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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
2013	9,643,243	9,637,148	9,634,141	9,638,121	9,646,461	9,655,330	9,660,293	9,655,577	9,640,261	9,620,358	9,601,154	9,583,747
2014	9,568,507	9,555,038	9,543,233	9,531,922	9,521,136	9,512,596	9,506,832	9,505,320	9,507,458	9,510,169	9,512,399	9,517,113
2015	9,524,954	9,533,927	9,542,416	9,548,293	9,549,164	9,543,550	9,534,767	9,527,129	9,523,717	9,527,500	9,537,575	9,548,386
2016	9,554,664	9,553,707	9,545,384	9,533,668	9,523,916	9,518,429	9,516,807	9,517,447	9,518,718	9,518,573	9,517,508	9,518,132
2017	9,786,877	9,800,351	9,817,572	9,835,869	9,852,683	9,865,598	9,872,094	9,870,248	9,860,903	9,846,668	9,830,847	9,817,592
2018	9,802,719	9,803,973	9,812,713	9,823,257	9,829,787	9,830,937	9,828,624	9,827,008	9,827,558	9,830,666	9,835,681	9,840,825
2019	9,843,200	9,840,991	9,835,870	9,831,378	9,830,577	9,834,810	9,842,925	9,853,617	9,868,458	9,886,761	9,904,428	9,913,846
2020	9,909,100	9,888,746	9,857,996	9,140,152	9,434,270	9,525,690	9,566,448	9,506,207	9,539,035	9,505,536	9,522,787	9,526,609
2021	9,529,706	9,536,568	9,541,206	9,558,780	9,558,574	9,590,039	9,576,306	9,577,488	9,553,876	9,557,783	9,562,350	9,587,317
2022	9,602,911	9,607,227	9,611,138	9,625,656	9,633,295	9,634,076	9,621,185	9,599,565	9,605,907	9,612,141	9,618,640	9,626,379
2023	9,632,060	9,646,609	9,659,921	9,676,461	9,703,417	9,734,238	9,757,869	9,772,000	9,776,153	(p)9,774,269
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	8,842,773	8,844,420	8,850,795	8,864,330	8,880,236	8,893,914	8,902,869	8,906,160	8,905,146	8,902,906	8,901,935	8,901,999
2014	8,903,251	8,905,204	8,906,972	8,907,932	8,909,964	8,914,743	8,921,190	8,929,372	8,938,865	8,948,744	8,958,578	8,969,792
2015	8,982,601	8,995,441	9,008,594	9,021,384	9,032,002	9,038,865	9,043,435	9,047,482	9,053,257	9,062,751	9,074,704	9,085,645
2016	9,092,379	9,092,674	9,086,193	9,075,462	9,064,157	9,054,675	9,048,360	9,045,264	9,044,383	9,045,425	9,050,218	9,059,508
2017	9,326,683	9,346,626	9,366,666	9,384,093	9,398,001	9,407,322	9,410,601	9,407,451	9,399,265	9,388,484	9,377,414	9,370,967
2018	9,361,939	9,372,373	9,391,095	9,412,158	9,428,753	9,438,572	9,442,483	9,443,161	9,441,924	9,441,120	9,442,909	9,447,272
2019	9,452,089	9,456,144	9,458,865	9,461,587	9,464,972	9,468,743	9,472,035	9,475,946	9,486,126	9,500,903	9,514,584	9,519,010
2020	9,508,711	9,482,072	9,446,108	7,711,204	7,864,597	8,235,435	8,371,925	8,478,569	8,571,168	8,628,753	8,670,558	8,697,410
2021	8,719,038	8,743,816	8,776,986	8,814,695	8,852,224	8,885,116	8,909,301	8,932,320	8,956,839	8,989,806	9,026,895	9,067,724
2022	9,109,926	9,151,475	9,186,959	9,216,267	9,234,958	9,243,670	9,240,249	9,229,179	9,217,893	9,213,145	9,220,195	9,230,918
2023	9,229,490	9,245,321	9,268,326	9,291,578	9,321,223	9,350,292	9,377,678	9,387,345	9,383,658	(p)9,364,807
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	800,470	792,728	783,346	773,791	766,225	761,416	757,424	749,417	735,115	717,452	699,219	681,748
2014	665,256	649,834	636,261	623,990	611,172	597,853	585,642	575,948	568,593	561,425	553,821	547,321
2015	542,353	538,486	533,822	526,909	517,162	504,685	491,332	479,647	470,460	464,749	462,871	462,741
2016	462,285	461,033	459,191	458,206	459,759	463,754	468,447	472,183	474,335	473,148	467,290	458,624
2017	460,194	453,725	450,906	451,776	454,682	458,276	461,493	462,797	461,638	458,184	453,433	446,625
2018	440,780	431,600	421,618	411,099	401,034	392,365	386,141	383,847	385,634	389,546	392,772	393,553
2019	391,111	384,847	377,005	369,791	365,605	366,067	370,890	377,671	382,332	385,858	389,844	394,836
2020	400,389	406,674	411,888	1,428,948	1,569,673	1,290,255	1,194,523	1,027,638	967,867	876,783	852,229	829,199
2021	810,668	792,752	764,220	744,085	706,350	704,923	667,005	645,168	597,037	567,977	535,455	519,593
2022	492,985	455,752	424,179	409,389	398,337	390,406	380,936	370,386	388,014	398,996	398,445	395,461
2023	402,570	401,288	391,595	384,883	382,194	383,946	380,191	384,655	392,495	(p)409,462
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	8.3	8.2	8.1	8.0	7.9	7.9	7.8	7.8	7.6	7.5	7.3	7.1
2014	7.0	6.8	6.7	6.5	6.4	6.3	6.2	6.1	6.0	5.9	5.8	5.8
2015	5.7	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.4	5.3	5.2	5.0	4.9	4.9	4.9	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	4.5
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	3.8	3.8	3.7	3.7	3.8	3.8	3.9	3.9	3.9	4.0
2020	4.0	4.1	4.2	15.6	16.6	13.5	12.5	10.8	10.1	9.2	8.9	8.7
2021	8.5	8.3	8.0	7.8	7.4	7.4	7.0	6.7	6.2	5.9	5.6	5.4
2022	5.1	4.7	4.4	4.3	4.1	4.1	4.0	3.9	4.0	4.2	4.1	4.1
2023	4.2	4.2	4.1	4.0	3.9	3.9	3.9	3.9	4.0	(p)4.2
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	9,632,205	9,596,911	9,574,282	9,584,690	9,638,299	9,754,844	9,789,156	9,720,538	9,624,507	9,603,405	9,561,763	9,514,786	9,632,949
2014	9,528,500	9,535,089	9,556,171	9,461,129	9,501,482	9,604,625	9,629,737	9,566,555	9,463,582	9,517,515	9,466,191	9,452,220	9,523,567
2015	9,504,454	9,499,514	9,515,224	9,520,807	9,566,673	9,619,841	9,640,450	9,587,048	9,478,713	9,513,961	9,483,341	9,508,195	9,536,519
2016	9,521,317	9,536,299	9,564,014	9,499,735	9,492,201	9,575,842	9,620,258	9,580,771	9,519,837	9,506,514	9,457,603	9,449,866	9,527,021
2017	9,759,716	9,781,004	9,828,478	9,804,232	9,810,605	9,920,095	9,985,496	9,906,616	9,891,283	9,830,874	9,785,432	9,754,210	9,838,170
2018	9,768,980	9,801,883	9,812,137	9,784,654	9,790,681	9,918,878	9,938,428	9,854,159	9,803,324	9,834,975	9,790,784	9,814,628	9,826,126
2019	9,819,189	9,817,338	9,848,415	9,790,748	9,793,872	9,877,401	9,933,674	9,897,207	9,872,610	9,900,444	9,851,450	9,845,200	9,853,962
2020	9,909,213	9,919,226	9,878,189	9,089,320	9,332,008	9,568,294	9,642,107	9,604,632	9,529,697	9,536,970	9,489,211	9,471,298	9,580,847
2021	9,484,819	9,508,713	9,556,932	9,542,383	9,505,764	9,639,773	9,671,523	9,623,833	9,553,474	9,560,177	9,528,094	9,519,461	9,557,912
2022	9,593,515	9,594,922	9,626,570	9,561,873	9,611,179	9,678,860	9,700,959	9,673,378	9,604,546	9,620,116	9,563,388	9,574,556	9,616,989
2023	9,594,419	9,663,959	9,687,422	9,652,682	9,720,638	9,849,987	9,869,843	9,829,112	9,737,340	(p)9,742,797
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	8,751,100	8,748,808	8,799,993	8,862,316	8,899,312	8,977,838	9,007,315	8,962,394	8,906,117	8,886,537	8,894,992	8,872,782	8,880,792
2014	8,827,151	8,817,740	8,888,650	8,892,145	8,918,197	9,013,528	9,009,182	8,968,871	8,922,088	8,981,649	8,929,836	8,934,896	8,925,328
