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Wichita

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Wichita Area Economic Summary
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
 Economic Summary Mar 2019
Mountain-Plains - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Apr 2019
Occupational Employment and Wages in Wichita — May 2016 Employment, Pay News Release Jun 2017

Wichita, KS Economy at a Glance:

Wichita, KS
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Data		 Sept
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2019		 Feb
2019

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 306.2 308.8 309.7 (p)309.5 311.1 (p)312.4

Employment(1)

 296.0 298.5 299.7 (p)299.1 298.3 (p)300.1

Unemployment(1)

 10.2 10.3 10.0 (p)10.4 12.8 (p)12.3

Unemployment Rate(2)

 3.3 3.3 3.2 (p)3.4 4.1 (p)3.9

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 300.5 301.8 303.6 303.6 297.5 (p)300.7

12-month % change

 2.0 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.6 (p)1.8

Mining, Logging, and Construction(3)

 17.3 17.1 17.3 17.2 16.9 (p)16.4

12-month % change

 5.5 4.3 6.1 6.2 8.3 (p)4.5

Manufacturing(3)

 53.9 53.9 54.3 54.6 54.3 (p)54.7

12-month % change

 4.5 3.9 4.2 4.4 3.8 (p)3.4

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 50.3 50.8 51.2 51.2 49.5 (p)49.7

12-month % change

 -0.6 -0.8 -2.7 -2.7 -2.2 (p)-1.0

Information(3)

 4.1 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.2 (p)4.2

12-month % change

 -2.4 -2.3 -2.3 0.0 0.0 (p)0.0

Financial Activities(3)

 11.3 11.4 11.4 11.4 11.2 (p)11.1

12-month % change

 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.9 0.9 (p)0.9

Professional and Business Services(3)

 33.7 33.6 33.9 33.8 33.7 (p)33.8

12-month % change

 2.7 2.8 4.0 2.7 5.3 (p)5.6

Education and Health Services(3)

 44.8 44.6 44.8 44.5 44.3 (p)44.9

12-month % change

 2.5 0.9 0.7 0.2 0.2 (p)1.1

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 32.3 32.4 32.6 32.9 31.7 (p)32.4

12-month % change

 -0.3 0.9 1.9 2.5 1.0 (p)1.3

Other Services(3)

 10.5 10.4 10.4 10.4 10.3 (p)10.4

12-month % change

 1.0 -1.0 -1.9 -1.9 -1.0 (p)0.0

Government(3)

 42.3 43.4 43.5 43.3 41.4 (p)43.1

12-month % change

 2.7 2.4 2.1 2.4 0.7 (p)1.2

Footnotes
(1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted.
(2) In percent, not seasonally adjusted.
(3) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data.
(p) Preliminary