Mountain-Plains Information Office

Joplin

Title	BLS Subject	Product Type	Date Published
	AllEmploymentUnemploymentPay
Mountain-Plains - Labor Force Statistics	Employment, Unemployment	Table	Jan 2020
Occupational Employment and Wages in Joplin — May 2016	Employment, Pay	News Release	Sep 2017

Joplin, MO Economy at a Glance:

Joplin, MO

Data Series	Back Data	July 2019	Aug 2019	Sept 2019	Oct 2019	Nov 2019	Dec 2019
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)		86.2	85.1	85.5	86.2	(p)86.1
Employment(1)		83.0	82.5	83.6	84.1	(p)83.6
Unemployment(1)		3.2	2.6	1.9	2.1	(p)2.5
Unemployment Rate(2)		3.7	3.1	2.2	2.4	(p)2.9
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(3)		80.5	81.2	81.9	82.2	82.7	(p)82.7
12-month % change		1.5	2.5	0.6	0.5	0.6	(p)0.4
Manufacturing(3)		13.7	13.7	13.7	13.7	13.7	(p)13.7
12-month % change		1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	0.7	(p)0.7
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)		20.6	20.6	20.7	20.9	21.7	(p)21.8
12-month % change		1.0	0.5	1.0	2.5	3.8	(p)3.3
Education and Health Services(3)		13.6	13.8	13.8	13.9	13.9	(p)13.8
12-month % change		2.3	2.2	2.2	2.2	2.2	(p)1.5
Government(3)		8.6	9.1	10.0	10.1	10.1	(p)10.1
12-month % change		3.6	15.2	0.0	-1.0	-1.0	(p)-1.9
Footnotes (1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. (2) In percent, not seasonally adjusted. (3) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data. (p) Preliminary