Total nonfarm employment for the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA, metropolitan area stood at 3,110,700 in March 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1 and table 1.) Regional Commissioner Victoria G. Lee noted that the employment change over the year was not statistically significant. Nationally, employment rose 1.2 percent over the year. (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 net change for total nonfarm employment in the Atlanta metropolitan area, March 2022–March 2025

Period	Net change (in thousands)
Mar 2022	170.8
Apr 2022	183.7
May 2022	173.8
Jun 2022	159.9
Jul 2022	148.8
Aug 2022	145.8
Sep 2022	148.7
Oct 2022	117.4
Nov 2022	111.7
Dec 2022	101.5
Jan 2023	111.5
Feb 2023	92.6
Mar 2023	85.3
Apr 2023	73.0
May 2023	70.1
Jun 2023	79.3
Jul 2023	47.9
Aug 2023	51.6
Sep 2023	52.0
Oct 2023	42.0
Nov 2023	41.6
Dec 2023	46.5
Jan 2024	40.9
Feb 2024	38.6
Mar 2024	49.7
Apr 2024	52.9
May 2024	57.4
Jun 2024	43.7
Jul 2024	48.6
Aug 2024	49.4
Sep 2024	39.7
Oct 2024	34.9
Nov 2024	30.8
Dec 2024	45.3
Jan 2025	21.0
Feb 2025	22.1
Mar 2025	19.0

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA, is made up of two metropolitan divisions—separately identifiable employment centers within the greater metropolitan area. The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA, division accounted for 81 percent of the metropolitan area’s total nonfarm employment in March 2025. Marietta, GA, accounted for 19 percent of area employment.

In Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA, education and health services had the only significant gain (+22,400) among the metropolitan area’s private-industry supersectors. (See chart 2.) Health care and social assistance accounted for 20,600, or 92.0 percent, of the jobs gained within this supersector. The metropolitan area had a 5.1-percent gain in the education and health services supersector, compared to the 3.4-percent increase for the nation.

  

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Chart 2. Over-the-year net change for industry supersector employment in the Atlanta metropolitan area, March 2025 (in thousands)

Industry	Net change
Education and health services*	22.4
Financial activities	2.6
Other services	1.9
Leisure and hospitality	0.2
Mining and logging	0.0
Construction	-0.8
Manufacturing	-0.9
Information	-1.0
Professional and business services	-4.9
Trade, transportation, and utilities	-7.9
Note: An asterisk indicates statistical significance at the 90-percent confidence level. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA, was 1 of the nation’s 12 largest metropolitan statistical areas in March 2025. Three of twelve areas gained total nonfarm payroll employment over the year: New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ (+94,200), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (+56,100), and Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL (+31,500). (See table 2 and chart 3.)

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, had a 1.3-percent rate of job gain, followed by Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL (+1.1 percent), and New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ (+1.0 percent).

  

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

Area	Net change
New York*	94.2
Dallas*	56.1
Houston	36.3
Miami*	31.5
Washington	26.2
Philadelphia	24.8
Atlanta	19.0
Chicago	16.2
Boston	-7.7
Phoenix	-9.5
Los Angeles	-16.3
San Francisco	-20.5
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 April 2025 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, May 28, 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 employment 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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lumpkin, Meriwether, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton Counties.

• The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Division includes Barrow, Butts, Carroll, Clayton, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lumpkin, Meriwether, Morgan, Newton, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton Counties.

• The Marietta, GA Metropolitan Division includes Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Haralson, and Paulding Counties.

Additional information

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

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