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Jobs and pay by industry in every U.S. county.
Employment, establishments and pay in 2025 for all 3,143 counties in the 50 states and D.C., from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' count of jobs covered by unemployment insurance: each county's total, its private and government jobs, and private jobs by NAICS sector and subsector.
- Rows
- 266,673
- Columns
- 17
- Formats
- CSV, JSON, XML
As of: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025 annual averages, published August 2026. BLS publishes each year's annual averages late the following summer.
Preview
A few real rows
| County | StateCode | Establishments | Employment | AverageAnnualPay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles County | CA | 577270 | 4525460 | 86080 |
| Cook County | IL | 137360 | 2594810 | 90477 |
| New York County | NY | 128409 | 2487650 | 176766 |
| Harris County | TX | 122898 | 2458604 | 91491 |
| Maricopa County | AZ | 141861 | 2289324 | 76350 |
| Dallas County | TX | 82910 | 1829643 | 92543 |
| Orange County | CA | 152412 | 1663220 | 84864 |
| San Diego County | CA | 135234 | 1535067 | 85402 |
Field guide
What's in each row
The county
Year, five-digit FIPS code, county name and state.
Year CountyFIPS County StateCode
What the row covers
Ownership (All, Private, or federal, state or local government), the industry level (Total, Sector or Subsector), and the NAICS code and title.
Ownership IndustryLevel IndustryCode Industry
Jobs and pay
Establishments, average employment, total wages, average weekly wage and average annual pay, in dollars.
Establishments Employment TotalWages AverageWeeklyWage AverageAnnualPay
Comparisons
Location quotient for employment, percent change in employment from the year before, and whether BLS withheld the figures.
EmploymentLQ EmploymentChangePct IsSuppressed
Good to know
Before you use it
- Rows sit at different levels: a county's total, its private and government totals, private sectors (two-digit NAICS) and private subsectors (three-digit). Don't add levels together; filter on Ownership and IndustryLevel first. IndustryCode is empty on total rows.
- 116,386 rows are suppressed: BLS withholds the figures to protect individual employers, mostly in small subsectors. Their employment and pay are empty, not zero, and the number of establishments is still shown.
- Employment is the year's average of monthly jobs covered by unemployment insurance, about 95 percent of U.S. jobs; most self-employed people aren't included. AverageAnnualPay is total wages divided by that average. EmploymentLQ is the location quotient: 2.0 means the industry's share of the county's jobs is twice its share nationally. EmploymentChangePct is the change from 2024.
- CountyFIPS matches the county demographics collection, and IndustryCode the NAICS collection. Connecticut's rows are its planning regions, and Kalawao County, Hawaii, is counted with Maui.
- In every format, dates are written as yyyy-MM-dd, and yes/no values as true or false. An empty value means nothing was recorded.
Source
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
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Where it comes in handy
What you can build with it
- Market research. Compare how big an industry is from county to county.
- Site selection. Find counties with the workforce a business needs.
- Economic development. Track a region's jobs and pay against its neighbors.
- Dashboards. Map employment and pay by industry.
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