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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
2015	(r)4,221,477	(r)4,224,546	(r)4,226,633	(r)4,227,158	(r)4,224,950	(r)4,219,740	(r)4,213,895	(r)4,209,664	(r)4,208,408	(r)4,211,234	(r)4,217,227	(r)4,223,211
2016	(r)4,226,854	(r)4,227,460	(r)4,225,529	(r)4,224,022	(r)4,225,788	(r)4,231,168	(r)4,239,004	(r)4,247,851	(r)4,256,117	(r)4,262,389	(r)4,266,958	(r)4,271,659
2017	(r)4,277,403	(r)4,285,025	(r)4,293,225	(r)4,300,688	(r)4,306,787	(r)4,310,982	(r)4,311,874	(r)4,308,685	(r)4,302,463	(r)4,294,641	(r)4,286,494	(r)4,279,505
2018	(r)4,275,242	(r)4,274,105	(r)4,275,131	(r)4,275,914	(r)4,273,975	(r)4,269,500	(r)4,264,494	(r)4,261,571	(r)4,261,204	(r)4,263,381	(r)4,267,604	(r)4,272,437
2019	(r)4,276,369	(r)4,278,118	(r)4,277,390	(r)4,275,257	(r)4,273,537	(r)4,273,017	(r)4,273,544	(r)4,274,813	(r)4,278,335	(r)4,284,293	(r)4,291,309	(r)4,296,341
2020	(r)4,296,758	(r)4,291,856	(r)4,284,461	(r)3,708,237	(r)3,932,692	(r)4,054,858	(r)4,080,072	(r)4,043,596	(r)4,067,139	(r)4,046,861	(r)4,064,006	(r)4,074,007
2021	(r)4,077,807	(r)4,081,273	(r)4,084,022	(r)4,096,100	(r)4,090,111	(r)4,119,737	(r)4,109,197	(r)4,114,083	(r)4,095,928	(r)4,101,571	(r)4,105,922	(r)4,127,741
2022	(r)4,131,119	(r)4,120,296	(r)4,112,496	(r)4,116,891	(r)4,115,075	(r)4,115,575	(r)4,108,064	(r)4,096,653	(r)4,116,465	(r)4,134,661	(r)4,151,571	(r)4,165,132
2023	(r)4,176,913	(r)4,186,575	(r)4,194,128	(r)4,199,927	(r)4,204,465	(r)4,208,074	(r)4,211,844	(r)4,215,542	(r)4,219,214	(r)4,223,433	(r)4,229,214	(r)4,237,646
2024	(r)4,246,339	(r)4,256,078	(r)4,266,635	(r)4,278,019	(r)4,289,165	(r)4,297,658	(r)4,303,324	(r)4,307,033	(r)4,309,328	(r)4,311,362	(r)4,313,589	(r)4,315,822
2025	4,315,224	4,312,000	(p)4,309,478
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)3,958,208	(r)3,964,664	(r)3,971,508	(r)3,978,300	(r)3,983,706	(r)3,986,941	(r)3,989,005	(r)3,990,512	(r)3,992,331	(r)3,995,419	(r)3,999,468	(r)4,003,350
2016	(r)4,006,230	(r)4,007,524	(r)4,007,237	(r)4,007,022	(r)4,008,273	(r)4,011,263	(r)4,016,231	(r)4,023,299	(r)4,031,774	(r)4,041,168	(r)4,051,841	(r)4,063,744
2017	(r)4,075,857	(r)4,088,065	(r)4,098,525	(r)4,106,086	(r)4,111,095	(r)4,114,173	(r)4,114,651	(r)4,112,158	(r)4,107,776	(r)4,102,560	(r)4,096,940	(r)4,092,620
2018	(r)4,090,897	(r)4,091,911	(r)4,095,144	(r)4,098,528	(r)4,099,468	(r)4,097,639	(r)4,094,265	(r)4,091,028	(r)4,087,876	(r)4,085,684	(r)4,085,822	(r)4,088,102
