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Current Employment Statistics · All employees by industry, seasonally adjusted

How many jobs are there in each US industry?

The month ended : of the 35 lines, the change over a year was largest for Health care and social assistance, up 2.2%, and smallest for Federal government, down 8.0%.

Jobs by industry, in thousands, broad groups, each month

September 2016 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as publishedEach row has a scale of its own, printed under its nameNo picture is made of these rows; their numbers are in the table

Jobs by industry, in thousands, broad groups, each month, one row for each measure
  • Total nonfarm159,044130,426 to 159,044
  • Total private135,717108,517 to 135,717
  • Goods-producing21,62318,523 to 21,636
  • Service-providing137,421111,903 to 137,421
  • Private service-providing114,09489,994 to 114,094

Jobs by industry, in thousands, goods, each month

September 2016 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as publishedEach row has a scale of its own, printed under its nameNo picture is made of these rows; their numbers are in the table

Jobs by industry, in thousands, goods, each month, one row for each measure
  • Mining and logging607539 to 745
  • Mining, oil and gas extraction567491 to 696
  • Construction8,3646,522 to 8,364
  • Manufacturing12,65211,382 to 12,903
  • Durable goods7,8987,030 to 8,036
  • Nondurable goods4,7544,352 to 4,884

Jobs by industry, in thousands, trade, transport, utilities, each month

September 2016 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as publishedEach row has a scale of its own, printed under its nameNo picture is made of these rows; their numbers are in the table

Jobs by industry, in thousands, trade, transport, utilities, each month, one row for each measure
  • Trade, transportation, utilities28,77824,564 to 28,880
  • Wholesale trade6,0785,486 to 6,133
  • Retail trade15,48013,247 to 15,873
  • Transportation and warehousing6,6095,031 to 6,689
  • Utilities612539 to 612

Jobs by industry, in thousands, information, finance, business, each month

September 2016 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as publishedEach row has a scale of its own, printed under its nameNo picture is made of these rows; their numbers are in the table

Jobs by industry, in thousands, information, finance, business, each month, one row for each measure
  • Information2,7392,609 to 3,115
  • Financial activities9,0828,327 to 9,211
  • Finance and insurance6,6456,175 to 6,747
  • Real estate, rental, leasing2,4382,122 to 2,472
  • Professional and business services22,48219,223 to 22,850
  • Professional, scientific, technical10,8448,918 to 10,844
  • Management of companies2,6202,349 to 2,628
  • Administrative, support, waste9,0197,636 to 9,586

Each row is one line of the page over the last ten years, one month to a point, on a scale of its own, with its newest value and its range printed beside it and a dashed line at zero. A gap is a month with no value. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.

Observed .

Jobs by industry, in thousands, education, health, leisure, each month

September 2016 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as publishedEach row has a scale of its own, printed under its nameNo picture is made of these rows; their numbers are in the table

Jobs by industry, in thousands, education, health, leisure, each month, one row for each measure
  • Private education and health28,00521,742 to 28,005
  • Private education4,0463,257 to 4,064
  • Health care and social assistance23,95918,485 to 23,959
  • Leisure and hospitality16,9698,719 to 17,014
  • Arts, entertainment, recreation2,6591,189 to 2,702
  • Accommodation and food services14,3107,516 to 14,393

Jobs by industry, in thousands, other services and government, each month

September 2016 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as publishedEach row has a scale of its own, printed under its nameNo picture is made of these rows; their numbers are in the table

Jobs by industry, in thousands, other services and government, each month, one row for each measure
  • Other services6,0394,511 to 6,039
  • Government23,32721,393 to 23,586
  • Federal government2,6822,681 to 3,156
  • State government5,4725,052 to 5,525
  • Local government15,17313,458 to 15,191

Each row is one line of the page over the last ten years, one month to a point, on a scale of its own, with its newest value and its range printed beside it and a dashed line at zero. A gap is a month with no value. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.

Observed .

Right now

Over a year to September 2026, of the 35 lines on this page the change was largest for Health care and social assistance, up 2.2%, and smallest for Federal government, down 8.0%.

Of these lines, 23 rose, 12 fell and 0 did not change over the year (ours, from the published values).

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By lineOver a year, ours

Jobs by industry, in thousands, change over a year, by line

September 2025 to September 2026Percent, ours, from the published values

  • Broad groups
  • Goods
  • Trade, transport, utilities
  • Information, finance, business
  • Education, health, leisure
  • Other services and government

Each bar is the change in one line over a year, the largest first, with its rank at the left and its newest value under the figure. A line with its own page links it from its name. A change below zero runs to the left of the zero line. The colour says which section of the page a line is in.

Observed .

