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Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Information System. Updated annually. http://www.bea.gov/regional/index.htm
Definitions:
Full-time and part-time employment consists of the number of wage and salary jobs plus the number of sole proprietorships and of members of partnerships except for limited partners. The BEA local area estimates of wage and salary employment are measures of the average annual number of full-time and part-time jobs in each area on a place-of-work basis. All jobs for which wages and salaries are paid are counted, with the exception of jury and witness service and paid employment of prisoners which are not counted as wage and salary employment. However, the payments for these activities are classified as wages and salaries in the personal income measure.
Employment in government includes the employees of federal, state, and local governments.
Scope and Methodology:
The employment estimates are a companion series to the personal income estimates from BEA. They are constructed from similar sources, primarily the Bureau of Labor Statistics ES-202 program and the Unemployment Compensation for Federal employees program, using the same concepts and definitions. The employment estimates are the average of 12 monthly observations of a number of full-time and part-time employees. BEA adjusts data from these programs based on information from other sources, such as the Department of Defense, Department of Education, and Bureau of the Census.
The BEA employment and wage estimates differ from the BLS data because BEA adjusts the estimates to account for employment and wages not covered, or not fully covered, by the State UI and UCFE programs. First, additional source data are used to estimate most, or all, of the employment and wages for the following: Farms, farm labor contractors, private households, private elementary and secondary schools, religious membership organizations, railroads, military, and U.S. residents who are employed by international organizations and by foreign embassies and consulates in the United States. Second, employment and wage estimates are added to the BLS data to bridge small gaps in UI coverage for nonprofit organizations not participating in the UI program (several industries), for students and their spouses employed by colleges or universities (private education and State and local government), for elected officials and members of the judiciary (State and local government), for interns employed by hospitals and by social service agencies, and for insurance agents classified as statutory employees (insurance agencies). Third, the employment and wage data are adjusted for misreporting under the UI and UCFE programs.
City profiles were updated on August 7th, 2008.
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