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Employment change by industry, May 2026, seasonally adjusted
Industry
Employed (thousands)
1-month net change (thousands)
1-month percent change
3-month net change (thousands)
3-month percent change
6-month net change (thousands)
6-month percent change
12-month net change (thousands)
12-month percent change
Mining and logging
613 4 0.7 12 2.0 8 1.3 -5 -0.8
Logging
38.7 -0.5 -1.3 2.0 5.4 0.7 1.8 -2.7 -6.5
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
574.7 4.8 0.8 10.0 1.8 8.1 1.4 -2.2 -0.4
Oil and gas extraction
115.6 0.1 0.1 -0.6 -0.5 -0.9 -0.8 -3.0 -2.5
Mining (except oil and gas)
190.4 1.6 0.8 2.9 1.5 1.8 1.0 1.1 0.6
Coal mining
38.7 0.0 0.0 -0.2 -0.5 -1.3 -3.3 -1.3 -3.3
Metal ore mining
46.2 0.0 0.0 0.5 1.1 0.6 1.3 1.3 2.9
Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying
105.5 1.6 1.5 2.6 2.5 2.4 2.3 1.1 1.1
Support activities for mining
268.7 3.1 1.2 7.7 3.0 7.2 2.8 -0.3 -0.1
Construction
8,337 17 0.2 41 0.5 58 0.7 68 0.8
Construction of buildings
1,868.9 0.0 0.0 5.9 0.3 14.9 0.8 10.0 0.5
Residential building construction
924.7 -1.7 -0.2 -2.1 -0.2 -3.7 -0.4 -8.2 -0.9
Nonresidential building construction
944.2 1.7 0.2 8.0 0.9 18.6 2.0 18.2 2.0
Heavy and civil engineering construction
1,206.5 2.6 0.2 8.4 0.7 16.3 1.4 25.9 2.2
Specialty trade contractors
5,261.4 14.0 0.3 26.2 0.5 26.9 0.5 32.3 0.6
Residential specialty trade contractors
2,361.6 2.6 0.1 8.3 0.4 -4.1 -0.2 -25.1 -1.1
Nonresidential specialty trade contractors
2,899.8 11.4 0.4 17.9 0.6 31.0 1.1 57.4 2.0
Manufacturing
12,605 7 0.1 22 0.2 12 0.1 -46 -0.4
Durable goods
7,843 17 0.2 32 0.4 41 0.5 -2 0.0
Wood product manufacturing
390.2 -1.9 -0.5 -1.9 -0.5 -7.3 -1.8 -17.7 -4.3
Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing
420.8 0.8 0.2 2.0 0.5 5.2 1.3 3.7 0.9
Primary metal manufacturing
366.7 1.1 0.3 2.6 0.7 4.0 1.1 2.0 0.5
Fabricated metal product manufacturing
1,452.3 6.7 0.5 11.9 0.8 12.4 0.9 17.5 1.2
Machinery manufacturing
1,085.3 1.1 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.0 -5.5 -0.5
Computer and electronic product manufacturing
993.3 0.9 0.1 5.5 0.6 4.0 0.4 -7.4 -0.7
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing
100.7 0.4 0.4 1.9 1.9 2.1 2.1 0.9 0.9
Communications equipment manufacturing
82.3 0.1 0.1 1.1 1.4 2.1 2.6 3.1 3.9
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing
368.5 -0.7 -0.2 -0.3 -0.1 -2.3 -0.6 -14.3 -3.7
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
415.0 1.2 0.3 3.6 0.9 3.4 0.8 4.7 1.1
Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media and audio and video equipment manufacturing
26.8 -0.1 -0.4 -0.9 -3.2 -1.3 -4.6 -1.8 -6.3
Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing
438.2 1.3 0.3 4.4 1.0 7.0 1.6 9.3 2.2
Transportation equipment manufacturing
1,750.8 4.9 0.3 7.5 0.4 15.7 0.9 3.8 0.2
Motor vehicles and parts
958.1 3.6 0.4 0.7 0.1 2.8 0.3 -16.2 -1.7
Furniture and related product manufacturing
331.9 -1.0 -0.3 -4.0 -1.2 -3.3 -1.0 -7.0 -2.1
Miscellaneous manufacturing
613.7 3.0 0.5 4.2 0.7 3.0 0.5 0.0 0.0
Nondurable goods
4,762 -10 -0.2 -10 -0.2 -29 -0.6 -44 -0.9
Food manufacturing
1,776.3 -3.6 -0.2 -3.6 -0.2 -4.9 -0.3 -9.3 -0.5
Textile mills
78.4 -0.5 -0.6 -1.4 -1.8 -2.6 -3.2 -3.6 -4.4
Textile product mills
93.1 -0.7 -0.7 -1.1 -1.2 -0.3 -0.3 -0.6 -0.6
Apparel manufacturing
72.8 -0.4 -0.5 -1.0 -1.4 -2.6 -3.4 -6.8 -8.5
Paper manufacturing
356.4 -0.2 -0.1 1.3 0.4 1.8 0.5 2.3 0.6
Printing and related support activities
341.0 0.4 0.1 -0.1 0.0 1.0 0.3 -3.7 -1.1
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing
109.9 0.6 0.5 0.8 0.7 0.8 0.7 1.2 1.1
Chemical manufacturing
897.7 1.2 0.1 -1.1 -0.1 -5.9 -0.7 -1.6 -0.2
Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
689.7 -6.1 -0.9 -4.2 -0.6 -12.7 -1.8 -16.8 -2.4
Beverage, tobacco, and leather and allied product manufacturing
346.5 -0.9 -0.3 0.0 0.0 -3.5 -1.0 -5.5 -1.6
Wholesale trade
6,045.8 -3.7 -0.1 -7.2 -0.1 -2.4 0.0 -21.9 -0.4
Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
3,393.5 -2.7 -0.1 -8.5 -0.2 -7.7 -0.2 -12.7 -0.4
Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
2,213.9 2.7 0.1 4.8 0.2 6.9 0.3 0.5 0.0
Wholesale trade agents and brokers
438.4 -3.7 -0.8 -3.5 -0.8 -1.6 -0.4 -9.7 -2.2
Retail trade
15,457.9 -1.1 0.0 32.0 0.2 20.8 0.1 17.9 0.1
Motor vehicle and parts dealers
2,044.5 -1.3 -0.1 -10.1 -0.5 -4.6 -0.2 -7.7 -0.4
Automobile dealers
1,285.4 -2.1 -0.2 -7.2 -0.6 -6.6 -0.5 -6.9 -0.5
Other motor vehicle dealers
160.9 0.6 0.4 -0.1 -0.1 -1.0 -0.6 1.6 1.0
Automotive parts, accessories, and tire retailers
598.2 0.2 0.0 -2.9 -0.5 3.1 0.5 -2.4 -0.4
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers
1,368.1 5.6 0.4 9.6 0.7 -3.3 -0.2 -11.4 -0.8
Food and beverage retailers
3,254.5 -3.0 -0.1 5.1 0.2 -8.0 -0.2 -2.7 -0.1
Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance retailers
756.5 -1.6 -0.2 -1.5 -0.2 -14.9 -1.9 -20.2 -2.6
General merchandise retailers
3,246.2 -8.2 -0.3 11.6 0.4 14.2 0.4 8.1 0.3
Health and personal care retailers
1,050.4 2.2 0.2 6.5 0.6 10.5 1.0 -8.3 -0.8
Gasoline stations and fuel dealers
1,060.5 4.4 0.4 0.0 0.0 -0.4 0.0 14.8 1.4
Clothing, clothing accessories, shoe, and jewelry retailers
1,141.6 -2.5 -0.2 -2.1 -0.2 -4.3 -0.4 1.7 0.1
Sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book, and miscellaneous retailers
1,535.6 3.3 0.2 12.9 0.8 31.6 2.1 43.6 2.9
Transportation and warehousing
6,597.5 0.6 0.0 65.0 1.0 37.3 0.6 -58.0 -0.9
Air transportation
567.1 -8.7 -1.5 -7.2 -1.3 -4.5 -0.8 -6.3 -1.1
Rail transportation
149.6 0.2 0.1 -1.1 -0.7 -3.1 -2.0 -5.8 -3.7
Water transportation
69.3 -1.3 -1.8 -2.1 -2.9 -1.6 -2.3 -0.9 -1.3
Truck transportation
1,464.8 -4.4 -0.3 -0.3 0.0 -3.0 -0.2 -22.9 -1.5
Transit and ground passenger transportation
495.9 9.4 1.9 4.7 1.0 0.8 0.2 6.1 1.2
Pipeline transportation
56.0 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.2 -0.7 -1.2 0.0 0.0
Scenic and sightseeing transportation
32.4 0.2 0.6 -0.8 -2.4 -1.6 -4.7 -1.7 -5.0
Support activities for transportation
821.1 -2.8 -0.3 -2.1 -0.3 -4.9 -0.6 -12.7 -1.5
Couriers and messengers
1,098.9 1.4 0.1 62.5 6.0 55.5 5.3 19.1 1.8
Warehousing and storage
1,842.4 6.4 0.3 11.3 0.6 0.4 0.0 -32.9 -1.8
Utilities
608.2 1.4 0.2 1.9 0.3 4.4 0.7 6.5 1.1
Information
2,783 -2 -0.1 -9 -0.3 -65 -2.3 -81 -2.8
Motion picture and sound recording industries
328.2 -2.7 -0.8 -10.9 -3.2 -19.4 -5.6 -26.7 -7.5
Publishing industries
900.1 -0.1 0.0 1.2 0.1 -5.4 -0.6 -6.5 -0.7
Broadcasting and content providers
333.2 -4.0 -1.2 -1.6 -0.5 -7.9 -2.3 -9.0 -2.6
Telecommunications
574.3 -0.4 -0.1 -2.6 -0.5 -16.9 -2.9 -24.1 -4.0
Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services
466.1 3.7 0.8 2.3 0.5 -13.5 -2.8 -15.1 -3.1
Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information services
180.6 0.9 0.5 1.9 1.1 -2.4 -1.3 -0.5 -0.3
Financial activities
9,104 -22 -0.2 -45 -0.5 -81 -0.9 -107 -1.2
Finance and insurance
6,663.0 -20.2 -0.3 -44.7 -0.7 -72.3 -1.1 -81.9 -1.2
Monetary authorities-central bank
18.6 -0.1 -0.5 -0.3 -1.6 -0.6 -3.1 -1.3 -6.5
Credit intermediation and related activities
2,531.7 -4.8 -0.2 -15.8 -0.6 -32.5 -1.3 -35.1 -1.4
Depository credit intermediation
1,770.4 -3.2 -0.2 -8.7 -0.5 -16.2 -0.9 -11.7 -0.7
Commercial banking
1,354.7 -2.6 -0.2 -7.0 -0.5 -15.2 -1.1 -17.7 -1.3
Nondepository credit intermediation
488.9 -3.0 -0.6 -5.1 -1.0 -8.8 -1.8 -15.7 -3.1
Activities related to credit intermediation
272.4 1.4 0.5 -2.0 -0.7 -7.5 -2.7 -7.7 -2.7
Securities, commodity contracts, funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles, investments, and related activities
1,164.8 -4.6 -0.4 -1.0 -0.1 10.7 0.9 27.4 2.4
Insurance carriers and related activities
2,947.9 -10.7 -0.4 -27.6 -0.9 -49.9 -1.7 -72.9 -2.4
Real estate and rental and leasing
2,440.9 -1.6 -0.1 -0.2 0.0 -9.1 -0.4 -25.0 -1.0
Real estate
1,848.6 -2.5 -0.1 -5.1 -0.3 -7.6 -0.4 -11.9 -0.6
Rental and leasing services
571.1 1.1 0.2 5.2 0.9 -1.0 -0.2 -12.4 -2.1
Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works)
21.2 -0.2 -0.9 -0.3 -1.4 -0.5 -2.3 -0.7 -3.2
