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State and Metro Area Employment, Hours, & Earnings

Over-the-year change in total nonfarm employment for metropolitan areas, not seasonally adjusted
(with a Census 2010 population of 1 million or more)

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Metropolitan area State Jan. 2023
(thousands)
Jan. 2024 (p)
(thousands)
Over-the-year
net change (thousands)
Over-the-year
percent change (%)
Significant?
(90% confidence level)

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

Georgia 3,019.3 3,043.0 23.7 0.8 No

Austin-Round Rock, TX

Texas 1,303.6 1,339.2 35.6 2.7 Yes

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Maryland 1,383.6 1,380.0 -3.6 -0.3 No

Birmingham-Hoover, AL

Alabama 559.0 565.4 6.4 1.1 No

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH NECTA

Massachusetts 2,760.1 2,767.6 7.5 0.3 No

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY

New York 540.1 550.5 10.4 1.9 No

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

North Carolina 1,326.4 1,344.7 18.3 1.4 No

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI

Illinois 4,687.0 4,683.3 -3.7 -0.1 No

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

Ohio 1,134.2 1,140.8 6.6 0.6 No

Cleveland-Elyria, OH

Ohio 1,043.6 1,049.6 6.0 0.6 No

Columbus, OH

Ohio 1,133.5 1,140.7 7.2 0.6 No

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

Texas 4,156.1 4,230.7 74.6 1.8 Yes

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO

Colorado 1,592.4 1,601.3 8.9 0.6 No

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

Michigan 2,006.5 2,004.1 -2.4 -0.1 No

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA

Connecticut 572.2 575.8 3.6 0.6 No

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX

Texas 3,307.7 3,391.0 83.3 2.5 Yes

Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN

Indiana 1,136.1 1,161.2 25.1 2.2 Yes

Jacksonville, FL

Florida 781.7 796.3 14.6 1.9 No

Kansas City, MO-KS

Missouri 1,114.7 1,123.7 9.0 0.8 No

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV

Nevada 1,096.9 1,134.8 37.9 3.5 Yes

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

California 6,170.4 6,223.1 52.7 0.9 Yes

Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN

Kentucky 681.4 683.3 1.9 0.3 No

Memphis, TN-MS-AR

Tennessee 659.0 646.4 -12.6 -1.9 Yes

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

Florida 2,866.8 2,945.7 78.9 2.8 Yes

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI

Wisconsin 846.8 841.8 -5.0 -0.6 No

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Minnesota 1,936.1 1,942.4 6.3 0.3 No

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN

Tennessee 1,139.3 1,151.1 11.8 1.0 No

New Orleans-Metairie, LA

Louisiana 563.2 556.9 -6.3 -1.1 No

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA

New York 9,846.6 10,006.7 160.1 1.6 Yes

Oklahoma City, OK

Oklahoma 683.9 698.4 14.5 2.1 Yes

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

Florida 1,437.5 1,468.5 31.0 2.2 Yes

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

Pennsylvania 3,015.7 3,054.3 38.6 1.3 Yes

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ

Arizona 2,371.5 2,435.2 63.7 2.7 Yes

Pittsburgh, PA

Pennsylvania 1,136.7 1,145.9 9.2 0.8 No

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

Oregon 1,235.1 1,211.5 -23.6 -1.9 Yes

Providence-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA

Rhode Island 582.9 589.4 6.5 1.1 No

Raleigh, NC

North Carolina 711.4 730.0 18.6 2.6 Yes

Richmond, VA

Virginia 702.5 710.5 8.0 1.1 No

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA

California 1,662.5 1,686.2 23.7 1.4 Yes

Rochester, NY

New York 513.6 522.5 8.9 1.7 No

Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA

California 1,051.7 1,081.8 30.1 2.9 Yes

Salt Lake City, UT

Utah 803.0 818.3 15.3 1.9 Yes

San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX

Texas 1,138.2 1,168.9 30.7 2.7 Yes

San Diego-Carlsbad, CA

California 1,528.1 1,548.6 20.5 1.3 Yes

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA

California 2,442.8 2,453.9 11.1 0.5 No

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA

California 1,150.4 1,149.1 -1.3 -0.1 No

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Washington 2,098.4 2,113.3 14.9 0.7 No

St. Louis, MO-IL (1)

Missouri 1,401.8 1,418.8 17.0 1.2 No

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Florida 1,508.7 1,543.1 34.4 2.3 Yes

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC

Virginia 790.9 805.7 14.8 1.9 Yes

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

District of Columbia 3,310.1 3,342.9 32.8 1.0 No
Footnotes:

(1) Area boundary does not reflect the official OMB delineation.

(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Data have been revised to reflect 2023 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmark are preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available. Area delineations are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 18-03, dated April 10, 2018, and are available on the BLS website at https://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are county-based. Some metropolitan areas lie in two or more states. They are listed under the state containing the first principal city, unless otherwise footnoted. Estimates for the latest month are subject to revision the following month.

NOTE: Changes in metropolitan area and metropolitan division nonfarm payroll employment are identified with a “Yes” in the “Significant?” column of this table only if they have been determined to be statistically significant, i.e. different from zero, at the 90-percent confidence level. An explanation of how to construct a 90-percent confidence interval, as well as the underlying standard error measures (Table 2) for over-the-year changes in metropolitan area and metropolitan division payroll employment data at the total nonfarm level can be found in the CES State and Area reliability page available at https://www.bls.gov/sae/additional-resources/reliability-of-state-and-area-estimates.htm.

 

Last Modified Date: March 13, 2024