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Indicators / United States / Jobs and pay

Jobs located here

jobs · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, via economicdata.dev · by where the job is, not where the worker lives

United States, 2025
155.7M jobs
States with a figure
53 2025
Counties with a figure
3,221 2025
Jobs located here, United States, 2014–2025155.7M jobs in 2025, against 139.5M jobs in 2015 (+11.6%).
135000000.0140000000.0145000000.0150000000.0155000000.0160000000.0201420162018202020222024
Indicator: Jobs located here, jobs, yearly (by where the job is, not where the worker lives); QCEW total covered, annual average employmentSource: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (U.S. public domain), via economicdata.dev qcew, version 2026-10-26.555cc1e983
Show the numbers (12 rows)
YearUnited States
2025155732362.6
2024154990440.7
2023153140899.3
2022150025655.4
2021143780068.4
2020139103773.3
2019148105091.7
2018146131753.8
2017143859855.4
2016141870066.4
2015139491699.0
2014136613609.1

Every state, 2025

RankStateJobs located here1 yr5 yr10 yr
1California18.2M jobs+0.1%+11.2%+11.8%
2Texas14.1M jobs+1.2%+16.9%+21.1%
3Florida9.9M jobs+0.8%+17.4%+23.3%
4New York9.8M jobs+0.9%+14.1%+8.6%
5Illinois6.1M jobs+0.4%+8.9%+3.7%
6Pennsylvania6.1M jobs+0.6%+10.3%+6.4%
7Ohio5.5M jobs+0.3%+8.0%+5.3%
8North Carolina4.9M jobs+0.8%+14.3%+18.7%
9Georgia4.9M jobs+0.6%+13.5%+17.8%
10Michigan4.4M jobs0.0%+11.1%+5.9%
11New Jersey4.3M jobs+0.7%+14.2%+10.1%
12Virginia4.1M jobs+1.1%+10.8%+11.1%
13Massachusetts3.6M jobs−0.3%+9.3%+6.0%
14Washington3.6M jobs+0.2%+10.5%+15.3%
15Tennessee3.3M jobs−0.2%+12.0%+15.8%
16Arizona3.2M jobs+0.4%+14.6%+23.9%
17Indiana3.2M jobs+0.3%+9.3%+8.4%
18Wisconsin2.9M jobs0.0%+7.9%+5.4%
19Minnesota2.9M jobs+0.4%+8.8%+6.0%
20Missouri2.9M jobs0.0%+8.3%+6.7%
21Colorado2.9M jobs−0.2%+11.1%+15.9%
22Maryland2.8M jobs−0.5%+9.6%+6.3%
23South Carolina2.3M jobs+1.6%+14.4%+19.0%
24Alabama2.1M jobs+0.6%+11.0%+12.1%
25Kentucky2.0M jobs+0.1%+11.0%+8.4%
26Oregon2.0M jobs−0.3%+8.3%+11.2%
27Louisiana1.9M jobs+0.4%+8.3%−0.1%
28Utah1.7M jobs+1.6%+15.7%+29.9%
29Oklahoma1.7M jobs+0.5%+9.7%+6.7%
30Connecticut1.7M jobs+0.5%+9.5%+1.7%
31Nevada1.6M jobs+1.1%+24.0%+26.1%
32Iowa1.6M jobs−0.3%+5.6%+1.8%
33Kansas1.4M jobs+0.2%+7.8%+4.8%
34Arkansas1.3M jobs+0.8%+11.1%+10.8%
35Mississippi1.2M jobs+0.5%+7.7%+5.3%
36Nebraska1.0M jobs+0.2%+7.7%+6.5%
37Puerto Rico947.6K jobs0.0%+13.8%+5.6%
38New Mexico875.2K jobs+0.6%+12.0%+8.5%
39Idaho874.3K jobs+1.8%+16.9%+31.5%
40District of Columbia741.6K jobs−2.4%+2.1%−0.3%
41West Virginia695.4K jobs0.0%+8.3%−0.1%
42New Hampshire689.0K jobs+0.2%+10.3%+8.2%
43Maine651.2K jobs+0.4%+11.5%+9.3%
44Hawaii644.4K jobs+0.7%+15.0%+1.0%
45Montana512.4K jobs−0.1%+12.2%+14.2%
46Rhode Island499.3K jobs+0.8%+12.4%+6.2%
47Delaware481.6K jobs+0.9%+12.9%+11.0%
48South Dakota460.4K jobs+0.4%+10.4%+10.7%
49North Dakota429.6K jobs+0.2%+8.5%−1.7%
50Alaska332.5K jobs+1.0%+11.8%+0.3%
51Vermont308.2K jobs−0.3%+8.7%+0.4%
52Wyoming282.3K jobs0.0%+8.2%−0.1%
53U.S. Virgin Islands34.3K jobs−3.9%−5.8%−9.6%

Rank 1 is the highest value. States are the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands where they have a figure.

Highest and lowest counties, 2025

HighestStateJobs located here
Los Angeles CountyCalifornia4.5M jobs
Cook CountyIllinois2.6M jobs
New York CountyNew York2.5M jobs
Harris CountyTexas2.5M jobs
Maricopa CountyArizona2.3M jobs
Dallas CountyTexas1.8M jobs
Orange CountyCalifornia1.7M jobs
San Diego CountyCalifornia1.5M jobs
King CountyWashington1.4M jobs
Miami-Dade CountyFlorida1.3M jobs
LowestStateJobs located here
McPherson CountyNebraska56.2 jobs
Arthur CountyNebraska79.8 jobs
Slope CountyNorth Dakota98.9 jobs
Petroleum CountyMontana103.9 jobs
Loup CountyNebraska120.8 jobs
Banner CountyNebraska129.4 jobs
Blaine CountyNebraska134.0 jobs
Keya Paha CountyNebraska140.0 jobs
Logan CountyNebraska165.8 jobs
Harding CountyNew Mexico168.1 jobs

Every county's figure is on its own page, in its profile table, with its rank among all counties and within its state.

Get this data

This page's numbers, as JSON:

curl https://visualizedata.org/data/us-indicators/us-jobs.json

Every place from economicdata.dev (live, no key; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, this exact version):

curl "https://api.economicdata.dev/v1/qcew@2026-10-26.555cc1e983/download/qcew.parquet"

Open the JSON

Source

  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (U.S. public domain): QCEW total covered, annual average employment.
  • Read through economicdata.dev, dataset qcew, version 2026-10-26.555cc1e983; its 48 input files from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics are named with their sha256 in this page's data, and the site's checks recompute every figure from them.
  • A year counts once all four of its quarters are published and none is suppressed. Jobs is the mean of the year's twelve monthly counts; the average weekly wage is the year's total wages divided by that mean and by 52, as BLS computes its annual averages.
  • BLS publishes each quarter about five months after it ends; economicdata.dev re-reads it daily.
  • 14 areas in the source are not places in the geo registry and are left out: us-county-02261, us-county-02270, us-county-09001, us-county-09003, us-county-09005, us-county-09007, us-county-09009, us-county-09011, us-county-09013, us-county-09015, us-county-46113, us-county-78010, us-county-78020, us-county-78030 (Connecticut's former counties, retired Alaska and South Dakota codes, the Virgin Islands).
  • Built 2026-10-26.