Jobs by industry, in thousands, change over a year in each month

Percent, ours, from the published values

Line
Total nonfarm+0.3+0.2+0.1+0.2+0.1+0.2+0.2+0.2+0.3+0.2+0.3+0.3
Total private+0.4+0.4+0.2+0.4+0.3+0.4+0.4+0.4+0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5
Goods-producing−0.6−0.6−0.6−0.3−0.4−0.2−0.2−0.1+0.1+0.3+0.7+0.7
Service-providing+0.4+0.4+0.2+0.3+0.2+0.2+0.3+0.3+0.3+0.2+0.3+0.3
Private service-providing+0.6+0.6+0.4+0.5+0.4+0.5+0.5+0.5+0.6+0.5+0.5+0.5
Mining and logging−2.6−3.0−2.9−3.2−3.4−2.6−2.3−1.1−1.1−0.7+0.3+0.3
Mining, oil and gas extraction−2.3−2.9−2.6−2.8−2.7−2.1−2.0−0.7−0.7−0.6+0.2+0.1
Construction−0.2+0.10.0+0.6+0.4+0.5+0.5+0.6+0.6+0.9+1.4+1.3
Manufacturing−0.7−0.9−0.9−0.7−0.7−0.5−0.5−0.4−0.20.0+0.2+0.3
Durable goods−0.8−1.2−1.0−0.7−0.6−0.4−0.4−0.1+0.2+0.5+0.9+1.1
Nondurable goods−0.6−0.5−0.7−0.7−0.8−0.8−0.8−1.0−1.0−0.8−0.9−0.9
Trade, transportation, utilities−0.3−0.4−0.7−0.5−0.7−0.5−0.2−0.10.00.0+0.1+0.2
Wholesale trade−0.7−0.7−0.8−0.5−0.4−0.2−0.2−0.20.0+0.2+0.5+0.4
Retail trade−0.1+0.2−0.3−0.2−0.1−0.10.0+0.2+0.3+0.3+0.2+0.2
Transportation and warehousing−0.5−1.5−1.6−1.3−2.3−1.7−0.9−0.9−1.0−0.9−0.9−0.1
Utilities+0.9+1.2+1.4+1.3+1.3+0.9+1.3+1.0+0.9+1.0+1.6+1.7
Information−1.2−1.3−1.8−2.2−2.9−2.6−2.7−2.9−3.5−3.3−3.9−4.2
Financial activities+0.2+0.1+0.1−0.4−0.5−0.7−0.9−1.1−1.0−1.2−1.0−1.2
Finance and insurance+0.4+0.3+0.2−0.3−0.5−0.8−0.8−1.2−1.0−1.3−1.2−1.4
Real estate, rental, leasing−0.4−0.2−0.2−0.8−0.7−0.6−0.9−1.1−1.1−0.7−0.6−0.6
Professional and business services−0.7−0.5−0.7−0.3−0.3−0.10.0+0.1+0.4+0.4+0.5+0.6
Professional, scientific, technical−0.30.0−0.30.0+0.3+0.1+0.2+0.3+0.6+0.6+0.7+0.8
Management of companies+0.4+0.5+0.1+0.2+0.1−0.2−0.4−0.3−0.3−0.2−0.2−0.3
Administrative, support, waste−1.5−1.3−1.5−0.8−1.0−0.3−0.2−0.1+0.3+0.4+0.6+0.5
Private education and health+2.8+2.7+2.5+2.7+2.3+2.4+2.4+2.2+2.2+2.0+2.0+1.9
Private education+0.4+0.1−0.1+0.2−0.6−0.5−0.5−0.60.0−0.1−0.1−0.1
Health care and social assistance+3.2+3.1+3.0+3.2+2.8+2.9+2.9+2.7+2.6+2.3+2.4+2.2
Leisure and hospitality+0.9+0.7+0.6+0.8+0.8+0.9+0.8+1.0+0.7+0.4+0.5+0.4
Arts, entertainment, recreation+2.5+0.7+1.0+0.6+1.0+0.7+0.7+0.4−0.9−1.3−1.7−1.6
Accommodation and food services+0.6+0.7+0.5+0.8+0.8+1.0+0.8+1.2+1.0+0.8+0.9+0.7
Other services+0.6+0.8+0.9+0.9+0.9+0.5+0.7+0.6+0.7+0.7+0.4+0.6
Government−0.4−0.6−0.8−1.0−1.0−1.0−1.0−1.0−1.1−1.2−0.8−0.9
Federal government−8.8−9.2−9.5−10.8−10.3−10.2−9.9−9.0−8.8−8.5−8.0−8.0
State government0.0−0.4−0.7−0.8−0.9−1.0−1.0−0.9−1.0−0.4−0.2−0.5
Local government+1.1+1.0+1.0+1.0+0.8+0.9+0.7+0.6+0.4−0.1+0.4+0.3

Each chip is one month's change from the same month a year earlier. The mark in its middle is zero: a fill to the right of it is a rise and a fill to the left a fall. A longer, brighter fill is a larger change, in five steps up to 2.6 and over. Every chip prints its figure and sign.

Observed .

Understanding jobs by industry

Where it stands today

The largest change over a year was Health care and social assistance, up 2.2%, in September 2026.

What do the lines of this page measure?

These are the jobs on US payrolls in each industry, counted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in a monthly survey of employers, the Current Employment Statistics, and published in the Employment Situation report. The lines run from all nonfarm jobs through the broad groups of goods and services to the main industries BLS reports, the smaller industries inside them, and federal, state and local government.

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A line with a link has a page of its own with the count since the series begins, the smaller industries inside it where BLS reports them, and, where the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), a second BLS survey, has a line for the same industry, its job openings, hires, quits and layoffs beside the count. Total nonfarm links the jobs report.

What 500metrics adds: the change over a year of every line, ranked across the page; the last ten years of every line as rows of small charts, each row on a scale of its own; and a table of the change over a year in each of the last twelve months.

The numbers behind the chart

What is the latest value of each line?35 lines, in the sections of the page
Jobs by industry, in thousands: the newest month of each line, its change over a year (ours) and its rank by that change; equal changes share a rank
LineSectionMonthValueChange over a yearRank
Total nonfarmBroad groups159,044 thousand+0.3%16
Total privateBroad groups135,717 thousand+0.5%11
Goods-producingBroad groups21,623 thousand+0.7%7
Service-providingBroad groups137,421 thousand+0.3%16
Private service-providingBroad groups114,094 thousand+0.5%11
Mining and loggingGoods607 thousand+0.3%16
Mining, oil and gas extractionGoods567 thousand+0.1%23
ConstructionGoods8,364 thousand+1.3%4
ManufacturingGoods12,652 thousand+0.3%16
Durable goodsGoods7,898 thousand+1.1%5
Nondurable goodsGoods4,754 thousand−0.9%29
Trade, transportation, utilitiesTrade, transport, utilities28,778 thousand+0.2%21
Wholesale tradeTrade, transport, utilities6,078 thousand+0.4%14
Retail tradeTrade, transport, utilities15,480 thousand+0.2%21
Transportation and warehousingTrade, transport, utilities6,609 thousand−0.1%24
UtilitiesTrade, transport, utilities612 thousand+1.7%3
InformationInformation, finance, business2,739 thousand−4.2%34
Financial activitiesInformation, finance, business9,082 thousand−1.2%31
Finance and insuranceInformation, finance, business6,645 thousand−1.4%32
Real estate, rental, leasingInformation, finance, business2,438 thousand−0.6%28
Professional and business servicesInformation, finance, business22,482 thousand+0.6%9
Professional, scientific, technicalInformation, finance, business10,844 thousand+0.8%6
Management of companiesInformation, finance, business2,620 thousand−0.3%26
Administrative, support, wasteInformation, finance, business9,019 thousand+0.5%11
Private education and healthEducation, health, leisure28,005 thousand+1.9%2
Private educationEducation, health, leisure4,046 thousand−0.1%24
Health care and social assistanceEducation, health, leisure23,959 thousand+2.2%1
Leisure and hospitalityEducation, health, leisure16,969 thousand+0.4%14
Arts, entertainment, recreationEducation, health, leisure2,659 thousand−1.6%33
Accommodation and food servicesEducation, health, leisure14,310 thousand+0.7%7
Other servicesOther services and government6,039 thousand+0.6%9
GovernmentOther services and government23,327 thousand−0.9%29
Federal governmentOther services and government2,682 thousand−8.0%35
State governmentOther services and government5,472 thousand−0.5%27
Local governmentOther services and government15,173 thousand+0.3%16

The table scrolls sideways; the first column stays in place.

What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite

What this number cannot tell you

  • Most lines are parts of larger lines: retail trade is inside trade, transportation, and utilities, and federal government is inside government. The ranks compare lines of different sizes and levels, and a small industry can have a larger change in percent than a large one with a much larger change in jobs.
  • BLS counts jobs, not people: a person with two jobs on two payrolls is counted twice. Farm jobs, the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers and members of the military are not counted.
  • The counts come from a survey of employers, so each month's value carries sampling error. BLS revises each month twice in the two months after it is first published, and each February it benchmarks the series to a full count of jobs from unemployment insurance tax records and revises earlier values, so past values on this page can change.
  • BLS seasonally adjusts the counts. The lines begin in different years, from 1939 to 1990. A count is shown in whole thousands; BLS publishes some industries to one decimal, and the changes and the ranks are worked out from the values as BLS publishes them.
  • The changes and the ranks are ours, worked out from the values BLS publishes; a change is in percent.

Observed . Checked .

How to cite this

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, All employees by industry, seasonally adjusted, through September 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "How many jobs are there in each US industry?", https://500metrics.com/jobs-by-industry.

Can the data be downloaded?jobs-by-industry.csv

Download the last ten years of every line as CSV: 4,235 rows, to , 273,267 bytes.

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