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25-1084-KAN
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

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Kansas City Area Employment — May 2025

Total nonfarm employment for the Kansas City, MO-KS, metropolitan area stood at 1,154,600 in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1 and table 1.) Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted that employment in the Kansas City area was little changed over the year, while the national rate of job gain was 1.1 percent. (All data in this release are not seasonally adjusted; accordingly, over-the-year analysis is used throughout.)

Industry employment

In Kansas City, MO-KS, education and health services had the only significant gain (+5,300) among the metropolitan area’s private-industry supersectors. Employment gain within this supersector was concentrated in the health care and social assistance sector (+5,700). (See chart 2.) The 3.0-percent increase in the metropolitan area’s education and health services supersector compared to the 3.5-percent gain on a national level.

The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment release for June 2025 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. (CT).


Technical Note

This release presents nonfarm payroll employment estimates from the CES program. More information about the CES data is available in the State Employment and Unemployment Summary and the Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary. See the Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Technical Note for more information on definitions and methodology.

Reliability of the employment 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. 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. Documentation on the reliability of state and area estimates is available for metropolitan areas and metropolitan divisions.

Area definitions. The substate area data published in this news release reflect the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineations issued on July 21, 2023.

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.

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

May
2024
Mar
2025
Apr
2025
May
2025(p)
May 2024 to
May 2025(p)
Net change Percent change

United States

Total nonfarm

158,256 158,402 159,238 159,964 1,708 1.1

Mining and logging

624 619 621 624 0 0.0

Construction

8,237 8,071 8,218 8,354 117 1.4

Manufacturing

12,829 12,714 12,721 12,740 -89 -0.7

Trade, transportation, and utilities

28,794 28,862 28,848 28,954 160 0.6

Information

2,939 2,921 2,921 2,928 -11 -0.4

Financial activities

9,126 9,180 9,186 9,223 97 1.1

Professional and business services

22,682 22,351 22,571 22,618 -64 -0.3

Education and health services

26,375 27,222 27,337 27,296 921 3.5

Leisure and hospitality

17,076 16,558 16,858 17,331 255 1.5

Other services

5,983 5,993 6,019 6,059 76 1.3

Government

23,591 23,911 23,938 23,837 246 1.0

Kansas City, MO-KS, MSA

Total nonfarm

1,156.5 1,139.4 1,146.7 1,154.6 -1.9 -0.2

Mining, logging, and construction

62.6 62.1 64.1 65.8 3.2 5.1

Manufacturing

90.8 89.6 88.8 91.1 0.3 0.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities

230.3 227.4 226.4 226.4 -3.9 -1.7

Information

17.2 16.3 16.3 16.1 -1.1 -6.4

Financial activities

77.6 80.0 79.1 79.7 2.1 2.7

Professional and business services

186.3 182.0 182.9 180.8 -5.5 -3.0

Education and health services

174.5 178.2 179.8 179.8 5.3 3.0

Leisure and hospitality

119.9 107.2 111.1 115.8 -4.1 -3.4

Other services

42.0 41.6 42.0 42.8 0.8 1.9

Government

155.3 155.0 156.2 156.3 1.0 0.6

(p) Preliminary

 

Last Modified Date: Wednesday, July 02, 2025