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22-2357-KAN
Thursday, December 29, 2022

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Kansas City Area Employment – November 2022

Total nonfarm employment for the Kansas City, MO-KS, metropolitan area increased by 26,900 over the year in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1 and table 1.) Regional Commissioner Michael Hirniak noted that the local rate of job gain, 2.5 percent, compared to the 3.2-percent national increase. (All data in this release are not seasonally adjusted; accordingly, over-the-year analysis is used throughout.)

  Chart 1. Over-the-year net change for total nonfarm employment in the Kansas City metropolitan area, November 2019-November 2022

Kansas City, MO-KS, is made up of two separately identifiable employment centers within the larger metropolitan area—the Missouri portion and the Kansas portion. Employment in Kansas City, MO, which accounted for 56 percent of the metropolitan area’s total nonfarm employment, stood at 617,300 in November. Employment in Kansas City, KS, with 44 percent of the metropolitan area’s employment, stood at 487,500 in November.

Industry employment

In Kansas City, MO-KS, education and health services had the largest gain (+7,600) among the metropolitan area’s private-industry supersectors. Employment in the Missouri portion increased by 5,300 jobs. (See chart 2.) Within the supersector, the health care and social assistance sector added 4,000 jobs in the metropolitan area. The 4.9-percent increase in the metropolitan area’s education and health services supersector compared to the 3.9-percent gain on a national level.

  Chart 2. Over-the-year net change for private-industry supersector employment in the Kansas City metropolitan area, November 2022

Mining, logging, and construction gained 6,200 jobs over the year in the metropolitan area. The Missouri portion’s employment level in this supersector stood at 36,800, and the Kansas portion’s employment level stood at 25,000. The metropolitan area had an 11.2-percent rate of job gain over the year.

The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment release for December 2022 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. (CT).

Update to the 2022 North American Industry Classification System

With the release of January 2023 data on March 13, 2023, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) State and Area division will revise the basis for industry classification from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to NAICS 2022. The conversion to NAICS 2022 will result in revisions reflecting content and coding changes within the mining and logging, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, information, financial activities, and other services sectors. The majority of the changes associated with the 2022 NAICS update impact levels of detail not published by CES State and Area. Details of updated titles and new, discontinued, and collapsed industries resulting from the NAICS 2022 update, as well as changes due to the annual benchmarking process, will be available on March 13, 2023. More information on NAICS 2022 is available from the Census Bureau’s North American Industry Classification System page.


Technical Note

This release presents nonfarm payroll employment estimates from the CES program. The CES survey is a Federal-State cooperative endeavor between State employment security agencies and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Definitions. Employment data refer to persons on establishment payrolls who receive pay for any part of the pay period which includes the 12th of the month. Persons are counted at their place of work rather than at their place of residence; those appearing on more than one payroll are counted on each payroll. Industries are classified on the basis of their principal activity in accordance with the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System.

Method of estimation. CES State and Area employment data are produced using several estimation procedures. Where possible these data are produced using a "weighted link relative" estimation technique in which a ratio of current-month weighted employment to that of the previous-month weighted employment is computed from a sample of establishments reporting for both months. The estimates of employment for the current month are then obtained by multiplying these ratios by the previous month's employment estimates. The weighted link relative technique is utilized for data series where the sample size meets certain statistical criteria. For some employment series, the estimates are produced with a model that uses direct sample estimates (described above) combined with other regressors to decrease volatility in estimation.

Annual revisions. Employment estimates are adjusted annually to a complete count of jobs, called benchmarks, derived principally from tax reports which are submitted by employers who are covered under state unemployment insurance (UI) laws. The benchmark information is used to adjust the monthly estimates between the new benchmark and the preceding one and also to establish the level of employment for the new benchmark month. Thus, the benchmarking process establishes the level of employment, and the sample is used to measure the month-to-month changes in the level for the subsequent months. Information on recent benchmark revisions is available online at www.bls.gov/web/laus/benchmark.htm

Reliability of the estimates. The estimates presented in this release are based on sample surveys, administrative data, and modeling and, thus, are subject to sampling and other types of errors. Sampling error is a measure of sampling variability—that is, variation that occurs by chance because a sample rather than the entire population is surveyed. Survey data also are subject to nonsampling errors, such as those which can be introduced into the data collection and processing operations. Estimates not directly derived from sample surveys are subject to additional errors resulting from the specific estimation processes used. The sums of individual items may not always equal totals shown in the same tables due to rounding.

Employment estimates. Changes in metropolitan area nonfarm payroll employment are cited in the analysis of this release only if they have been determined to be statistically significant at the 90-percent confidence level. Measures of sampling error for the total nonfarm employment series are available for metropolitan areas and metropolitan divisions at www.bls.gov/web/laus/790stderr.htm.

Area definitions. The substate area data published in this news release reflect the delineations issued by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget on April 10, 2018. The 12 metropolitan areas discussed in this release are the metropolitan areas with the largest population according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Kansas City, MO-KS Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Bates, Caldwell, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte, and Ray Counties in Missouri and Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, and Wyandotte Counties in Kansas.

  • The Kansas City, MO, portion includes Bates, Caldwell, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte, and Ray Counties.

  • The Kansas City, KS, portion includes Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, and Wyandotte Counties. 

Additional information

Employment data from the CES program are available on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/sae/.

Information in this release will be made available to individuals with sensory impairments upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Telecommunications Relay Service: 7-1-1.

Table 1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry supersector, the United States and the Kansas City metropolitan area and its components, not seasonally adjusted (numbers in thousands)
Area and Industry

Nov
2021
Sep
2022
Oct
2022
Nov
2022(p)
Nov 2021 to
Nov 2022(p)
Net change Percent change

United States

Total nonfarm

150,210 153,204 154,416 154,990 4,780 3.2

Mining and logging

587 637 642 641 54 9.2

Construction

7,582 7,877 7,896 7,827 245 3.2

Manufacturing

12,530 12,890 12,925 12,941 411 3.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities

28,705 28,589 28,834 29,249 544 1.9

Information

2,914 3,041 3,052 3,077 163 5.6

Financial activities

8,865 8,969 9,009 9,018 153 1.7

Professional and business services

21,983 22,468 22,707 22,689 706 3.2

Education and health services

24,155 24,618 24,953 25,088 933 3.9

Leisure and hospitality

14,755 15,971 15,918 15,812 1,057 7.2

Other services

5,583 5,721 5,752 5,771 188 3.4

Government

22,551 22,423 22,728 22,877 326 1.4

Kansas City, MO-KS, MSA

Total nonfarm

1,077.9 1,093.2 1,102.5 1,104.8 26.9 2.5

Mining, logging, and construction

55.6 61.2 61.4 61.8 6.2 11.2

Manufacturing

77.9 81.3 80.7 81.4 3.5 4.5

Trade, transportation, and utilities

221.4 216.6 220.1 221.5 0.1 0.0

Information

16.4 16.3 16.3 16.3 -0.1 -0.6

Financial activities

78.4 75.7 76.7 76.4 -2.0 -2.6

Professional and business services

184.4 186.6 187.5 190.3 5.9 3.2

Education and health services

154.6 160.3 163.5 162.2 7.6 4.9

Leisure and hospitality

100.9 108.1 108.1 106.4 5.5 5.5

Other services

41.1 41.8 42.3 42.5 1.4 3.4

Government

147.2 145.3 145.9 146.0 -1.2 -0.8

Kansas City, MO, portion

Total nonfarm

600.0 611.7 614.5 617.3 17.3 2.9

Mining, logging, and construction

32.6 36.1 36.7 36.8 4.2 12.9

Manufacturing

43.6 45.5 44.9 45.3 1.7 3.9

Trade, transportation, and utilities

113.2 110.9 112.4 113.6 0.4 0.4

Information

9.3 9.0 9.1 9.1 -0.2 -2.2

Financial activities

41.9 41.7 42.1 42.4 0.5 1.2

Professional and business services

99.3 100.8 100.2 101.1 1.8 1.8

Education and health services

85.2 88.4 90.0 90.5 5.3 6.2

Leisure and hospitality

61.5 67.6 66.5 65.7 4.2 6.8

Other services

24.0 24.6 25.0 25.1 1.1 4.6

Government

89.4 87.1 87.6 87.7 -1.7 -1.9

Kansas City, KS, portion

Total nonfarm

477.9 481.5 488.0 487.5 9.6 2.0

Mining, logging, and construction

23.0 25.1 24.7 25.0 2.0 8.7

Manufacturing

34.3 35.8 35.8 36.1 1.8 5.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities

108.2 105.7 107.7 107.9 -0.3 -0.3

Information

7.1 7.3 7.2 7.2 0.1 1.4

Financial activities

36.5 34.0 34.6 34.0 -2.5 -6.8

Professional and business services

85.1 85.8 87.3 89.2 4.1 4.8

Education and health services

69.4 71.9 73.5 71.7 2.3 3.3

Leisure and hospitality

39.4 40.5 41.6 40.7 1.3 3.3

Other services

17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 0.3 1.8

Government

57.8 58.2 58.3 58.3 0.5 0.9

(p) Preliminary

 

Last Modified Date: Thursday, December 29, 2022