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Local Area Unemployment Statistics - New York City

Status of the Civilian Labor Force - New York City

Civilian Labor Force - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	4,080,570	4,083,624	4,086,615	4,088,313	4,088,604	4,088,525	4,089,108	4,091,325	4,094,623	4,097,501	4,099,323	4,101,133
2015	4,102,656	4,103,202	4,103,094	4,101,681	4,097,794	4,091,095	4,083,676	4,077,619	4,074,208	4,074,608	4,078,186	4,082,040
2016	4,083,880	4,082,937	4,079,641	4,076,666	4,076,588	4,079,683	4,084,913	4,091,011	4,096,603	4,100,450	4,102,813	4,105,250
2017	4,277,572	4,285,301	4,293,803	4,301,819	4,308,587	4,313,385	4,314,900	4,312,352	4,306,645	4,299,268	4,291,736	4,285,758
2018	4,272,594	4,271,328	4,271,935	4,271,853	4,268,705	4,262,878	4,256,544	4,252,479	4,251,429	4,253,352	4,257,637	4,262,800
2019	(r)4,260,806	(r)4,262,017	(r)4,261,007	(r)4,258,877	(r)4,257,338	(r)4,256,981	(r)4,257,462	(r)4,258,320	(r)4,261,064	(r)4,266,064	(r)4,272,175	(r)4,276,539
2020	(r)4,276,591	(r)4,271,523	(r)4,263,971	(r)3,715,243	(r)3,933,914	(r)4,057,261	(r)4,079,773	(r)4,042,787	(r)4,065,324	(r)4,045,042	(r)4,061,689	(r)4,070,153
2021	(r)4,075,053	(r)4,078,709	(r)4,080,812	(r)4,090,940	(r)4,083,917	(r)4,113,756	(r)4,100,730	(r)4,104,382	(r)4,084,699	(r)4,088,272	(r)4,090,429	(r)4,110,179
2022	(r)4,113,383	(r)4,101,828	(r)4,092,935	(r)4,094,931	(r)4,091,335	(r)4,090,000	(r)4,079,549	(r)4,065,749	(r)4,083,115	(r)4,098,929	(r)4,113,492	(r)4,125,227
2023	(r)4,135,861	(r)4,145,106	(r)4,151,907	(r)4,156,021	(r)4,157,360	(r)4,156,234	(r)4,153,537	(r)4,151,012	(r)4,150,225	(r)4,152,331	(r)4,157,133	(r)4,163,161
2024	4,161,783	4,165,463	(p)4,171,114
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	3,755,435	3,765,329	3,774,372	3,782,023	3,789,417	3,797,541	3,806,182	3,815,153	3,823,550	3,830,840	3,836,889	3,842,353
2015	3,847,113	3,851,046	3,855,298	3,859,543	3,862,609	3,863,788	3,863,955	3,863,668	3,863,725	3,865,040	3,867,407	3,869,753
2016	3,871,169	3,871,026	3,869,320	3,867,577	3,867,127	3,868,262	3,871,190	3,875,960	3,881,935	3,888,678	3,896,596	3,905,682
2017	4,076,849	4,088,992	4,099,667	4,107,720	4,113,325	4,116,887	4,117,855	4,115,981	4,112,266	4,107,804	4,103,231	4,100,310
2018	4,088,835	4,089,884	4,092,876	4,095,568	4,095,441	4,092,322	4,087,579	4,083,074	4,079,051	4,076,414	4,076,525	4,079,204
2019	(r)4,076,490	(r)4,080,210	(r)4,083,793	(r)4,087,348	(r)4,091,057	(r)4,094,066	(r)4,095,817	(r)4,096,743	(r)4,099,849	(r)4,104,431	(r)4,107,901	(r)4,107,169
2020	(r)4,100,450	(r)4,087,235	(r)4,071,266	(r)3,243,820	(r)3,087,684	(r)3,358,415	(r)3,405,331	(r)3,443,228	(r)3,483,617	(r)3,510,794	(r)3,536,644	(r)3,556,813
2021	(r)3,573,190	(r)3,589,971	(r)3,610,523	(r)3,632,829	(r)3,654,819	(r)3,676,017	(r)3,692,518	(r)3,708,200	(r)3,723,099	(r)3,741,692	(r)3,760,070	(r)3,779,003
2022	(r)3,797,148	(r)3,815,170	(r)3,830,763	(r)3,846,111	(r)3,858,185	(r)3,868,551	(r)3,875,745	(r)3,880,085	(r)3,882,982	(r)3,887,693	(r)3,895,216	(r)3,903,900
2023	(r)3,914,307	(r)3,925,434	(r)3,935,833	(r)3,944,168	(r)3,948,361	(r)3,948,104	(r)3,943,933	(r)3,937,940	(r)3,932,826	(r)3,931,225	(r)3,935,126	(r)3,941,368
2024	3,945,554	3,954,582	(p)3,966,545
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	325,135	318,295	312,243	306,290	299,187	290,984	282,926	276,172	271,073	266,661	262,434	258,780
2015	255,543	252,156	247,796	242,138	235,185	227,307	219,721	213,951	210,483	209,568	210,779	212,287
2016	212,711	211,911	210,321	209,089	209,461	211,421	213,723	215,051	214,668	211,772	206,217	199,568
2017	200,723	196,309	194,136	194,099	195,262	196,498	197,045	196,371	194,379	191,464	188,505	185,448
2018	183,759	181,444	179,059	176,285	173,264	170,556	168,965	169,405	172,378	176,938	181,112	183,596
2019	(r)184,316	(r)181,807	(r)177,214	(r)171,529	(r)166,281	(r)162,915	(r)161,645	(r)161,577	(r)161,215	(r)161,633	(r)164,274	(r)169,370
2020	(r)176,141	(r)184,288	(r)192,705	(r)471,423	(r)846,230	(r)698,846	(r)674,442	(r)599,559	(r)581,707	(r)534,248	(r)525,045	(r)513,340
2021	(r)501,863	(r)488,738	(r)470,289	(r)458,111	(r)429,098	(r)437,739	(r)408,212	(r)396,182	(r)361,600	(r)346,580	(r)330,359	(r)331,176
2022	(r)316,235	(r)286,658	(r)262,172	(r)248,820	(r)233,150	(r)221,449	(r)203,804	(r)185,664	(r)200,133	(r)211,236	(r)218,276	(r)221,327
2023	(r)221,554	(r)219,672	(r)216,074	(r)211,853	(r)208,999	(r)208,130	(r)209,604	(r)213,072	(r)217,399	(r)221,106	(r)222,007	(r)221,793
2024	216,229	210,881	(p)204,569
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	8.0	7.8	7.6	7.5	7.3	7.1	6.9	6.8	6.6	6.5	6.4	6.3
2015	6.2	6.1	6.0	5.9	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.2	5.2
2016	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.2	5.2	5.3	5.2	5.2	5.0	4.9
2017	4.7	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.3
2018	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.1	4.1	4.0	4.0	4.0	4.1	4.2	4.3	4.3
2019	(r)4.3	(r)4.3	(r)4.2	(r)4.0	(r)3.9	(r)3.8	(r)3.8	(r)3.8	(r)3.8	(r)3.8	(r)3.8	(r)4.0
2020	(r)4.1	(r)4.3	(r)4.5	(r)12.7	(r)21.5	(r)17.2	(r)16.5	(r)14.8	(r)14.3	(r)13.2	(r)12.9	(r)12.6
2021	(r)12.3	(r)12.0	(r)11.5	(r)11.2	(r)10.5	(r)10.6	(r)10.0	(r)9.7	(r)8.9	(r)8.5	(r)8.1	(r)8.1
2022	(r)7.7	(r)7.0	(r)6.4	(r)6.1	(r)5.7	(r)5.4	(r)5.0	(r)4.6	(r)4.9	(r)5.2	(r)5.3	(r)5.4
2023	(r)5.4	(r)5.3	(r)5.2	(r)5.1	(r)5.0	(r)5.0	(r)5.0	(r)5.1	(r)5.2	(r)5.3	(r)5.3	(r)5.3
2024	5.2	5.1	(p)4.9
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
2014	4,078,202	4,111,823	4,113,307	4,060,289	4,075,161	4,102,543	4,112,690	4,094,263	4,066,890	4,108,693	4,086,151	4,082,915	4,091,078
2015	4,101,838	4,125,207	4,113,967	4,095,893	4,097,712	4,087,605	4,108,503	4,083,965	4,040,138	4,073,342	4,066,094	4,074,367	4,089,053
2016	4,075,349	4,114,599	4,114,382	4,064,296	4,048,212	4,072,837	4,107,522	4,099,613	4,089,711	4,097,777	4,083,100	4,083,277	4,087,556
2017	4,274,446	4,317,178	4,329,153	4,292,091	4,280,591	4,300,703	4,342,922	4,299,717	4,315,408	4,300,745	4,275,451	4,258,690	4,298,924
2018	4,268,675	4,314,218	4,296,528	4,263,492	4,240,020	4,272,100	4,271,649	4,246,840	4,227,069	4,268,433	4,240,258	4,261,564	4,264,237
2019	(r)4,258,444	(r)4,286,966	(r)4,287,348	(r)4,249,999	(r)4,231,646	(r)4,254,496	(r)4,270,373	(r)4,260,491	(r)4,251,148	(r)4,281,115	(r)4,250,547	(r)4,249,887	(r)4,261,038
2020	(r)4,282,195	(r)4,318,409	(r)4,291,727	(r)3,703,849	(r)3,882,339	(r)4,046,714	(r)4,090,644	(r)4,077,301	(r)4,040,546	(r)4,070,896	(r)4,058,389	(r)4,044,729	(r)4,075,645
2021	(r)4,059,848	(r)4,093,322	(r)4,109,957	(r)4,098,894	(r)4,052,442	(r)4,107,336	(r)4,125,057	(r)4,110,994	(r)4,067,502	(r)4,093,649	(r)4,083,122	(r)4,081,274	(r)4,090,283
2022	(r)4,117,696	(r)4,123,066	(r)4,117,809	(r)4,076,730	(r)4,078,494	(r)4,080,986	(r)4,098,472	(r)4,089,452	(r)4,065,445	(r)4,104,925	(r)4,098,987	(r)4,105,694	(r)4,096,480
2023	(r)4,127,193	(r)4,171,938	(r)4,179,229	(r)4,134,828	(r)4,148,420	(r)4,157,868	(r)4,166,603	(r)4,165,918	(r)4,128,126	(r)4,156,808	(r)4,155,081	(r)4,130,506	(r)4,151,877
2024	4,135,103	4,191,426	(p)4,208,156
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	3,744,626	3,773,062	3,792,183	3,782,583	3,786,244	3,812,645	3,808,953	3,805,036	3,806,558	3,845,073	3,824,449	3,840,866	3,801,857
2015	3,828,551	3,859,582	3,873,617	3,869,280	3,866,447	3,859,628	3,874,026	3,861,434	3,839,840	3,865,906	3,857,925	3,871,957	3,860,683
2016	3,850,010	3,892,137	3,898,822	3,870,629	3,859,358	3,861,955	3,877,324	3,872,944	3,872,323	3,881,708	3,888,735	3,902,678	3,877,385
2017	4,059,668	4,105,105	4,138,623	4,112,994	4,095,668	4,108,299	4,129,607	4,088,548	4,120,726	4,113,556	4,101,028	4,086,986	4,105,067
2018	4,072,159	4,121,320	4,114,359	4,097,537	4,087,112	4,091,124	4,083,644	4,062,864	4,060,810	4,099,005	4,076,332	4,090,453	4,088,060
2019	(r)4,054,684	(r)4,097,162	(r)4,111,912	(r)4,094,349	(r)4,069,873	(r)4,086,636	(r)4,089,577	(r)4,084,359	(r)4,097,217	(r)4,115,219	(r)4,098,893	(r)4,107,998	(r)4,092,323
2020	(r)4,106,285	(r)4,137,830	(r)4,064,390	(r)3,249,748	(r)3,045,001	(r)3,349,983	(r)3,383,672	(r)3,466,913	(r)3,459,334	(r)3,538,428	(r)3,556,214	(r)3,563,224	(r)3,576,752
2021	(r)3,541,652	(r)3,589,697	(r)3,641,218	(r)3,644,286	(r)3,638,061	(r)3,659,065	(r)3,691,225	(r)3,697,887	(r)3,712,722	(r)3,755,646	(r)3,770,952	(r)3,774,141	(r)3,676,379
2022	(r)3,791,693	(r)3,826,291	(r)3,854,964	(r)3,839,263	(r)3,856,527	(r)3,851,266	(r)3,870,646	(r)3,873,782	(r)3,879,702	(r)3,899,068	(r)3,894,293	(r)3,903,360	(r)3,861,738
2023	(r)3,901,680	(r)3,939,381	(r)3,963,761	(r)3,938,095	(r)3,942,903	(r)3,937,346	(r)3,944,765	(r)3,934,262	(r)3,916,912	(r)3,932,319	(r)3,951,555	(r)3,921,604	(r)3,935,382
2024	3,945,570	3,988,970	(p)4,019,401
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	333,576	338,761	321,124	277,706	288,917	289,898	303,737	289,227	260,332	263,620	261,702	242,049	289,221
2015	273,287	265,625	240,350	226,613	231,265	227,977	234,477	222,531	200,298	207,436	208,169	202,410	228,370
2016	225,339	222,462	215,560	193,667	188,854	210,882	230,198	226,669	217,388	216,069	194,365	180,599	210,171
2017	214,778	212,073	190,530	179,097	184,923	192,404	213,315	211,169	194,682	187,189	174,423	171,704	193,857
2018	196,516	192,898	182,169	165,955	152,908	180,976	188,005	183,976	166,259	169,428	163,926	171,111	176,177
2019	(r)203,760	(r)189,804	(r)175,436	(r)155,650	(r)161,773	(r)167,860	(r)180,796	(r)176,132	(r)153,931	(r)165,896	(r)151,654	(r)141,889	(r)168,715
2020	(r)175,910	(r)180,579	(r)227,337	(r)454,101	(r)837,338	(r)696,731	(r)706,972	(r)610,388	(r)581,212	(r)532,468	(r)502,175	(r)481,505	(r)498,893
2021	(r)518,196	(r)503,625	(r)468,739	(r)454,608	(r)414,381	(r)448,271	(r)433,832	(r)413,107	(r)354,780	(r)338,003	(r)312,170	(r)307,133	(r)413,904
2022	(r)326,003	(r)296,775	(r)262,845	(r)237,467	(r)221,967	(r)229,720	(r)227,826	(r)215,670	(r)185,743	(r)205,857	(r)204,694	(r)202,334	(r)234,742
2023	(r)225,513	(r)232,557	(r)215,468	(r)196,733	(r)205,517	(r)220,522	(r)221,838	(r)231,656	(r)211,214	(r)224,489	(r)203,526	(r)208,902	(r)216,495
2024	189,533	202,456	(p)188,755
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	8.2	8.2	7.8	6.8	7.1	7.1	7.4	7.1	6.4	6.4	6.4	5.9	7.1
2015	6.7	6.4	5.8	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.4	5.0	5.1	5.1	5.0	5.6
2016	5.5	5.4	5.2	4.8	4.7	5.2	5.6	5.5	5.3	5.3	4.8	4.4	5.1
2017	5.0	4.9	4.4	4.2	4.3	4.5	4.9	4.9	4.5	4.4	4.1	4.0	4.5
2018	4.6	4.5	4.2	3.9	3.6	4.2	4.4	4.3	3.9	4.0	3.9	4.0	4.1
2019	(r)4.8	(r)4.4	(r)4.1	(r)3.7	(r)3.8	(r)3.9	(r)4.2	(r)4.1	(r)3.6	(r)3.9	(r)3.6	(r)3.3	(r)4.0
2020	(r)4.1	(r)4.2	(r)5.3	(r)12.3	(r)21.6	(r)17.2	(r)17.3	(r)15.0	(r)14.4	(r)13.1	(r)12.4	(r)11.9	(r)12.2
2021	(r)12.8	(r)12.3	(r)11.4	(r)11.1	(r)10.2	(r)10.9	(r)10.5	(r)10.0	(r)8.7	(r)8.3	(r)7.6	(r)7.5	(r)10.1
2022	(r)7.9	(r)7.2	(r)6.4	(r)5.8	(r)5.4	(r)5.6	(r)5.6	(r)5.3	(r)4.6	(r)5.0	(r)5.0	(r)4.9	(r)5.7
2023	(r)5.5	(r)5.6	(r)5.2	(r)4.8	(r)5.0	(r)5.3	(r)5.3	(r)5.6	(r)5.1	(r)5.4	(r)4.9	(r)5.1	(r)5.2
2024	4.6	4.8	(p)4.5
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).