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Wednesday, April 09, 2025
Kansas City Area Employment — February 2025
Total nonfarm employment for the Kansas City, MO-KS, metropolitan area stood at 1,134,600 in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1 and table 1.) Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted that, while employment in the Kansas City area was little changed over the year, the national rate of job gain was 1.2 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, February 2022–February 2025
| Period |
Net change (in thousands) |
|
Feb 2022
|
45.1 |
|
Mar 2022
|
32.3 |
|
Apr 2022
|
34.5 |
|
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
|
0.5 |
Industry employment
In Kansas City, MO-KS, education and health services had the only gain (+6,200) among the metropolitan area’s private-industry supersectors. Nearly all the employment gain within this supersector was concentrated in the health care and social assistance sector. (See chart 2.) The 3.6-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, February 2025
| Industry |
Net change (in thousands) |
|
Education and health services*
|
6.2 |
|
Financial activities
|
1.7 |
|
Professional and business services
|
0.3 |
|
Other services
|
0.3 |
|
Manufacturing
|
0.2 |
|
Mining and logging
|
0.0 |
|
Construction
|
-0.1 |
|
Information
|
-0.8 |
|
Trade, transportation, and utilities
|
-2.4 |
|
Leisure and hospitality*
|
-7.2 |
|
Note: An asterisk indicates statistical significance at the 90-percent confidence level.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
|
Leisure and hospitality lost 7,200 jobs over the year in the metropolitan area. Within this supersector, accommodation and food services lost 5,900 jobs. The metropolitan area had a 6.5-percent loss in leisure and hospitality compared to the 1.5-percent increase for the nation.
The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment release for March 2025 is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. (CT).
Upcoming Changes to Metropolitan Statistical Area Delineations and Benchmarking
With the release of January 2025 data on March 17, 2025, all nonfarm payroll employment estimates for states and areas have been adjusted to 2024 benchmark levels. Additionally, Current Employment Statistics (CES) metropolitan statistical area (MSA) estimates have been updated to reflect the revised delineations based on the 2020 Census, available in OMB Bulletin No. 23-01. As a result of this update, new MSAs have been added to publication, some existing MSAs have undergone name and/or compositional changes, and other pre-existing areas have been dropped from publication. More information about MSA definitions in the CES program is available online. Details of these changes was published in the annual CES State and Area benchmark article.
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
|
Feb
2024 |
Dec
2024 |
Jan
2025 |
Feb
2025 |
Feb 2024 to
Feb 2025 |
| Net change |
Percent change |
|
United States
|
|
|
Total nonfarm
|
156,007 |
159,923 |
157,095 |
157,950 |
1,943 |
1.2 |
|
Mining and logging
|
623 |
623 |
619 |
619 |
-4 |
-0.6 |
|
Construction
|
7,832 |
8,219 |
7,955 |
7,989 |
157 |
2.0 |
|
Manufacturing
|
12,800 |
12,786 |
12,676 |
12,709 |
-91 |
-0.7 |
|
Trade, transportation, and utilities
|
28,605 |
29,799 |
29,015 |
28,881 |
276 |
1.0 |
|
Information
|
2,939 |
2,964 |
2,905 |
2,922 |
-17 |
-0.6 |
|
Financial activities
|
9,096 |
9,235 |
9,173 |
9,185 |
89 |
1.0 |
|
Professional and business services
|
22,392 |
22,707 |
22,193 |
22,330 |
-62 |
-0.3 |
|
Education and health services
|
26,248 |
27,093 |
26,857 |
27,160 |
912 |
3.5 |
|
Leisure and hospitality
|
16,116 |
16,672 |
16,263 |
16,355 |
239 |
1.5 |
|
Other services
|
5,869 |
5,982 |
5,939 |
5,958 |
89 |
1.5 |
|
Government
|
23,487 |
23,843 |
23,500 |
23,842 |
355 |
1.5 |
|
Kansas City, MO-KS, MSA
|
|
|
Total nonfarm
|
1,134.1 |
1,159.1 |
1,126.4 |
1,134.6 |
0.5 |
0.0 |
|
Mining, logging, and construction
|
59.2 |
60.9 |
58.1 |
59.1 |
-0.1 |
-0.2 |
|
Manufacturing
|
89.9 |
91.0 |
86.7 |
90.1 |
0.2 |
0.2 |
|
Trade, transportation, and utilities
|
229.3 |
237.4 |
229.6 |
226.9 |
-2.4 |
-1.0 |
|
Information
|
17.2 |
16.9 |
16.5 |
16.4 |
-0.8 |
-4.7 |
|
Financial activities
|
77.8 |
79.9 |
79.6 |
79.5 |
1.7 |
2.2 |
|
Professional and business services
|
183.4 |
185.8 |
179.1 |
183.7 |
0.3 |
0.2 |
|
Education and health services
|
172.3 |
177.7 |
176.9 |
178.5 |
6.2 |
3.6 |
|
Leisure and hospitality
|
111.3 |
111.4 |
104.9 |
104.1 |
-7.2 |
-6.5 |
|
Other services
|
40.8 |
42.6 |
41.8 |
41.1 |
0.3 |
0.7 |
|
Government
|
152.9 |
155.5 |
153.2 |
155.2 |
2.3 |
1.5 |
United States Department of Labor
