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Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, MD: Nonfarm employment and labor force data

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(not seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector
Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, Md. Metropolitan Division
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
Avg

Total Nonfarm

2023

590.2 591.9 592.1 597.3 600.2 604.2 606.4 602.0 598.9 599.4 599.5 598.6 598.4

2024

587.2 590.0 591.2 595.4 598.8 605.1 605.6 (p)601.8          

Mining, Logging, & Construction

2023

31.4 31.5 31.7 32.3 32.4 32.7 32.3 32.2 31.9 31.2 31.7 31.7 31.9

2024

30.2 29.9 30.0 30.2 30.2 30.7 31.1 (p)30.3          

Manufacturing

2023

20.0 20.2 20.2 20.2 20.1 20.4 20.6 20.5 20.5 20.6 20.5 20.5 20.4

2024

20.3 20.4 20.3 20.5 20.7 20.8 20.9 (p)21.0          

Trade, Transportation, & Utilities

2023

76.6 75.1 75.5 75.9 76.4 77.2 77.3 77.3 76.5 77.3 78.5 79.3 76.9

2024

76.2 75.3 74.9 75.3 75.5 76.2 76.4 (p)76.0          

Information

2023

12.6 12.6 12.6 12.7 12.6 12.3 12.2 11.9 12.0 11.9 11.8 11.7 12.2

2024

11.6 11.7 11.7 11.5 11.6 11.5 11.6 (p)11.5          

Financial Activities

2023

35.8 35.9 35.7 35.7 35.6 35.5 36.1 35.7 35.5 35.6 35.5 35.3 35.7

2024

34.6 34.7 35.0 35.1 35.8 36.2 36.6 (p)36.6          

Professional & Business Services

2023

133.2 133.7 133.8 135.7 135.8 135.6 137.3 136.5 134.5 134.0 133.4 133.1 134.7

2024

131.4 132.0 132.3 133.1 133.3 133.6 135.5 (p)135.0          

Educational & Health Services

2023

95.1 95.9 95.6 96.8 96.6 97.2 97.7 96.8 97.6 98.8 98.8 99.0 97.2

2024

97.8 99.7 99.7 100.3 99.9 99.5 100.0 (p)100.2          

Leisure & Hospitality

2023

49.3 49.5 50.1 51.4 53.1 56.1 56.7 55.5 52.6 51.8 51.0 49.2 52.2

2024

48.2 48.4 49.1 50.7 52.4 55.8 55.7 (p)53.7          

Other Services

2023

22.8 22.9 22.9 23.0 23.1 23.3 23.9 23.6 23.1 22.9 22.7 23.1 23.1

2024

22.5 22.5 22.7 23.0 23.3 23.6 24.0 (p)23.7          

Government

2023

113.4 114.6 114.0 113.6 114.5 113.9 112.3 112.0 114.7 115.3 115.6 115.7 114.1

2024

114.4 115.4 115.5 115.7 116.1 117.2 113.8 (p)113.8          

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

 

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(not seasonally adjusted data)

Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, Md. Metropolitan Division
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
Avg

Labor Force

2023

678,006 679,773 682,929 683,739 682,733 689,260 697,584 689,308 684,511 687,357 685,736 679,319 685,022

2024

679,784 680,991 691,385 694,582 687,008 696,411 706,239 (p)698,955          

Employment

2023

663,546 664,723 670,484 674,602 671,799 676,706 683,894 675,235 671,119 673,245 673,511 666,716 672,132

2024

663,721 663,258 673,179 677,919 672,572 675,714 684,765 (p)677,280          

Unemployment

2023

14,460 15,050 12,445 9,137 10,934 12,554 13,690 14,073 13,392 14,112 12,225 12,603 12,890

2024

16,063 17,733 18,206 16,663 14,436 20,697 21,474 (p)21,675          

Unemployment Rate

2023

2.1 2.2 1.8 1.3 1.6 1.8 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.1 1.8 1.9 1.9

2024

2.4 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.1 3.0 3.0 (p)3.1          

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary