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Maryland: 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	Maryland
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Total Nonfarm
2024	2,831.1	2,831.8	2,835.7	2,823.7	2,825.0	2,829.2	2,838.3	2,835.0	2,835.7	(1)2,826.0	(1)2,837.5	(1)2,840.6
2025	2,846.4	2,847.6	2,845.6	(p)2,847.9
Mining, Logging, & Construction
2024	165.9	165.4	165.5	164.3	164.4	164.5	164.8	164.5	164.7	163.5	162.6	161.3
2025	159.1	163.1	162.1	(p)163.8
Manufacturing
2024	111.4	110.7	110.9	110.3	110.3	110.2	109.9	109.7	110.4	108.8	109.5	109.8
2025	110.0	109.7	110.4	(p)109.6
Trade, Transportation, & Utilities
2024	475.1	475.4	475.0	472.5	472.0	472.8	473.4	472.0	472.9	474.9	479.4	479.0
2025	478.3	476.1	474.5	(p)475.4
Information
2024	35.2	34.9	34.8	34.3	34.5	34.3	34.5	34.4	34.3	33.4	33.9	34.3
2025	34.5	33.4	33.5	(p)33.4
Financial Activities
2024	141.9	141.5	141.4	141.2	140.6	140.4	141.1	141.2	141.0	141.5	141.5	142.5
2025	142.4	142.8	143.0	(p)143.1
Professional & Business Services
2024	488.2	488.0	488.1	484.4	484.6	483.6	487.1	484.3	484.5	480.8	480.4	479.4
2025	479.3	479.5	481.8	(p)481.3
Educational & Health Services
2024	482.3	484.4	487.5	485.6	486.7	489.3	489.8	491.2	492.2	491.8	494.1	495.5
2025	498.2	499.9	499.6	(p)500.5
Leisure & Hospitality
2024	270.9	269.6	270.3	269.7	270.1	269.4	268.9	269.2	270.0	267.2	266.9	267.3
2025	268.2	269.9	271.5	(p)273.0
Other Services
2024	121.2	121.6	121.4	118.8	118.5	118.3	118.9	118.8	118.6	119.6	120.5	119.1
2025	121.9	120.0	119.2	(p)119.1
Government
2024	539.0	540.3	540.8	542.6	543.3	546.4	549.9	549.7	547.1	(1)544.5	(1)548.7	(1)552.4
2025	554.5	553.2	550.0	(p)548.7
Footnotes (1) Correction (p) Preliminary

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(seasonally adjusted data)
	Maryland
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force
2024	(r)3,230,878	(r)3,235,983	(r)3,239,535	(r)3,242,962	(r)3,248,836	(r)3,252,439	(r)3,255,664	(r)3,257,096	(r)3,253,416	(r)3,253,013	(r)3,252,774	(r)3,251,295
2025	3,248,453	3,244,092	3,237,563	(p)3,235,030
Employment
2024	(r)3,142,958	(r)3,145,132	(r)3,146,196	(r)3,147,588	(r)3,150,549	(r)3,151,679	(r)3,152,538	(r)3,152,945	(r)3,150,471	(r)3,150,418	(r)3,151,074	(r)3,150,736
2025	3,150,231	3,146,485	3,139,416	(p)3,134,554
Unemployment
2024	(r)87,920	(r)90,851	(r)93,339	(r)95,374	(r)98,287	(r)100,760	(r)103,126	(r)104,151	(r)102,945	(r)102,595	(r)101,700	(r)100,559
2025	98,222	97,607	98,147	(p)100,476
Unemployment Rate
2024	(r)2.7	(r)2.8	(r)2.9	(r)2.9	(r)3.0	(r)3.1	(r)3.2	(r)3.2	(r)3.2	(r)3.2	(r)3.1	(r)3.1
2025	3.0	3.0	3.0	(p)3.1
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised