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Current Employment Statistics (CES5552000001) · Finance and insurance, seasonally adjusted

How many jobs are there in finance and insurance?

The number of jobs in finance and insurance was 6,645 thousand in the month ended , down 1.4% from a year earlier (preliminary).

Jobs in finance and insurance, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month

January 1990 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as published

Jobs in finance and insurance, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month (January 1990 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in finance and insurance, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month (September 2016 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in finance and insurance, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, each month (September 2024 to September 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

Jobs in finance and insurance, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours)

January 1990 to September 2026Ours, from the published values

Jobs in finance and insurance, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (January 1990 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in finance and insurance, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (September 2016 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Jobs in finance and insurance, in thousands, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (September 2024 to September 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

Each point is one month of the series as the source publishes it, or a change worked out from those values (ours). The US recessions are shaded. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.

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The newest month beside the one before it and the nearest ones a year, five and ten years earlier. The last ten years are in the table under "The numbers behind the chart".

MeasureLatestThe month beforeA year earlierFive years earlierTen years earlier
Month
Jobs in finance and insurance, in thousands6,645 thousand6,652 thousand6,738 thousand6,559 thousand6,175 thousand
Change over a year−1.4%−1.2%+0.4%+1.1%+2.0%

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Observed .

Right now

The number of jobs in finance and insurance was 6,645 thousand in September 2026, the lowest since February 2022.

Over a year it is down 1.4% (ours). The source marks this value preliminary.

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ChangeOurs

PeriodThenChange
One month6,652 thousand in −0.1%
Three months6,672 thousand in −0.4%
Twelve months6,738 thousand in −1.4%
Five years6,559 thousand in +1.3%
Ten years6,175 thousand in +7.6%

In historyOurs

The number of jobs in finance and insurance of 6,645 thousand in was higher than in 386 of the 440 other months since , the same in 0 and lower in 54.

Highest since : 6,747 thousand in . Lowest since : 4,903 thousand in .

AverageOurs

Average since : 5,915.5 thousand (ours, a plain mean of the 441 months).

ComparedOurs

Over a year the number of jobs in finance and insurance is down 1.4%, which ranks 32 of the 35 rows of the table, where 1 is the largest change.

The table sets the number of jobs in finance and insurance beside the industries on the jobs by industry page, by the change over a year in each one's newest month.

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Inside itOurs

Of the 4 industries inside finance and insurance that BLS reports, the change over a year was largest for securities, commodity contracts, funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles, investments, and related activities, up 2.4%, and smallest for monetary authorities-central bank, down 6.6% (ours).

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Openings and turnoverJob Openings and Labor Turnover Survey

In August 2026 the survey counted, for finance and insurance, 353 thousand job openings, 110 thousand hires, 65 thousand quits and 41 thousand layoffs and discharges.

Over a year the counts are job openings up 45.9%, hires down 19.7%, quits down 20.7% and layoffs and discharges down 4.7% (ours).

Job openings, hires, quits and layoffs in finance and insurance

August 2016 to August 2026Seasonally adjusted, as publishedNo picture is made of these rows; their numbers are in the table

Job openings, hires, quits and layoffs in finance and insurance, one row for each measure
  • Job openings353129 to 494
  • Hires110101 to 221
  • Quits6542 to 116
  • Layoffs and discharges4111 to 82

Each row is one measure of the second survey for finance and insurance, in thousands over the last ten years, one month to a point, on one scale, with its newest value and its range printed beside it. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.

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Understanding the number of jobs in finance and insurance

Where it stands today

The number of jobs in finance and insurance was 6,645 thousand in September 2026.

What does the number of jobs in finance and insurance measure?

Finance and insurance covers banks and other lenders, firms that deal in securities, commodity contracts and investments, and insurance carriers and the agencies that sell insurance. The central bank is counted here too.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) counts these jobs each month in a survey of employers, the Current Employment Statistics, and publishes them in the Employment Situation report at the start of the next month. The count is all employees on payrolls, in thousands, seasonally adjusted.

What 500metrics adds: the change over one month, three months, a year and five years, the highest and lowest value since the series begins, how the change over a year ranks among the lines of the jobs by industry page, the industries inside it with their own change over a year. For this industry it also shows the job openings, hires, quits and layoffs from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), a second BLS survey, beside the count of jobs.

The numbers behind the chart

What was the number of jobs in finance and insurance in each month?The last ten years, 120 months, newest first; the chart and the file have every month since Jan 1990
Jobs in finance and insurance, in thousands, seasonally adjusted, by month, newest first (Thousands of jobs; the change ours)
MonthValueChange over a year
6,645 thousand−1.4%
6,652 thousand−1.2%
6,660 thousand−1.3%
6,672 thousand−1.0%
6,667 thousand−1.2%
6,685 thousand−0.8%
6,688 thousand−0.8%
6,708 thousand−0.5%
6,710 thousand−0.3%
6,734 thousand+0.2%
6,735 thousand+0.3%
6,738 thousand+0.4%
6,738 thousand+0.4%
6,733 thousand+0.4%
6,747 thousand+0.6%
6,742 thousand+0.5%
6,745 thousand+0.7%
6,740 thousand+0.7%
6,743 thousand+0.8%
6,741 thousand+0.8%
6,731 thousand+0.5%
6,724 thousand+0.3%
6,718 thousand+0.2%
6,708 thousand−0.1%
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MonthValueChange over a year
6,710 thousand−0.1%
6,710 thousand−0.3%
6,705 thousand−0.4%
6,710 thousand−0.3%
6,696 thousand−0.4%
6,691 thousand−0.5%
6,687 thousand−0.3%
6,687 thousand−0.3%
6,698 thousand−0.3%
6,704 thousand−0.1%
6,704 thousand−0.1%
6,713 thousand0.0%
6,720 thousand+0.5%
6,730 thousand+0.6%
6,731 thousand+0.7%
6,728 thousand+0.8%
6,726 thousand+0.8%
6,722 thousand+0.7%
6,709 thousand+0.9%
6,706 thousand+1.0%
6,715 thousand+1.5%
6,712 thousand+1.5%
6,712 thousand+1.8%
6,711 thousand+2.1%
6,686 thousand+1.9%
6,693 thousand+2.3%
6,687 thousand+2.3%
6,675 thousand+2.4%
6,671 thousand+2.3%
6,676 thousand+2.4%
6,650 thousand+2.0%
6,641 thousand+1.9%
6,616 thousand+1.6%
6,612 thousand+1.6%
6,593 thousand+1.3%
6,575 thousand+1.2%
6,559 thousand+1.1%
6,544 thousand+1.0%
6,538 thousand+1.1%
6,520 thousand+0.8%
6,519 thousand+0.7%
6,521 thousand+0.8%
6,522 thousand+0.2%
6,514 thousand+0.1%
6,514 thousand+0.4%
6,511 thousand+0.5%
6,509 thousand+0.5%
6,498 thousand+0.5%
6,489 thousand+0.5%
6,477 thousand+0.4%
6,467 thousand+0.3%
6,469 thousand+0.7%
6,472 thousand+0.9%
6,470 thousand+0.9%
6,511 thousand+1.8%
6,507 thousand+1.9%
6,487 thousand+1.7%
6,479 thousand+1.5%
6,474 thousand+1.5%
6,467 thousand+1.5%
6,458 thousand+1.6%
6,454 thousand+1.6%
6,448 thousand+1.6%
6,427 thousand+1.3%
6,417 thousand+1.4%
6,409 thousand+1.6%
6,398 thousand+1.6%
6,389 thousand+1.5%
6,381 thousand+1.6%
6,380 thousand+1.6%
6,379 thousand+1.7%
6,369 thousand+1.5%
6,359 thousand+1.2%
6,349 thousand+1.1%
6,344 thousand+1.1%
6,342 thousand+1.2%
6,330 thousand+1.2%
6,308 thousand+0.9%
6,298 thousand+1.0%
6,297 thousand+1.1%
6,282 thousand+0.8%
6,277 thousand+1.1%
6,273 thousand+1.4%
6,277 thousand+1.5%
6,283 thousand+1.8%
6,282 thousand+1.8%
6,277 thousand+2.0%
6,264 thousand+2.0%
6,257 thousand+2.0%
6,250 thousand+2.1%
6,238 thousand+2.1%
6,230 thousand+2.2%
6,231 thousand+2.3%
6,211 thousand+2.1%
6,188 thousand+1.8%
6,182 thousand+1.9%
How does it compare with the industries on the jobs by industry page?Ranked by the change over a year
Jobs in finance and insurance, in thousands beside the industries on the jobs by industry page, newest month of each, by the change over a year (ours); equal changes share a rank
SeriesMonthValueChange over a yearRank
Health care and social assistance23,959 thousand+2.2%1
Private education and health28,005 thousand+1.9%2
Utilities612 thousand+1.7%3
Construction8,364 thousand+1.3%4
Durable goods7,898 thousand+1.1%5
Professional, scientific, technical10,844 thousand+0.8%6
Accommodation and food services14,310 thousand+0.7%7
Goods-producing21,623 thousand+0.7%7
Other services6,039 thousand+0.6%9
Professional and business services22,482 thousand+0.6%9
Administrative, support, waste9,019 thousand+0.5%11
Private service-providing114,094 thousand+0.5%11
Total private135,717 thousand+0.5%11
Leisure and hospitality16,969 thousand+0.4%14
Wholesale trade6,078 thousand+0.4%14
Local government15,173 thousand+0.3%16
Manufacturing12,652 thousand+0.3%16
Mining and logging607 thousand+0.3%16
Service-providing137,421 thousand+0.3%16
Total nonfarm159,044 thousand+0.3%16
Retail trade15,480 thousand+0.2%21
Trade, transportation, utilities28,778 thousand+0.2%21
Mining, oil and gas extraction567 thousand+0.1%23
Private education4,046 thousand−0.1%24
Transportation and warehousing6,609 thousand−0.1%24
Management of companies2,620 thousand−0.3%26
State government5,472 thousand−0.5%27
Real estate, rental, leasing2,438 thousand−0.6%28
Government23,327 thousand−0.9%29
Nondurable goods4,754 thousand−0.9%29
Financial activities9,082 thousand−1.2%31
Finance and insurance6,645 thousand−1.4%32
Arts, entertainment, recreation2,659 thousand−1.6%33
Information2,739 thousand−4.2%34
Federal government2,682 thousand−8.0%35

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Which industries are inside finance and insurance?Newest month of each industry
The industries inside finance and insurance, newest month of each: the count in thousands, its share of the page's industry and the change over a year (both ours); equal changes share a rank
IndustryMonthCountShareChange over a yearRank
Monetary authorities-central bank18 thousand0.3%−6.6%4
Credit intermediation and related activities2,522 thousand38.0%−1.7%2
Securities, commodity contracts, funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles, investments, and related activities1,174 thousand17.7%+2.4%1
Insurance carriers and related activities2,930 thousand44.1%−2.5%3

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How many job openings, hires, quits and layoffs were there in finance and insurance?Newest month of each measure
Job openings, hires, quits and layoffs in finance and insurance, newest month of each measure, seasonally adjusted (Thousands (job openings at the end of the month; hires, quits and layoffs during it); rates in percent; the change over a year ours)
MeasureMonthCountRateChange over a yearWhere the count stands
Job openings353 thousand5.0%+45.9%the highest since March 2026
Hires110 thousand1.7%−19.7%the highest since June 2026
Quits65 thousand1.0%−20.7%the lowest since June 2026
Layoffs and discharges41 thousand0.6%−4.7%the highest since October 2025

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

What this number cannot tell you

  • 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 count comes 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 publishes this series from 1990.
  • The job openings, hires, quits and layoffs come from JOLTS, a separate survey of employers that BLS holds from December 2000 and publishes about a month after the payroll counts, so its newest month can be an earlier month than the count of jobs.
  • The count is shown in whole thousands, but BLS publishes this series to one decimal, so the changes, the ranks and the highest and lowest values, which are ours and worked out from the values as BLS publishes them, can differ in their last place from those worked out from the values as shown.
  • The changes, the ranks and the highest and lowest values are ours, worked out from the values BLS publishes; a change is in percent.

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How to cite this

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, Finance and insurance, seasonally adjusted, through September 2026, with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, through August 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "How many jobs are there in finance and insurance?", https://500metrics.com/jobs-by-industry/finance-insurance.

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

Download the full history as CSV: 441 rows, to , 8,478 bytes.

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