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State and Metro Area Employment, Hours, & Earnings

Over-the-year change in total nonfarm employment for metropolitan areas, not seasonally adjusted
(with a Census 2020 population of 1 million or more)

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Metropolitan area State Aug. 2025
(thousands)		 Aug. 2026 (p)
(thousands)		 Over-the-year
net change (thousands)		 Over-the-year
percent change (%)		 Significant?
(90% confidence level)

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

Georgia 3,119.4 3,105.1 -14.3 -0.5 No

Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX

Texas 1,399.7 1,415.9 16.2 1.2 No

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Maryland 1,447.8 1,441.0 -6.8 -0.5 No

Birmingham, AL

Alabama 566.2 571.4 5.2 0.9 No

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Massachusetts 2,740.6 2,745.6 5.0 0.2 No

Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY

New York 556.8 556.9 0.1 0.0 No

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

North Carolina 1,387.2 1,408.6 21.4 1.5 Yes

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Illinois 4,774.3 4,785.0 10.7 0.2 No

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

Ohio 1,175.7 1,179.3 3.6 0.3 No

Cleveland, OH

Ohio 1,092.6 1,096.7 4.1 0.4 No

Columbus, OH

Ohio 1,199.0 1,199.7 0.7 0.1 No

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

Texas 4,313.9 4,357.0 43.1 1.0 No

Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO

Colorado 1,651.8 1,653.5 1.7 0.1 No

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

Michigan 2,046.1 2,042.0 -4.1 -0.2 No

Fresno, CA

California 443.5 447.0 3.5 0.8 No

Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI

Michigan 600.1 604.2 4.1 0.7 No

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT

Connecticut 609.5 615.1 5.6 0.9 No

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Texas 3,450.6 3,495.3 44.7 1.3 Yes

Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN

Indiana 1,194.7 1,182.1 -12.6 -1.1 No

Jacksonville, FL

Florida 803.3 803.8 0.5 0.1 No

Kansas City, MO-KS

Missouri 1,169.9 1,178.4 8.5 0.7 No

Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV

Nevada 1,167.5 1,184.6 17.1 1.5 No

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

California 6,250.9 6,289.1 38.2 0.6 No

Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN

Kentucky 713.6 712.7 -0.9 -0.1 No

Memphis, TN-MS-AR

Tennessee 656.5 653.3 -3.2 -0.5 No

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

Florida 2,956.7 2,967.1 10.4 0.4 No

Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI

Wisconsin 867.2 865.0 -2.2 -0.3 No

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Minnesota 2,000.7 2,028.5 27.8 1.4 Yes

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN

Tennessee 1,192.5 1,200.3 7.8 0.7 No

New Orleans-Metairie, LA

Louisiana 469.0 470.3 1.3 0.3 No

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

New York 9,982.8 10,033.0 50.2 0.5 No

Oklahoma City, OK

Oklahoma 703.5 708.7 5.2 0.7 No

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

Florida 1,496.4 1,508.3 11.9 0.8 No

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

Pennsylvania 3,102.2 3,127.9 25.7 0.8 No

Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ

Arizona 2,441.5 2,463.8 22.3 0.9 No

Pittsburgh, PA

Pennsylvania 1,202.4 1,201.8 -0.6 0.0 No

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

Oregon 1,234.1 1,215.3 -18.8 -1.5 Yes

Providence-Warwick, RI-MA

Rhode Island 744.3 746.1 1.8 0.2 No

Raleigh-Cary, NC

North Carolina 770.0 787.2 17.2 2.2 Yes

Richmond, VA

Virginia 733.7 727.7 -6.0 -0.8 No

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA

California 1,699.5 1,712.2 12.7 0.7 No

Rochester, NY

New York 515.0 508.3 -6.7 -1.3 No

Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA

California 1,100.9 1,109.3 8.4 0.8 No

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT

Utah 840.4 861.3 20.9 2.5 Yes

San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX

Texas 1,185.6 1,191.7 6.1 0.5 No

San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

California 1,556.1 1,567.0 10.9 0.7 No

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

California 2,413.7 2,427.2 13.5 0.6 No

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA

California 1,162.3 1,180.8 18.5 1.6 Yes

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Washington 2,125.3 2,143.9 18.6 0.9 No

St. Louis, MO-IL (1)

Missouri 1,417.2 1,426.9 9.7 0.7 No

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Florida 1,545.4 1,559.6 14.2 0.9 No

Tucson, AZ

Arizona 397.5 399.1 1.6 0.4 No

Tulsa, OK

Oklahoma 480.9 482.3 1.4 0.3 No

Urban Honolulu, HI

Hawaii 454.8 454.3 -0.5 -0.1 No

Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC

Virginia 834.7 830.1 -4.6 -0.6 No

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

District of Columbia 3,365.6 3,299.6 -66.0 -2.0 Yes
Footnotes:

(1) Area boundary does not reflect the official OMB delineation.

(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Data have been revised to reflect 2025 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmark are preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available. Area delineations are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 23-01, dated July 21, 2023, and are available on the BLS website at https://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Some metropolitan areas lie in two or more states. They are listed under the state containing the first principal city, unless otherwise footnoted. Estimates for the latest month are subject to revision the following month.

NOTE: Changes in metropolitan area and metropolitan division nonfarm payroll employment are identified with a “Yes” in the “Significant?” column of this table only if they have been determined to be statistically significant, i.e. different from zero, at the 90-percent confidence level. An explanation of how to construct a 90-percent confidence interval, as well as the underlying standard error measures (Table 2) for over-the-year changes in metropolitan area and metropolitan division payroll employment data at the total nonfarm level can be found in the CES State and Area reliability page available at https://www.bls.gov/sae/additional-resources/reliability-of-state-and-area-estimates.htm.

 

Last Modified Date: September 30, 2026