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Local Area Unemployment Statistics - New York City

Status of the Civilian Labor Force - New York City

Civilian Labor Force - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	4,045,886	4,045,599	4,047,400	4,052,849	4,060,929	4,070,290	4,078,252	4,081,804	4,081,018	4,079,036	4,078,203	4,078,585
2014	4,080,570	4,083,624	4,086,615	4,088,313	4,088,604	4,088,525	4,089,108	4,091,325	4,094,623	4,097,501	4,099,323	4,101,133
2015	4,102,656	4,103,202	4,103,094	4,101,681	4,097,794	4,091,095	4,083,676	4,077,619	4,074,208	4,074,608	4,078,186	4,082,040
2016	4,083,880	4,082,937	4,079,641	4,076,666	4,076,588	4,079,683	4,084,913	4,091,011	4,096,603	4,100,450	4,102,813	4,105,250
2017	4,277,572	4,285,301	4,293,803	4,301,819	4,308,587	4,313,385	4,314,900	4,312,352	4,306,645	4,299,268	4,291,736	4,285,758
2018	4,282,997	4,283,849	4,287,029	4,289,716	4,289,203	4,285,456	4,280,207	4,276,268	4,274,669	4,275,715	4,279,281	4,284,473
2019	4,290,100	4,294,766	4,297,720	4,299,341	4,300,409	4,300,994	4,300,652	4,299,406	4,299,443	4,302,296	4,306,839	4,309,524
2020	4,307,626	4,300,463	4,290,980	3,961,512	4,025,419	4,127,513	4,130,097	4,060,826	4,055,567	3,998,811	3,992,394	3,976,787
2021	3,959,442	3,940,178	4,140,646	4,136,045	4,106,723	4,122,657	4,082,079	4,067,002	4,022,216	4,003,121	3,983,733	3,980,690
2022	4,002,364	3,977,372	3,965,143	3,972,531	3,989,091	4,000,608	4,002,364	4,026,524	(p)3,981,840
2023	(p)4,125,892	4,138,484	(p)4,148,471
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	3,676,776	3,678,376	3,682,548	3,690,072	3,698,921	3,707,583	3,714,662	3,719,839	3,724,442	3,730,124	3,737,594	3,745,978
2014	3,755,435	3,765,329	3,774,372	3,782,023	3,789,417	3,797,541	3,806,182	3,815,153	3,823,550	3,830,840	3,836,889	3,842,353
2015	3,847,113	3,851,046	3,855,298	3,859,543	3,862,609	3,863,788	3,863,955	3,863,668	3,863,725	3,865,040	3,867,407	3,869,753
2016	3,871,169	3,871,026	3,869,320	3,867,577	3,867,127	3,868,262	3,871,190	3,875,960	3,881,935	3,888,678	3,896,596	3,905,682
2017	4,076,849	4,088,992	4,099,667	4,107,720	4,113,325	4,116,887	4,117,855	4,115,981	4,112,266	4,107,804	4,103,231	4,100,310
2018	4,100,296	4,103,230	4,108,248	4,112,970	4,114,747	4,113,274	4,109,742	4,106,062	4,102,658	4,100,548	4,101,176	4,104,689
2019	4,110,358	4,117,264	4,123,922	4,129,897	4,134,888	4,137,999	4,138,873	4,138,550	4,140,382	4,144,736	4,149,342	4,151,001
2020	4,148,109	4,140,589	4,132,077	3,396,185	3,179,215	3,411,087	3,431,258	3,442,215	3,457,016	3,458,213	3,460,548	3,458,557
2021	3,453,719	3,449,550	3,674,893	3,678,974	3,683,653	3,687,943	3,688,426	3,688,185	3,686,026	3,686,277	3,686,015	3,685,842
2022	3,761,780	3,702,795	3,710,193	3,720,096	3,743,808	3,754,399	3,761,780	3,760,461	(p)3,758,847
2023	(p)3,908,203	3,915,992	(p)3,926,526
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	369,110	367,223	364,852	362,777	362,008	362,707	363,590	361,965	356,576	348,912	340,609	332,607
2014	325,135	318,295	312,243	306,290	299,187	290,984	282,926	276,172	271,073	266,661	262,434	258,780
2015	255,543	252,156	247,796	242,138	235,185	227,307	219,721	213,951	210,483	209,568	210,779	212,287
2016	212,711	211,911	210,321	209,089	209,461	211,421	213,723	215,051	214,668	211,772	206,217	199,568
2017	200,723	196,309	194,136	194,099	195,262	196,498	197,045	196,371	194,379	191,464	188,505	185,448
2018	182,701	180,619	178,781	176,746	174,456	172,182	170,465	170,206	172,011	175,167	178,105	179,784
2019	179,742	177,502	173,798	169,444	165,521	162,995	161,779	160,856	159,061	157,560	157,497	158,523
2020	159,517	159,874	158,903	565,327	846,204	716,426	698,839	618,611	598,551	540,598	531,846	518,230
2021	505,723	490,628	465,753	457,071	423,070	434,714	393,653	378,817	336,190	316,844	297,718	294,848
2022	240,584	274,577	254,950	252,435	245,283	246,209	240,584	266,063	(p)222,993
2023	(p)217,689	222,492	(p)221,945
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	9.1	9.1	9.0	9.0	8.9	8.9	8.9	8.9	8.7	8.6	8.4	8.2
2014	8.0	7.8	7.6	7.5	7.3	7.1	6.9	6.8	6.6	6.5	6.4	6.3
2015	6.2	6.1	6.0	5.9	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.2	5.2
2016	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.2	5.2	5.3	5.2	5.2	5.0	4.9
2017	4.7	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.3
2018	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.1	4.1	4.0	4.0	4.0	4.0	4.1	4.2	4.2
2019	4.2	4.1	4.0	3.9	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7
2020	3.7	3.7	3.7	14.3	21.0	17.4	16.9	15.2	14.8	13.5	13.3	13.0
2021	12.8	12.5	11.2	11.1	10.3	10.5	9.6	9.3	8.4	7.9	7.5	7.4
2022	6.0	6.9	6.4	6.4	6.1	6.2	6.0	6.6	(p)5.6
2023	(p)5.3	5.4	(p)5.4
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	4,052,335	4,060,225	4,037,902	4,038,537	4,052,254	4,077,096	4,113,334	4,092,475	4,064,725	4,077,369	4,065,804	4,050,764	4,065,235
2014	4,078,202	4,111,823	4,113,307	4,060,289	4,075,161	4,102,543	4,112,690	4,094,263	4,066,890	4,108,693	4,086,151	4,082,915	4,091,078
2015	4,101,838	4,125,207	4,113,967	4,095,893	4,097,712	4,087,605	4,108,503	4,083,965	4,040,138	4,073,342	4,066,094	4,074,367	4,089,053
2016	4,075,349	4,114,599	4,114,382	4,064,296	4,048,212	4,072,837	4,107,522	4,099,613	4,089,711	4,097,777	4,083,100	4,083,277	4,087,556
2017	4,274,446	4,317,178	4,329,153	4,292,091	4,280,591	4,300,703	4,342,922	4,299,717	4,315,408	4,300,745	4,275,451	4,258,690	4,298,924
2018	4,283,138	4,331,928	4,311,863	4,276,370	4,253,956	4,288,207	4,296,546	4,271,021	4,247,941	4,290,105	4,264,979	4,289,299	4,283,779
2019	4,293,601	4,327,378	4,323,766	4,285,785	4,265,374	4,290,830	4,303,339	4,295,447	4,293,482	4,321,500	4,292,278	4,293,612	4,298,866
2020	4,322,755	4,362,866	4,323,640	3,930,009	3,955,361	4,110,222	4,129,943	4,089,286	4,032,927	4,038,187	3,996,666	3,964,116	4,104,665
2021	3,955,248	3,973,098	4,161,200	4,131,468	4,063,769	4,098,425	4,094,350	4,065,240	4,010,979	4,014,294	3,984,173	3,971,798	4,043,671
2022	4,010,239	4,000,729	3,987,026	3,945,506	3,977,757	3,973,274	4,010,239	4,022,199	(p)3,959,960
2023	(p)4,130,154	4,170,666	(p)4,166,255
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	3,652,488	3,679,300	3,684,429	3,704,940	3,699,475	3,705,238	3,735,102	3,722,167	3,711,697	3,716,759	3,734,515	3,741,320	3,707,286
2014	3,744,626	3,773,062	3,792,183	3,782,583	3,786,244	3,812,645	3,808,953	3,805,036	3,806,558	3,845,073	3,824,449	3,840,866	3,801,857
2015	3,828,551	3,859,582	3,873,617	3,869,280	3,866,447	3,859,628	3,874,026	3,861,434	3,839,840	3,865,906	3,857,925	3,871,957	3,860,683
2016	3,850,010	3,892,137	3,898,822	3,870,629	3,859,358	3,861,955	3,877,324	3,872,944	3,872,323	3,881,708	3,888,735	3,902,678	3,877,385
2017	4,059,668	4,105,105	4,138,623	4,112,994	4,095,668	4,108,299	4,129,607	4,088,548	4,120,726	4,113,556	4,101,028	4,086,986	4,105,067
2018	4,085,001	4,136,547	4,128,898	4,111,545	4,100,187	4,108,560	4,111,979	4,091,137	4,082,707	4,121,435	4,100,333	4,118,672	4,108,083
2019	4,090,063	4,137,314	4,149,478	4,133,791	4,106,286	4,127,713	4,128,482	4,125,355	4,142,804	4,161,479	4,143,417	4,158,271	4,133,704
2020	4,155,584	4,195,076	4,129,131	3,384,475	3,122,922	3,401,106	3,409,157	3,463,933	3,438,880	3,496,675	3,480,823	3,471,464	3,595,769
2021	3,429,925	3,463,767	3,692,059	3,679,670	3,651,035	3,664,555	3,682,791	3,679,893	3,681,436	3,706,580	3,704,704	3,707,265	3,645,307
2022	3,748,595	3,738,216	3,744,481	3,718,439	3,752,215	3,734,617	3,748,595	3,749,292	(p)3,754,919
2023	(p)3,901,310	3,937,856	(p)3,950,216
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	399,847	380,925	353,473	333,597	352,779	371,858	378,232	370,308	353,028	360,610	331,289	309,444	357,949
2014	333,576	338,761	321,124	277,706	288,917	289,898	303,737	289,227	260,332	263,620	261,702	242,049	289,221
2015	273,287	265,625	240,350	226,613	231,265	227,977	234,477	222,531	200,298	207,436	208,169	202,410	228,370
2016	225,339	222,462	215,560	193,667	188,854	210,882	230,198	226,669	217,388	216,069	194,365	180,599	210,171
2017	214,778	212,073	190,530	179,097	184,923	192,404	213,315	211,169	194,682	187,189	174,423	171,704	193,857
2018	198,137	195,381	182,965	164,825	153,769	179,647	184,567	179,884	165,234	168,670	164,646	170,627	175,696
2019	203,538	190,064	174,288	151,994	159,088	163,117	174,857	170,092	150,678	160,021	148,861	135,341	165,162
2020	167,171	167,790	194,509	545,534	832,439	709,116	720,786	625,353	594,047	541,512	515,843	492,652	508,896
2021	525,323	509,331	469,141	451,798	412,734	433,870	411,559	385,347	329,543	307,714	279,469	264,533	398,364
2022	261,644	262,513	242,545	227,067	225,542	238,657	261,644	272,907	(p)205,041
2023	(p)228,844	232,810	(p)216,039
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	9.4	8.8	8.3	8.7	9.1	9.2	9.0	8.7	8.8	8.1	7.6	8.8
2014	8.2	8.2	7.8	6.8	7.1	7.1	7.4	7.1	6.4	6.4	6.4	5.9	7.1
2015	6.7	6.4	5.8	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.4	5.0	5.1	5.1	5.0	5.6
2016	5.5	5.4	5.2	4.8	4.7	5.2	5.6	5.5	5.3	5.3	4.8	4.4	5.1
2017	5.0	4.9	4.4	4.2	4.3	4.5	4.9	4.9	4.5	4.4	4.1	4.0	4.5
2018	4.6	4.5	4.2	3.9	3.6	4.2	4.3	4.2	3.9	3.9	3.9	4.0	4.1
2019	4.7	4.4	4.0	3.5	3.7	3.8	4.1	4.0	3.5	3.7	3.5	3.2	3.8
2020	3.9	3.8	4.5	13.9	21.0	17.3	17.5	15.3	14.7	13.4	12.9	12.4	12.4
2021	13.3	12.8	11.3	10.9	10.2	10.6	10.1	9.5	8.2	7.7	7.0	6.7	9.9
2022	6.5	6.6	6.1	5.8	5.7	6.0	6.5	6.8	(p)5.2
2023	(p)5.5	5.6	(p)5.2
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).