ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA
NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
Table 4. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state, selected metropolitan area, and metropolitan division
(Numbers in thousands)
Change from
August September September 2007 to
State, area, and division September 2008p
2007 2008 2007 2008p Number Percent
California........................................ 15,132.2 15,049.4 15,193.2 15,103.5 -89.7 -0.6
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana................ 5,595.2 5,543.8 5,628.3 5,575.1 -53.2 -.9
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale................ 4,088.1 4,068.2 4,120.8 4,097.2 -23.6 -.6
Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine....................... 1,507.1 1,475.6 1,507.5 1,477.9 -29.6 -2.0
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont................... 2,036.6 2,021.8 2,042.5 2,026.0 -16.5 -.8
Oakland-Fremont-Hayward........................ 1,046.4 1,025.7 1,049.1 1,027.7 -21.4 -2.0
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City........... 990.2 996.1 993.4 998.3 4.9 .5
District of Columbia.............................. 696.3 717.9 690.7 704.4 13.7 2.0
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria (1)............. 2,980.8 3,025.7 2,992.3 3,033.0 40.7 1.4
Bethesda-Frederick-Gaithersburg (2)............ 575.7 582.2 577.4 582.7 5.3 .9
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria (1)............ 2,405.1 2,443.5 2,414.9 2,450.3 35.4 1.5
Florida........................................... 7,992.9 7,879.7 7,984.7 7,865.0 -119.7 -1.5
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach............. 2,414.7 2,390.3 2,420.8 2,388.4 -32.4 -1.3
Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield
Beach......................................... 784.8 773.8 784.3 771.8 -12.5 -1.6
Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall...................... 1,052.6 1,043.5 1,060.3 1,046.2 -14.1 -1.3
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach....... 577.3 573.0 576.2 570.4 -5.8 -1.0
Illinois.......................................... 6,013.6 6,002.7 6,024.3 6,010.6 -13.7 -.2
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet (1)................... 4,593.6 4,585.0 4,587.8 4,587.3 -.5 .0
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet...................... 3,907.5 3,895.5 3,898.9 3,896.2 -2.7 -.1
Gary (2)....................................... 282.0 282.9 284.1 285.4 1.3 .5
Lake County-Kenosha County (1)................. 404.0 406.6 404.8 405.7 .9 .2
Massachusetts..................................... 3,283.2 3,289.3 3,299.9 3,308.5 8.6 .3
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy (1)..................... 2,475.7 2,491.8 2,494.2 2,513.5 19.3 .8
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy........................ 1,702.2 1,720.2 1,708.2 1,726.9 18.7 1.1
Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton.................... 89.4 89.6 90.3 89.8 -.5 -.6
Framingham..................................... 157.1 158.7 157.7 159.3 1.6 1.0
Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury (1)........... 78.4 78.1 79.3 78.9 -.4 -.5
Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford (1)................ 118.6 118.3 120.0 119.8 -.2 -.2
Nashua (1)..................................... 130.0 133.8 134.4 135.9 1.5 1.1
Peabody........................................ 101.6 101.8 101.8 101.7 -.1 -.1
Michigan.......................................... 4,246.7 4,171.9 4,297.2 4,214.2 -83.0 -1.9
Detroit-Warren-Livonia.......................... 1,954.7 1,896.3 1,966.0 1,908.2 -57.8 -2.9
Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn....................... 775.5 741.2 784.2 750.4 -33.8 -4.3
Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills................... 1,179.2 1,155.1 1,181.8 1,157.8 -24.0 -2.0
New York.......................................... 8,716.2 8,749.9 8,752.3 8,770.0 17.7 .2
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island (1).... 8,556.1 8,587.5 8,581.5 8,601.7 20.2 .2
Edison-New Brunswick(2)........................ 1,054.2 1,047.9 1,045.0 1,040.3 -4.7 -.4
Nassau-Suffolk................................. 1,263.2 1,271.6 1,269.2 1,272.9 3.7 .3
New York-White Plains-Wayne (1)................ 5,205.1 5,237.0 5,231.3 5,255.0 23.7 .5
Newark-Union (2)............................... 1,033.6 1,031.0 1,036.0 1,033.5 -2.5 -.2
Pennsylvania...................................... 5,778.5 5,775.2 5,816.2 5,810.2 -6.0 -.1
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington (1).............. 2,797.6 2,796.7 2,810.8 2,809.5 -1.3 .0
Camden (2)..................................... 538.5 538.9 540.5 539.8 -.7 -.1
Philadelphia................................... 1,907.9 1,905.6 1,916.2 1,915.4 -.8 .0
Wilmington (2)................................. 351.2 352.2 354.1 354.3 .2 .1
Texas............................................. 10,369.5 10,612.9 10,419.6 10,657.9 238.3 2.3
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington..................... 2,954.5 3,013.3 2,964.1 3,018.4 54.3 1.8
Dallas-Plano-Irving............................ 2,082.0 2,125.2 2,087.9 2,127.1 39.2 1.9
Fort Worth-Arlington........................... 872.5 888.1 876.2 891.3 15.1 1.7
Washington........................................ 2,940.6 2,974.7 2,962.8 2,977.4 14.6 .5
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue......................... 1,744.1 1,786.6 1,752.8 1,786.7 33.9 1.9
Seattle-Bellevue-Everett....................... 1,464.4 1,501.4 1,468.9 1,498.6 29.7 2.0
Tacoma......................................... 279.7 285.2 283.9 288.1 4.2 1.5
1 Part of the area is in one or more adjacent states.
2 All of the area is in one or more adjacent states.
p = preliminary.
NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmark are
provisional and will be revised when new information becomes available. Area definitions are based on Office
of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 08-01, dated November 20, 2007, and are available at
http://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New England City and
Town Areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are county-based. Some metropolitan areas lie in two or more
states. They are listed under the state that appears first in their titles. Some divisions lie in more than
one state, and some, like Camden, N.J., are totally outside the states under which their metropolitan areas
are listed. Data reflect the conversion to the 2007 version of the North American Industry Classification
System (NAICS) as the basis for the assignment and tabulation of economic data by industry, replacing NAICS
2002. For more details, see http://www.bls.gov/sae/saenaics07.htm.
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