Table 3. Covered (1) establishments, employment, and wages in the largest county by state, fourth quarter 2007 (2)
Table 3. Covered(1) establishments, employment, and wages in the largest county by state, fourth quarter 2007(2) Employment Average weekly wage(4) Establishments, fourth quarter County(3) 2007 Percent Percent (thousands) December change, Average change, 2007 December weekly fourth (thousands) 2006-07(5) wage quarter 2006-07(5) United States(6)......... 9,064.5 137,027.3 0.8 $898 4.2 Jefferson, AL............ 19.0 367.5 (7) 901 3.4 Anchorage Borough, AK.... 8.1 146.2 0.8 924 5.0 Maricopa, AZ............. 100.3 1,848.2 -0.1 875 2.0 Pulaski, AR.............. 14.8 253.6 1.2 986 26.2 Los Angeles, CA.......... 418.1 4,293.4 0.8 1,054 3.7 Denver, CO............... 25.5 448.2 2.0 1,129 5.6 Hartford, CT............. 25.5 511.1 0.7 1,100 5.2 New Castle, DE........... 18.3 289.1 -0.2 1,031 3.0 Washington, DC........... 32.4 681.6 0.7 1,506 5.8 Miami-Dade, FL........... 87.8 1,032.1 0.0 902 0.6 Fulton, GA............... 40.3 771.5 1.1 1,173 2.8 Honolulu, HI............. 24.7 461.0 0.1 819 4.1 Ada, ID.................. 15.2 213.1 0.4 823 0.5 Cook, IL................. 138.5 2,556.2 -0.1 1,101 4.8 Marion, IN............... 23.9 588.6 0.6 888 2.5 Polk, IA................. 14.8 276.7 1.8 883 3.6 Johnson, KS.............. 20.4 318.7 1.4 926 4.8 Jefferson, KY............ 22.5 439.6 0.4 859 3.4 East Baton Rouge, LA..... 14.1 268.3 1.8 812 5.3 Cumberland, ME........... 12.4 177.4 1.0 798 3.6 Montgomery, MD........... 33.0 466.4 -0.1 1,195 4.9 Middlesex, MA............ 47.6 827.5 1.2 1,307 7.7 Wayne, MI................ 32.1 751.0 -2.6 991 2.2 Hennepin, MN............. 42.4 858.4 0.7 1,116 6.2 Hinds, MS................ 6.4 130.6 1.0 785 3.4 St. Louis, MO............ 33.2 618.4 0.1 977 7.5 Yellowstone, MT.......... 5.7 78.2 3.6 729 5.5 Douglas, NE.............. 15.9 323.0 1.2 860 5.5 Clark, NV................ 49.8 929.0 0.8 875 7.2 Hillsborough, NH......... 12.5 201.1 0.0 1,039 4.5 Bergen, NJ............... 35.0 464.3 0.3 1,185 5.6 Bernalillo, NM........... 17.8 337.2 0.5 785 3.3 New York, NY............. 118.0 2,419.9 2.2 1,862 4.1 Mecklenburg, NC.......... 32.6 578.6 2.7 1,000 3.1 Cass, ND................. 5.8 99.1 3.2 762 5.2 Cuyahoga, OH............. 37.7 750.9 -0.5 909 3.9 Oklahoma, OK............. 23.7 426.2 1.0 806 6.1 Multnomah, OR............ 27.6 458.1 2.4 915 5.3 Allegheny, PA............ 35.4 692.7 0.6 942 2.8 Providence, RI........... 18.3 288.4 -2.0 868 2.0 Greenville, SC........... 12.6 241.6 1.7 769 3.1 Minnehaha, SD............ 6.3 116.0 1.8 734 4.4 Shelby, TN............... 20.1 516.0 -0.2 935 5.5 Harris, TX............... 96.1 2,061.4 3.7 1,152 5.9 Salt Lake, UT............ 39.0 599.7 2.8 843 5.0 Chittenden, VT........... 5.9 96.5 0.1 875 5.9 Fairfax, VA.............. 33.1 593.2 0.6 1,358 4.5 King, WA................. 77.0 1,194.1 3.0 1,088 4.1 Kanawha, WV.............. 6.1 109.5 0.2 764 5.4 Milwaukee, WI............ 21.3 502.9 0.2 900 4.5 Laramie, WY.............. 3.2 43.5 2.0 738 7.1 San Juan, PR............. 13.4 300.4 -3.9 607 4.5 St. Thomas, VI........... 1.8 24.0 0.9 703 3.2 (1) Includes workers covered by Unemployment Insurance (UI) and Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) programs. (2) Data are preliminary. (3) Includes areas not officially designated as counties. See Technical Note. (4) Average weekly wages were calculated using unrounded data. (5) Percent changes were computed from quarterly employment and pay data adjusted for noneconomic county reclassifications. See Technical Note. (6) Totals for the United States do not include data for Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands. (7) Data do not meet BLS or State agency disclosure standards.
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