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Texas lost 26,800 manufacturing jobs over the year ended September 2016

October 25, 2016

Manufacturing employment decreased by 26,800 in Texas over the year ended September 2016. Following Texas, California (−18,000), Illinois (−11,500), and Oklahoma (−9,300) had the largest declines in employment in the industry. In contrast, Florida (+11,800), Michigan (+8,100), and Tennessee (+7,500) added the most manufacturing jobs over the year. Nationwide, the manufacturing industry lost 61,000 jobs over the same period.
Change in manufacturing employment from September 2015 to September 2016
State September 2015 September 2016 (p) 12-month change (p) 12-month percent change (p)

Alabama

 258,700 263,000 4,300 1.7%

Alaska

 15,900 15,300 -600 -3.8

Arizona

 158,600 158,000 -600 -0.4

Arkansas

 154,800 154,100 -700 -0.5

California

 1,312,900 1,294,900 -18,000 -1.4

Colorado

 141,900 143,000 1,100 0.8

Connecticut

 159,100 159,700 600 0.4

Delaware

 27,300 27,200 -100 -0.4

District of Columbia

 1,200 1,200 0 0.0

Florida

 345,500 357,300 11,800 3.4

Georgia

 380,400 384,100 3,700 1.0

Hawaii

 13,900 13,900 0 0.0

Idaho

 63,000 64,400 1,400 2.2

Illinois

 580,700 569,200 -11,500 -2.0

Indiana

 520,800 516,600 -4,200 -0.8

Iowa

 215,200 211,200 -4,000 -1.9

Kansas

 161,300 160,600 -700 -0.4

Kentucky

 243,500 243,800 300 0.1

Louisiana

 142,600 135,200 -7,400 -5.2

Maine

 51,100 51,400 300 0.6

Maryland

 104,100 106,000 1,900 1.8

Massachusetts

 249,100 250,600 1,500 0.6

Michigan

 592,400 600,500 8,100 1.4

Minnesota

 318,500 318,000 -500 -0.2

Mississippi

 142,400 142,900 500 0.4

Missouri

 261,700 259,400 -2,300 -0.9

Montana

 19,300 19,900 600 3.1

Nebraska

 97,200 97,100 -100 -0.1

Nevada

 42,200 42,600 400 0.9

New Hampshire

 67,200 66,400 -800 -1.2

New Jersey

 239,700 244,600 4,900 2.0

New Mexico

 27,900 26,400 -1,500 -5.4

New York

 457,300 452,400 -4,900 -1.1

North Carolina

 462,900 461,700 -1,200 -0.3

North Dakota

 25,600 25,000 -600 -2.3

Ohio

 686,400 685,700 -700 -0.1

Oklahoma

 134,900 125,600 -9,300 -6.9

Oregon

 189,500 188,500 -1,000 -0.5

Pennsylvania

 567,100 564,500 -2,600 -0.5

Rhode Island

 41,300 41,500 200 0.5

South Carolina

 236,700 241,100 4,400 1.9

South Dakota

 42,500 41,800 -700 -1.6

Tennessee

 334,900 342,400 7,500 2.2

Texas

 869,900 843,100 -26,800 -3.1

Utah

 124,100 128,500 4,400 3.5

Vermont

 30,900 30,500 -400 -1.3

Virginia

 234,100 229,700 -4,400 -1.9

Washington

 295,100 289,500 -5,600 -1.9

West Virginia

 47,700 46,900 -800 -1.7

Wisconsin

 469,100 471,700 2,600 0.6

Wyoming

 9,800 9,900 100 1.0
Footnotes:

(p) Preliminary

Across all industries, 35 states and the District of Columbia had statistically significant over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment in September. The largest job gains occurred in California (+379,700), Florida (+276,300), and Texas (+206,800). Only Wyoming (−9,200) had a significant over-the-year decline in employment.

These data are not seasonally adjusted. State level employment may not sum to national level employment because the estimates are developed independently to reduce state level sampling and nonsampling error. These data are from the Current Employment Statistics (State and Metro Area) program. Data for the most recent month are preliminary and subject to revision. To learn more, see "Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — September 2016" (HTML) (PDF).

SUGGESTED CITATION

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Texas lost 26,800 manufacturing jobs over the year ended September 2016 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/texas-lost-26800-manufacturing-jobs-over-the-year-ended-september-2016.htm (visited May 19, 2024).

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