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Employment change by industry, September 2025, 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
610 -3 -0.5 -10 -1.6 -14 -2.2 -14 -2.2
Logging
36.7 -0.6 -1.6 -2.1 -5.4 -2.2 -5.7 -2.2 -5.7
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
573.6 -2.0 -0.3 -7.9 -1.4 -11.7 -2.0 -11.5 -2.0
Oil and gas extraction
119.2 0.1 0.1 -2.4 -2.0 -3.1 -2.5 -3.3 -2.7
Mining (except oil and gas)
191.1 -0.1 -0.1 -0.6 -0.3 -1.0 -0.5 -0.6 -0.3
Coal mining
40.4 -0.3 -0.7 -0.6 -1.5 -0.8 -1.9 -1.9 -4.5
Metal ore mining
44.3 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 -0.7 -1.6 -0.8 -1.8
Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying
106.4 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.5 2.1 2.0
Support activities for mining
263.3 -2.0 -0.8 -4.9 -1.8 -7.6 -2.8 -7.6 -2.8
Construction
8,305 19 0.2 2 0.0 2 0.0 38 0.5
Construction of buildings
1,870.4 4.2 0.2 -7.1 -0.4 -5.7 -0.3 5.2 0.3
Residential building construction
954.1 3.9 0.4 -1.5 -0.2 -3.8 -0.4 4.4 0.5
Nonresidential building construction
916.3 0.3 0.0 -5.6 -0.6 -1.9 -0.2 0.8 0.1
Heavy and civil engineering construction
1,187.7 4.9 0.4 15.9 1.4 9.4 0.8 23.9 2.1
Specialty trade contractors
5,247.1 10.3 0.2 -6.4 -0.1 -1.3 0.0 9.5 0.2
Residential specialty trade contractors
2,368.3 -0.8 0.0 -12.7 -0.5 -18.8 -0.8 -49.3 -2.0
Nonresidential specialty trade contractors
2,878.8 11.1 0.4 6.3 0.2 17.5 0.6 58.8 2.1
Manufacturing
12,706 -6 0.0 -30 -0.2 -58 -0.5 -94 -0.7
Durable goods
7,865 -4 -0.1 -22 -0.3 -42 -0.5 -79 -1.0
Wood product manufacturing
411.5 -0.6 -0.1 -1.9 -0.5 -3.3 -0.8 -4.9 -1.2
Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing
431.6 1.5 0.3 1.7 0.4 1.5 0.3 7.5 1.8
Primary metal manufacturing
374.6 0.1 0.0 -0.3 -0.1 -1.6 -0.4 2.3 0.6
Fabricated metal product manufacturing
1,436.9 -0.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.6 0.0 -1.1 -0.1
Machinery manufacturing
1,104.4 1.3 0.1 -4.1 -0.4 -11.2 -1.0 -11.0 -1.0
Computer and electronic product manufacturing
999.8 -1.7 -0.2 -4.2 -0.4 -10.4 -1.0 -26.1 -2.5
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing
109.7 -0.2 -0.2 -0.1 -0.1 -0.2 -0.2 -0.6 -0.5
Communications equipment manufacturing
83.4 0.7 0.8 1.8 2.2 1.2 1.5 1.3 1.6
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing
368.0 -2.5 -0.7 -7.3 -1.9 -11.6 -3.1 -24.3 -6.2
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
410.5 0.5 0.1 1.5 0.4 0.2 0.0 -1.2 -0.3
Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media and audio and video equipment manufacturing
28.3 -0.1 -0.4 0.1 0.4 0.0 0.0 -1.2 -4.1
Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing
406.4 0.5 0.1 -0.1 0.0 0.3 0.1 -2.8 -0.7
Transportation equipment manufacturing
1,752.8 -2.4 -0.1 -12.0 -0.7 -15.1 -0.9 -38.7 -2.2
Motor vehicles and parts
991.1 -1.2 -0.1 -8.1 -0.8 -11.4 -1.1 -23.2 -2.3
Furniture and related product manufacturing
338.2 -1.0 -0.3 -1.3 -0.4 1.5 0.4 -2.1 -0.6
Miscellaneous manufacturing
609.0 -1.1 -0.2 -0.1 0.0 -3.6 -0.6 -2.1 -0.3
Nondurable goods
4,841 -2 0.0 -8 -0.2 -16 -0.3 -15 -0.3
Food manufacturing
1,771.2 -1.5 -0.1 -3.5 -0.2 -1.3 -0.1 -4.9 -0.3
Textile mills
85.4 0.8 0.9 0.1 0.1 -0.4 -0.5 -1.1 -1.3
Textile product mills
97.7 0.2 0.2 -1.6 -1.6 -1.4 -1.4 -1.6 -1.6
Apparel manufacturing
82.5 0.1 0.1 0.7 0.9 -1.2 -1.4 -1.4 -1.7
Paper manufacturing
354.1 -2.2 -0.6 -1.1 -0.3 -0.6 -0.2 -0.6 -0.2
Printing and related support activities
347.5 -0.1 0.0 -3.6 -1.0 -4.6 -1.3 -7.3 -2.1
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing
107.0 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 -1.4 -1.3 -2.2 -2.0
Chemical manufacturing
906.1 0.9 0.1 2.1 0.2 4.3 0.5 7.8 0.9
Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
715.0 -3.5 -0.5 -1.1 -0.2 -6.3 -0.9 -7.9 -1.1
Beverage, tobacco, and leather and allied product manufacturing
374.7 3.3 0.9 0.0 0.0 -3.2 -0.8 4.8 1.3
Wholesale trade
6,164.7 9.4 0.2 -2.8 0.0 -12.0 -0.2 10.2 0.2
Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
3,457.8 5.8 0.2 -0.7 0.0 -9.2 -0.3 7.9 0.2
Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
2,224.1 5.3 0.2 1.6 0.1 2.8 0.1 13.1 0.6
Wholesale trade agents and brokers
482.8 -1.7 -0.4 -3.7 -0.8 -5.6 -1.1 -10.8 -2.2
Retail trade
15,593.5 13.9 0.1 22.8 0.1 7.7 0.0 70.3 0.5
Motor vehicle and parts dealers
2,055.9 0.8 0.0 0.3 0.0 -7.1 -0.3 5.1 0.2
Automobile dealers
1,298.1 -0.8 -0.1 -0.2 0.0 -0.7 -0.1 8.3 0.6
Other motor vehicle dealers
158.8 -0.2 -0.1 1.0 0.6 -7.3 -4.4 -7.7 -4.6
Automotive parts, accessories, and tire retailers
599.0 1.8 0.3 -0.5 -0.1 1.0 0.2 4.5 0.8
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers
1,363.2 -4.7 -0.3 -20.4 -1.5 -27.4 -2.0 -34.1 -2.4
Food and beverage retailers
3,250.1 3.1 0.1 6.4 0.2 10.1 0.3 24.3 0.8
Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance retailers
791.2 0.5 0.1 -0.4 -0.1 -5.3 -0.7 -15.9 -2.0
General merchandise retailers
3,320.3 2.9 0.1 17.4 0.5 17.9 0.5 47.9 1.5
Health and personal care retailers
1,091.1 2.0 0.2 1.0 0.1 0.5 0.0 4.9 0.5
Gasoline stations and fuel dealers
1,063.8 6.1 0.6 8.6 0.8 3.9 0.4 9.2 0.9
Clothing, clothing accessories, shoe, and jewelry retailers
1,143.7 3.1 0.3 9.3 0.8 13.2 1.2 18.0 1.6
Sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book, and miscellaneous retailers
1,514.2 0.1 0.0 0.6 0.0 1.9 0.1 10.9 0.7
Transportation and warehousing
6,709.9 -25.3 -0.4 -27.9 -0.4 -32.2 -0.5 39.8 0.6
Air transportation
577.6 -0.9 -0.2 0.1 0.0 2.6 0.5 12.7 2.2
Rail transportation
151.9 -0.2 -0.1 -1.4 -0.9 -1.5 -1.0 -3.0 -1.9
Water transportation
72.0 -0.5 -0.7 0.1 0.1 1.8 2.6 2.0 2.9
Truck transportation
1,516.7 -6.8 -0.4 -2.8 -0.2 -7.4 -0.5 0.9 0.1
Transit and ground passenger transportation
487.5 2.7 0.6 -3.3 -0.7 -0.8 -0.2 5.8 1.2
Pipeline transportation
60.8 -0.4 -0.7 -0.1 -0.2 1.8 3.1 4.8 8.6
Scenic and sightseeing transportation
36.9 -0.9 -2.4 1.3 3.7 5.4 17.1 6.3 20.6
Support activities for transportation
846.7 -0.9 -0.1 -2.0 -0.2 0.1 0.0 5.0 0.6
Couriers and messengers
1,147.5 -6.7 -0.6 -2.4 -0.2 -14.1 -1.2 43.8 4.0
Warehousing and storage
1,812.3 -10.7 -0.6 -17.4 -1.0 -20.1 -1.1 -38.5 -2.1
Utilities
597.6 -0.2 0.0 -0.9 -0.2 0.8 0.1 2.6 0.4
Information
2,925 0 0.0 -13 -0.4 -13 -0.4 -4 -0.1
Motion picture and sound recording industries
398.9 -1.4 -0.3 -11.0 -2.7 -9.9 -2.4 0.6 0.2
Publishing industries
927.1 3.7 0.4 7.7 0.8 6.4 0.7 14.7 1.6
Broadcasting and content providers
334.7 0.9 0.3 0.5 0.1 1.8 0.5 -4.9 -1.4
Telecommunications
597.1 -2.3 -0.4 -5.1 -0.8 -6.9 -1.1 -18.9 -3.1
Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services
479.7 -1.1 -0.2 -7.9 -1.6 -9.5 -1.9 0.3 0.1
Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information services
187.3 -0.2 -0.1 2.9 1.6 4.8 2.6 4.2 2.3
Financial activities
9,235 5 0.1 -9 -0.1 -3 0.0 60 0.7
Finance and insurance
6,740.4 2.4 0.0 -3.6 -0.1 -3.4 -0.1 33.0 0.5
Monetary authorities-central bank
20.9 0.0 0.0 -0.2 -0.9 -0.5 -2.3 -0.1 -0.5
Credit intermediation and related activities
2,557.7 0.0 0.0 -1.7 -0.1 1.9 0.1 0.1 0.0
Depository credit intermediation
1,782.1 2.6 0.1 3.9 0.2 8.3 0.5 -0.3 0.0
Commercial banking
1,363.6 1.3 0.1 0.1 0.0 1.0 0.1 -10.9 -0.8
Nondepository credit intermediation
500.3 -1.5 -0.3 -5.8 -1.1 -6.5 -1.3 -3.1 -0.6
Activities related to credit intermediation
275.4 -1.0 -0.4 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.1 3.6 1.3
Securities, commodity contracts, funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles, investments, and related activities
1,152.2 3.1 0.3 6.7 0.6 15.8 1.4 31.9 2.8
Insurance carriers and related activities
3,009.6 -0.7 0.0 -8.4 -0.3 -20.6 -0.7 1.1 0.0
Real estate and rental and leasing
2,494.8 2.9 0.1 -5.5 -0.2 0.6 0.0 27.5 1.1
Real estate
1,875.7 -0.1 0.0 -4.2 -0.2 -5.1 -0.3 5.8 0.3
Rental and leasing services
595.9 2.8 0.5 -1.5 -0.3 5.6 0.9 21.3 3.7
Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works)
23.2 0.2 0.9 0.2 0.9 0.1 0.4 0.4 1.8
Professional and business services
22,513 -20 -0.1 -50 -0.2 -70 -0.3 -62 -0.3
Professional, scientific, and technical services
10,859.0 -2.8 0.0 9.2 0.1 0.3 0.0 23.7 0.2
Legal services
1,203.6 1.1 0.1 4.2 0.4 9.1 0.8 13.6 1.1
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services
1,158.3 1.3 0.1 4.4 0.4 11.3 1.0 0.8 0.1
Architectural, engineering, and related services
1,754.6 2.3 0.1 5.7 0.3 14.0 0.8 49.0 2.9
Specialized design services
149.7 -1.0 -0.7 0.5 0.3 -0.1 -0.1 -0.5 -0.3
Computer systems design and related services
2,410.6 -6.6 -0.3 -11.4 -0.5 -19.3 -0.8 -37.2 -1.5
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
1,882.6 3.0 0.2 6.5 0.3 3.7 0.2 18.4 1.0
Scientific research and development services
922.4 -2.6 -0.3 -8.4 -0.9 -19.6 -2.1 -15.4 -1.6
Advertising, public relations, and related services
494.6 -0.8 -0.2 1.8 0.4 2.5 0.5 -3.1 -0.6
Other professional, scientific, and technical services
882.5 0.4 0.0 5.7 0.7 -1.4 -0.2 -2.1 -0.2
Management of companies and enterprises
2,633.8 1.2 0.0 1.1 0.0 7.4 0.3 14.0 0.5
Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
9,019.9 -19.1 -0.2 -61.0 -0.7 -78.4 -0.9 -100.0 -1.1
Administrative and support services
8,498.4 -18.6 -0.2 -61.1 -0.7 -80.8 -0.9 -107.9 -1.3
Office administrative services
618.0 -2.7 -0.4 -3.0 -0.5 -4.6 -0.7 0.4 0.1
Facilities support services
186.1 0.9 0.5 0.9 0.5 0.4 0.2 2.5 1.4
Employment services
3,176.6 -17.8 -0.6 -46.8 -1.5 -64.4 -2.0 -89.6 -2.7
Temporary help services
2,478.0 -15.9 -0.6 -41.0 -1.6 -49.3 -2.0 -77.5 -3.0
Business support services
640.5 -1.6 -0.2 -12.0 -1.8 -21.5 -3.2 -42.2 -6.2
Travel arrangement and reservation services
194.3 0.5 0.3 -1.6 -0.8 -0.7 -0.4 5.6 3.0
Investigation and security services
1,042.0 4.2 0.4 9.4 0.9 16.4 1.6 13.4 1.3
Services to buildings and dwellings
2,309.2 -2.2 -0.1 -5.1 -0.2 -3.7 -0.2 3.3 0.1
Other support services
331.7 0.1 0.0 -3.0 -0.9 -2.6 -0.8 -1.1 -0.3
Waste management and remediation services
521.5 -0.5 -0.1 0.1 0.0 2.4 0.5 7.9 1.5
Private education and health services
27,511 59 0.2 182 0.7 388 1.4 823 3.1
Private educational services
4,007.5 1.8 0.0 14.0 0.4 10.8 0.3 20.3 0.5
Health care
18,262.2 42.8 0.2 124.2 0.7 182.4 1.0 487.4 2.7
Ambulatory health care services
9,040.6 23.3 0.3 70.1 0.8 59.0 0.7 187.1 2.1
Offices of physicians
3,078.0 8.6 0.3 26.9 0.9 42.8 1.4 87.7 2.9
Offices of dentists
1,050.7 -1.8 -0.2 0.7 0.1 -2.1 -0.2 0.5 0.0
Offices of other health practitioners
1,284.7 3.7 0.3 5.7 0.4 12.9 1.0 42.3 3.4
Outpatient care centers
1,124.3 5.0 0.4 3.0 0.3 10.4 0.9 -0.9 -0.1
Medical and diagnostic laboratories
311.5 0.0 0.0 2.9 0.9 3.9 1.3 6.5 2.1
Home health care services
1,827.5 7.2 0.4 31.0 1.7 -12.1 -0.7 48.3 2.7
Other ambulatory health care services
363.8 0.5 0.1 -0.3 -0.1 3.1 0.9 2.6 0.7
Hospitals
5,778.1 16.4 0.3 35.7 0.6 85.9 1.5 188.9 3.4
Nursing and residential care facilities
3,443.5 3.1 0.1 18.4 0.5 37.5 1.1 111.4 3.3
Skilled nursing care facilities
1,554.8 0.2 0.0 7.0 0.5 20.8 1.4 57.1 3.8
Residential intellectual and developmental disability, mental health, and substance abuse facilities
702.7 1.6 0.2 6.9 1.0 8.9 1.3 30.8 4.6
Continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly
1,011.0 1.1 0.1 4.3 0.4 3.5 0.3 16.3 1.6
Other residential care facilities
175.0 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 4.3 2.5 7.3 4.4
Social assistance
5,241.5 14.3 0.3 44.2 0.9 195.5 3.9 315.5 6.4
Individual and family services
3,616.6 19.6 0.5 56.5 1.6 196.4 5.7 308.3 9.3
Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services
239.4 0.1 0.0 -0.6 -0.3 -0.3 -0.1 3.8 1.6
Vocational rehabilitation services
282.2 -2.2 -0.8 -5.7 -2.0 -2.1 -0.7 -3.2 -1.1
Child care services
1,103.3 -3.1 -0.3 -6.1 -0.5 1.5 0.1 6.5 0.6
Leisure and hospitality
17,104 47 0.3 88 0.5 128 0.8 235 1.4
Arts, entertainment, and recreation
2,733.6 12.7 0.5 22.6 0.8 42.0 1.6 100.1 3.8
Performing arts, spectator sports, and related industries
652.3 8.7 1.4 13.5 2.1 27.9 4.5 54.5 9.1
Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions
184.2 0.9 0.5 2.6 1.4 1.4 0.8 5.9 3.3
Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries
1,897.1 3.1 0.2 6.5 0.3 12.7 0.7 39.7 2.1
Accommodation and food services
14,370.5 34.2 0.2 65.1 0.5 86.1 0.6 135.4 1.0
Accommodation
1,941.9 -2.3 -0.1 -2.7 -0.1 -5.5 -0.3 -0.8 0.0
Food services and drinking places
12,428.6 36.5 0.3 67.8 0.5 91.6 0.7 136.2 1.1
Other services
6,053 -2 0.0 20 0.3 21 0.3 71 1.2
Repair and maintenance
1,490.7 -1.8 -0.1 5.8 0.4 7.1 0.5 25.3 1.7
Personal and laundry services
1,629.5 -1.3 -0.1 13.7 0.8 12.2 0.8 30.0 1.9
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations
2,932.3 0.7 0.0 -0.2 0.0 1.5 0.1 15.2 0.5
Government
23,598 22 0.1 16 0.1 5 0.0 136 0.6
Federal
2,918 -3 -0.1 -25 -0.8 -73 -2.4 -90 -3.0
Federal, except U.S. Postal Service
2,325.2 -2.7 -0.1 -24.5 -1.0 -67.5 -2.8 -75.9 -3.2
U.S. Postal Service
593.2 0.3 0.1 -0.2 0.0 -5.4 -0.9 -14.0 -2.3
State government
5,499 16 0.3 -12 -0.2 -16 -0.3 31 0.6
State government education
2,604.6 11.0 0.4 -14.2 -0.5 -18.1 -0.7 -1.4 -0.1
State government, excluding education
2,894.2 4.8 0.2 1.9 0.1 1.8 0.1 32.1 1.1
Local government
15,181 9 0.1 53 0.4 94 0.6 195 1.3
Local government education
8,264.8 5.2 0.1 39.7 0.5 53.2 0.6 97.2 1.2
Local government, excluding education
6,915.8 3.5 0.1 12.7 0.2 40.3 0.6 97.2 1.4
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