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Delaware: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, seasonally adjusted

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector	Delaware
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Total Nonfarm
2021	445.4	446.4	447.6	449.1	447.8	448.8	450.9	450.8	449.1	451.9	452.2	453.2
2022	453.4	455.5	456.0	457.0	458.8	461.0	462.2	464.1	462.7	463.5	463.0	(p)461.3
Mining, Logging, & Construction
2021	22.9	22.8	23.1	22.9	22.9	22.9	23.2	23.0	23.0	23.1	23.3	23.4
2022	23.6	23.9	23.8	24.2	23.9	23.6	23.6	23.4	23.5	23.8	23.9	(p)24.0
Manufacturing
2021	24.9	24.7	24.7	24.6	24.4	24.4	24.7	24.8	25.0	24.8	25.0	25.1
2022	25.1	25.4	25.8	26.2	26.4	26.4	26.3	26.3	26.2	26.1	26.3	(p)26.0
Trade, Transportation, & Utilities
2021	80.1	80.2	80.2	80.4	80.6	81.0	80.7	80.6	80.7	82.0	81.7	82.3
2022	83.0	83.1	83.1	83.4	83.0	83.1	83.4	83.6	83.4	83.5	83.7	(p)83.8
Financial Activities
2021	47.4	47.3	47.5	47.3	47.3	47.7	47.5	47.4	47.2	48.1	48.1	48.0
2022	47.9	47.8	47.5	47.4	47.5	47.1	47.5	47.6	47.5	47.8	47.8	(p)48.2
Professional & Business Services
2021	62.0	62.9	62.9	63.6	62.7	62.7	62.8	63.0	62.8	63.5	63.1	62.7
2022	62.7	63.5	63.7	63.0	63.4	64.6	64.8	64.8	63.9	63.2	63.5	(p)62.1
Educational & Health Services
2021	78.3	78.1	78.3	78.9	78.6	78.0	77.9	77.6	76.5	76.6	76.1	76.1
2022	76.1	76.4	76.0	76.4	76.6	77.2	76.3	77.1	77.8	78.1	78.1	(p)77.8
Leisure & Hospitality
2021	43.2	43.5	43.8	43.9	44.2	44.4	45.9	45.8	45.7	46.1	46.9	47.3
2022	46.7	46.8	47.6	48.1	49.0	50.8	52.4	52.6	51.3	51.9	50.7	(p)50.8
Other Services
2021	18.1	18.0	18.2	18.1	18.1	18.0	18.2	18.3	18.3	18.3	18.6	18.7
2022	18.9	18.8	18.7	18.5	18.7	18.2	18.6	18.6	18.8	18.8	18.9	(p)18.7
Government
2021	65.2	65.6	65.6	66.0	65.6	66.2	66.3	66.6	66.1	65.6	65.7	65.9
2022	65.8	66.2	66.2	66.2	66.7	66.3	65.6	66.5	66.7	66.7	66.5	(p)66.4
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(seasonally adjusted data)
	Delaware
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force
2022	(r)496,669	(r)497,596	(r)498,091	(r)498,094	(r)497,820	(r)497,283	(r)496,549	(r)495,780	(r)495,533	(r)495,393	(r)495,372	(r)495,435
2023	(p)496,003
Employment
2022	(r)473,600	(r)475,249	(r)476,238	(r)476,549	(r)476,324	(r)475,707	(r)474,740	(r)473,684	(r)472,839	(r)472,299	(r)472,262	(r)472,405
2023	(p)473,101
Unemployment
2022	(r)23,069	(r)22,347	(r)21,853	(r)21,545	(r)21,496	(r)21,576	(r)21,809	(r)22,096	(r)22,694	(r)23,094	(r)23,110	(r)23,030
2023	(p)22,902
Unemployment Rate
2022	(r)4.6	(r)4.5	(r)4.4	(r)4.3	(r)4.3	(r)4.3	(r)4.4	(r)4.5	(r)4.6	(r)4.7	(r)4.7	(r)4.6
2023	(p)4.6
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised