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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
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	(r)4,627,332	(r)4,633,559	(r)4,639,952	(r)4,648,678	(r)4,660,681	(r)4,675,602	(r)4,692,162	(r)4,708,611	(r)4,723,935	(r)4,737,597	(r)4,749,183	(r)4,756,178
2020	(r)4,756,029	(r)4,747,171	(r)4,731,372	(r)4,473,145	(r)4,568,592	(r)4,626,728	(r)4,729,147	(r)4,751,179	(r)4,518,009	(r)4,549,406	(r)4,587,180	(r)4,610,180
2021	(r)4,623,935	(r)4,633,685	(r)4,642,143	(r)4,655,053	(r)4,655,631	(r)4,675,819	(r)4,666,409	(r)4,665,376	(r)4,646,966	(r)4,642,157	(r)4,636,784	(r)4,644,254
2022	(r)4,666,847	(r)4,679,641	(r)4,692,785	(r)4,711,517	(r)4,726,125	(r)4,741,716	(r)4,751,100	(r)4,759,371	(r)4,766,160	(r)4,774,057	(r)4,782,897	(r)4,792,345
2023	(r)4,802,664	(r)4,813,871	(r)4,824,433	(r)4,832,802	(r)4,837,877	(r)4,839,708	(r)4,838,977	(r)4,836,467	(r)4,833,817	(r)4,832,097	(r)4,831,775	(r)4,832,330
2024	4,824,539	4,819,665	4,819,879	(p)4,824,201
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	(r)4,463,689	(r)4,474,694	(r)4,486,361	(r)4,499,413	(r)4,513,215	(r)4,526,389	(r)4,537,805	(r)4,547,199	(r)4,555,901	(r)4,563,497	(r)4,569,340	(r)4,571,091
2020	(r)4,566,532	(r)4,554,559	(r)4,538,594	(r)3,803,836	(r)3,864,862	(r)3,957,242	(r)4,047,737	(r)4,119,998	(r)4,183,380	(r)4,226,791	(r)4,257,812	(r)4,276,162
2021	(r)4,286,991	(r)4,296,247	(r)4,307,957	(r)4,320,316	(r)4,331,017	(r)4,339,051	(r)4,344,127	(r)4,349,663	(r)4,355,117	(r)4,363,971	(r)4,374,192	(r)4,385,956
2022	(r)4,422,589	(r)4,458,231	(r)4,490,245	(r)4,520,224	(r)4,547,208	(r)4,571,814	(r)4,593,109	(r)4,612,653	(r)4,607,932	(r)4,605,478	(r)4,606,065	(r)4,609,607
2023	(r)4,615,271	(r)4,622,488	(r)4,629,154	(r)4,633,005	(r)4,632,272	(r)4,627,564	(r)4,619,902	(r)4,611,114	(r)4,603,906	(r)4,599,565	(r)4,599,624	(r)4,600,849
2024	4,592,192	4,588,497	4,590,776	(p)4,598,036
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	(r)163,643	(r)158,865	(r)153,591	(r)149,265	(r)147,466	(r)149,213	(r)154,357	(r)161,412	(r)168,034	(r)174,100	(r)179,843	(r)185,087
2020	(r)189,497	(r)192,612	(r)192,778	(r)669,309	(r)703,730	(r)669,486	(r)681,410	(r)631,181	(r)334,629	(r)322,615	(r)329,368	(r)334,018
2021	(r)336,944	(r)337,438	(r)334,186	(r)334,737	(r)324,614	(r)336,768	(r)322,282	(r)315,713	(r)291,849	(r)278,186	(r)262,592	(r)258,298
2022	(r)244,258	(r)221,410	(r)202,540	(r)191,293	(r)178,917	(r)169,902	(r)157,991	(r)146,718	(r)158,228	(r)168,579	(r)176,832	(r)182,738
2023	(r)187,393	(r)191,383	(r)195,279	(r)199,797	(r)205,605	(r)212,144	(r)219,075	(r)225,353	(r)229,911	(r)232,532	(r)232,151	(r)231,481
2024	232,347	231,168	229,103	(p)226,165
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	(r)3.5	(r)3.4	(r)3.3	(r)3.2	(r)3.2	(r)3.2	(r)3.3	(r)3.4	(r)3.6	(r)3.7	(r)3.8	(r)3.9
2020	(r)4.0	(r)4.1	(r)4.1	(r)15.0	(r)15.4	(r)14.5	(r)14.4	(r)13.3	(r)7.4	(r)7.1	(r)7.2	(r)7.2
2021	(r)7.3	(r)7.3	(r)7.2	(r)7.2	(r)7.0	(r)7.2	(r)6.9	(r)6.8	(r)6.3	(r)6.0	(r)5.7	(r)5.6
2022	(r)5.2	(r)4.7	(r)4.3	(r)4.1	(r)3.8	(r)3.6	(r)3.3	(r)3.1	(r)3.3	(r)3.5	(r)3.7	(r)3.8
2023	(r)3.9	(r)4.0	(r)4.0	(r)4.1	(r)4.2	(r)4.4	(r)4.5	(r)4.7	(r)4.8	(r)4.8	(r)4.8	(r)4.8
2024	4.8	4.8	4.8	(p)4.7
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	(r)4,615,734	(r)4,642,445	(r)4,641,283	(r)4,613,740	(r)4,639,244	(r)4,702,612	(r)4,751,273	(r)4,721,620	(r)4,696,117	(r)4,736,122	(r)4,737,172	(r)4,751,316	(r)4,687,390
2020	(r)4,744,881	(r)4,768,302	(r)4,746,190	(r)4,452,256	(r)4,515,852	(r)4,648,858	(r)4,753,430	(r)4,786,626	(r)4,488,355	(r)4,573,725	(r)4,589,232	(r)4,592,922	(r)4,638,386
2021	(r)4,604,139	(r)4,634,410	(r)4,648,670	(r)4,633,054	(r)4,630,976	(r)4,700,203	(r)4,729,653	(r)4,675,730	(r)4,610,768	(r)4,633,783	(r)4,635,250	(r)4,649,126	(r)4,648,814
2022	(r)4,646,325	(r)4,675,795	(r)4,706,559	(r)4,690,663	(r)4,711,353	(r)4,761,183	(r)4,788,554	(r)4,785,046	(r)4,737,159	(r)4,777,586	(r)4,767,125	(r)4,787,205	(r)4,736,213
2023	(r)4,786,023	(r)4,820,462	(r)4,835,499	(r)4,804,763	(r)4,821,413	(r)4,874,332	(r)4,878,125	(r)4,854,917	(r)4,803,602	(r)4,824,862	(r)4,829,088	(r)4,822,968	(r)4,829,671
2024	4,769,527	4,807,251	4,842,974	(p)4,824,826
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	(r)4,424,320	(r)4,458,579	(r)4,476,400	(r)4,483,925	(r)4,501,769	(r)4,550,242	(r)4,571,622	(r)4,551,885	(r)4,542,001	(r)4,579,283	(r)4,577,163	(r)4,583,334	(r)4,525,044
2020	(r)4,540,036	(r)4,564,347	(r)4,512,045	(r)3,809,678	(r)3,813,462	(r)3,973,180	(r)4,045,296	(r)4,166,223	(r)4,162,387	(r)4,273,402	(r)4,273,919	(r)4,277,788	(r)4,200,980
2021	(r)4,246,784	(r)4,273,207	(r)4,302,547	(r)4,313,226	(r)4,318,637	(r)4,347,711	(r)4,380,978	(r)4,355,495	(r)4,329,991	(r)4,378,735	(r)4,393,884	(r)4,412,317	(r)4,337,793
2022	(r)4,380,596	(r)4,433,299	(r)4,493,069	(r)4,512,032	(r)4,540,301	(r)4,582,411	(r)4,608,691	(r)4,625,493	(r)4,597,394	(r)4,625,753	(r)4,608,232	(r)4,623,484	(r)4,552,563
2023	(r)4,581,555	(r)4,603,069	(r)4,630,838	(r)4,628,778	(r)4,615,062	(r)4,649,621	(r)4,642,970	(r)4,617,863	(r)4,586,525	(r)4,608,565	(r)4,618,632	(r)4,605,191	(r)4,615,722
2024	4,523,420	4,563,073	4,612,126	(p)4,626,399
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	(r)191,414	(r)183,866	(r)164,883	(r)129,815	(r)137,475	(r)152,370	(r)179,651	(r)169,735	(r)154,116	(r)156,839	(r)160,009	(r)167,982	(r)162,346
2020	(r)204,845	(r)203,955	(r)234,145	(r)642,578	(r)702,390	(r)675,678	(r)708,134	(r)620,403	(r)325,968	(r)300,323	(r)315,313	(r)315,134	(r)437,406
2021	(r)357,355	(r)361,203	(r)346,123	(r)319,828	(r)312,339	(r)352,492	(r)348,675	(r)320,235	(r)280,777	(r)255,048	(r)241,366	(r)236,809	(r)311,021
2022	(r)265,729	(r)242,496	(r)213,490	(r)178,631	(r)171,052	(r)178,772	(r)179,863	(r)159,553	(r)139,765	(r)151,833	(r)158,893	(r)163,721	(r)183,650
2023	(r)204,468	(r)217,393	(r)204,661	(r)175,985	(r)206,351	(r)224,711	(r)235,155	(r)237,054	(r)217,077	(r)216,297	(r)210,456	(r)217,777	(r)213,949
2024	246,107	244,178	230,848	(p)198,427
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	(r)4.1	(r)4.0	(r)3.6	(r)2.8	(r)3.0	(r)3.2	(r)3.8	(r)3.6	(r)3.3	(r)3.3	(r)3.4	(r)3.5	(r)3.5
2020	(r)4.3	(r)4.3	(r)4.9	(r)14.4	(r)15.6	(r)14.5	(r)14.9	(r)13.0	(r)7.3	(r)6.6	(r)6.9	(r)6.9	(r)9.4
2021	(r)7.8	(r)7.8	(r)7.4	(r)6.9	(r)6.7	(r)7.5	(r)7.4	(r)6.8	(r)6.1	(r)5.5	(r)5.2	(r)5.1	(r)6.7
2022	(r)5.7	(r)5.2	(r)4.5	(r)3.8	(r)3.6	(r)3.8	(r)3.8	(r)3.3	(r)3.0	(r)3.2	(r)3.3	(r)3.4	(r)3.9
2023	(r)4.3	(r)4.5	(r)4.2	(r)3.7	(r)4.3	(r)4.6	(r)4.8	(r)4.9	(r)4.5	(r)4.5	(r)4.4	(r)4.5	(r)4.4
2024	5.2	5.1	4.8	(p)4.1
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).