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Economic News Release
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County Employment and Wages Full Data Update

Notices
  • At 10:00 a.m. on Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) full data release day, this page provides access to updated QCEW data for the current and prior year.
  • At 11:00 a.m. on QCEW full data release day, updated QCEW data are posted in the year-specific collection that goes back to 1975.
  • The year-specific collection is designed to support users who are accessing any data from the full range of QCEW history.
  • For more information on using these files please see the QCEW data guide.
  • These are data for the most current calendar year for which the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) has data. QCEW data is first released for any quarter approximately five and a half months after the end of the quarter.

Supplemental Table of Contents

Current Year Data
Archives of comma separated values files (.csv's)
Current year quarterly data grouped by area (ZIP)
Current year quarterly data grouped by industry (ZIP)
Current year quarterly data as a single file for loading to a database (ZIP)
Current year quarterly data for those strata broken out by establishment size (ZIP)
Current year annual data grouped by area (ZIP)
Current year annual data grouped by industry (ZIP)
Current year annual data as a single file for loading to a database (ZIP)
Archive of Excel workbooks (.xlsx's)
Current year Excel workbooks of high level industry aggregates for the U.S., statewide data for all states, county data for all counties, and Metropolitan Statistical Area data for all MSA's (ZIP)
Archive of legacy formatted flat files (.enb's or .end's)
Current year flat files in the legacy .enb or .end formats (ZIP)
Prior Year Data
These are data for the calendar year immediately prior to that cited above
Archives of comma separated values files (.csv's)
Prior year quarterly data grouped by area (ZIP)
Prior year quarterly data grouped by industry (ZIP)
Prior year quarterly data as a single file for loading to a database (ZIP)
Prior year quarterly data for those strata broken out by establishment size (ZIP)
Prior year annual data grouped by area (ZIP)
Prior year annual data grouped by industry (ZIP)
Prior year annual data as a single file for loading to a database (ZIP)
Archive of Excel workbooks (.xlsx's)
Prior year Excel workbooks of high level industry aggregates for the U.S., statewide data for all states, county data for all counties, and Metropolitan Statistical Area data for all MSA's (ZIP)
Archive of legacy formatted flat files (.enb's)
Prior year flat files in the legacy .enb format (ZIP)


News Release Table of Contents

Last Modified Date: March 05, 2025