Total nonfarm employment for the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, metropolitan area stood at 2,794,300 in June 2025 compared to 2,796,500 a year ago, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Acting Regional Commissioner Mark J. Maggi noted that the employment change over the year was not statistically significant. Nationally, employment rose 1.1 percent over the year. (See chart 1. All data in this release are not seasonally adjusted; accordingly, over-the-year analysis is used throughout.)

  

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Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change for total nonfarm employment in the United States and the Boston metropolitan area, June 2022–June 2025

Period	United States	Boston
Jun 2022	4.5	3.9
Jul 2022	4.2	3.4
Aug 2022	4.1	3.2
Sep 2022	3.9	3.3
Oct 2022	3.6	2.3
Nov 2022	3.3	2.2
Dec 2022	3.0	1.9
Jan 2023	3.2	2.3
Feb 2023	2.8	1.8
Mar 2023	2.6	1.9
Apr 2023	2.5	1.4
May 2023	2.5	1.5
Jun 2023	2.3	1.5
Jul 2023	1.9	1.1
Aug 2023	1.9	1.0
Sep 2023	1.8	1.1
Oct 2023	1.7	0.9
Nov 2023	1.6	0.8
Dec 2023	1.7	1.2
Jan 2024	1.5	0.6
Feb 2024	1.4	0.5
Mar 2024	1.5	0.6
Apr 2024	1.5	0.3
May 2024	1.4	0.2
Jun 2024	1.3	0.2
Jul 2024	1.3	0.0
Aug 2024	1.3	-0.1
Sep 2024	1.3	-0.2
Oct 2024	1.2	0.0
Nov 2024	1.2	-0.1
Dec 2024	1.3	-0.2
Jan 2025	1.4	0.0
Feb 2025	1.2	-0.2
Mar 2025	1.1	-0.4
Apr 2025	1.1	0.0
May 2025	1.1	0.0
Jun 2025	1.1	-0.1

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, is made up of three metropolitan divisions—separately identifiable employment centers within the greater metropolitan area. The Boston, MA, division and the Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA, division had the largest shares of the metropolitan area’s total nonfarm employment (46 percent each). Rockingham County-Strafford County, NH, accounted for the remaining 8 percent of jobs in the metropolitan area.

The education and health services industry supersector accounted for 22 percent of total nonfarm employment in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. An additional 19 percent of local jobs were in professional and business services. In the Boston, MA, division, 24 percent of total nonfarm employment was in the education and health services supersector, and 16 percent was in professional and business services. The professional and business services supersector had 22 percent of the Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA, division’s total nonfarm employment, and education and health services accounted for 21 percent.

Little employment change occurred over the year among the private industry supersectors in the metropolitan area or any of its divisions. (See chart 2.) Nationally, education and health services employment grew 3.3 percent over the year, while professional and business services employment declined 0.1 percent.

  

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Chart 2. Over-the-year net change for industry supersector employment in the Boston metropolitan area, June 2025

Industry	Net change (in thousands)
Professional and business services	-6.0
Manufacturing	-2.2
Mining, logging, and construction	-1.6
Other services	-1.5
Leisure and hospitality	-1.1
Information	-0.6
Trade, transportation, and utilities	0.3
Financial activities	2.2
Education and health services	4.7
Note: An asterisk indicates statistical significance at the 90-percent confidence level. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Twelve largest metropolitan areas

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, was 1 of the nation’s 12 largest metropolitan statistical areas in June 2025. Five of twelve areas gained total nonfarm payroll employment over the year: New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ (+110,100), Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (+53,600), Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD (+46,500), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (+43,600), and Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL (+42,600). (See table 2 and chart 3.)

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL, and Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD, each had a 1.5-percent rate of job gain, followed by New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ (+1.1 percent), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (+1.0 percent), and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (+0.9 percent).

  

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Chart 3. Over-the-year net change in total nonfarm employment for the 12 largest metropolitan areas, June 2025 (in thousands)

Area	Net change (in thousands)
New York*	110.1
Los Angeles*	53.6
Philadelphia*	46.5
Dallas*	43.6
Miami*	42.6
Houston	31.1
Chicago	30.6
Atlanta	21.0
Washington	10.0
Phoenix	8.7
Boston	-2.2
San Francisco	-14.8
Note: An asterisk indicates statistical significance at the 90-percent confidence level. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment release for July 2025 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. (ET).

This release presents nonfarm payroll employment estimates from the CES program. More information about the CES data is available in the State Employment and Unemployment Summary and the Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary. See the Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Technical Note for more information on definitions and methodology.

Reliability of the estimates. The estimates presented in this release are based on sample surveys, administrative data, and modeling and, thus, are subject to sampling and other types of errors. Changes in metropolitan area nonfarm payroll employment are cited in the analysis of this release only if they have been determined to be statistically significant at the 90-percent confidence level. Documentation on the reliability of state and area estimates is available for metropolitan areas and metropolitan divisions.

Area definitions. The substate area data published in this news release reflect the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineations issued on July 21, 2023. The 12 metropolitan areas discussed in this release are the metropolitan areas with the largest population according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, and Suffolk Counties in Massachusetts, and Rockingham and Strafford Counties in New Hampshire.

• The Boston, MA Metropolitan Division includes Norfolk, Plymouth, and Suffolk Counties in Massachusetts.
• The Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA Metropolitan Division includes Essex and Middlesex Counties in Massachusetts.
• The Rockingham County-Strafford County, NH Metropolitan Division includes Rockingham and Strafford Counties in New Hampshire.

Additional information

State and area employment data from the CES program are available on the BLS website.

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