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Local Area Unemployment Statistics - New York

Status of the Civilian Labor Force - New York State

Civilian Labor Force - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	9,705,061	9,718,246	9,730,674	9,740,242	9,744,552	9,742,165	9,736,639	9,732,451	9,732,729	9,740,366	9,754,221	9,768,487
2016	9,777,801	9,779,589	9,773,761	9,764,691	9,758,146	9,756,519	9,759,182	9,764,203	9,769,629	9,773,080	9,774,939	9,778,376
2017	9,785,983	9,799,491	9,816,438	9,834,089	9,849,999	9,861,994	9,867,628	9,865,075	9,855,369	9,841,071	9,825,046	9,810,886
2018	9,803,080	9,804,282	9,813,082	9,823,863	9,830,800	9,832,509	9,830,902	9,830,123	9,831,476	9,835,265	9,840,824	9,846,342
2019	9,848,899	9,846,753	9,841,664	9,837,363	9,837,115	9,842,215	9,851,433	9,863,438	9,879,755	9,899,509	9,918,398	9,928,423
2020	9,923,358	9,901,482	9,867,923	9,119,448	9,419,207	9,505,600	9,545,521	9,483,036	9,517,449	9,485,291	9,505,123	9,513,387
2021	9,514,659	9,517,909	9,522,634	9,538,941	9,534,069	9,566,515	9,552,734	9,555,025	9,535,160	9,544,523	9,556,331	9,588,702
2022	9,604,485	9,605,060	9,606,213	9,616,530	9,617,720	9,618,878	9,609,877	9,596,164	9,613,587	9,630,884	9,649,633	9,668,766
2023	9,689,421	9,711,017	9,732,260	9,751,542	9,767,468	9,780,617	9,792,688	9,802,334	9,808,631	9,811,548	9,812,160	9,812,188
2024	9,810,679	9,811,134	9,815,099	9,823,074	9,833,562	9,842,153	9,846,766	9,848,664	9,849,016	9,849,378	9,851,221	9,853,729
2025	9,853,081	9,855,979	9,863,196	9,878,164	9,877,709	9,876,700	(p)9,868,003
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	9,153,255	9,170,153	9,187,558	9,204,589	9,219,213	9,229,744	9,237,777	9,245,181	9,254,257	9,267,002	9,282,085	9,295,938
2016	9,305,342	9,308,167	9,304,138	9,296,018	9,287,621	9,281,266	9,278,229	9,278,605	9,281,345	9,286,139	9,294,636	9,307,666
2017	9,324,353	9,344,486	9,364,375	9,381,374	9,394,766	9,403,710	9,406,658	9,403,019	9,394,183	9,382,584	9,370,253	9,361,966
2018	9,361,990	9,372,131	9,390,650	9,411,705	9,428,535	9,438,890	9,443,658	9,445,452	9,445,333	9,445,441	9,447,743	9,452,106
2019	9,456,377	9,459,485	9,461,113	9,463,035	9,466,372	9,470,995	9,476,011	9,482,245	9,494,954	9,511,804	9,526,610	9,530,737
2020	9,518,640	9,488,885	9,448,828	7,690,871	7,843,927	8,210,170	8,347,465	8,454,995	8,551,410	8,611,651	8,655,601	8,682,308
2021	8,701,124	8,720,907	8,749,166	8,782,579	8,817,808	8,850,909	8,879,202	8,908,438	8,941,158	8,982,059	9,024,730	9,066,833
2022	9,105,384	9,139,230	9,165,477	9,186,792	9,202,462	9,215,143	9,224,155	9,229,549	9,234,445	9,242,744	9,256,976	9,275,640
2023	9,297,855	9,322,222	9,347,435	9,370,678	9,387,484	9,397,521	9,402,823	9,403,678	9,401,822	9,399,135	9,397,531	9,398,794
2024	9,401,177	9,404,643	9,407,561	9,410,726	9,414,913	9,417,541	9,417,306	9,416,198	9,414,814	9,414,178	9,416,082	9,418,804
2025	9,419,288	9,431,501	9,446,165	9,467,717	9,478,423	9,485,558	(p)9,475,706
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	551,806	548,093	543,116	535,653	525,339	512,421	498,862	487,270	478,472	473,364	472,136	472,549
2016	472,459	471,422	469,623	468,673	470,525	475,253	480,953	485,598	488,284	486,941	480,303	470,710
2017	461,630	455,005	452,063	452,715	455,233	458,284	460,970	462,056	461,186	458,487	454,793	448,920
2018	441,090	432,151	422,432	412,158	402,265	393,619	387,244	384,671	386,143	389,824	393,081	394,236
2019	392,522	387,268	380,551	374,328	370,743	371,220	375,422	381,193	384,801	387,705	391,788	397,686
2020	404,718	412,597	419,095	1,428,577	1,575,280	1,295,430	1,198,056	1,028,041	966,039	873,640	849,522	831,079
2021	813,535	797,002	773,468	756,362	716,261	715,606	673,532	646,587	594,002	562,464	531,601	521,869
2022	499,101	465,830	440,736	429,738	415,258	403,735	385,722	366,615	379,142	388,140	392,657	393,126
2023	391,566	388,795	384,825	380,864	379,984	383,096	389,865	398,656	406,809	412,413	414,629	413,394
2024	409,502	406,491	407,538	412,348	418,649	424,612	429,460	432,466	434,202	435,200	435,139	434,925
2025	433,793	424,478	417,031	410,447	399,286	391,142	(p)392,297
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	5.7	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.4	5.3	5.1	5.0	4.9	4.9	4.8	4.8
2016	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.9	4.9	5.0	5.0	5.0	4.9	4.8
2017	4.7	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.6	4.6
2018	4.5	4.4	4.3	4.2	4.1	4.0	3.9	3.9	3.9	4.0	4.0	4.0
2019	4.0	3.9	3.9	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.9	3.9	3.9	4.0	4.0
2020	4.1	4.2	4.2	15.7	16.7	13.6	12.6	10.8	10.2	9.2	8.9	8.7
2021	8.6	8.4	8.1	7.9	7.5	7.5	7.1	6.8	6.2	5.9	5.6	5.4
2022	5.2	4.8	4.6	4.5	4.3	4.2	4.0	3.8	3.9	4.0	4.1	4.1
2023	4.0	4.0	4.0	3.9	3.9	3.9	4.0	4.1	4.1	4.2	4.2	4.2
2024	4.2	4.1	4.2	4.2	4.3	4.3	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.4
2025	4.4	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.0	4.0	(p)4.0
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	9,666,825	9,675,330	9,695,210	9,711,143	9,769,753	9,823,914	9,850,371	9,796,850	9,692,312	9,731,178	9,708,221	9,722,611	9,736,976
2016	9,726,338	9,754,523	9,785,858	9,727,892	9,729,993	9,821,701	9,868,979	9,829,579	9,778,976	9,766,158	9,723,683	9,702,619	9,768,025
2017	9,741,822	9,777,068	9,822,390	9,806,811	9,819,177	9,928,234	9,990,823	9,896,836	9,888,982	9,827,010	9,781,617	9,729,408	9,834,181
2018	9,760,866	9,806,786	9,805,547	9,782,918	9,792,837	9,926,110	9,948,080	9,857,903	9,805,244	9,837,472	9,804,599	9,814,982	9,828,612
2019	9,813,890	9,827,205	9,848,424	9,795,026	9,801,261	9,891,445	9,951,075	9,906,756	9,883,616	9,910,087	9,873,241	9,851,755	9,862,815
2020	9,909,968	9,936,398	9,883,290	9,068,278	9,319,052	9,560,092	9,629,423	9,581,383	9,506,256	9,514,008	9,480,959	9,444,638	9,569,479
2021	9,450,478	9,495,101	9,532,319	9,522,264	9,487,631	9,631,354	9,662,111	9,604,167	9,533,523	9,539,825	9,528,908	9,501,005	9,540,724
2022	9,572,134	9,596,375	9,617,097	9,553,676	9,604,786	9,684,126	9,705,909	9,673,360	9,615,291	9,636,615	9,599,154	9,589,765	9,620,690
2023	9,634,332	9,703,087	9,738,929	9,702,521	9,750,573	9,855,424	9,898,176	9,866,171	9,802,728	9,810,737	9,814,907	9,702,965	9,773,379
2024	9,741,851	9,791,314	9,825,989	9,791,480	9,798,011	9,917,379	9,976,811	9,909,957	9,854,437	9,841,657	9,805,030	9,761,174	9,834,591
2025	9,777,785	9,841,851	9,885,785	9,875,931	9,816,454	9,929,262	(p)9,940,389
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	9,064,864	9,082,490	9,153,283	9,206,832	9,257,227	9,313,180	9,316,324	9,297,475	9,239,579	9,280,822	9,255,356	9,265,402	9,227,736
2016	9,220,279	9,245,005	9,292,903	9,281,243	9,305,255	9,352,842	9,356,787	9,324,016	9,295,309	9,289,790	9,279,741	9,259,481	9,291,888
2017	9,244,091	9,269,369	9,367,361	9,377,957	9,390,422	9,475,762	9,498,717	9,407,174	9,444,516	9,397,771	9,360,688	9,304,033	9,378,155
2018	9,280,853	9,321,933	9,362,533	9,391,133	9,439,026	9,518,817	9,528,516	9,451,616	9,448,809	9,479,245	9,454,315	9,432,758	9,425,796
2019	9,369,616	9,397,570	9,448,119	9,450,637	9,452,902	9,522,968	9,539,065	9,499,752	9,532,378	9,541,347	9,516,152	9,486,745	9,479,771
2020	9,485,285	9,505,498	9,371,210	7,686,272	7,758,793	8,277,760	8,372,910	8,545,157	8,555,694	8,680,436	8,690,268	8,647,622	8,631,409
2021	8,589,530	8,637,377	8,735,829	8,782,672	8,813,073	8,897,483	8,949,008	8,929,891	8,965,542	9,006,651	9,037,116	9,030,504	8,864,556
2022	9,034,493	9,077,733	9,156,539	9,150,289	9,219,575	9,275,382	9,280,801	9,256,406	9,270,410	9,282,615	9,237,250	9,224,079	9,205,464
2023	9,209,797	9,266,967	9,343,437	9,359,911	9,384,470	9,463,856	9,488,948	9,432,240	9,416,940	9,407,096	9,435,273	9,311,142	9,376,673
2024	9,315,618	9,341,343	9,406,582	9,413,351	9,407,669	9,490,856	9,493,750	9,435,779	9,458,655	9,432,884	9,390,973	9,353,507	9,411,747
2025	9,327,740	9,415,810	9,481,277	9,515,182	9,473,812	9,548,059	(p)9,487,080
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	601,961	592,840	541,927	504,311	512,526	510,734	534,047	499,375	452,733	450,356	452,865	457,209	509,240
2016	506,059	509,518	492,955	446,649	424,738	468,859	512,192	505,563	483,667	476,368	443,942	443,138	476,137
2017	497,731	507,699	455,029	428,854	428,755	452,472	492,106	489,662	444,466	429,239	420,929	425,375	456,026
2018	480,013	484,853	443,014	391,785	353,811	407,293	419,564	406,287	356,435	358,227	350,284	382,224	402,816
2019	444,274	429,635	400,305	344,389	348,359	368,477	412,010	407,004	351,238	368,740	357,089	365,010	383,044
2020	424,683	430,900	512,080	1,382,006	1,560,259	1,282,332	1,256,513	1,036,226	950,562	833,572	790,691	797,016	938,070
2021	860,948	857,724	796,490	739,592	674,558	733,871	713,103	674,276	567,981	533,174	491,792	470,501	676,168
2022	537,641	518,642	460,558	403,387	385,211	408,744	425,108	416,954	344,881	354,000	361,904	365,686	415,226
2023	424,535	436,120	395,492	342,610	366,103	391,568	409,228	433,931	385,788	403,641	379,634	391,823	396,706
2024	426,233	449,971	419,407	378,129	390,342	426,523	483,061	474,178	395,782	408,773	414,057	407,667	422,844
2025	450,045	426,041	404,508	360,749	342,642	381,203	(p)453,309
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	6.2	6.1	5.6	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.4	5.1	4.7	4.6	4.7	4.7	5.2
2016	5.2	5.2	5.0	4.6	4.4	4.8	5.2	5.1	4.9	4.9	4.6	4.6	4.9
2017	5.1	5.2	4.6	4.4	4.4	4.6	4.9	4.9	4.5	4.4	4.3	4.4	4.6
2018	4.9	4.9	4.5	4.0	3.6	4.1	4.2	4.1	3.6	3.6	3.6	3.9	4.1
2019	4.5	4.4	4.1	3.5	3.6	3.7	4.1	4.1	3.6	3.7	3.6	3.7	3.9
2020	4.3	4.3	5.2	15.2	16.7	13.4	13.0	10.8	10.0	8.8	8.3	8.4	9.8
2021	9.1	9.0	8.4	7.8	7.1	7.6	7.4	7.0	6.0	5.6	5.2	5.0	7.1
2022	5.6	5.4	4.8	4.2	4.0	4.2	4.4	4.3	3.6	3.7	3.8	3.8	4.3
2023	4.4	4.5	4.1	3.5	3.8	4.0	4.1	4.4	3.9	4.1	3.9	4.0	4.1
2024	4.4	4.6	4.3	3.9	4.0	4.3	4.8	4.8	4.0	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.3
2025	4.6	4.3	4.1	3.7	3.5	3.8	(p)4.6
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).