Professional and business services
22,468 6 0.0 56 0.2 77 0.3 18 0.1
Professional, scientific, and technical services
10,813.5 1.6 0.0 3.5 0.0 22.7 0.2 29.7 0.3
Legal services
1,237.2 1.2 0.1 2.3 0.2 7.3 0.6 19.0 1.6
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services
1,114.4 -5.4 -0.5 -16.1 -1.4 -19.6 -1.7 -13.1 -1.2
Architectural, engineering, and related services
1,764.1 1.7 0.1 9.6 0.5 21.6 1.2 41.1 2.4
Specialized design services
148.6 -0.7 -0.5 -0.3 -0.2 -0.2 -0.1 0.9 0.6
Computer systems design and related services
2,373.9 1.7 0.1 -5.2 -0.2 -7.6 -0.3 -36.4 -1.5
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
1,876.2 -3.5 -0.2 0.5 0.0 7.9 0.4 11.9 0.6
Scientific research and development services
915.9 0.9 0.1 3.0 0.3 4.0 0.4 -12.0 -1.3
Advertising, public relations, and related services
483.3 1.7 0.4 2.7 0.6 -1.8 -0.4 2.4 0.5
Other professional, scientific, and technical services
899.9 4.0 0.4 7.1 0.8 11.0 1.2 15.9 1.8
Management of companies and enterprises
2,614.3 2.9 0.1 -3.7 -0.1 -12.1 -0.5 -10.9 -0.4
Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
9,040.0 1.4 0.0 55.9 0.6 66.1 0.7 -0.8 0.0
Administrative and support services
8,512.3 0.2 0.0 52.5 0.6 58.3 0.7 -7.4 -0.1
Office administrative services
632.2 1.0 0.2 12.2 2.0 17.0 2.8 8.9 1.4
Facilities support services
183.2 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.2 2.9 1.6 3.6 2.0
Employment services
3,191.1 3.6 0.1 26.3 0.8 34.7 1.1 -17.4 -0.5
Temporary help services
2,490.0 1.4 0.1 18.1 0.7 24.5 1.0 -23.1 -0.9
Business support services
625.6 -2.3 -0.4 -3.3 -0.5 -12.6 -2.0 -33.3 -5.1
Travel arrangement and reservation services
184.0 0.8 0.4 3.5 1.9 -2.6 -1.4 -3.5 -1.9
Investigation and security services
1,051.1 -2.3 -0.2 6.6 0.6 6.5 0.6 7.6 0.7
Services to buildings and dwellings
2,309.3 -2.1 -0.1 5.8 0.3 10.0 0.4 17.1 0.7
Other support services
335.8 1.2 0.4 1.0 0.3 2.4 0.7 9.5 2.9
Waste management and remediation services
527.7 1.2 0.2 3.4 0.6 7.8 1.5 6.6 1.3
Private education and health services
27,886 40 0.1 189 0.7 297 1.1 610 2.2
Private educational services
4,024.3 -6.6 -0.2 -8.8 -0.2 -19.0 -0.5 -34.4 -0.8
Health care
18,486.9 35.2 0.2 156.2 0.9 221.5 1.2 458.1 2.5
Ambulatory health care services
9,233.3 25.7 0.3 108.9 1.2 121.4 1.3 259.8 2.9
Offices of physicians
3,057.9 4.7 0.2 46.1 1.5 20.8 0.7 57.6 1.9
Offices of dentists
1,063.3 1.6 0.2 6.7 0.6 6.6 0.6 16.0 1.5
Offices of other health practitioners
1,345.3 2.7 0.2 12.5 0.9 23.6 1.8 39.7 3.0
Outpatient care centers
1,195.8 1.1 0.1 2.5 0.2 10.9 0.9 17.7 1.5
Medical and diagnostic laboratories
311.9 1.8 0.6 3.9 1.3 -1.6 -0.5 5.4 1.8
Home health care services
