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States with statistically significant employment changes in May 2011

June 21, 2011

Between April and May, 2011, 15 states recorded statistically significant changes in employment.

States with statistically significant employment changes from April 2011 to May 2011, seasonally adjusted
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The four states reporting over-the-month statistically significant job gains were Florida (+28,000), Arizona and Louisiana (+10,100 each), and Wyoming (+2,200).

The largest over-the-month statistically significant declines in employment occurred in California (−29,200), New York (−24,700), Pennsylvania (−14,200), Michigan (−13,400), and Maryland (−13,300).

Over the year, 15 states experienced statistically significant changes in employment, all of which were increases. The largest increase occurred in Texas (+205,400), followed by California (+87,300), Ohio (+65,900), Illinois (+61,600), and Pennsylvania (+44,300).

These data are from the Current Employment Statistics (State and Metro Area) program and are seasonally adjusted. To learn more, see "Regional and State Employment and Unemployment – May 2011" (HTML) (PDF), new release USDL-11-0892.

SUGGESTED CITATION

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, States with statistically significant employment changes in May 2011 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2011/ted_20110621.htm (visited March 28, 2024).

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