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District of Columbia: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, not seasonally adjusted

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(not seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector
District of Columbia
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
Avg

Total Nonfarm

2022

748.0 754.3 758.8 761.4 760.5 761.4 777.4 762.1 767.6 772.8 775.7 772.9 764.4

2023

762.2 765.4 769.3 770.6 773.6 777.5 785.8 773.2 781.0 (p)785.3      

Mining, Logging, & Construction

2022

15.0 15.2 15.4 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.5 15.2 15.2 15.3

2023

14.7 14.7 15.2 15.5 15.6 15.5 15.8 15.9 15.9 (p)15.8      

Manufacturing

2022

1.0 1.0 1.1 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0

2023

1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 (p)1.0      

Trade, Transportation, & Utilities

2022

29.7 30.2 30.1 30.0 29.8 30.0 30.6 30.5 30.5 30.7 31.6 31.1 30.4

2023

30.5 30.5 30.2 30.0 30.0 30.1 30.3 30.1 30.1 (p)30.7      

Information

2022

20.2 20.5 20.7 20.8 20.6 20.9 20.8 21.1 20.8 21.0 21.1 21.1 20.8

2023

20.9 20.9 20.9 20.9 20.9 21.3 21.3 21.3 21.3 (p)21.3      

Financial Activities

2022

27.3 27.3 27.4 27.2 27.4 27.5 28.0 28.0 27.8 27.8 27.6 27.9 27.6

2023

27.4 27.6 28.3 28.1 28.5 28.5 28.7 28.6 28.3 (p)28.5      

Professional & Business Services

2022

170.1 171.3 171.8 172.6 173.6 174.8 176.2 175.2 175.3 175.8 176.1 175.4 174.0

2023

173.5 173.2 173.7 173.2 173.9 175.8 176.5 175.4 176.2 (p)177.3      

Educational & Health Services

2022

120.3 122.7 123.2 123.4 121.1 119.0 118.4 119.3 123.0 125.3 124.9 124.5 122.1

2023

121.9 124.8 124.8 124.0 123.4 122.5 120.9 121.7 125.8 (p)127.3      

Leisure & Hospitality

2022

57.5 59.3 62.0 66.6 68.3 68.8 70.4 70.7 71.6 72.5 74.4 73.4 68.0

2023

71.1 71.5 74.2 75.6 76.8 78.5 77.4 76.6 77.3 (p)78.5      

Other Services

2022

66.2 66.6 66.7 66.4 66.3 66.8 67.0 66.7 66.7 67.7 68.3 68.4 67.0

2023

68.0 67.8 68.0 69.3 70.1 70.5 70.8 70.7 71.3 (p)71.2      

Government

2022

240.7 240.2 240.4 238.1 236.9 237.0 249.6 234.2 235.4 235.5 235.5 234.9 238.2

2023

233.2 233.4 233.0 233.0 233.4 233.8 243.1 231.9 233.8 (p)233.7      

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

 

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(not seasonally adjusted data)

District of Columbia
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
Avg

Labor Force

2022

380,671 387,107 388,830 386,488 387,666 392,180 398,415 391,193 388,623 386,974 386,175 386,520 388,403

2023

392,894 392,256 391,796 386,532 391,285 394,821 399,680 395,609 399,274 (p)401,044      

Employment

2022

356,734 365,514 368,965 370,349 370,956 372,959 379,597 373,359 372,724 370,346 370,463 370,787 370,229

2023

373,602 373,060 371,942 369,245 372,169 373,174 378,532 373,718 378,088 (p)380,099      

Unemployment

2022

23,937 21,593 19,865 16,139 16,710 19,221 18,818 17,834 15,899 16,628 15,712 15,733 18,174

2023

19,292 19,196 19,854 17,287 19,116 21,647 21,148 21,891 21,186 (p)20,945      

Unemployment Rate

2022

6.3 5.6 5.1 4.2 4.3 4.9 4.7 4.6 4.1 4.3 4.1 4.1 4.7

2023

4.9 4.9 5.1 4.5 4.9 5.5 5.3 5.5 5.3 (p)5.2      

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary