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24-2616-ATL
Friday, January 03, 2025

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Miami Area Employment — November 2024

Total nonfarm employment for the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL, metropolitan area increased by 49,200 over the year in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Victoria G. Lee noted that the local rate of job gain, 1.7 percent, compared to the 1.4-percent national increase. (See chart 1 and table 1.) (All data in this release are not seasonally adjusted; accordingly, over-the-year analysis is used throughout.)


Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL, is made up of three metropolitan divisions—separately identifiable employment centers within the greater metropolitan area. Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL, with 45 percent of the metropolitan area’s total nonfarm employment, gained 24,800 jobs over the year. Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL, accounted for 31 percent of the area’s employment and West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL, accounted for 24 percent of area employment.

Industry employment

In Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL, education and health services had the largest gain (+12,100) among the metropolitan area’s private-industry supersectors. (See chart 2.) The 2.6-percent increase in the metropolitan area’s education and health services supersector compared to the 3.7-percent gain on a national level.


Construction added 10,200 jobs over the year. The Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL, division added 6,100 jobs, or 60 percent, of the metropolitan area’s employment gained in this industry. The metropolitan area had a 6.5-percent gain in the construction supersector, compared to the 2.5-percent increase for the nation.

Twelve largest metropolitan areas

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL, was 1 of the nation’s 12 largest metropolitan statistical areas in November 2024. Eight of twelve areas gained total nonfarm payroll employment over the year. The largest job gain occurred in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA (+139,200). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV (+36,600), had the smallest employment increase, followed by Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD (+37,400), among the areas with significant changes. (See table 2 and chart 3.)

Significant increases in employment ranged from 1.8 percent (Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX) to 1.0 percent (Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA).

The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment release for December 2024 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. (ET).

Upcoming Changes to Metropolitan Statistical Area Delineations

With the release of January 2025 data on March 17, 2025, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) metropolitan statistical area (MSA) estimates will be updated to reflect the revised delineations based on the 2020 Census, available in OMB Bulletin No. 23-01. As a result of this update, new MSAs will be added to publication, some existing MSAs will undergo name and/or compositional changes, and other existing areas will be dropped from publication. Details of these changes will be published in the annual CES State and Area benchmark article on March 17, 2025. More information about MSA definitions in the CES program, including current and previous definitions used, is available online.


Technical Note

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 April 10, 2018. The 12 metropolitan areas discussed in this release are the metropolitan areas with the largest population according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach Counties.

  • The Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Metropolitan Division includes Broward County.
  • The Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division includes Miami-Dade County.
  • The West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL Metropolitan Division includes Palm Beach County.

Additional information

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

Information in this release will be made available to individuals with sensory impairments upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Telecommunications Relay Service: 7-1-1.

Table 1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry supersector, United States and the Miami metropolitan area and its components, not seasonally adjusted (numbers in thousands)
Area and Industry Nov
2023
Sep
2024
Oct
2024
Nov
2024(p)
Nov 2023 to
Nov 2024(p)
Net
change
Percent
change

United States(1)

Total nonfarm

158,347 159,184 160,035 160,560 2,213 1.4

Mining and logging

642 641 642 642 0 0.0

Construction

8,173 8,446 8,465 8,381 208 2.5

Manufacturing

12,953 12,926 12,868 12,888 -65 -0.5

Trade, transportation, and utilities

29,407 28,948 29,152 29,584 177 0.6

Information

3,015 2,993 2,990 2,999 -16 -0.5

Financial activities

9,239 9,257 9,284 9,295 56 0.6

Professional and business services

23,067 23,008 23,128 23,129 62 0.3

Education and health services

26,023 26,524 26,831 26,987 964 3.7

Leisure and hospitality

16,496 17,079 16,946 16,763 267 1.6

Other services

5,866 5,910 5,922 5,929 63 1.1

Government

23,466 23,452 23,807 23,963 497 2.1

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area

Total nonfarm

2,960.7 2,965.5 2,977.9 3,009.9 49.2 1.7

Construction

157.8 168.1 166.5 168.0 10.2 6.5

Manufacturing

100.4 97.1 96.4 96.6 -3.8 -3.8

Trade, transportation, and utilities

672.0 655.6 661.4 677.5 5.5 0.8

Information

55.2 54.6 54.3 54.8 -0.4 -0.7

Financial activities

219.2 216.0 216.3 217.2 -2.0 -0.9

Professional and business services

521.9 522.7 524.4 524.2 2.3 0.4

Education and health services

459.6 463.5 469.0 471.7 12.1 2.6

Leisure and hospitality

339.6 342.0 341.8 349.7 10.1 3.0

Other services

116.2 120.0 120.9 121.9 5.7 4.9

Government

317.9 325.0 326.0 327.4 9.5 3.0

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division

Total nonfarm

1,329.2 1,331.7 1,339.4 1,354.0 24.8 1.9

Mining and logging

0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.0 0.0

Construction

58.1 63.9 63.7 64.2 6.1 10.5

Manufacturing

47.4 45.1 44.7 44.5 -2.9 -6.1

Trade, transportation, and utilities

328.1 318.4 322.4 330.6 2.5 0.8

Information

23.4 23.4 23.2 23.5 0.1 0.4

Financial activities

95.6 93.7 94.0 94.7 -0.9 -0.9

Professional and business services

213.0 215.5 216.7 217.5 4.5 2.1

Education and health services

219.7 222.4 225.2 225.2 5.5 2.5

Leisure and hospitality

150.3 152.8 152.5 155.2 4.9 3.3

Other services

48.9 50.2 50.1 50.8 1.9 3.9

Government

144.1 145.7 146.3 147.2 3.1 2.2

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Metropolitan Division

Total nonfarm

930.5 933.3 935.7 945.0 14.5 1.6

Construction

54.5 57.1 56.3 56.8 2.3 4.2

Manufacturing

30.7 29.9 29.7 30.0 -0.7 -2.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities

213.8 210.4 211.9 215.9 2.1 1.0

Information

20.2 19.9 19.8 20.0 -0.2 -1.0

Financial activities

73.3 72.3 72.4 73.0 -0.3 -0.4

Professional and business services

173.2 171.8 172.0 171.9 -1.3 -0.8

Education and health services

122.4 122.9 124.0 124.9 2.5 2.0

Leisure and hospitality

96.8 97.3 97.3 99.3 2.5 2.6

Other services

37.4 40.0 40.4 40.7 3.3 8.8

Government

108.1 111.6 111.8 112.4 4.3 4.0

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL Metropolitan Division

Total nonfarm

701.0 700.5 702.8 710.9 9.9 1.4

Construction

45.2 47.1 46.5 47.0 1.8 4.0

Manufacturing

22.3 22.1 22.0 22.1 -0.2 -0.9

Trade, transportation, and utilities

130.1 126.8 127.1 131.0 0.9 0.7

Information

11.6 11.3 11.3 11.3 -0.3 -2.6

Financial activities

50.3 50.0 49.9 49.5 -0.8 -1.6

Professional and business services

135.7 135.4 135.7 134.8 -0.9 -0.7

Education and health services

117.5 118.2 119.8 121.6 4.1 3.5

Leisure and hospitality

92.5 91.9 92.0 95.2 2.7 2.9

Other services

29.9 29.8 30.4 30.4 0.5 1.7

Government

65.7 67.7 67.9 67.8 2.1 3.2

Footnotes
(1) U.S. data are preliminary for two months after they are first published.
(p) Preliminary


Table 2. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry supersector for the 12 largest metropolitan areas, not seasonally adjusted (numbers in thousands)
Area Nov
2023
Sep
2024
Oct
2024
Nov
2024(p)
Nov 2023 to
Nov 2024(p)
Net
change
Percent
change

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

Total nonfarm

3,099.2 3,093.0 3,102.5 3,112.1 12.9 0.4

Mining and logging

2.0 2.1 2.1 2.1 0.1 5.0

Construction

146.5 149.7 150.6 149.0 2.5 1.7

Manufacturing

183.7 180.4 179.3 179.2 -4.5 -2.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities

671.4 650.1 652.9 660.8 -10.6 -1.6

Information

98.5 95.0 93.4 95.8 -2.7 -2.7

Financial activities

206.8 208.3 208.4 210.3 3.5 1.7

Professional and business services

593.2 580.1 580.8 579.7 -13.5 -2.3

Education and health services

421.9 430.7 433.3 435.9 14.0 3.3

Leisure and hospitality

314.1 325.1 327.8 324.7 10.6 3.4

Other services

104.8 108.1 107.6 106.3 1.5 1.4

Government

356.3 363.4 366.3 368.3 12.0 3.4

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH (NECTA)

Total nonfarm

2,829.7 2,829.1 2,841.4 2,844.1 14.4 0.5

Mining, logging, and construction

132.4 133.7 134.8 133.3 0.9 0.7

Manufacturing

183.5 179.4 179.6 179.6 -3.9 -2.1

Trade, transportation, and utilities

410.6 399.5 402.5 408.6 -2.0 -0.5

Information

80.0 76.2 76.2 77.0 -3.0 -3.8

Financial activities

185.3 184.3 184.8 184.8 -0.5 -0.3

Professional and business services

531.7 527.3 530.8 528.7 -3.0 -0.6

Education and health services

623.6 623.1 630.9 635.2 11.6 1.9

Leisure and hospitality

257.2 278.6 272.4 265.3 8.1 3.1

Other services

102.8 104.5 105.5 104.5 1.7 1.7

Government

322.6 322.5 323.9 327.1 4.5 1.4

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI

Total nonfarm

4,825.1 4,809.9 4,824.1 4,817.6 -7.5 -0.2

Mining and logging

1.6 1.6 1.7 1.6 0.0 0.0

Construction

188.5 191.7 191.7 184.0 -4.5 -2.4

Manufacturing

418.4 420.0 419.8 418.8 0.4 0.1

Trade, transportation, and utilities

988.8 967.5 973.0 986.2 -2.6 -0.3

Information

77.0 75.3 75.6 77.2 0.2 0.3

Financial activities

320.6 316.6 317.8 316.7 -3.9 -1.2

Professional and business services

841.1 820.6 825.5 817.7 -23.4 -2.8

Education and health services

777.8 782.3 787.6 790.1 12.3 1.6

Leisure and hospitality

467.7 475.2 471.0 462.5 -5.2 -1.1

Other services

197.5 202.5 204.2 206.8 9.3 4.7

Government

546.1 556.6 556.2 556.0 9.9 1.8

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

Total nonfarm

4,303.4 4,318.2 4,353.8 4,367.9 64.5 1.5

Mining, logging, and construction

251.8 258.9 258.0 258.6 6.8 2.7

Manufacturing

310.4 315.0 315.7 314.8 4.4 1.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities

923.9 908.8 920.4 932.6 8.7 0.9

Information

91.3 91.7 91.8 93.1 1.8 2.0

Financial activities

368.7 378.5 382.6 383.9 15.2 4.1

Professional and business services

792.1 786.8 792.9 789.1 -3.0 -0.4

Education and health services

513.7 524.0 525.6 527.4 13.7 2.7

Leisure and hospitality

427.2 429.1 430.9 429.9 2.7 0.6

Other services

137.8 143.2 142.9 142.0 4.2 3.0

Government

486.5 482.2 493.0 496.5 10.0 2.1

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX

Total nonfarm

3,434.0 3,461.9 3,476.2 3,496.5 62.5 1.8

Mining and logging

71.3 72.3 72.6 72.5 1.2 1.7

Construction

233.3 249.3 249.2 249.4 16.1 6.9

Manufacturing

235.8 239.4 238.9 238.8 3.0 1.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities

703.3 692.2 698.8 710.3 7.0 1.0

Information

33.2 32.3 32.5 32.9 -0.3 -0.9

Financial activities

186.9 192.1 193.2 194.7 7.8 4.2

Professional and business services

567.8 563.8 564.6 566.7 -1.1 -0.2

Education and health services

460.7 470.8 470.6 473.3 12.6 2.7

Leisure and hospitality

356.5 362.3 363.9 362.9 6.4 1.8

Other services

127.3 133.5 132.2 131.7 4.4 3.5

Government

457.9 453.9 459.7 463.3 5.4 1.2

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

Total nonfarm

6,304.4 6,285.0 6,346.1 6,365.2 60.8 1.0

Mining and logging

1.9 1.9 1.9 1.9 0.0 0.0

Construction

260.0 258.3 260.5 255.0 -5.0 -1.9

Manufacturing

475.0 466.3 463.6 462.0 -13.0 -2.7

Trade, transportation, and utilities

1,112.3 1,095.0 1,107.0 1,125.6 13.3 1.2

Information

206.2 202.5 203.2 206.6 0.4 0.2

Financial activities

316.2 315.9 319.7 318.3 2.1 0.7

Professional and business services

971.2 963.3 972.0 974.3 3.1 0.3

Education and health services

1,210.5 1,237.2 1,255.9 1,265.0 54.5 4.5

Leisure and hospitality

773.1 780.8 782.9 775.2 2.1 0.3

Other services

217.0 218.0 217.8 218.1 1.1 0.5

Government

761.0 745.8 761.6 763.2 2.2 0.3

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

Total nonfarm

2,960.7 2,965.5 2,977.9 3,009.9 49.2 1.7

Construction

157.8 168.1 166.5 168.0 10.2 6.5

Manufacturing

100.4 97.1 96.4 96.6 -3.8 -3.8

Trade, transportation, and utilities

672.0 655.6 661.4 677.5 5.5 0.8

Information

55.2 54.6 54.3 54.8 -0.4 -0.7

Financial activities

219.2 216.0 216.3 217.2 -2.0 -0.9

Professional and business services

521.9 522.7 524.4 524.2 2.3 0.4

Education and health services

459.6 463.5 469.0 471.7 12.1 2.6

Leisure and hospitality

339.6 342.0 341.8 349.7 10.1 3.0

Other services

116.2 120.0 120.9 121.9 5.7 4.9

Government

317.9 325.0 326.0 327.4 9.5 3.0

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA

Total nonfarm

10,199.8 10,220.8 10,291.6 10,339.0 139.2 1.4

Mining, logging, and construction

402.0 404.5 402.1 400.2 -1.8 -0.4

Manufacturing

349.0 348.4 348.4 348.1 -0.9 -0.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities

1,704.8 1,671.4 1,686.8 1,708.4 3.6 0.2

Information

307.0 293.7 295.9 291.5 -15.5 -5.0

Financial activities

828.5 824.4 823.4 824.5 -4.0 -0.5

Professional and business services

1,673.9 1,640.1 1,647.1 1,655.1 -18.8 -1.1

Education and health services

2,278.0 2,345.4 2,386.0 2,413.6 135.6 6.0

Leisure and hospitality

920.4 965.4 953.2 936.7 16.3 1.8

Other services

412.9 411.1 415.4 419.1 6.2 1.5

Government

1,323.3 1,316.4 1,333.3 1,341.8 18.5 1.4

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

Total nonfarm

3,123.3 3,131.8 3,147.3 3,160.7 37.4 1.2

Mining, logging, and construction

124.5 129.6 130.4 128.7 4.2 3.4

Manufacturing

182.3 179.8 179.2 179.7 -2.6 -1.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities

557.9 538.3 544.3 557.1 -0.8 -0.1

Information

53.6 52.5 52.4 52.0 -1.6 -3.0

Financial activities

229.1 231.0 230.3 230.3 1.2 0.5

Professional and business services

501.9 500.4 501.4 500.2 -1.7 -0.3

Education and health services

729.1 743.1 752.2 758.4 29.3 4.0

Leisure and hospitality

271.7 285.6 280.3 275.2 3.5 1.3

Other services

124.6 123.9 124.9 125.0 0.4 0.3

Government

348.6 347.6 351.9 354.1 5.5 1.6

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ

Total nonfarm

2,464.5 2,459.7 2,480.9 2,507.4 42.9 1.7

Mining and logging

3.7 3.9 4.0 4.0 0.3 8.1

Construction

175.9 172.0 172.2 172.2 -3.7 -2.1

Manufacturing

149.8 145.7 145.4 147.8 -2.0 -1.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities

486.2 476.7 482.6 497.8 11.6 2.4

Information

42.1 40.6 40.8 41.3 -0.8 -1.9

Financial activities

212.2 212.9 215.3 215.4 3.2 1.5

Professional and business services

395.3 395.6 396.2 398.1 2.8 0.7

Education and health services

409.0 424.7 430.4 434.5 25.5 6.2

Leisure and hospitality

252.6 244.8 249.5 250.6 -2.0 -0.8

Other services

77.1 77.7 78.6 78.1 1.0 1.3

Government

260.6 265.1 265.9 267.6 7.0 2.7

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA

Total nonfarm

2,482.8 2,469.2 2,487.3 2,494.3 11.5 0.5

Mining and logging

0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.0

Construction

125.5 124.4 124.4 122.8 -2.7 -2.2

Manufacturing

149.8 146.7 146.0 145.7 -4.1 -2.7

Trade, transportation, and utilities

355.1 350.4 354.0 361.4 6.3 1.8

Information

139.2 130.8 130.8 130.3 -8.9 -6.4

Financial activities

137.5 135.7 137.8 137.2 -0.3 -0.2

Professional and business services

505.1 498.3 502.8 503.9 -1.2 -0.2

Education and health services

405.2 411.0 416.6 418.3 13.1 3.2

Leisure and hospitality

253.8 259.8 257.8 256.3 2.5 1.0

Other services

86.5 89.3 89.1 87.5 1.0 1.2

Government

324.7 322.4 327.6 330.5 5.8 1.8

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Total nonfarm

3,396.9 3,396.8 3,415.0 3,433.5 36.6 1.1

Mining, logging, and construction

163.6 167.0 168.3 169.5 5.9 3.6

Manufacturing

57.8 59.8 59.9 60.5 2.7 4.7

Trade, transportation, and utilities

417.2 403.9 409.0 420.0 2.8 0.7

Information

79.6 79.1 78.7 78.4 -1.2 -1.5

Financial activities

153.1 149.6 151.1 151.6 -1.5 -1.0

Professional and business services

809.3 813.4 821.0 820.9 11.6 1.4

Education and health services

464.8 467.7 472.7 476.1 11.3 2.4

Leisure and hospitality

321.1 328.5 319.5 314.5 -6.6 -2.1

Other services

195.3 200.1 199.6 202.3 7.0 3.6

Government

735.1 727.7 735.2 739.7 4.6 0.6

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

 

Last Modified Date: Friday, January 03, 2025