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Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, MD: Nonfarm employment and labor force data

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(not seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector
Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, Md. Metropolitan Division
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
Avg

Total Nonfarm

2022

576.1 582.3 580.5 585.3 588.5 585.9 600.1 598.4 593.7 596.3 600.7 601.2 590.8

2023

592.5 596.0 596.8 599.5 601.4 604.0 600.9 600.8 603.0 (p)603.6      

Mining, Logging, & Construction

2022

32.6 32.5 32.7 32.9 33.0 32.8 33.4 33.4 33.1 32.9 32.9 33.0 32.9

2023

32.4 32.4 32.7 33.2 33.4 35.0 35.3 35.4 35.3 (p)35.1      

Manufacturing

2022

19.2 19.3 19.4 19.3 19.4 19.5 20.1 20.1 20.0 20.2 20.4 20.4 19.8

2023

20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.8 20.8 20.8 20.7 (p)20.8      

Trade, Transportation, & Utilities

2022

75.8 75.4 75.1 75.4 75.9 76.1 77.7 77.6 76.7 76.9 78.3 79.3 76.7

2023

77.3 76.0 76.0 76.0 76.5 76.0 75.7 75.3 75.4 (p)76.6      

Information

2022

12.0 12.2 12.2 12.7 12.6 12.7 12.7 12.8 12.7 12.7 12.5 12.4 12.5

2023

12.2 12.4 12.4 12.3 12.3 12.4 12.3 12.3 12.3 (p)12.4      

Financial Activities

2022

34.7 34.7 34.1 34.3 34.2 33.6 34.6 34.5 33.9 33.7 34.0 33.9 34.2

2023

33.5 33.3 32.9 32.7 32.3 32.6 32.5 32.5 32.5 (p)32.2      

Professional & Business Services

2022

132.2 133.9 132.8 134.9 134.6 132.7 138.3 138.3 135.9 138.5 138.6 137.2 135.7

2023

133.9 135.6 134.2 136.7 136.8 137.4 137.3 136.7 135.5 (p)135.8      

Educational & Health Services

2022

90.7 91.9 91.4 91.6 91.8 90.5 93.1 92.8 93.1 94.2 95.6 96.4 92.8

2023

95.7 96.1 96.6 97.8 97.1 96.4 94.6 95.6 97.3 (p)98.6      

Leisure & Hospitality

2022

45.9 46.9 47.6 48.4 50.1 52.4 54.2 53.2 50.8 50.4 50.5 50.7 50.1

2023

50.5 51.3 52.2 51.6 53.1 54.4 54.5 54.3 53.8 (p)51.3      

Other Services

2022

22.7 22.9 22.6 22.9 23.0 23.0 23.8 23.6 23.4 22.9 22.7 23.0 23.0

2023

23.0 23.2 23.5 23.5 23.4 23.2 23.6 23.8 23.5 (p)23.5      

Government

2022

110.3 112.6 112.6 112.9 113.9 112.6 112.2 112.1 114.1 113.9 115.2 114.9 113.1

2023

113.8 115.4 115.9 115.2 115.9 115.8 114.3 114.1 116.7 (p)117.3      

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

 

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

Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, Md. Metropolitan Division
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
Avg

Labor Force

2022

675,912 679,386 682,499 679,783 682,385 688,211 693,430 687,130 680,291 684,159 680,802 679,884 682,822

2023

684,052 688,141 694,541 691,180 691,450 693,378 698,402 690,928 685,501 (p)687,690      

Employment

2022

653,843 656,943 661,785 662,465 663,097 663,973 671,884 665,726 661,847 664,778 663,972 664,983 662,941

2023

667,371 669,876 680,696 680,064 677,817 683,015 687,502 679,774 673,821 (p)674,471      

Unemployment

2022

22,069 22,443 20,714 17,318 19,288 24,238 21,546 21,404 18,444 19,381 16,830 14,901 19,881

2023

16,681 18,265 13,845 11,116 13,633 10,363 10,900 11,154 11,680 (p)13,219      

Unemployment Rate

2022

3.3 3.3 3.0 2.5 2.8 3.5 3.1 3.1 2.7 2.8 2.5 2.2 2.9

2023

2.4 2.7 2.0 1.6 2.0 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.7 (p)1.9      

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary