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.)

  

Chart 1. Over-the-year net change for total nonfarm employment in the Kansas City metropolitan area, May 2022–May 2025

Period	Net change (in thousands)
May 2022	33.0
Jun 2022	31.7
Jul 2022	31.5
Aug 2022	33.7
Sep 2022	43.2
Oct 2022	30.9
Nov 2022	31.3
Dec 2022	28.9
Jan 2023	29.2
Feb 2023	24.0
Mar 2023	28.1
Apr 2023	28.9
May 2023	30.3
Jun 2023	37.2
Jul 2023	25.3
Aug 2023	14.1
Sep 2023	19.8
Oct 2023	17.4
Nov 2023	17.6
Dec 2023	20.3
Jan 2024	10.6
Feb 2024	20.0
Mar 2024	18.8
Apr 2024	20.4
May 2024	18.9
Jun 2024	11.8
Jul 2024	5.3
Aug 2024	20.0
Sep 2024	14.5
Oct 2024	12.4
Nov 2024	8.1
Dec 2024	10.4
Jan 2025	3.4
Feb 2025	-0.4
Mar 2025	1.4
Apr 2025	-5.1
May 2025	-1.9

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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.

  

Chart 2. Over-the-year net change for industry supersector employment in the Kansas City metropolitan area, May 2025

Industry	Net change (in thousands)
Professional and business services	-5.5
Leisure and hospitality	-4.1
Trade, transportation, and utilities	-3.9
Information	-1.1
Mining and logging	0.0
Manufacturing	0.3
Other services	0.8
Financial activities	2.1
Construction	3.2
Education and health services*	5.3
Note: An asterisk indicates statistical significance at the 90-percent confidence level. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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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).

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/.

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