2019	(r)4,091,622	(r)4,095,709	(r)4,099,323	(r)4,102,577	(r)4,105,815	(r)4,108,430	(r)4,110,084	(r)4,111,355	(r)4,115,220	(r)4,120,762	(r)4,125,174	(r)4,125,178
2020	(r)4,118,889	(r)4,105,878	(r)4,090,065	(r)3,237,428	(r)3,085,800	(r)3,356,065	(r)3,404,773	(r)3,443,541	(r)3,485,521	(r)3,513,375	(r)3,539,933	(r)3,560,502
2021	(r)3,577,206	(r)3,593,789	(r)3,614,580	(r)3,637,239	(r)3,660,024	(r)3,681,834	(r)3,699,877	(r)3,717,291	(r)3,734,594	(r)3,755,472	(r)3,775,818	(r)3,796,045
2022	(r)3,815,035	(r)3,833,284	(r)3,849,545	(r)3,866,233	(r)3,880,562	(r)3,893,618	(r)3,904,408	(r)3,912,256	(r)3,918,728	(r)3,926,471	(r)3,936,346	(r)3,946,206
2023	(r)3,956,710	(r)3,967,149	(r)3,977,601	(r)3,987,657	(r)3,995,860	(r)4,001,786	(r)4,006,278	(r)4,009,467	(r)4,012,253	(r)4,015,857	(r)4,021,493	(r)4,030,305
2024	(r)4,039,697	(r)4,048,936	(r)4,056,337	(r)4,062,301	(r)4,067,310	(r)4,069,992	(r)4,070,497	(r)4,070,383	(r)4,070,225	(r)4,070,948	(r)4,073,437	(r)4,076,067
2025	4,077,315	4,085,603	(p)4,091,296
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)263,269	(r)259,882	(r)255,125	(r)248,858	(r)241,244	(r)232,799	(r)224,890	(r)219,152	(r)216,077	(r)215,815	(r)217,759	(r)219,861
2016	(r)220,624	(r)219,936	(r)218,292	(r)217,000	(r)217,515	(r)219,905	(r)222,773	(r)224,552	(r)224,343	(r)221,221	(r)215,117	(r)207,915
2017	(r)201,546	(r)196,960	(r)194,700	(r)194,602	(r)195,692	(r)196,809	(r)197,223	(r)196,527	(r)194,687	(r)192,081	(r)189,554	(r)186,885
2018	(r)184,345	(r)182,194	(r)179,987	(r)177,386	(r)174,507	(r)171,861	(r)170,229	(r)170,543	(r)173,328	(r)177,697	(r)181,782	(r)184,335
2019	(r)184,747	(r)182,409	(r)178,067	(r)172,680	(r)167,722	(r)164,587	(r)163,460	(r)163,458	(r)163,115	(r)163,531	(r)166,135	(r)171,163
2020	(r)177,869	(r)185,978	(r)194,396	(r)470,809	(r)846,892	(r)698,793	(r)675,299	(r)600,055	(r)581,618	(r)533,486	(r)524,073	(r)513,505
2021	(r)500,601	(r)487,484	(r)469,442	(r)458,861	(r)430,087	(r)437,903	(r)409,320	(r)396,792	(r)361,334	(r)346,099	(r)330,104	(r)331,696
2022	(r)316,084	(r)287,012	(r)262,951	(r)250,658	(r)234,513	(r)221,957	(r)203,656	(r)184,397	(r)197,737	(r)208,190	(r)215,225	(r)218,926
2023	(r)220,203	(r)219,426	(r)216,527	(r)212,270	(r)208,605	(r)206,288	(r)205,566	(r)206,075	(r)206,961	(r)207,576	(r)207,721	(r)207,341
2024	(r)206,642	(r)207,142	(r)210,298	(r)215,718	(r)221,855	(r)227,666	(r)232,827	(r)236,650	(r)239,103	(r)240,414	(r)240,152	(r)239,755
2025	237,909	226,397	(p)218,182
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)6.2	(r)6.2	(r)6.0	(r)5.9	(r)5.7	(r)5.5	(r)5.3	(r)5.2	(r)5.1	(r)5.1	(r)5.2	(r)5.2
2016	(r)5.2	(r)5.2	(r)5.2	(r)5.1	(r)5.1	(r)5.2	(r)5.3	(r)5.3	(r)5.3	(r)5.2	(r)5.0	(r)4.9
2017	(r)4.7	(r)4.6	(r)4.5	(r)4.5	(r)4.5	(r)4.6	(r)4.6	(r)4.6	(r)4.5	(r)4.5	(r)4.4	(r)4.4
2018	(r)4.3	(r)4.3	(r)4.2	(r)4.1	(r)4.1	(r)4.0	(r)4.0	(r)4.0	(r)4.1	(r)4.2	(r)4.3	(r)4.3
2019	(r)4.3	(r)4.3	(r)4.2	(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)4.0
2020	(r)4.1	(r)4.3	(r)4.5	(r)12.7	(r)21.5	(r)17.2	(r)16.6	(r)14.8	(r)14.3	(r)13.2	(r)12.9	(r)12.6
2021	(r)12.3	(r)11.9	(r)11.5	(r)11.2	(r)10.5	(r)10.6	(r)10.0	(r)9.6	(r)8.8	(r)8.4	(r)8.0	(r)8.0
2022	(r)7.7	(r)7.0	(r)6.4	(r)6.1	(r)5.7	(r)5.4	(r)5.0	(r)4.5	(r)4.8	(r)5.0	(r)5.2	(r)5.3
2023	(r)5.3	(r)5.2	(r)5.2	(r)5.1	(r)5.0	(r)4.9	(r)4.9	(r)4.9	(r)4.9	(r)4.9	(r)4.9	(r)4.9
2024	(r)4.9	(r)4.9	(r)4.9	(r)5.0	(r)5.2	(r)5.3	(r)5.4	(r)5.5	(r)5.5	(r)5.6	(r)5.6	(r)5.6
2025	5.5	5.3	(p)5.1
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)4,215,903	(r)4,241,978	(r)4,236,672	(r)4,225,311	(r)4,230,354	(r)4,220,583	(r)4,238,136	(r)4,220,021	(r)4,171,418	(r)4,207,188	(r)4,206,669	(r)4,212,956	(r)4,218,932
2016	(r)4,213,802	(r)4,255,392	(r)4,260,592	(r)4,212,623	(r)4,201,619	(r)4,230,438	(r)4,259,977	(r)4,259,550	(r)4,248,485	(r)4,257,479	(r)4,249,352	(r)4,245,758	(r)4,241,256
2017	(r)4,269,808	(r)4,312,259	(r)4,328,640	(r)4,294,516	(r)4,285,614	(r)4,305,433	(r)4,345,127	(r)4,296,576	(r)4,308,777	(r)4,293,161	(r)4,267,223	(r)4,243,422	(r)4,295,879
2018	(r)4,272,247	(r)4,318,121	(r)4,297,577	(r)4,267,774	(r)4,246,899	(r)4,282,728	(r)4,284,521	(r)4,261,836	(r)4,229,059	(r)4,273,447	(r)4,248,110	(r)4,270,216	(r)4,271,044
2019	(r)4,271,247	(r)4,303,667	(r)4,303,478	(r)4,268,770	(r)4,250,058	(r)4,274,995	(r)4,281,838	(r)4,275,741	(r)4,268,571	(r)4,299,853	(r)4,270,128	(r)4,268,412	(r)4,278,064
2020	(r)4,299,598	(r)4,339,120	(r)4,310,881	(r)3,698,973	(r)3,881,915	(r)4,049,031	(r)4,088,537	(r)4,079,881	(r)4,041,181	(r)4,073,012	(r)4,060,723	(r)4,046,337	(r)4,080,766
2021	(r)4,058,414	(r)4,096,032	(r)4,111,774	(r)4,105,809	(r)4,060,111	(r)4,120,309	(r)4,131,462	(r)4,123,067	(r)4,077,727	(r)4,106,061	(r)4,097,713	(r)4,095,788	(r)4,098,689
2022	(r)4,130,672	(r)4,141,513	(r)4,136,095	(r)4,100,358	(r)4,103,165	(r)4,113,655	(r)4,127,969	(r)4,126,321	(r)4,096,743	(r)4,137,956	(r)4,133,439	(r)4,141,873	(r)4,124,146
2023	(r)4,162,526	(r)4,215,279	(r)4,222,057	(r)4,178,857	(r)4,193,654	(r)4,214,250	(r)4,231,806	(r)4,238,592	(r)4,194,399	(r)4,227,677	(r)4,227,876	(r)4,197,201	(r)4,208,681
2024	(r)4,227,829	(r)4,278,415	(r)4,296,808	(r)4,276,661	(r)4,262,435	(r)4,303,004	(r)4,331,842	(r)4,336,789	(r)4,289,035	(r)4,306,712	(r)4,292,173	(r)4,289,830	(r)4,290,961
2025	4,286,282	4,314,059	(p)4,323,296
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)3,936,592	(r)3,970,520	(r)3,991,168	(r)3,991,728	(r)3,993,817	(r)3,985,646	(r)3,994,100	(r)3,988,882	(r)3,965,282	(r)3,995,839	(r)3,992,565	(r)4,002,450	(r)3,984,049
2016	(r)3,982,111	(r)4,027,508	(r)4,039,071	(r)4,011,580	(r)4,006,402	(r)4,008,442	(r)4,015,908	(r)4,020,068	(r)4,019,873	(r)4,032,831	(r)4,047,476	(r)4,057,649	(r)4,022,410
2017	(r)4,058,676	(r)4,103,199	(r)4,139,635	(r)4,112,797	(r)4,099,807	(r)4,109,995	(r)4,125,945	(r)4,080,933	(r)4,112,813	(r)4,105,669	(r)4,096,346	(r)4,071,829	(r)4,101,470
2018	(r)4,076,587	(r)4,125,951	(r)4,115,558	(r)4,099,846	(r)4,093,611	(r)4,098,873	(r)4,093,933	(r)4,076,202	(r)4,061,452	(r)4,103,014	(r)4,083,830	(r)4,097,117	(r)4,093,831
2019	(r)4,068,716	(r)4,114,144	(r)4,128,281	(r)4,111,754	(r)4,086,648	(r)4,105,659	(r)4,098,034	(r)4,096,872	(r)4,112,168	(r)4,132,165	(r)4,116,060	(r)4,124,113	(r)4,107,885
2020	(r)4,123,298	(r)4,157,560	(r)4,083,234	(r)3,246,116	(r)3,043,676	(r)3,352,771	(r)3,379,710	(r)3,467,947	(r)3,459,178	(r)3,540,667	(r)3,558,619	(r)3,563,787	(r)3,581,380
2021	(r)3,543,108	(r)3,594,841	(r)3,645,819	(r)3,650,938	(r)3,645,267	(r)3,672,559	(r)3,695,783	(r)3,708,018	(r)3,721,790	(r)3,767,144	(r)3,784,156	(r)3,787,228	(r)3,684,721
2022	(r)3,806,055	(r)3,845,537	(r)3,874,997	(r)3,862,497	(r)3,881,233	(r)3,884,841	(r)3,899,317	(r)3,909,915	(r)3,911,499	(r)3,933,500	(r)3,929,354	(r)3,939,555	(r)3,889,858
2023	(r)3,939,617	(r)3,984,823	(r)4,010,143	(r)3,983,900	(r)3,990,912	(r)3,997,810	(r)4,012,526	(r)4,010,808	(r)3,990,478	(r)4,013,233	(r)4,035,820	(r)4,004,371	(r)3,997,870
2024	(r)4,024,462	(r)4,062,092	(r)4,090,269	(r)4,078,244	(r)4,053,126	(r)4,069,138	(r)4,066,797	(r)4,073,409	(r)4,063,185	(r)4,070,828	(r)4,056,104	(r)4,065,287	(r)4,064,412
2025	4,059,941	4,128,418	(p)4,129,707
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)279,311	(r)271,458	(r)245,504	(r)233,583	(r)236,537	(r)234,937	(r)244,036	(r)231,139	(r)206,136	(r)211,349	(r)214,104	(r)210,506	(r)234,883
2016	(r)231,691	(r)227,884	(r)221,521	(r)201,043	(r)195,217	(r)221,996	(r)244,069	(r)239,482	(r)228,612	(r)224,648	(r)201,876	(r)188,109	(r)218,846
2017	(r)211,132	(r)209,060	(r)189,005	(r)181,719	(r)185,807	(r)195,438	(r)219,182	(r)215,643	(r)195,964	(r)187,492	(r)170,877	(r)171,593	(r)194,409
2018	(r)195,660	(r)192,170	(r)182,019	(r)167,928	(r)153,288	(r)183,855	(r)190,588	(r)185,634	(r)167,607	(r)170,433	(r)164,280	(r)173,099	(r)177,213
2019	(r)202,531	(r)189,523	(r)175,197	(r)157,016	(r)163,410	(r)169,336	(r)183,804	(r)178,869	(r)156,403	(r)167,688	(r)154,068	(r)144,299	(r)170,179
2020	(r)176,300	(r)181,560	(r)227,647	(r)452,857	(r)838,239	(r)696,260	(r)708,827	(r)611,934	(r)582,003	(r)532,345	(r)502,104	(r)482,550	(r)499,386
2021	(r)515,306	(r)501,191	(r)465,955	(r)454,871	(r)414,844	(r)447,750	(r)435,679	(r)415,049	(r)355,937	(r)338,917	(r)313,557	(r)308,560	(r)413,968
2022	(r)324,617	(r)295,976	(r)261,098	(r)237,861	(r)221,932	(r)228,814	(r)228,652	(r)216,406	(r)185,244	(r)204,456	(r)204,085	(r)202,318	(r)234,288
2023	(r)222,909	(r)230,456	(r)211,914	(r)194,957	(r)202,742	(r)216,440	(r)219,280	(r)227,784	(r)203,921	(r)214,444	(r)192,056	(r)192,830	(r)210,811
2024	(r)203,367	(r)216,323	(r)206,539	(r)198,417	(r)209,309	(r)233,866	(r)265,045	(r)263,380	(r)225,850	(r)235,884	(r)236,069	(r)224,543	(r)226,549
2025	226,341	185,641	(p)193,589
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)6.6	(r)6.4	(r)5.8	(r)5.5	(r)5.6	(r)5.6	(r)5.8	(r)5.5	(r)4.9	(r)5.0	(r)5.1	(r)5.0	(r)5.6
2016	(r)5.5	(r)5.4	(r)5.2	(r)4.8	(r)4.6	(r)5.2	(r)5.7	(r)5.6	(r)5.4	(r)5.3	(r)4.8	(r)4.4	(r)5.2
2017	(r)4.9	(r)4.8	(r)4.4	(r)4.2	(r)4.3	(r)4.5	(r)5.0	(r)5.0	(r)4.5	(r)4.4	(r)4.0	(r)4.0	(r)4.5
2018	(r)4.6	(r)4.5	(r)4.2	(r)3.9	(r)3.6	(r)4.3	(r)4.4	(r)4.4	(r)4.0	(r)4.0	(r)3.9	(r)4.1	(r)4.1
2019	(r)4.7	(r)4.4	(r)4.1	(r)3.7	(r)3.8	(r)4.0	(r)4.3	(r)4.2	(r)3.7	(r)3.9	(r)3.6	(r)3.4	(r)4.0
2020	(r)4.1	(r)4.2	(r)5.3	(r)12.2	(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)12.7	(r)12.2	(r)11.3	(r)11.1	(r)10.2	(r)10.9	(r)10.5	(r)10.1	(r)8.7	(r)8.3	(r)7.7	(r)7.5	(r)10.1
2022	(r)7.9	(r)7.1	(r)6.3	(r)5.8	(r)5.4	(r)5.6	(r)5.5	(r)5.2	(r)4.5	(r)4.9	(r)4.9	(r)4.9	(r)5.7
2023	(r)5.4	(r)5.5	(r)5.0	(r)4.7	(r)4.8	(r)5.1	(r)5.2	(r)5.4	(r)4.9	(r)5.1	(r)4.5	(r)4.6	(r)5.0
2024	(r)4.8	(r)5.1	(r)4.8	(r)4.6	(r)4.9	(r)5.4	(r)6.1	(r)6.1	(r)5.3	(r)5.5	(r)5.5	(r)5.2	(r)5.3
2025	5.3	4.3	(p)4.5
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).