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West Virginia: 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
West Virginia
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Total Nonfarm

2022

694.3 697.0 697.9 697.3 697.0 694.0 693.8 693.9 694.8 696.1 702.5 694.9

2023

698.0 699.1 699.6 698.5 699.6 700.7 703.6 (p)704.6        

Mining & Logging

2022

19.0 19.3 19.3 19.4 19.6 19.8 20.0 20.2 20.4 20.4 20.7 21.1

2023

20.7 20.8 21.0 21.5 21.9 22.2 22.2 (p)22.1        

Construction

2022

33.6 33.7 33.3 32.4 31.5 30.8 30.5 30.4 30.2 31.9 32.0 32.6

2023

31.7 31.0 30.9 31.1 31.4 31.9 32.3 (p)33.0        

Manufacturing

2022

45.6 45.7 45.9 47.0 47.2 47.1 46.2 45.8 46.2 46.1 45.8 45.7

2023

46.1 45.7 45.7 45.5 45.6 45.5 45.7 (p)45.6        

Trade, Transportation, & Utilities

2022

124.0 124.1 123.8 123.7 122.9 122.0 122.3 122.2 122.2 121.8 120.4 120.8

2023

122.4 122.9 123.3 123.0 122.7 122.5 122.3 (p)121.9        

Information

2022

7.5 7.7 7.8 7.8 7.8 7.7 7.8 7.8 7.7 7.7 7.8 7.8

2023

7.7 7.8 7.8 7.9 7.7 7.7 7.9 (p)8.0        

Financial Activities

2022

25.3 25.3 25.3 25.5 25.3 25.3 25.4 25.5 25.5 25.7 25.5 25.5

2023

25.3 25.1 25.4 25.3 25.4 25.4 25.6 (p)26.0        

Professional & Business Services

2022

71.1 71.5 71.8 72.1 72.5 72.1 71.9 72.1 72.3 72.3 71.5 70.6

2023

70.8 71.1 71.3 71.5 71.7 71.5 71.7 (p)71.9        

Educational & Health Services

2022

126.9 127.1 127.3 127.7 127.8 127.7 127.8 127.8 128.4 128.6 128.7 128.8

2023

129.7 130.5 130.0 129.6 130.1 130.2 130.7 (p)131.0        

Leisure & Hospitality

2022

69.4 70.5 70.4 70.1 70.0 69.7 69.8 69.6 69.4 69.0 68.7 68.9

2023

70.3 70.1 70.2 69.7 69.9 70.8 70.6 (p)69.9        

Other Services

2022

23.7 23.8 24.0 24.0 24.0 23.7 23.9 23.9 23.7 24.2 24.3 24.5

2023

24.5 24.9 24.9 24.9 25.1 25.1 25.2 (p)25.4        

Government

2022

148.2 148.3 149.0 147.6 148.4 148.1 148.2 148.6 148.8 148.4 157.1 148.6

2023

148.8 149.2 149.1 148.5 148.1 147.9 149.4 (p)149.8        

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

 

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(seasonally adjusted data)

West Virginia
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Labor Force

2022

782,880 784,581 785,927 786,667 786,778 786,407 785,694 784,920 784,352 784,125 784,180 784,323

2023

784,041 782,723 782,365 782,182 782,365 783,112 784,058 (p)786,432        

Employment

2022

753,003 755,664 757,359 757,846 757,211 755,815 754,091 752,630 751,923 751,868 752,180 752,464

2023

753,125 753,910 755,499 756,217 756,819 757,286 757,576 (p)758,168        

Unemployment

2022

29,877 28,917 28,568 28,821 29,567 30,592 31,603 32,290 32,429 32,257 32,000 31,859

2023

30,916 28,813 26,866 25,965 25,546 25,826 26,482 (p)28,264        

Unemployment Rate

2022

3.8 3.7 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 4.0 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.1

2023

3.9 3.7 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.4 (p)3.6        

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary