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District of Columbia: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, seasonally adjusted

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector	District of Columbia
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Total Nonfarm
2022	757.4	757.7	760.9	762.2	765.1	762.8	768.3	766.4	767.0	767.2	769.8	770.2
2023	769.6	771.5	773.1	(p)771.9
Mining, Logging, & Construction
2022	15.5	15.5	15.5	15.4	15.5	15.3	15.1	15.3	15.4	15.3	15.2	15.2
2023	15.1	15.1	15.5	(p)15.7
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities
2022	30.0	30.3	30.4	30.4	30.2	30.1	30.6	30.7	30.6	30.7	30.8	30.6
2023	30.7	30.6	30.3	(p)30.1
Information
2022	20.4	20.5	20.7	20.7	20.7	20.7	20.7	21.1	20.9	20.9	21.0	21.1
2023	21.0	20.9	20.8	(p)20.8
Financial Activities
2022	27.4	27.4	27.4	27.4	27.5	27.5	27.8	27.8	27.7	27.6	27.8	27.9
2023	27.6	27.8	28.3	(p)28.2
Professional & Business Services
2022	171.6	172.0	172.5	173.2	174.4	173.9	175.0	175.5	176.0	174.9	175.0	174.5
2023	174.6	174.0	174.7	(p)174.5
Education and Health Services
2022	120.4	120.1	120.7	121.6	123.6	123.1	123.2	122.8	123.0	122.7	122.8	123.1
2023	122.5	123.7	123.5	(p)122.3
Leisure & Hospitality
2022	62.5	62.8	64.3	65.8	66.7	66.8	68.4	69.5	69.7	70.9	72.8	74.0
2023	74.3	75.5	75.9	(p)75.3
Other Services
2022	67.0	67.0	67.2	67.1	67.0	66.9	66.4	66.6	66.5	67.6	68.1	68.3
2023	68.6	68.3	68.8	(p)69.5
Government
2022	241.5	241.1	241.1	239.6	238.4	237.4	240.0	236.1	236.2	235.6	235.3	234.5
2023	234.2	234.6	234.3	(p)234.5
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(seasonally adjusted data)
	District of Columbia
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force
2022	(r)383,681	(r)385,691	(r)387,619	(r)389,336	(r)390,802	(r)391,459	(r)391,272	(r)390,938	(r)388,991	(r)387,812	(r)387,879	(r)388,214
2023	389,168	389,688	390,485	(p)390,804
Employment
2022	(r)360,522	(r)364,028	(r)367,319	(r)370,343	(r)372,745	(r)374,370	(r)375,093	(r)375,521	(r)373,095	(r)371,532	(r)371,498	(r)371,865
2023	371,846	371,531	371,613	(p)371,378
Unemployment
2022	(r)23,159	(r)21,663	(r)20,300	(r)18,993	(r)18,057	(r)17,089	(r)16,179	(r)15,417	(r)15,896	(r)16,280	(r)16,381	(r)16,349
2023	17,322	18,157	18,872	(p)19,426
Unemployment Rate
2022	(r)6.0	(r)5.6	(r)5.2	(r)4.9	(r)4.6	(r)4.4	(r)4.1	(r)3.9	(r)4.1	(r)4.2	(r)4.2	(r)4.2
2023	4.5	4.7	4.8	(p)5.0
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised