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New Jersey: 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	New Jersey
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Total Nonfarm
2019	4,186.0	4,185.2	4,190.2	4,193.4	4,186.9	4,192.0	4,196.5	4,198.3	4,199.0	4,211.5	4,219.2	4,226.4
2020	4,240.8	4,241.9	4,166.8	(p)3,409.1
Construction
2019	159.8	158.9	159.6	160.0	159.4	159.1	159.5	160.4	160.7	160.6	160.4	159.5
2020	162.9	166.6	166.2	(p)122.4
Manufacturing
2019	251.5	251.5	252.2	252.1	251.9	251.7	251.8	250.8	251.0	250.0	252.5	252.1
2020	252.6	253.0	253.0	(p)219.1
Trade, Transportation, & Utilities
2019	887.6	886.1	887.3	885.2	884.4	885.6	886.8	887.9	887.6	888.4	891.8	894.1
2020	895.9	894.6	889.8	(p)732.3
Information
2019	67.6	66.8	67.1	67.4	67.4	67.5	67.4	68.0	67.7	67.5	66.9	66.5
2020	66.3	66.4	65.7	(p)60.6
Financial Activities
2019	252.8	252.6	252.5	252.7	252.6	252.9	252.5	252.8	252.4	250.9	251.1	251.2
2020	252.0	253.5	250.6	(p)237.8
Professional & Business Services
2019	681.5	682.3	682.7	685.9	683.2	683.9	683.7	684.7	685.2	688.8	690.7	692.7
2020	693.2	690.3	680.2	(p)590.1
Educational & Health Services
2019	713.8	713.9	715.4	716.0	715.6	716.7	716.7	718.0	718.7	723.1	724.1	724.8
2020	728.8	730.6	721.0	(p)607.9
Leisure & Hospitality
2019	394.3	394.7	395.2	394.2	393.9	393.4	393.1	392.9	392.2	397.1	399.9	400.4
2020	402.2	404.0	379.5	(p)143.0
Other Services
2019	172.5	172.8	173.0	173.7	173.6	173.5	173.9	174.1	173.9	176.1	174.9	174.5
2020	175.2	173.5	171.9	(p)114.7
Government
2019	603.2	604.2	603.9	604.9	603.5	606.3	609.7	607.2	608.1	607.5	605.4	609.1
2020	610.2	607.9	587.4	(p)579.8
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(seasonally adjusted data)
	New Jersey
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force
2019	(r)4,456,587	(r)4,457,146	(r)4,455,781	(r)4,455,716	(r)4,459,791	(r)4,469,516	(r)4,486,272	(r)4,505,661	(r)4,523,734	(r)4,536,222	(r)4,537,131	(r)4,535,046
2020	4,551,684	4,564,128	4,588,196	(p)4,469,885
Employment
2019	(r)4,291,177	(r)4,295,671	(r)4,299,568	(r)4,304,824	(r)4,312,707	(r)4,323,243	(r)4,336,736	(r)4,350,169	(r)4,361,752	(r)4,369,115	(r)4,368,963	(r)4,367,342
2020	4,379,423	4,390,255	4,419,828	(p)3,784,340
Unemployment
2019	(r)165,410	(r)161,475	(r)156,213	(r)150,892	(r)147,084	(r)146,273	(r)149,536	(r)155,492	(r)161,982	(r)167,107	(r)168,168	(r)167,704
2020	172,261	173,873	168,368	(p)685,545
Unemployment Rate
2019	(r)3.7	(r)3.6	(r)3.5	(r)3.4	(r)3.3	(r)3.3	(r)3.3	(r)3.5	(r)3.6	(r)3.7	(r)3.7	(r)3.7
2020	3.8	3.8	3.7	(p)15.3
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised