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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
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	4,272,594	4,271,328	4,271,935	4,271,853	4,268,705	4,262,878	4,256,544	4,252,479	4,251,429	4,253,352	4,257,637	4,262,800
2019	4,260,806	4,262,017	4,261,007	4,258,877	4,257,338	4,256,981	4,257,462	4,258,320	4,261,064	4,266,064	4,272,175	4,276,539
2020	4,276,591	4,271,523	4,263,971	3,715,243	3,933,914	4,057,261	4,079,773	4,042,787	4,065,324	4,045,042	4,061,689	4,070,153
2021	4,075,053	4,078,709	4,080,812	4,090,940	4,083,917	4,113,756	4,100,730	4,104,382	4,084,699	4,088,272	4,090,429	4,110,179
2022	4,113,383	4,101,828	4,092,935	4,094,931	4,091,335	4,090,000	4,079,549	4,065,749	4,083,115	4,098,929	4,113,492	4,125,227
2023	4,135,861	4,145,106	4,151,907	4,156,021	4,157,360	4,156,234	4,153,537	4,151,012	4,150,225	4,152,331	4,157,133	4,163,161
2024	4,161,783	4,165,463	4,171,144	4,179,122	4,185,144	4,195,404	4,203,424	4,211,042	(p)4,212,125
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	4,088,835	4,089,884	4,092,876	4,095,568	4,095,441	4,092,322	4,087,579	4,083,074	4,079,051	4,076,414	4,076,525	4,079,204
2019	4,076,490	4,080,210	4,083,793	4,087,348	4,091,057	4,094,066	4,095,817	4,096,743	4,099,849	4,104,431	4,107,901	4,107,169
2020	4,100,450	4,087,235	4,071,266	3,243,820	3,087,684	3,358,415	3,405,331	3,443,228	3,483,617	3,510,794	3,536,644	3,556,813
2021	3,573,190	3,589,971	3,610,523	3,632,829	3,654,819	3,676,017	3,692,518	3,708,200	3,723,099	3,741,692	3,760,070	3,779,003
2022	3,797,148	3,815,170	3,830,763	3,846,111	3,858,185	3,868,551	3,875,745	3,880,085	3,882,982	3,887,693	3,895,216	3,903,900
2023	3,914,307	3,925,434	3,935,833	3,944,168	3,948,361	3,948,104	3,943,933	3,937,940	3,932,826	3,931,225	3,935,126	3,941,368
2024	3,945,554	3,954,582	3,966,576	3,978,600	3,984,243	3,992,128	3,992,082	3,991,882	(p)3,987,931
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	183,759	181,444	179,059	176,285	173,264	170,556	168,965	169,405	172,378	176,938	181,112	183,596
2019	184,316	181,807	177,214	171,529	166,281	162,915	161,645	161,577	161,215	161,633	164,274	169,370
2020	176,141	184,288	192,705	471,423	846,230	698,846	674,442	599,559	581,707	534,248	525,045	513,340
2021	501,863	488,738	470,289	458,111	429,098	437,739	408,212	396,182	361,600	346,580	330,359	331,176
2022	316,235	286,658	262,172	248,820	233,150	221,449	203,804	185,664	200,133	211,236	218,276	221,327
2023	221,554	219,672	216,074	211,853	208,999	208,130	209,604	213,072	217,399	221,106	222,007	221,793
2024	216,229	210,881	204,568	200,522	200,901	203,276	211,342	219,160	(p)224,194
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	4.1	4.2	4.3	4.3
2019	4.3	4.3	4.2	4.0	3.9	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8	4.0
2020	4.1	4.3	4.5	12.7	21.5	17.2	16.5	14.8	14.3	13.2	12.9	12.6
2021	12.3	12.0	11.5	11.2	10.5	10.6	10.0	9.7	8.9	8.5	8.1	8.1
2022	7.7	7.0	6.4	6.1	5.7	5.4	5.0	4.6	4.9	5.2	5.3	5.4
2023	5.4	5.3	5.2	5.1	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.1	5.2	5.3	5.3	5.3
2024	5.2	5.1	4.9	4.8	4.8	4.8	5.0	5.2	(p)5.3
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	4,268,675	4,314,218	4,296,528	4,263,492	4,240,020	4,272,100	4,271,649	4,246,840	4,227,069	4,268,433	4,240,258	4,261,564	4,264,237
2019	4,258,444	4,286,966	4,287,348	4,249,999	4,231,646	4,254,496	4,270,373	4,260,491	4,251,148	4,281,115	4,250,547	4,249,887	4,261,038
2020	4,282,195	4,318,409	4,291,727	3,703,849	3,882,339	4,046,714	4,090,644	4,077,301	4,040,546	4,070,896	4,058,389	4,044,729	4,075,645
2021	4,059,848	4,093,322	4,109,957	4,098,894	4,052,442	4,107,336	4,125,057	4,110,994	4,067,502	4,093,649	4,083,122	4,081,274	4,090,283
2022	4,117,696	4,123,066	4,117,809	4,076,730	4,078,494	4,080,986	4,098,472	4,089,452	4,065,445	4,104,925	4,098,987	4,105,694	4,096,480
2023	4,127,193	4,171,938	4,179,229	4,134,828	4,148,420	4,157,868	4,166,603	4,165,918	4,128,126	4,156,808	4,155,081	4,130,506	4,151,877
2024	4,135,103	4,191,426	4,208,334	4,181,619	4,172,145	4,213,614	4,226,752	4,233,488	(p)4,172,712
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	4,072,159	4,121,320	4,114,359	4,097,537	4,087,112	4,091,124	4,083,644	4,062,864	4,060,810	4,099,005	4,076,332	4,090,453	4,088,060
2019	4,054,684	4,097,162	4,111,912	4,094,349	4,069,873	4,086,636	4,089,577	4,084,359	4,097,217	4,115,219	4,098,893	4,107,998	4,092,323
2020	4,106,285	4,137,830	4,064,390	3,249,748	3,045,001	3,349,983	3,383,672	3,466,913	3,459,334	3,538,428	3,556,214	3,563,224	3,576,752
2021	3,541,652	3,589,697	3,641,218	3,644,286	3,638,061	3,659,065	3,691,225	3,697,887	3,712,722	3,755,646	3,770,952	3,774,141	3,676,379
2022	3,791,693	3,826,291	3,854,964	3,839,263	3,856,527	3,851,266	3,870,646	3,873,782	3,879,702	3,899,068	3,894,293	3,903,360	3,861,738
2023	3,901,680	3,939,381	3,963,761	3,938,095	3,942,903	3,937,346	3,944,765	3,934,262	3,916,912	3,932,319	3,951,555	3,921,604	3,935,382
2024	3,945,570	3,988,970	4,019,581	3,994,937	3,967,866	3,990,250	3,968,031	3,974,264	(p)3,950,807
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	196,516	192,898	182,169	165,955	152,908	180,976	188,005	183,976	166,259	169,428	163,926	171,111	176,177
2019	203,760	189,804	175,436	155,650	161,773	167,860	180,796	176,132	153,931	165,896	151,654	141,889	168,715
2020	175,910	180,579	227,337	454,101	837,338	696,731	706,972	610,388	581,212	532,468	502,175	481,505	498,893
2021	518,196	503,625	468,739	454,608	414,381	448,271	433,832	413,107	354,780	338,003	312,170	307,133	413,904
2022	326,003	296,775	262,845	237,467	221,967	229,720	227,826	215,670	185,743	205,857	204,694	202,334	234,742
2023	225,513	232,557	215,468	196,733	205,517	220,522	221,838	231,656	211,214	224,489	203,526	208,902	216,495
2024	189,533	202,456	188,753	186,682	204,279	223,364	258,721	259,224	(p)221,905
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	4.4	4.3	3.9	4.0	3.9	4.0	4.1
2019	4.8	4.4	4.1	3.7	3.8	3.9	4.2	4.1	3.6	3.9	3.6	3.3	4.0
2020	4.1	4.2	5.3	12.3	21.6	17.2	17.3	15.0	14.4	13.1	12.4	11.9	12.2
2021	12.8	12.3	11.4	11.1	10.2	10.9	10.5	10.0	8.7	8.3	7.6	7.5	10.1
2022	7.9	7.2	6.4	5.8	5.4	5.6	5.6	5.3	4.6	5.0	5.0	4.9	5.7
2023	5.5	5.6	5.2	4.8	5.0	5.3	5.3	5.6	5.1	5.4	4.9	5.1	5.2
2024	4.6	4.8	4.5	4.5	4.9	5.3	6.1	6.1	(p)5.3
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).