2015	8,908,819	8,911,182	8,981,670	9,021,468	9,062,321	9,115,995	9,123,623	9,102,801	9,034,656	9,069,638	9,040,370	9,059,319	9,035,989
2016	9,022,325	9,031,096	9,080,801	9,059,322	9,077,139	9,119,514	9,129,639	9,095,631	9,051,505	9,043,627	9,027,722	9,016,072	9,062,866
2017	9,257,663	9,268,794	9,374,183	9,378,099	9,384,059	9,469,576	9,501,125	9,422,939	9,446,507	9,399,438	9,360,323	9,330,294	9,382,750
2018	9,287,997	9,313,373	9,369,080	9,394,325	9,437,286	9,513,831	9,521,879	9,450,801	9,446,787	9,478,125	9,440,458	9,436,602	9,424,212
2019	9,374,692	9,385,276	9,450,353	9,450,404	9,448,168	9,514,411	9,528,282	9,496,380	9,524,396	9,536,104	9,497,406	9,488,251	9,474,510
2020	9,487,607	9,488,450	9,371,173	7,701,888	7,775,331	8,288,049	8,389,998	8,572,988	8,580,724	8,707,321	8,700,365	8,681,970	8,645,489
2021	8,624,427	8,648,025	8,763,355	8,808,892	8,834,467	8,912,963	8,965,720	8,956,976	8,988,777	9,032,235	9,040,226	9,057,798	8,886,155
2022	9,060,190	9,078,815	9,173,402	9,167,174	9,231,467	9,278,266	9,283,534	9,263,400	9,260,962	9,266,334	9,197,888	9,208,417	9,205,821
2023	9,155,048	9,232,770	9,295,553	9,296,817	9,349,728	9,431,598	9,462,334	9,397,884	9,349,511	(p)9,314,116
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	881,105	848,103	774,289	722,374	738,987	777,006	781,841	758,144	718,390	716,868	666,771	642,004	752,157
2014	701,349	717,349	667,521	568,984	583,285	591,097	620,555	597,684	541,494	535,866	536,355	517,324	598,239
2015	595,635	588,332	533,554	499,339	504,352	503,846	516,827	484,247	444,057	444,323	442,971	448,876	500,530
2016	498,992	505,203	483,213	440,413	415,062	456,328	490,619	485,140	468,332	462,887	429,881	433,794	464,155
2017	502,053	512,210	454,295	426,133	426,546	450,519	484,371	483,677	444,776	431,436	425,109	423,916	455,420
2018	480,983	488,510	443,057	390,329	353,395	405,047	416,549	403,358	356,537	356,850	350,326	378,026	401,914
2019	444,497	432,062	398,062	340,344	345,704	362,990	405,392	400,827	348,214	364,340	354,044	356,949	379,452
2020	421,606	430,776	507,016	1,387,432	1,556,677	1,280,245	1,252,109	1,031,644	948,973	829,649	788,846	789,328	935,358
2021	860,392	860,688	793,577	733,491	671,297	726,810	705,803	666,857	564,697	527,942	487,868	461,663	671,757
2022	533,325	516,107	453,168	394,699	379,712	400,594	417,425	409,978	343,584	353,782	365,500	366,139	411,168
2023	439,371	431,189	391,869	355,865	370,910	418,389	407,509	431,228	387,829	(p)428,681
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	9.1	8.8	8.1	7.5	7.7	8.0	8.0	7.8	7.5	7.5	7.0	6.7	7.8
2014	7.4	7.5	7.0	6.0	6.1	6.2	6.4	6.2	5.7	5.6	5.7	5.5	6.3
2015	6.3	6.2	5.6	5.2	5.3	5.2	5.4	5.1	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.7	5.2
2016	5.2	5.3	5.1	4.6	4.4	4.8	5.1	5.1	4.9	4.9	4.5	4.6	4.9
2017	5.1	5.2	4.6	4.3	4.3	4.5	4.9	4.9	4.5	4.4	4.3	4.3	4.6
2018	4.9	5.0	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	4.0	3.5	3.5	3.7	4.1	4.0	3.5	3.7	3.6	3.6	3.9
2020	4.3	4.3	5.1	15.3	16.7	13.4	13.0	10.7	10.0	8.7	8.3	8.3	9.8
2021	9.1	9.1	8.3	7.7	7.1	7.5	7.3	6.9	5.9	5.5	5.1	4.8	7.0
2022	5.6	5.4	4.7	4.1	4.0	4.1	4.3	4.2	3.6	3.7	3.8	3.8	4.3
2023	4.6	4.5	4.0	3.7	3.8	4.2	4.1	4.4	4.0	(p)4.4
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).