Table 3. Covered(1) establishments, employment, and wages in the largest county by
state, fourth quarter 2008(2)
Employment Average weekly
wage(4)
Establishments,
fourth quarter
County(3) 2008 Percent Percent
(thousands) December change, Average change,
2008 December weekly fourth
(thousands) 2007-08(5) wage quarter
2007-08(5)
United States(6)......... 9,177.5 133,870.4 -2.3 $918 2.2
Jefferson, AL............ 19.0 355.3 -3.3 922 2.2
Anchorage Borough, AK.... 8.2 148.2 1.5 969 4.9
Maricopa, AZ............. 103.6 1,741.0 -5.8 892 2.1
Pulaski, AR.............. 15.2 250.3 -1.2 847 -14.3
Los Angeles, CA.......... 433.9 4,152.9 -3.4 1,075 1.8
Denver, CO............... 25.6 445.0 -1.5 1,111 -1.3
Hartford, CT............. 25.6 504.5 -1.5 1,111 1.0
New Castle, DE........... 18.3 278.7 -3.7 1,055 2.3
Washington, DC........... 34.4 687.5 0.3 1,570 5.1
Miami-Dade, FL........... 86.8 1,003.9 -4.2 924 2.6
Fulton, GA............... 39.9 732.2 -3.4 1,183 1.0
Honolulu, HI............. 24.8 449.5 -2.4 850 3.8
Ada, ID.................. 15.0 202.9 -5.0 814 -1.1
Cook, IL................. 141.0 2,480.0 -2.8 1,118 1.5
Marion, IN............... 24.3 571.8 -2.8 913 2.8
Polk, IA................. 14.9 273.7 -1.1 904 2.4
Johnson, KS.............. 20.7 316.0 -1.1 949 1.3
Jefferson, KY............ 22.0 423.8 -3.3 871 1.5
East Baton Rouge, LA..... 14.8 265.9 0.3 874 8.0
Cumberland, ME........... 12.2 173.4 -2.3 822 3.0
Montgomery, MD........... 32.9 460.3 -1.3 1,219 1.9
Middlesex, MA............ 47.8 826.2 -0.4 1,296 -1.1
Wayne, MI................ 32.1 709.8 -5.6 1,032 4.2
Hennepin, MN............. 42.5 837.8 -2.4 1,146 2.7
Hinds, MS................ 6.4 127.6 -1.8 809 3.3
St. Louis, MO............ 32.8 600.5 -3.0 990 1.3
Yellowstone, MT.......... 5.8 78.2 -0.2 738 1.2
Douglas, NE.............. 16.1 322.8 0.0 842 -2.1
Clark, NV................ 51.0 870.0 -6.5 856 -2.3
Hillsborough, NH......... 12.4 195.9 -2.6 1,062 1.8
Bergen, NJ............... 34.6 450.4 -2.5 1,188 0.4
Bernalillo, NM........... 17.8 329.9 -2.0 812 3.0
New York, NY............. 118.9 2,386.4 -1.3 1,856 -0.6
Mecklenburg, NC.......... 33.4 567.7 -1.7 1,016 1.5
Cass, ND................. 5.9 100.7 1.5 778 2.1
Cuyahoga, OH............. 37.7 724.7 -3.0 926 2.0
Oklahoma, OK............. 23.9 427.1 0.1 852 5.6
Multnomah, OR............ 28.7 444.7 -2.6 934 2.0
Allegheny, PA............ 35.3 685.4 -1.0 976 3.5
Providence, RI........... 18.1 277.8 -3.5 931 7.1
Greenville, SC........... 13.0 237.1 -2.8 795 2.7
Minnehaha, SD............ 6.4 116.8 1.2 741 0.8
Shelby, TN............... 19.9 497.0 -3.5 935 0.1
Harris, TX............... 98.1 2,078.1 1.0 1,187 2.6
Salt Lake, UT............ 38.9 588.6 -1.5 847 0.4
Chittenden, VT........... 6.0 95.3 -1.4 896 2.4
Fairfax, VA.............. 34.3 589.2 -0.8 1,407 3.5
King, WA................. 77.6 1,175.3 -1.5 1,130 4.0
Kanawha, WV.............. 6.1 109.0 -0.6 799 4.7
Milwaukee, WI............ 21.3 495.4 -1.6 923 2.6
Laramie, WY.............. 3.2 43.8 0.3 753 2.0
San Juan, PR............. 13.0 291.7 -2.5 621 2.3
St. Thomas, VI........... 1.8 23.9 -0.3 673 -4.1
(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.
