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Local Area Unemployment Statistics - New Jersey

Status of the Civilian Labor Force - New Jersey

Civilian Labor Force - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	4,576,918	4,569,169	4,560,491	4,552,734	4,545,446	4,537,662	4,528,808	4,517,350	4,503,664	4,490,616	4,480,939	4,475,815
2014	4,474,601	4,475,891	4,478,887	4,482,331	4,486,012	4,490,716	4,496,114	4,502,037	4,507,583	4,510,847	4,510,783	4,508,668
2015	4,506,245	4,504,414	4,503,300	4,502,099	4,499,740	4,495,690	4,490,941	4,486,690	4,483,815	4,484,030	4,487,793	4,493,120
2016	4,497,590	4,500,079	4,500,037	4,498,429	4,496,747	4,495,078	4,493,345	4,491,870	4,490,549	4,488,150	4,484,804	4,482,046
2017	4,608,916	4,611,297	4,615,010	4,619,442	4,623,330	4,625,598	4,625,490	4,622,153	4,616,269	4,609,435	4,602,632	4,596,953
2018	4,589,597	4,591,388	4,597,167	4,603,634	4,608,051	4,609,385	4,607,904	4,605,741	4,604,978	4,607,016	4,612,105	4,619,188
2019	4,626,305	4,632,556	4,639,105	4,648,025	4,660,187	4,675,185	4,691,659	4,707,756	4,722,462	4,735,359	4,746,264	4,752,986
2020	4,753,250	4,745,496	4,731,203	4,486,453	4,590,276	4,645,951	4,747,442	4,768,751	4,532,467	4,563,271	4,600,843	4,624,093
2021	4,639,477	4,651,945	4,661,230	4,675,579	4,678,360	4,695,852	4,686,044	4,683,082	4,662,465	4,655,775	4,648,884	4,655,098
2022	4,678,306	4,693,448	4,706,634	4,725,353	4,740,508	4,752,862	4,758,983	4,762,369	4,763,708	4,764,810	4,764,624	4,764,691
2023	4,778,908	4,796,374	4,814,879	4,833,049	4,850,743	4,867,373	4,875,778	(p)4,877,543
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	4,158,784	4,155,701	4,152,943	4,152,015	4,151,597	4,150,253	4,147,947	4,144,838	4,141,572	4,139,153	4,139,036	4,142,292
2014	4,148,926	4,157,794	4,167,358	4,175,971	4,183,785	4,191,512	4,198,635	4,205,182	4,211,077	4,215,767	4,218,647	4,220,057
2015	4,221,064	4,222,229	4,224,426	4,227,666	4,231,181	4,234,299	4,237,324	4,240,738	4,245,263	4,251,866	4,260,009	4,267,692
2016	4,273,085	4,275,593	4,275,290	4,273,344	4,271,365	4,269,959	4,269,348	4,269,454	4,269,602	4,269,123	4,268,999	4,270,453
2017	4,396,117	4,402,506	4,408,891	4,414,239	4,417,571	4,418,021	4,415,446	4,410,238	4,403,727	4,397,686	4,392,811	4,390,479
2018	4,385,453	4,391,311	4,400,669	4,410,368	4,417,829	4,422,709	4,425,537	4,427,631	4,430,370	4,435,151	4,442,666	4,452,345
2019	4,462,932	4,474,203	4,486,272	4,499,683	4,513,663	4,526,756	4,537,766	4,546,431	4,554,199	4,560,884	4,566,123	4,567,851
2020	4,563,931	4,553,129	4,538,549	3,817,083	3,885,849	3,976,612	4,064,793	4,135,248	4,196,699	4,239,295	4,270,347	4,289,974
2021	4,303,297	4,315,408	4,329,648	4,343,837	4,355,340	4,362,613	4,365,599	4,368,476	4,371,438	4,378,549	4,388,549	4,401,723
2022	4,439,967	4,477,726	4,511,597	4,542,322	4,568,268	4,589,644	4,605,705	4,619,344	4,611,149	4,606,149	4,605,955	4,607,487
2023	4,615,244	4,627,539	4,644,165	4,662,494	4,676,028	4,684,874	4,685,770	(p)4,674,332
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	418,134	413,468	407,548	400,719	393,849	387,409	380,861	372,512	362,092	351,463	341,903	333,523
2014	325,675	318,097	311,529	306,360	302,227	299,204	297,479	296,855	296,506	295,080	292,136	288,611
2015	285,181	282,185	278,874	274,433	268,559	261,391	253,617	245,952	238,552	232,164	227,784	225,428
2016	224,505	224,486	224,747	225,085	225,382	225,119	223,997	222,416	220,947	219,027	215,805	211,593
2017	212,799	208,791	206,119	205,203	205,759	207,577	210,044	211,915	212,542	211,749	209,821	206,474
2018	204,144	200,077	196,498	193,266	190,222	186,676	182,367	178,110	174,608	171,865	169,439	166,843
2019	163,373	158,353	152,833	148,342	146,524	148,429	153,893	161,325	168,263	174,475	180,141	185,135
2020	189,319	192,367	192,654	669,370	704,427	669,339	682,649	633,503	335,768	323,976	330,496	334,119
2021	336,180	336,537	331,582	331,742	323,020	333,239	320,445	314,606	291,027	277,226	260,335	253,375
2022	238,339	215,722	195,037	183,031	172,240	163,218	153,278	143,025	152,559	158,661	158,669	157,204
2023	163,664	168,835	170,714	170,555	174,715	182,499	190,008	(p)203,211
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	9.1	9.0	8.9	8.8	8.7	8.5	8.4	8.2	8.0	7.8	7.6	7.5
2014	7.3	7.1	7.0	6.8	6.7	6.7	6.6	6.6	6.6	6.5	6.5	6.4
2015	6.3	6.3	6.2	6.1	6.0	5.8	5.6	5.5	5.3	5.2	5.1	5.0
2016	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	4.9	4.9	4.8	4.7
2017	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.5
2018	4.4	4.4	4.3	4.2	4.1	4.0	4.0	3.9	3.8	3.7	3.7	3.6
2019	3.5	3.4	3.3	3.2	3.1	3.2	3.3	3.4	3.6	3.7	3.8	3.9
2020	4.0	4.1	4.1	14.9	15.3	14.4	14.4	13.3	7.4	7.1	7.2	7.2
2021	7.2	7.2	7.1	7.1	6.9	7.1	6.8	6.7	6.2	6.0	5.6	5.4
2022	5.1	4.6	4.1	3.9	3.6	3.4	3.2	3.0	3.2	3.3	3.3	3.3
2023	3.4	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.6	3.7	3.9	(p)4.2
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	4,557,459	4,558,326	4,540,821	4,528,573	4,543,926	4,598,179	4,595,337	4,548,048	4,478,200	4,466,194	4,462,927	4,458,233	4,528,019
2014	4,438,201	4,469,828	4,480,907	4,461,781	4,485,892	4,533,074	4,565,467	4,531,509	4,468,366	4,503,785	4,498,094	4,489,822	4,493,894
2015	4,477,771	4,491,589	4,488,375	4,489,228	4,514,465	4,543,321	4,554,682	4,508,933	4,435,583	4,476,557	4,475,499	4,479,268	4,494,606
2016	4,457,524	4,497,227	4,510,977	4,485,124	4,485,101	4,534,421	4,558,990	4,510,968	4,466,513	4,479,229	4,462,969	4,464,806	4,492,821
2017	4,584,364	4,609,343	4,613,450	4,611,161	4,610,590	4,660,510	4,682,463	4,639,326	4,596,726	4,595,209	4,590,164	4,586,134	4,614,953
2018	4,557,386	4,603,452	4,593,217	4,575,865	4,590,010	4,658,793	4,677,331	4,607,621	4,565,659	4,605,478	4,603,630	4,619,006	4,604,787
2019	4,612,369	4,639,868	4,639,310	4,611,850	4,637,091	4,699,753	4,750,408	4,721,433	4,697,334	4,737,754	4,738,302	4,749,675	4,686,262
2020	4,739,756	4,764,677	4,743,755	4,464,084	4,535,657	4,665,093	4,769,844	4,803,597	4,506,242	4,592,050	4,608,226	4,610,927	4,650,326
2021	4,618,674	4,650,568	4,665,716	4,649,849	4,649,366	4,715,946	4,746,347	4,694,169	4,630,276	4,653,249	4,653,195	4,665,945	4,666,108
2022	4,657,359	4,688,627	4,717,858	4,699,368	4,719,435	4,766,052	4,791,532	4,786,079	4,741,051	4,774,158	4,761,059	4,775,069	4,739,804
2023	4,812,635	4,848,662	4,864,957	4,840,452	4,850,930	4,916,903	4,919,390	(p)4,883,335
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	4,107,333	4,124,896	4,135,435	4,151,175	4,151,249	4,193,279	4,191,250	4,173,223	4,122,613	4,122,926	4,145,106	4,153,442	4,147,661
2014	4,098,525	4,124,333	4,151,097	4,181,671	4,189,536	4,233,118	4,237,720	4,220,907	4,180,293	4,227,716	4,223,565	4,227,330	4,191,318
2015	4,171,054	4,189,464	4,206,336	4,230,928	4,243,037	4,275,125	4,273,000	4,261,796	4,207,966	4,258,444	4,262,743	4,274,614	4,237,876
2016	4,223,367	4,256,058	4,272,113	4,266,083	4,269,416	4,306,772	4,312,161	4,283,109	4,248,752	4,272,459	4,271,741	4,272,378	4,271,201
2017	4,352,232	4,375,596	4,403,352	4,417,479	4,409,616	4,451,816	4,452,672	4,420,823	4,392,146	4,402,456	4,395,201	4,400,425	4,406,151
2018	4,337,374	4,376,786	4,383,765	4,396,310	4,416,025	4,460,232	4,468,694	4,423,639	4,403,835	4,455,229	4,461,766	4,464,903	4,420,713
2019	4,421,254	4,454,904	4,474,866	4,481,995	4,499,800	4,550,336	4,572,202	4,552,664	4,543,502	4,580,459	4,577,653	4,581,868	4,524,292
2020	4,535,131	4,559,390	4,509,170	3,819,410	3,831,383	3,990,215	4,062,673	4,183,113	4,180,209	4,290,924	4,291,724	4,295,321	4,212,389
2021	4,261,795	4,288,032	4,320,582	4,330,894	4,337,428	4,368,649	4,401,616	4,376,894	4,351,882	4,400,451	4,414,709	4,433,672	4,357,217
2022	4,396,989	4,449,131	4,510,010	4,525,585	4,552,717	4,595,978	4,619,826	4,635,174	4,609,996	4,632,792	4,614,537	4,626,615	4,564,113
2023	4,619,231	4,649,908	4,678,279	4,690,566	4,664,228	4,694,637	4,685,973	(p)4,636,894
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	450,126	433,430	405,386	377,398	392,677	404,900	404,087	374,825	355,587	343,268	317,821	304,791	380,358
2014	339,676	345,495	329,810	280,110	296,356	299,956	327,747	310,602	288,073	276,069	274,529	262,492	302,576
2015	306,717	302,125	282,039	258,300	271,428	268,196	281,682	247,137	227,617	218,113	212,756	204,654	256,730
2016	234,157	241,169	238,864	219,041	215,685	227,649	246,829	227,859	217,761	206,770	191,228	192,428	221,620
2017	232,132	233,747	210,098	193,682	200,974	208,694	229,791	218,503	204,580	192,753	194,963	185,709	208,802
2018	220,012	226,666	209,452	179,555	173,985	198,561	208,637	183,982	161,824	150,249	141,864	154,103	184,074
2019	191,115	184,964	164,444	129,855	137,291	149,417	178,206	168,769	153,832	157,295	160,649	167,807	161,970
2020	204,625	205,287	234,585	644,674	704,274	674,878	707,171	620,484	326,033	301,126	316,502	315,606	437,937
2021	356,879	362,536	345,134	318,955	311,938	347,297	344,731	317,275	278,394	252,798	238,486	232,273	308,891
2022	260,370	239,496	207,848	173,783	166,718	170,074	171,706	150,905	131,055	141,366	146,522	148,454	175,691
2023	193,404	198,754	186,678	149,886	186,702	222,266	233,417	(p)246,441
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	9.9	9.5	8.9	8.3	8.6	8.8	8.8	8.2	7.9	7.7	7.1	6.8	8.4
2014	7.7	7.7	7.4	6.3	6.6	6.6	7.2	6.9	6.4	6.1	6.1	5.8	6.7
2015	6.8	6.7	6.3	5.8	6.0	5.9	6.2	5.5	5.1	4.9	4.8	4.6	5.7
2016	5.3	5.4	5.3	4.9	4.8	5.0	5.4	5.1	4.9	4.6	4.3	4.3	4.9
2017	5.1	5.1	4.6	4.2	4.4	4.5	4.9	4.7	4.5	4.2	4.2	4.0	4.5
2018	4.8	4.9	4.6	3.9	3.8	4.3	4.5	4.0	3.5	3.3	3.1	3.3	4.0
2019	4.1	4.0	3.5	2.8	3.0	3.2	3.8	3.6	3.3	3.3	3.4	3.5	3.5
2020	4.3	4.3	4.9	14.4	15.5	14.5	14.8	12.9	7.2	6.6	6.9	6.8	9.4
2021	7.7	7.8	7.4	6.9	6.7	7.4	7.3	6.8	6.0	5.4	5.1	5.0	6.6
2022	5.6	5.1	4.4	3.7	3.5	3.6	3.6	3.2	2.8	3.0	3.1	3.1	3.7
2023	4.0	4.1	3.8	3.1	3.8	4.5	4.7	(p)5.0
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).