1,881.2 10.9 0.6 32.5 1.8 52.1 2.8 107.4 6.1
Other ambulatory health care services
377.9 2.9 0.8 4.7 1.3 9.0 2.4 15.9 4.4
Hospitals
5,763.5 6.0 0.1 20.6 0.4 62.2 1.1 121.0 2.1
Nursing and residential care facilities
3,490.1 3.5 0.1 26.7 0.8 37.9 1.1 77.3 2.3
Skilled nursing care facilities
1,585.1 -0.1 0.0 9.4 0.6 17.6 1.1 37.2 2.4
Residential intellectual and developmental disability, mental health, and substance abuse facilities
705.7 -1.4 -0.2 2.3 0.3 5.6 0.8 17.4 2.5
Continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly
1,024.7 4.1 0.4 11.4 1.1 10.7 1.1 19.1 1.9
Other residential care facilities
174.6 0.9 0.5 3.6 2.1 4.1 2.4 3.6 2.1
Social assistance
5,375.0 12.0 0.2 41.7 0.8 94.7 1.8 186.8 3.6
Individual and family services
3,766.5 9.6 0.3 43.7 1.2 98.8 2.7 194.8 5.5
Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services
236.5 0.9 0.4 0.8 0.3 2.0 0.9 0.6 0.3
Vocational rehabilitation services
279.4 2.4 0.9 0.5 0.2 -1.2 -0.4 -4.4 -1.6
Child care services
1,092.6 -0.9 -0.1 -3.3 -0.3 -4.9 -0.4 -4.2 -0.4
Leisure and hospitality
17,079 70 0.4 144 0.9 143 0.8 240 1.4
Arts, entertainment, and recreation
2,700.8 11.7 0.4 14.9 0.6 36.0 1.4 20.0 0.7
Performing arts, spectator sports, and related industries
608.8 6.7 1.1 1.3 0.2 6.1 1.0 14.4 2.4
Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions
183.2 0.7 0.4 2.0 1.1 1.3 0.7 4.5 2.5
Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries
1,908.8 4.3 0.2 11.6 0.6 28.6 1.5 1.1 0.1
Accommodation and food services
14,378.2 58.6 0.4 128.7 0.9 106.6 0.7 220.2 1.6
Accommodation
1,940.3 10.6 0.5 18.5 1.0 16.8 0.9 -0.2 0.0
Food services and drinking places
12,437.9 48.0 0.4 110.2 0.9 89.8 0.7 220.4 1.8
Other services
6,030 3 0.0 -2 0.0 15 0.2 36 0.6
Repair and maintenance
1,471.2 0.0 0.0 -8.6 -0.6 -0.9 -0.1 -0.6 0.0
Personal and laundry services
1,614.0 3.6 0.2 7.0 0.4 8.1 0.5 18.1 1.1
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations
2,944.5 -1.1 0.0 -0.7 0.0 7.1 0.2 18.6 0.6
Government
23,387 52 0.2 66 0.3 28 0.1 -174 -0.7
Federal
2,677 1 0.0 -12 -0.4 -56 -2.0 -275 -9.3
Federal, except U.S. Postal Service
2,076.0 -2.6 -0.1 -13.4 -0.6 -64.0 -3.0 -284.2 -12.0
U.S. Postal Service
600.7 2.9 0.5 1.0 0.2 8.1 1.4 8.5 1.4
State government
5,467 -4 -0.1 -6 -0.1 -14 -0.3 -48 -0.9
State government education
2,588.4 -10.8 -0.4 -16.4 -0.6 -17.4 -0.7 -47.9 -1.8
State government, excluding education
2,878.1 6.4 0.2 10.3 0.4 3.0 0.1 -0.3 0.0
Local government
15,243 55 0.4 84 0.6 98 0.6 149 1.0
Local government education
8,250.2 12.1 0.1 20.7 0.3 12.6 0.2 42.3 0.5
Local government, excluding education
6,993.2 43.5 0.6 63.4 0.9 86.2 1.2 106.7 1.5
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