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Maryland: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, seasonally adjusted

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector	Maryland
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Total Nonfarm
2019	2,769.4	2,768.1	2,769.7	2,768.0	2,768.3	2,767.0	2,769.2	2,767.8	2,765.9	2,765.3	2,776.1	2,784.2
2020	2,796.8	2,797.1	2,766.3	(p)2,417.0
Mining, Logging, & Construction
2019	168.1	167.4	167.5	166.8	166.9	166.8	166.5	166.9	166.9	167.6	168.9	170.2
2020	173.3	174.5	174.5	(p)159.9
Manufacturing
2019	111.5	111.9	112.1	112.6	112.5	113.0	113.2	113.4	113.4	114.1	113.8	113.6
2020	113.8	113.8	113.3	(p)98.9
Trade, Transportation, & Utilities
2019	470.9	469.9	470.4	468.2	468.3	467.7	468.7	468.9	468.7	473.4	473.3	473.3
2020	471.4	472.1	471.6	(p)416.5
Information
2019	35.6	35.3	35.6	35.4	35.2	35.4	35.5	35.6	35.4	35.5	35.2	34.3
2020	35.4	34.6	34.0	(p)27.6
Financial Activities
2019	144.5	144.4	144.3	144.0	143.7	143.3	143.5	143.1	142.8	143.6	143.3	143.8
2020	143.6	143.9	143.2	(p)133.9
Professional & Business Services
2019	460.5	461.9	461.4	462.3	462.3	463.1	463.0	463.5	463.0	463.5	468.2	469.8
2020	473.0	473.2	468.3	(p)427.4
Educational & Health Services
2019	473.1	473.8	474.1	474.0	473.8	474.1	474.1	474.1	473.7	469.4	469.9	472.3
2020	475.6	474.4	472.5	(p)421.1
Leisure & Hospitality
2019	282.7	282.4	282.8	283.2	282.8	283.0	282.8	281.5	279.9	278.7	283.3	285.5
2020	288.7	289.8	272.6	(p)152.6
Other Services
2019	114.9	115.0	115.0	115.1	115.0	114.9	114.7	115.0	114.9	115.0	114.5	115.9
2020	116.9	116.4	111.9	(p)87.0
Government
2019	507.6	506.1	506.5	506.4	507.8	505.7	507.2	505.8	507.2	504.5	505.7	505.5
2020	505.1	504.4	504.4	(p)492.1
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(seasonally adjusted data)
	Maryland
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force
2019	(r)3,242,979	(r)3,246,181	(r)3,248,606	(r)3,251,116	(r)3,254,239	(r)3,258,184	(r)3,263,140	(r)3,267,477	(r)3,271,010	(r)3,273,101	(r)3,272,834	(r)3,272,378
2020	3,276,524	3,280,277	3,284,708	(p)3,064,478
Employment
2019	(r)3,121,324	(r)3,124,998	(r)3,128,100	(r)3,131,352	(r)3,135,190	(r)3,139,739	(r)3,145,585	(r)3,151,418	(r)3,156,844	(r)3,160,658	(r)3,160,936	(r)3,160,365
2020	3,167,463	3,172,883	3,175,393	(p)2,760,034
Unemployment
2019	(r)121,655	(r)121,183	(r)120,506	(r)119,764	(r)119,049	(r)118,445	(r)117,555	(r)116,059	(r)114,166	(r)112,443	(r)111,898	(r)112,013
2020	109,061	107,394	109,315	(p)304,444
Unemployment Rate
2019	(r)3.8	(r)3.7	(r)3.7	(r)3.7	(r)3.7	(r)3.6	(r)3.6	(r)3.6	(r)3.5	(r)3.4	(r)3.4	(r)3.4
2020	3.3	3.3	3.3	(p)9.9
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised