.5 303.0 303.4 109.0 109.7 109.7 109.7 131.5 135.9 135.2 135.3

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261.4 268.6 270.7 270.7 76.6 75.3 74.7 74.8 168.4 171.7 172.3 172.9

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397.4 405.6 405.8 406.8 92.1 95.6 95.6 95.6 206.8 205.7 206.9 209.0

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358.1 360.5 360.6 358.8 89.1 89.1 89.3 89.9 200.3 209.0 209.4 208.4

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.0 117.6 117.3 117.1 32.4 32.6 32.3 32.1 67.4 70.4 71.2 70.7

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443.1 461.3 464.0 465.9 135.0 136.3 137.9 137.5 432.7 451.6 457.3 460.9

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520.7 554.7 554.4 553.6 214.8 218.0 218.3 217.2 571.7 603.8 611.2 610.4

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752.3 773.9 778.4 778.6 222.8 225.9 225.2 223.9 593.5 619.9 627.0 629.1

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501.0 512.3 509.8 511.3 192.6 189.8 190.9 192.2 352.3 369.7 370.3 371.2

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229.1 234.7 235.7 235.8 42.7 42.4 43.1 43.0 107.4 109.5 108.5 107.6

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527.7 534.3 536.4 536.4 173.7 169.3 168.3 168.1 360.2 374.1 376.3 377.9

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.4 94.2 95.1 95.7 26.2 25.9 25.9 25.9 43.1 44.2 44.3 43.9

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191.1 195.4 196.2 197.6 74.3 73.0 73.0 73.0 115.7 120.0 119.8 121.4

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257.0 281.3 280.4 280.7 65.2 67.0 67.6 68.7 174.8 191.2 194.5 196.3

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133.6 136.8 137.1 136.8 33.7 33.9 33.8 33.3 80.7 83.7 84.4 84.6

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831.9 858.7 864.3 863.8 240.4 246.7 246.0 246.2 637.0 659.0 668.9 672.6

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.3 134.0 133.7 133.9 34.1 32.7 32.6 32.8 105.2 108.3 108.8 110.5

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,355.6 1,400.6 1,399.3 1,401.6 699.4 693.8 688.3 692.0 1,209.0 1,270.6 1,276.6 1,275.4

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841.6 868.8 869.4 864.6 256.3 259.2 260.3 261.2 630.5 660.7 670.4 670.3

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.4 90.0 89.9 89.6 24.4 24.6 24.8 24.7 31.1 30.9 31.3 31.8

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,009.3 1,026.2 1,030.6 1,029.7 300.2 304.9 303.7 302.1 689.5 699.1 703.1 709.4

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301.6 304.5 302.6 302.9 75.3 75.2 75.8 77.3 179.8 183.3 184.5 184.8

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349.4 362.4 359.0 358.9 100.9 104.8 106.6 107.4 238.1 253.1 252.9 253.9

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,063.8 1,097.0 1,097.7 1,097.2 323.5 327.0 329.2 330.6 749.3 768.1 771.0 774.2

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.4 74.3 74.9 74.7 34.0 34.5 34.5 34.6 64.8 64.4 64.7 65.1

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401.1 415.9 415.5 415.5 105.6 103.3 103.0 102.8 281.2 283.9 284.1 284.6

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.8 85.5 86.1 85.9 28.2 28.0 27.9 27.7 32.2 33.5 33.3 33.4

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627.1 645.9 647.3 646.5 169.5 172.8 173.4 173.3 409.5 439.6 449.5 444.7

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,459.4 2,570.1 2,575.3 2,582.4 798.1 825.7 829.9 831.6 1,733.6 1,857.2 1,876.6 1,906.2

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292.5 307.2 308.5 307.2 93.2 97.7 97.7 97.7 225.7 239.6 241.5 243.5

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.9 50.3 50.0 50.4 11.8 12.0 12.1 12.0 27.8 29.9 30.7 29.8

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636.8 658.9 656.8 653.4 208.3 204.5 202.8 204.0 752.5 771.5 775.7 773.1

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628.3 653.1 653.6 653.2 156.4 160.1 161.5 161.6 414.8 440.4 442.2 445.6

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.9 122.8 122.6 121.5 29.1 29.5 29.8 29.7 64.2 66.5 67.0 67.2

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522.2 531.0 533.4 533.5 152.0 149.3 149.4 149.4 305.4 322.4 322.9 321.4

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.9 50.8 50.6 50.5 10.8 10.9 10.8 10.9 17.7 18.9 18.7 18.9

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164.3 172.7 173.5 173.5 43.6 43.0 42.5 43.1 118.2 117.9 117.8 117.4

Virgin Islands1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3 6.4 6.4 6.5 – – – – – – – –

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

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Aug.

2020

June

2021

July

2021

Aug.

2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234.0 242.3 243.2 242.4 173.2 194.7 195.6 195.2 383.8 385.2 387.3 389.2

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.9 50.1 50.6 50.5 20.4 25.6 26.7 26.9 79.0 74.7 76.9 76.7

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454.5 475.1 473.5 479.9 254.0 304.6 311.6 313.1 418.8 411.5 417.1 411.4

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.9 189.6 190.4 190.8 105.0 110.8 111.3 113.3 211.0 203.2 204.6 203.2

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,715.5 2,782.1 2,793.3 2,787.0 1,300.3 1,574.6 1,627.4 1,660.5 2,478.0 2,412.9 2,439.4 2,486.3

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336.6 345.0 345.3 343.7 266.9 305.9 310.3 314.0 435.1 441.4 447.4 448.0

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322.3 329.7 331.7 330.5 114.0 129.8 131.6 133.4 221.3 224.8 227.8 225.6

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.7 78.1 78.0 78.3 39.3 46.7 47.6 48.4 66.9 66.0 66.7 66.7

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123.1 126.6 128.9 127.5 38.0 47.7 49.5 52.1 243.1 241.3 241.9 239.7

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,296.1 1,328.9 1,336.5 1,342.6 944.3 1,056.9 1,086.3 1,082.0 1,093.9 1,092.2 1,095.2 1,091.3

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581.8 606.9 609.6 609.7 400.8 435.0 448.6 441.8 683.6 674.2 677.2 675.9

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.2 81.7 81.8 81.7 58.6 93.0 95.4 95.5 124.1 117.3 123.9 118.8

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.9 115.4 115.0 115.0 76.3 84.9 85.8 86.2 126.5 127.1 129.1 128.5

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880.0 891.7 900.9 896.0 448.1 488.7 501.4 507.2 786.7 780.9 783.1 785.0

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461.9 465.7 469.0 470.9 264.8 284.2 286.6 284.2 416.2 414.7 412.0 411.0

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221.0 219.7 221.2 222.0 116.6 129.1 135.0 130.3 250.3 255.6 255.4 254.8

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198.2 197.0 197.9 197.3 109.4 116.7 117.7 119.2 253.5 251.4 252.6 248.4

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.5 277.6 278.3 280.8 164.0 173.2 174.7 171.9 301.0 293.6 282.5 294.9

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306.4 316.0 318.3 316.4 179.0 197.9 201.7 203.9 319.3 309.7 313.6 314.3

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.4 125.9 126.3 127.3 45.6 59.8 58.6 58.2 99.5 97.2 98.2 97.1

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432.7 457.0 453.0 455.3 198.0 226.0 228.1 229.8 503.6 500.5 510.6 510.7

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750.8 763.8 761.8 761.6 238.9 284.9 301.0 301.4 448.2 431.1 443.7 447.5

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635.0 642.8 646.1 648.5 318.4 342.0 352.0 354.6 585.4 580.5 586.8 585.0

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527.4 535.9 535.2 534.0 199.7 229.5 237.0 239.0 404.5 407.0 412.3 410.4

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.3 140.8 141.8 140.8 114.7 127.2 127.6 127.1 236.0 233.8 234.5 234.5

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474.4 491.2 485.7 486.5 248.1 275.0 278.5 281.8 432.4 423.2 429.4 426.2

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.0 78.4 78.1 78.0 58.4 64.2 66.9 65.7 88.6 90.9 89.6 89.1

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.3 158.0 158.8 159.5 80.0 85.3 85.8 86.2 168.5 169.8 170.9 169.2

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.2 140.5 141.1 142.4 239.3 267.3 271.5 275.4 158.0 160.6 161.0 161.4

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.7 118.9 119.1 119.6 54.4 66.7 68.3 67.0 87.1 84.0 87.0 86.4

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653.5 685.3 685.4 688.5 252.5 315.0 316.5 319.2 567.4 570.3 567.8 577.9

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.2 135.8 136.6 137.4 71.9 87.2 88.2 93.3 178.4 174.4 177.4 174.5

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,981.2 2,026.1 2,043.1 2,048.2 551.8 678.4 697.2 704.4 1,391.8 1,439.2 1,444.7 1,440.2

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595.9 600.0 599.0 598.8 403.2 462.9 463.7 461.4 724.9 710.7 717.1 710.4

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.8 65.4 65.5 64.8 34.8 38.1 37.8 37.8 79.4 80.3 80.0 80.6

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887.5 897.0 901.3 896.5 461.4 494.8 504.7 503.2 757.5 755.4 755.4 755.2

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235.2 233.9 234.8 236.8 155.4 170.1 172.5 170.8 345.4 343.4 342.8 343.7

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296.2 299.0 298.3 298.4 156.0 163.8 169.9 171.1 286.2 279.4 290.5 294.0

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,232.2 1,244.6 1,245.0 1,246.4 399.8 458.6 475.3 466.5 686.3 683.0 687.0 685.8

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.4 101.9 102.0 102.0 44.0 48.7 50.5 51.5 63.4 61.2 63.0 63.0

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247.4 256.8 257.3 252.0 219.3 235.7 243.3 245.8 368.2 363.2 366.8 372.7

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.2 73.6 73.6 73.0 40.8 43.1 44.2 43.9 76.9 79.2 79.5 80.7

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429.8 428.2 428.2 428.6 279.2 308.6 311.7 313.1 432.6 454.4 433.3 435.2

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,676.1 1,720.9 1,729.5 1,747.3 1,112.9 1,293.1 1,313.8 1,288.2 1,982.9 1,960.9 1,979.9 1,981.7

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209.0 212.4 213.8 214.4 131.1 148.1 150.0 152.6 250.8 238.4 245.9 248.7

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.4 63.3 63.5 63.2 23.9 29.8 30.8 31.5 53.0 51.2 54.2 53.9

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521.9 533.8 531.4 530.3 310.4 332.6 345.2 347.5 719.4 704.3 695.5 704.5

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485.8 519.0 521.8 522.0 241.9 284.0 293.6 302.1 572.9 556.5 561.6 565.4

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.7 128.9 129.3 129.3 61.0 66.7 67.2 68.2 146.7 148.9 149.0 150.5

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451.2 453.0 456.5 449.4 223.1 234.5 239.4 242.3 394.6 385.5 389.7 387.5

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.4 27.9 27.7 27.6 31.3 34.6 34.5 34.1 66.8 66.0 66.6 66.4

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.3 112.6 113.0 113.2 64.1 75.2 76.7 76.9 200.1 196.7 195.4 195.8

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 4.9 4.8 4.8 4.8 10.9 10.7 10.7 10.7

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

July August July August July August

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

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,950.8 2,022.6 1,969.9 2,024.1 9.7 8.7 9.5 8.9 91.5 90.0 91.2 87.2

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307.6 326.7 308.9 322.0 11.4 11.0 11.0 10.9 17.9 19.1 18.3 19.1

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,725.6 2,912.3 2,803.5 2,965.9 12.0 12.7 12.1 12.7 172.3 175.3 172.6 176.1

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,208.1 1,257.2 1,226.9 1,259.2 5.4 5.5 5.5 5.6 53.3 52.8 53.6 52.2

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,567.9 16,432.4 15,691.7 16,580.9 19.5 19.2 19.6 19.1 856.5 885.9 864.2 892.2

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,605.3 2,749.3 2,632.0 2,752.2 19.5 20.4 19.4 20.0 177.3 175.4 176.9 176.0

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,517.3 1,599.9 1,536.1 1,595.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 58.8 59.4 59.8 60.7

Delaware1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438.0 458.1 440.1 455.8 – – – – 22.5 24.2 22.7 24.4

District of Columbia1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735.4 762.4 729.7 748.2 – – – – 15.4 16.2 15.6 16.2

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,252.1 8,657.0 8,347.5 8,753.2 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.6 559.6 575.0 561.2 573.1

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,295.1 4,547.5 4,361.9 4,558.1 9.4 9.5 9.4 9.7 199.7 206.4 200.7 204.1

Hawaii1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521.4 574.6 519.1 571.0 – – – – 36.0 37.6 36.4 37.3

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759.0 800.8 762.2 793.3 4.0 4.4 4.0 4.4 58.2 62.3 58.4 61.3

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,578.1 5,822.8 5,652.4 5,817.3 6.4 6.7 6.6 6.8 228.2 245.9 229.1 242.7

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,934.9 3,044.5 2,998.6 3,071.1 5.2 5.5 5.2 5.6 147.3 149.9 148.3 150.2

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,481.9 1,536.4 1,487.3 1,527.5 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.4 81.8 82.5 81.7 81.9

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,327.6 1,365.2 1,348.9 1,374.6 5.7 6.0 5.7 6.0 65.1 68.1 64.8 65.6

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,798.4 1,852.2 1,831.5 1,882.1 7.2 7.1 7.5 7.1 78.4 84.1 79.0 83.0

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,773.9 1,838.1 1,799.1 1,841.1 29.0 30.6 28.8 30.0 114.4 116.8 114.8 117.6

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593.5 640.3 600.6 638.2 2.2 2.3 2.3 2.3 31.6 32.6 31.9 32.4

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,534.8 2,669.2 2,543.0 2,670.6 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.3 161.3 162.6 160.9 162.5

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,282.1 3,553.5 3,330.3 3,540.3 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 158.1 174.8 161.7 175.5

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,968.0 4,169.7 4,043.8 4,185.4 6.8 7.3 6.9 7.3 178.0 188.1 182.4 187.0

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,736.8 2,880.1 2,770.2 2,880.4 5.7 6.8 6.5 6.8 134.8 141.7 136.1 143.2

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,083.4 1,128.3 1,103.6 1,132.0 5.7 5.8 5.7 5.9 43.2 45.5 44.2 45.2

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,728.8 2,824.4 2,752.7 2,838.6 4.4 4.6 4.4 4.7 129.5 132.3 129.8 133.1

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471.1 492.5 474.9 490.7 6.9 6.9 6.8 6.9 33.3 32.6 33.2 32.8

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976.5 1,014.3 985.5 1,019.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 57.3 59.2 56.6 58.6

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,224.9 1,334.6 1,241.9 1,350.3 14.9 15.4 15.0 15.1 93.5 91.4 93.3 95.2

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624.7 665.6 636.0 665.9 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 28.6 28.2 28.9 29.7

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,713.0 3,998.0 3,768.2 3,998.8 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.4 153.9 156.0 155.8 156.1

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770.5 802.2 780.2 813.0 17.6 17.4 17.3 17.2 47.5 49.0 47.2 49.0

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,368.6 8,963.3 8,530.6 8,958.6 5.3 5.8 5.4 5.9 377.0 375.9 387.4 378.1

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,239.9 4,478.7 4,344.2 4,505.3 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.8 228.2 244.7 228.7 243.5

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402.3 418.2 406.2 418.9 12.7 14.8 12.6 14.8 28.8 30.5 29.0 30.4

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,205.9 5,376.3 5,243.6 5,374.2 9.0 8.8 9.0 8.9 227.9 240.1 230.1 239.0

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,587.3 1,622.0 1,597.7 1,629.6 27.1 28.5 26.7 29.0 78.5 80.7 77.6 82.0

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,787.5 1,870.4 1,805.5 1,879.5 6.7 6.5 6.8 6.7 110.6 113.1 111.9 114.1

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,484.5 5,730.8 5,530.1 5,730.7 22.6 22.0 22.3 22.5 252.5 256.9 256.6 257.6

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449.1 485.0 457.9 484.6 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 19.5 22.3 19.8 22.5

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,037.7 2,137.7 2,071.0 2,138.3 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.4 103.1 109.2 103.1 109.9

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422.7 444.2 429.8 443.2 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.1 27.2 28.1 27.0 27.7

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,918.1 3,069.6 2,967.5 3,086.9 4.1 4.3 4.1 4.4 130.1 130.2 130.2 133.0

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,947.4 12,678.0 12,042.7 12,722.8 172.0 191.9 171.6 195.0 722.9 726.5 720.8 726.7

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,506.2 1,605.6 1,529.2 1,614.8 8.4 8.4 8.5 8.5 118.1 125.8 118.8 125.0

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.7 298.6 279.1 296.1 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.9 15.6 15.8 15.6 15.5

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,765.2 3,914.0 3,823.3 3,911.7 6.7 7.7 6.9 7.8 203.0 210.7 203.7 209.2

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,227.4 3,433.8 3,249.7 3,435.2 5.6 5.6 5.7 5.5 216.9 231.4 219.7 230.1

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658.3 687.4 665.9 688.4 16.4 20.4 16.5 19.5 30.8 32.1 31.2 31.4

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,800.7 2,915.3 2,830.6 2,898.2 3.5 3.8 3.5 3.8 131.7 132.3 132.0 131.7

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271.9 281.4 274.9 280.4 14.9 15.2 14.8 15.5 22.2 21.5 22.3 20.9

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808.2 850.0 818.9 854.1 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.7 25.7 29.0 25.7 29.0

Virgin Islands1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.0 35.1 35.0 34.9 – – – – 3.6 2.9 3.2 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

July August July August July August

2020 2021 2020 2021p

2020 2021 2020 2021p2020 2021 2020 2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.1 268.0 257.2 267.5 371.9 381.2 373.9 379.7 18.8 20.3 18.8 20.4

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.7 21.0 16.0 17.8 58.6 64.0 59.3 62.9 4.8 4.7 4.8 4.7

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.0 180.4 175.3 180.4 536.9 578.2 544.2 579.1 43.2 45.4 43.5 43.9

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.2 161.7 153.0 160.0 245.6 250.6 247.4 250.1 11.3 12.5 11.3 12.6

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,254.1 1,267.7 1,260.8 1,275.0 2,833.8 2,977.9 2,872.8 2,977.7 500.1 546.6 507.7 552.8

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.5 146.8 146.3 146.0 465.6 488.2 468.2 486.9 73.1 73.5 73.2 73.9

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.6 153.0 152.3 153.7 268.6 283.9 272.4 282.5 28.0 27.5 28.4 27.6

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.6 24.5 25.4 24.8 77.3 83.3 77.6 82.4 3.6 3.8 3.5 3.7

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 27.8 29.0 27.9 28.8 19.5 19.0 19.6 18.7

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372.3 383.3 372.5 381.5 1,709.7 1,777.5 1,723.8 1,775.0 126.1 133.4 127.0 136.1

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378.6 392.7 380.7 391.0 905.7 950.5 914.7 950.0 102.1 118.9 103.0 118.1

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5 11.6 11.5 11.5 97.8 104.8 98.1 104.6 6.3 6.5 6.6 6.5

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.8 68.2 68.2 68.0 146.6 156.2 148.5 154.7 7.4 7.5 7.4 7.6

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548.4 549.2 550.6 554.9 1,154.7 1,190.2 1,161.7 1,186.4 84.3 87.7 84.7 87.6

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504.8 539.2 508.6 534.1 588.4 607.4 592.0 606.8 25.0 24.6 24.9 25.1

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214.5 225.9 213.8 222.4 299.6 304.8 298.6 303.7 18.8 18.7 18.7 18.4

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155.0 160.2 157.3 163.8 258.3 271.2 261.1 271.7 16.4 16.4 16.3 16.4

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234.6 244.4 236.1 250.1 393.3 405.4 395.0 405.6 19.7 19.9 19.8 19.7

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.1 125.6 128.0 126.5 354.0 360.5 357.4 358.2 16.0 17.0 17.0 16.8

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.2 54.1 47.9 54.4 112.8 120.7 114.0 120.6 6.1 6.5 6.3 6.6

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107.4 109.3 107.6 110.1 440.5 465.6 441.6 464.6 32.1 32.2 31.9 32.0

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226.9 239.1 228.3 238.3 515.8 558.7 523.1 556.8 87.0 94.4 86.8 93.0

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565.6 570.6 571.6 577.1 747.4 784.8 756.3 784.6 49.1 50.0 49.2 50.3

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306.6 318.1 309.1 320.4 496.9 511.4 502.7 513.6 42.4 40.6 42.6 40.1

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.3 143.5 138.8 142.2 225.8 234.7 228.1 235.1 9.4 9.6 9.2 9.6

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264.0 270.2 266.8 277.3 525.1 535.2 526.5 535.6 44.1 43.5 44.1 43.1

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.4 21.7 20.6 21.5 92.6 96.1 93.0 96.4 5.6 5.5 5.7 5.5

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.6 101.5 97.2 101.7 190.6 196.1 191.0 197.5 15.8 15.9 15.9 16.2

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.9 60.8 55.2 60.2 249.7 277.3 255.8 278.2 12.5 13.7 12.9 14.0

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.1 67.3 67.3 67.0 132.8 138.6 134.1 138.3 11.6 12.1 11.6 12.2

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234.9 246.0 236.5 248.2 820.6 864.1 827.1 859.3 66.9 68.2 67.4 68.0

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.9 28.2 27.1 28.6 130.1 133.5 131.3 134.1 7.7 8.6 8.1 8.5

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395.9 413.1 399.8 415.0 1,319.3 1,392.5 1,341.2 1,387.1 253.3 276.7 254.7 280.3

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446.0 469.9 446.8 469.5 833.3 871.3 840.1 861.5 72.1 77.9 71.8 78.4

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.9 26.1 25.3 26.3 87.4 89.7 88.3 89.8 5.7 5.8 5.7 5.8

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649.3 663.2 650.9 664.1 1,002.3 1,030.1 1,006.6 1,027.7 62.2 64.8 62.6 65.4

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.4 128.7 128.3 128.7 297.9 301.6 299.7 302.5 17.5 17.4 17.3 17.3

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.7 187.4 184.4 187.7 347.2 359.9 350.4 359.9 32.3 34.1 32.7 34.0

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533.1 550.2 532.6 551.5 1,045.8 1,084.6 1,050.9 1,082.4 80.9 86.8 81.0 87.3

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.3 40.6 37.2 40.2 69.5 75.3 70.8 74.8 5.1 5.3 5.1 5.3

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240.0 250.5 242.5 249.9 398.8 416.2 401.1 414.6 24.1 25.2 24.2 25.3

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.5 44.9 42.6 44.5 84.4 87.5 84.7 87.0 5.0 4.8 4.9 4.7

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335.1 347.4 336.0 349.6 619.3 645.6 624.8 645.3 42.1 44.1 42.0 44.5

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852.9 882.4 852.3 881.5 2,432.6 2,565.0 2,453.2 2,578.0 192.8 205.7 192.7 207.3

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.0 146.6 135.3 146.6 288.2 307.7 292.2 307.1 38.0 39.4 38.4 39.8

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.7 30.4 27.9 30.1 49.1 50.8 49.8 50.6 3.8 3.9 3.9 3.9

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231.4 237.3 232.6 237.4 631.4 656.8 635.5 652.8 64.5 65.9 64.3 65.5

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270.1 265.1 267.1 266.4 626.0 660.8 633.4 658.6 148.6 157.4 150.2 158.9

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.6 46.2 43.9 45.4 119.2 122.4 119.8 121.3 7.1 7.1 6.9 7.1

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457.3 483.4 458.0 479.7 520.3 537.6 523.4 537.7 44.4 46.3 44.5 46.5

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.4 10.0 9.4 9.8 50.9 51.9 51.0 51.8 3.0 2.8 3.0 2.8

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.5 78.0 73.6 77.8 161.5 172.8 161.9 172.0 14.3 14.8 14.3 14.8

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 6.1 6.4 6.1 6.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 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

July August July August July August

2020 2021 2020 2021p

2020 2021 2020 2021p2020 2021 2020 2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.4 97.4 96.9 97.8 237.2 245.3 241.4 248.7 231.3 241.9 234.0 240.7

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.0 11.0 11.0 11.0 26.1 28.0 26.2 27.4 48.5 50.6 48.8 50.2

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231.2 235.0 231.5 234.2 415.6 447.1 422.1 452.4 443.0 466.2 453.4 478.0

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.9 67.0 63.9 66.1 133.7 146.9 135.3 147.8 180.7 186.5 183.7 188.2

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806.5 811.9 807.1 813.0 2,534.5 2,686.8 2,549.2 2,705.8 2,660.0 2,764.0 2,680.4 2,767.7

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171.0 175.7 171.8 174.4 429.1 455.0 430.8 456.2 332.0 343.8 335.8 342.1

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.2 118.1 120.4 118.0 203.2 212.3 204.9 212.8 311.4 326.5 315.5 325.4

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.5 47.1 47.5 46.9 61.6 61.2 61.6 61.2 76.1 78.0 77.0 77.9

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.0 27.9 29.0 28.2 165.6 169.1 164.6 167.5 118.3 125.6 119.5 125.0

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589.3 613.9 591.2 622.5 1,335.4 1,394.9 1,352.4 1,408.5 1,272.8 1,321.7 1,285.2 1,336.0

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248.4 253.9 249.0 255.9 675.1 742.3 686.7 749.3 569.8 601.4 579.6 606.0

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.5 27.5 26.3 27.3 62.5 70.4 62.4 70.0 80.8 81.0 80.4 81.6

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.9 42.5 38.1 42.1 100.5 101.8 100.9 101.4 110.5 114.1 110.0 111.7

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406.9 402.9 408.1 401.4 874.3 923.8 883.3 926.7 861.7 886.0 870.2 883.2

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.0 139.9 141.2 140.5 322.3 330.9 328.1 332.4 455.3 461.6 460.0 465.6

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.7 110.8 109.7 110.3 134.9 137.1 134.0 137.3 212.5 214.8 213.3 215.6

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.2 75.3 77.3 75.3 167.9 173.2 170.1 173.7 195.8 197.0 197.0 196.0

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.4 96.1 92.7 95.9 202.6 204.9 207.6 208.5 268.8 275.1 271.2 280.1

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.8 89.5 89.1 90.4 197.0 207.8 200.0 206.9 303.4 316.0 308.5 317.3

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.9 33.1 33.0 32.8 68.9 73.3 69.1 72.3 121.1 124.0 122.1 125.6

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.2 138.9 136.2 138.6 438.2 462.1 439.7 464.4 426.4 446.6 428.5 448.5

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218.4 221.8 218.7 219.5 579.3 624.6 583.1 622.5 726.2 755.4 735.9 752.4

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223.7 228.5 225.7 226.8 578.8 619.6 588.6 625.1 620.0 637.7 629.4 638.8

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194.6 192.7 194.7 193.9 355.0 376.1 358.8 377.1 514.2 532.1 520.7 530.3

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.9 43.5 42.8 43.4 103.2 108.0 106.8 108.0 133.9 138.7 136.7 140.0

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.2 169.3 175.1 168.8 359.8 378.6 363.4 379.5 464.9 480.3 469.1 480.4

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.3 26.0 26.5 26.0 44.1 45.6 44.5 45.2 75.9 77.1 76.8 77.2

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.6 73.3 74.6 73.4 115.9 120.9 116.4 122.1 150.4 157.2 151.6 158.7

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.0 67.0 65.4 69.2 172.0 194.5 174.4 197.5 139.5 140.6 140.8 142.6

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.1 34.2 34.1 33.7 81.4 85.4 82.5 86.3 110.5 117.8 111.8 117.2

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.0 247.8 243.1 248.7 634.6 680.5 641.4 682.1 628.7 675.7 634.3 676.3

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.2 32.9 34.2 33.2 105.2 109.7 106.3 111.9 129.6 134.0 132.2 135.9

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705.1 695.3 709.4 699.9 1,215.0 1,283.6 1,223.9 1,281.8 1,889.2 1,986.0 1,911.3 1,983.3

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258.2 263.6 259.0 263.7 626.6 672.9 634.8 674.1 585.7 594.5 594.5 594.7

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.3 24.9 24.4 24.8 31.9 32.6 32.1 33.0 64.6 65.3 65.1 64.7

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302.4 306.8 302.5 304.9 687.9 714.6 697.4 721.9 874.8 887.5 882.8 888.1

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.0 76.6 75.6 77.6 180.3 187.4 181.8 187.3 232.5 233.8 234.7 236.1

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.0 107.8 102.5 108.6 239.3 255.7 241.0 256.5 287.1 292.6 289.8 293.9

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326.3 332.2 326.4 333.5 751.1 773.7 753.3 777.5 1,190.1 1,217.3 1,199.9 1,217.7

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.1 35.0 34.2 35.1 64.6 65.8 65.8 66.2 94.5 99.8 95.8 99.5

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.3 103.9 106.6 103.4 274.8 283.7 280.9 283.1 243.4 253.2 246.5 252.3

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.4 28.0 28.4 27.8 32.8 33.8 32.7 33.7 71.0 72.1 71.8 72.0

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170.0 174.0 170.5 173.9 402.3 446.4 411.0 446.4 420.6 425.4 426.5 425.1

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799.5 834.5 801.5 834.0 1,724.3 1,881.9 1,745.2 1,917.8 1,665.1 1,717.8 1,676.8 1,745.0

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.1 99.2 94.0 98.5 226.2 245.2 228.4 247.7 199.2 207.2 202.8 209.0

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.0 12.2 12.0 12.2 28.5 31.2 28.8 30.7 56.1 61.1 57.1 60.7

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209.5 204.7 209.9 205.2 753.6 782.2 757.0 778.9 509.0 526.7 516.1 525.1

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157.3 163.9 158.2 163.6 417.1 447.0 420.1 453.1 477.4 516.4 477.7 515.8

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.0 29.9 29.2 29.6 64.5 68.0 65.0 67.9 126.4 127.7 127.3 128.2

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154.0 151.5 154.1 151.0 306.7 326.3 310.5 323.8 444.4 451.4 448.0 444.8

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.9 11.0 10.9 11.0 18.7 19.6 18.7 19.3 27.4 27.3 27.6 27.2

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.1 42.4 43.2 43.0 115.8 116.7 116.5 117.0 103.1 109.6 105.1 111.7

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 3.5 3.3 3.4 3.3 2.1 2.1 2.1 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

July August July August July August

2020 2021 2020 2021p

2020 2021 2020 2021p2020 2021 2020 2021p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.3 202.3 177.9 198.6 91.5 92.2 90.6 92.2 370.1 375.3 378.5 382.4

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.5 33.8 28.1 33.3 10.2 11.5 10.0 11.6 70.9 72.0 75.4 73.1

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246.9 307.6 249.1 311.2 87.4 93.7 88.2 93.9 363.1 370.7 411.5 404.0

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.8 115.7 107.7 116.7 64.8 67.6 64.8 66.5 192.4 190.4 200.7 193.4

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,340.1 1,680.6 1,326.9 1,699.5 453.4 501.5 428.5 501.7 2,309.4 2,290.3 2,374.5 2,376.4

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.2 331.5 279.4 329.3 106.1 110.8 107.0 113.2 411.9 428.2 423.2 434.2

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.6 146.5 122.6 144.3 55.7 62.5 56.6 62.7 199.7 209.7 202.7 207.2

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.3 54.6 44.7 54.6 16.5 17.2 16.7 16.8 63.0 64.2 63.4 63.1

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.4 51.8 38.1 53.5 72.8 71.6 72.4 71.2 248.6 251.2 242.0 238.1

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931.8 1,089.3 930.6 1,082.4 312.5 341.9 311.8 345.0 1,037.2 1,020.6 1,086.4 1,087.5

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402.6 460.0 407.9 447.9 149.4 156.6 149.4 154.3 654.3 655.3 680.8 671.8

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.0 96.5 59.5 97.0 22.7 23.1 22.7 23.1 117.3 115.6 115.2 112.1

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.0 94.0 81.8 93.4 26.1 26.8 26.1 26.7 119.0 123.0 118.8 122.0

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458.3 537.6 473.3 536.7 233.0 244.2 234.5 241.7 721.9 748.6 750.3 749.2

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270.2 300.9 274.4 295.8 111.6 116.8 111.9 115.0 363.8 367.8 404.0 400.0

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.0 146.3 123.9 140.0 55.0 57.3 55.0 56.6 228.7 235.8 236.2 238.9

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.4 121.6 112.8 123.4 48.3 48.2 49.1 48.6 225.5 228.0 237.4 234.1

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168.8 183.0 169.4 177.9 60.9 63.1 61.1 64.7 271.7 269.1 292.1 289.5

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.7 205.5 179.7 204.4 64.8 67.3 65.7 68.1 301.7 301.5 310.1 304.9

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.9 80.6 63.6 79.6 20.4 23.3 20.6 23.1 89.4 89.8 89.8 88.5

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214.3 252.8 216.2 248.7 99.9 106.7 100.8 108.6 477.2 491.1 478.4 491.3

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.0 348.6 270.9 349.2 110.6 121.6 112.7 121.4 402.7 413.4 408.0 410.6

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333.4 390.1 345.1 392.0 141.4 149.6 144.1 149.1 523.8 543.4 544.5 547.3

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.6 264.0 219.9 263.9 99.7 106.4 100.9 106.0 373.3 390.2 378.2 385.1

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.5 130.6 119.4 128.8 39.4 41.2 39.4 41.8 225.1 227.2 232.5 232.0

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260.0 295.7 262.6 297.8 110.6 112.1 110.9 113.0 391.2 402.6 400.0 405.3

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.4 74.6 64.6 73.1 18.3 20.9 18.4 20.7 83.3 85.5 84.8 85.4

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.5 90.1 83.3 91.0 35.8 36.6 36.2 36.9 158.0 162.5 161.7 162.0

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241.8 279.1 241.6 281.1 35.9 43.2 36.4 43.7 145.2 151.6 151.1 153.5

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.0 81.1 64.3 79.6 22.5 24.1 23.1 24.4 74.1 75.8 77.3 76.5

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.2 366.0 290.4 366.1 135.2 152.9 139.7 151.7 520.6 539.4 531.1 540.9

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.4 93.2 74.9 95.4 26.8 27.9 27.0 27.7 167.5 167.8 174.6 171.5

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565.3 765.1 604.0 771.9 324.1 349.1 333.4 351.5 1,319.1 1,420.2 1,360.1 1,403.8

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415.5 493.0 419.4 481.0 153.6 160.1 155.6 158.2 615.1 625.0 687.9 674.9

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.3 40.0 35.9 39.7 14.8 15.0 14.8 15.4 71.9 73.5 73.0 74.2

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483.1 541.9 486.0 536.0 190.6 192.2 191.3 190.6 716.4 726.3 724.4 727.6

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156.5 175.7 158.1 173.1 66.8 65.9 65.9 65.1 326.8 325.7 332.0 330.9

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160.9 181.6 164.9 183.8 56.9 61.8 57.4 62.5 258.8 269.9 263.7 271.8

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424.0 518.1 435.4 508.9 222.5 241.5 223.9 243.7 635.6 647.5 647.8 648.1

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.4 59.4 50.0 59.7 19.4 21.2 19.9 21.4 58.5 60.1 59.1 59.7

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.1 261.7 230.0 258.5 73.3 77.3 73.5 75.7 339.4 352.3 358.2 361.2

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.6 50.3 46.7 50.7 16.8 18.4 16.9 17.5 68.9 75.1 73.0 76.5

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288.8 326.2 289.4 322.3 115.7 124.8 116.5 123.4 390.0 401.2 416.5 419.0

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,123.2 1,350.0 1,136.8 1,314.2 388.9 419.3 389.0 420.9 1,873.2 1,903.0 1,902.8 1,902.4

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133.0 154.1 135.0 156.3 39.9 42.9 40.2 42.6 227.1 229.1 235.6 233.7

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.4 33.2 25.4 33.7 9.2 10.8 9.4 10.6 46.5 48.3 48.4 47.2

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320.2 367.6 328.8 366.8 178.6 185.4 179.8 187.8 657.3 669.0 688.7 675.2

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.7 311.9 254.7 318.3 115.6 122.0 116.8 122.7 542.1 552.3 546.1 542.2

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.8 70.8 63.6 71.4 21.6 22.2 21.5 21.9 136.9 140.6 141.0 144.7

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241.9 268.7 246.1 272.0 144.5 149.2 144.8 148.8 352.0 364.8 365.7 358.4

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.1 41.9 36.7 40.9 16.0 16.8 15.9 17.0 62.4 63.4 64.6 64.2

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.8 77.0 64.1 77.1 15.9 16.7 16.1 16.7 188.9 192.3 197.8 194.3

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.8 4.8 4.7 4.8 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 11.3 11.0 10.9 10.8

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.
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Map 1. Unemployment rates by state, seasonally August 2021

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NEV.

ARIZ.

MONT.

WYO.

COLO.

N.M.

N.D.

S.D.

NEB.

KAN.

OKLA.

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 6.0%

5.0% to 6.0%

4.0% to 4.9%

3.0% to 3.9%

Below 3.0%

Map 2. Percentage change in nonfarm employment by state,

seasonally adjusted, August 2020 - August 2021