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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	(r)9,705,061	(r)9,718,246	(r)9,730,674	(r)9,740,242	(r)9,744,552	(r)9,742,165	(r)9,736,639	(r)9,732,451	(r)9,732,729	(r)9,740,366	(r)9,754,221	(r)9,768,487
2016	(r)9,777,801	(r)9,779,589	(r)9,773,761	(r)9,764,691	(r)9,758,146	(r)9,756,519	(r)9,759,182	(r)9,764,203	(r)9,769,629	(r)9,773,080	(r)9,774,939	(r)9,778,376
2017	(r)9,785,983	(r)9,799,491	(r)9,816,438	(r)9,834,089	(r)9,849,999	(r)9,861,994	(r)9,867,628	(r)9,865,075	(r)9,855,369	(r)9,841,071	(r)9,825,046	(r)9,810,886
2018	(r)9,803,080	(r)9,804,282	(r)9,813,082	(r)9,823,863	(r)9,830,800	(r)9,832,509	(r)9,830,902	(r)9,830,123	(r)9,831,476	(r)9,835,265	(r)9,840,824	(r)9,846,342
2019	(r)9,848,899	(r)9,846,753	(r)9,841,664	(r)9,837,363	(r)9,837,115	(r)9,842,215	(r)9,851,433	(r)9,863,438	(r)9,879,755	(r)9,899,509	(r)9,918,398	(r)9,928,423
2020	(r)9,923,358	(r)9,901,482	(r)9,867,923	(r)9,119,448	(r)9,419,207	(r)9,505,600	(r)9,545,521	(r)9,483,036	(r)9,517,449	(r)9,485,291	(r)9,505,123	(r)9,513,387
2021	(r)9,514,659	(r)9,517,909	(r)9,522,634	(r)9,538,941	(r)9,534,069	(r)9,566,515	(r)9,552,734	(r)9,555,025	(r)9,535,160	(r)9,544,523	(r)9,556,331	(r)9,588,702
2022	(r)9,604,485	(r)9,605,060	(r)9,606,213	(r)9,616,530	(r)9,617,720	(r)9,618,878	(r)9,609,877	(r)9,596,164	(r)9,613,587	(r)9,630,884	(r)9,649,633	(r)9,668,766
2023	(r)9,689,421	(r)9,711,017	(r)9,732,260	(r)9,751,542	(r)9,767,468	(r)9,780,617	(r)9,792,688	(r)9,802,334	(r)9,808,631	(r)9,811,548	(r)9,812,160	(r)9,812,188
2024	(r)9,810,679	(r)9,811,134	(r)9,815,099	(r)9,823,074	(r)9,833,562	(r)9,842,153	(r)9,846,766	(r)9,848,664	(r)9,849,016	(r)9,849,378	(r)9,851,221	(r)9,853,729
2025	9,853,081	9,855,979	(p)9,863,192
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)9,153,255	(r)9,170,153	(r)9,187,558	(r)9,204,589	(r)9,219,213	(r)9,229,744	(r)9,237,777	(r)9,245,181	(r)9,254,257	(r)9,267,002	(r)9,282,085	(r)9,295,938
2016	(r)9,305,342	(r)9,308,167	(r)9,304,138	(r)9,296,018	(r)9,287,621	(r)9,281,266	(r)9,278,229	(r)9,278,605	(r)9,281,345	(r)9,286,139	(r)9,294,636	(r)9,307,666
2017	(r)9,324,353	(r)9,344,486	(r)9,364,375	(r)9,381,374	(r)9,394,766	(r)9,403,710	(r)9,406,658	(r)9,403,019	(r)9,394,183	(r)9,382,584	(r)9,370,253	(r)9,361,966
2018	(r)9,361,990	(r)9,372,131	(r)9,390,650	(r)9,411,705	(r)9,428,535	(r)9,438,890	(r)9,443,658	(r)9,445,452	(r)9,445,333	(r)9,445,441	(r)9,447,743	(r)9,452,106
2019	(r)9,456,377	(r)9,459,485	(r)9,461,113	(r)9,463,035	(r)9,466,372	(r)9,470,995	(r)9,476,011	(r)9,482,245	(r)9,494,954	(r)9,511,804	(r)9,526,610	(r)9,530,737
2020	(r)9,518,640	(r)9,488,885	(r)9,448,828	(r)7,690,871	(r)7,843,927	(r)8,210,170	(r)8,347,465	(r)8,454,995	(r)8,551,410	(r)8,611,651	(r)8,655,601	(r)8,682,308
2021	(r)8,701,124	(r)8,720,907	(r)8,749,166	(r)8,782,579	(r)8,817,808	(r)8,850,909	(r)8,879,202	(r)8,908,438	(r)8,941,158	(r)8,982,059	(r)9,024,730	(r)9,066,833
2022	(r)9,105,384	(r)9,139,230	(r)9,165,477	(r)9,186,792	(r)9,202,462	(r)9,215,143	(r)9,224,155	(r)9,229,549	(r)9,234,445	(r)9,242,744	(r)9,256,976	(r)9,275,640
2023	(r)9,297,855	(r)9,322,222	(r)9,347,435	(r)9,370,678	(r)9,387,484	(r)9,397,521	(r)9,402,823	(r)9,403,678	(r)9,401,822	(r)9,399,135	(r)9,397,531	(r)9,398,794
2024	(r)9,401,177	(r)9,404,643	(r)9,407,561	(r)9,410,726	(r)9,414,913	(r)9,417,541	(r)9,417,306	(r)9,416,198	(r)9,414,814	(r)9,414,178	(r)9,416,082	(r)9,418,804
2025	9,419,288	9,431,501	(p)9,446,206
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)551,806	(r)548,093	(r)543,116	(r)535,653	(r)525,339	(r)512,421	(r)498,862	(r)487,270	(r)478,472	(r)473,364	(r)472,136	(r)472,549
2016	(r)472,459	(r)471,422	(r)469,623	(r)468,673	(r)470,525	(r)475,253	(r)480,953	(r)485,598	(r)488,284	(r)486,941	(r)480,303	(r)470,710
2017	(r)461,630	(r)455,005	(r)452,063	(r)452,715	(r)455,233	(r)458,284	(r)460,970	(r)462,056	(r)461,186	(r)458,487	(r)454,793	(r)448,920
2018	(r)441,090	(r)432,151	(r)422,432	(r)412,158	(r)402,265	(r)393,619	(r)387,244	(r)384,671	(r)386,143	(r)389,824	(r)393,081	(r)394,236
2019	(r)392,522	(r)387,268	(r)380,551	(r)374,328	(r)370,743	(r)371,220	(r)375,422	(r)381,193	(r)384,801	(r)387,705	(r)391,788	(r)397,686
2020	(r)404,718	(r)412,597	(r)419,095	(r)1,428,577	(r)1,575,280	(r)1,295,430	(r)1,198,056	(r)1,028,041	(r)966,039	(r)873,640	(r)849,522	(r)831,079
2021	(r)813,535	(r)797,002	(r)773,468	(r)756,362	(r)716,261	(r)715,606	(r)673,532	(r)646,587	(r)594,002	(r)562,464	(r)531,601	(r)521,869
2022	(r)499,101	(r)465,830	(r)440,736	(r)429,738	(r)415,258	(r)403,735	(r)385,722	(r)366,615	(r)379,142	(r)388,140	(r)392,657	(r)393,126
2023	(r)391,566	(r)388,795	(r)384,825	(r)380,864	(r)379,984	(r)383,096	(r)389,865	(r)398,656	(r)406,809	(r)412,413	(r)414,629	(r)413,394
2024	(r)409,502	(r)406,491	(r)407,538	(r)412,348	(r)418,649	(r)424,612	(r)429,460	(r)432,466	(r)434,202	(r)435,200	(r)435,139	(r)434,925
2025	433,793	424,478	(p)416,986
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

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

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)9,666,825	(r)9,675,330	(r)9,695,210	(r)9,711,143	(r)9,769,753	(r)9,823,914	(r)9,850,371	(r)9,796,850	(r)9,692,312	(r)9,731,178	(r)9,708,221	(r)9,722,611	(r)9,736,976
2016	(r)9,726,338	(r)9,754,523	(r)9,785,858	(r)9,727,892	(r)9,729,993	(r)9,821,701	(r)9,868,979	(r)9,829,579	(r)9,778,976	(r)9,766,158	(r)9,723,683	(r)9,702,619	(r)9,768,025
2017	(r)9,741,822	(r)9,777,068	(r)9,822,390	(r)9,806,811	(r)9,819,177	(r)9,928,234	(r)9,990,823	(r)9,896,836	(r)9,888,982	(r)9,827,010	(r)9,781,617	(r)9,729,408	(r)9,834,181
2018	(r)9,760,866	(r)9,806,786	(r)9,805,547	(r)9,782,918	(r)9,792,837	(r)9,926,110	(r)9,948,080	(r)9,857,903	(r)9,805,244	(r)9,837,472	(r)9,804,599	(r)9,814,982	(r)9,828,612
2019	(r)9,813,890	(r)9,827,205	(r)9,848,424	(r)9,795,026	(r)9,801,261	(r)9,891,445	(r)9,951,075	(r)9,906,756	(r)9,883,616	(r)9,910,087	(r)9,873,241	(r)9,851,755	(r)9,862,815
2020	(r)9,909,968	(r)9,936,398	(r)9,883,290	(r)9,068,278	(r)9,319,052	(r)9,560,092	(r)9,629,423	(r)9,581,383	(r)9,506,256	(r)9,514,008	(r)9,480,959	(r)9,444,638	(r)9,569,479
2021	(r)9,450,478	(r)9,495,101	(r)9,532,319	(r)9,522,264	(r)9,487,631	(r)9,631,354	(r)9,662,111	(r)9,604,167	(r)9,533,523	(r)9,539,825	(r)9,528,908	(r)9,501,005	(r)9,540,724
2022	(r)9,572,134	(r)9,596,375	(r)9,617,097	(r)9,553,676	(r)9,604,786	(r)9,684,126	(r)9,705,909	(r)9,673,360	(r)9,615,291	(r)9,636,615	(r)9,599,154	(r)9,589,765	(r)9,620,690
2023	(r)9,634,332	(r)9,703,087	(r)9,738,929	(r)9,702,521	(r)9,750,573	(r)9,855,424	(r)9,898,176	(r)9,866,171	(r)9,802,728	(r)9,810,737	(r)9,814,907	(r)9,702,965	(r)9,773,379
2024	(r)9,741,851	(r)9,791,314	(r)9,825,989	(r)9,791,480	(r)9,798,011	(r)9,917,379	(r)9,976,811	(r)9,909,957	(r)9,854,437	(r)9,841,657	(r)9,805,030	(r)9,761,174	(r)9,834,591
2025	9,777,785	9,841,851	(p)9,885,759
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

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

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)601,961	(r)592,840	(r)541,927	(r)504,311	(r)512,526	(r)510,734	(r)534,047	(r)499,375	(r)452,733	(r)450,356	(r)452,865	(r)457,209	(r)509,240
2016	(r)506,059	(r)509,518	(r)492,955	(r)446,649	(r)424,738	(r)468,859	(r)512,192	(r)505,563	(r)483,667	(r)476,368	(r)443,942	(r)443,138	(r)476,137
2017	(r)497,731	(r)507,699	(r)455,029	(r)428,854	(r)428,755	(r)452,472	(r)492,106	(r)489,662	(r)444,466	(r)429,239	(r)420,929	(r)425,375	(r)456,026
2018	(r)480,013	(r)484,853	(r)443,014	(r)391,785	(r)353,811	(r)407,293	(r)419,564	(r)406,287	(r)356,435	(r)358,227	(r)350,284	(r)382,224	(r)402,816
2019	(r)444,274	(r)429,635	(r)400,305	(r)344,389	(r)348,359	(r)368,477	(r)412,010	(r)407,004	(r)351,238	(r)368,740	(r)357,089	(r)365,010	(r)383,044
2020	(r)424,683	(r)430,900	(r)512,080	(r)1,382,006	(r)1,560,259	(r)1,282,332	(r)1,256,513	(r)1,036,226	(r)950,562	(r)833,572	(r)790,691	(r)797,016	(r)938,070
2021	(r)860,948	(r)857,724	(r)796,490	(r)739,592	(r)674,558	(r)733,871	(r)713,103	(r)674,276	(r)567,981	(r)533,174	(r)491,792	(r)470,501	(r)676,168
2022	(r)537,641	(r)518,642	(r)460,558	(r)403,387	(r)385,211	(r)408,744	(r)425,108	(r)416,954	(r)344,881	(r)354,000	(r)361,904	(r)365,686	(r)415,226
2023	(r)424,535	(r)436,120	(r)395,492	(r)342,610	(r)366,103	(r)391,568	(r)409,228	(r)433,931	(r)385,788	(r)403,641	(r)379,634	(r)391,823	(r)396,706
2024	(r)426,233	(r)449,971	(r)419,407	(r)378,129	(r)390,342	(r)426,523	(r)483,061	(r)474,178	(r)395,782	(r)408,773	(r)414,057	(r)407,667	(r)422,844
2025	450,045	426,041	(p)404,271
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

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