Data / Covered employment (QCEW) / Butte County

Covered employment (QCEW) in Butte County

Covered employment (QCEW) in Butte County was 10,275 jobs in 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is up 0.6% from 2024. That is the 15th highest of 44 counties in 2025.

2025, jobs10,275
Change on 2024+0.6%
Rank15th of 44Counties in Idaho ranked
Series high10,2752025
Series low4,1402005

Next release: Saturday, 21 August 2027, estimated by Invokely from past publication dates (low confidence), not announced by the publisher. Release calendar

Get an email when a new figure is out or this one is revised.
Keep it in a collection in your library.

Covered employment (QCEW) in Butte County, 2001 to 2025

4,0006,0008,00010K12K20012005200920132017202120252001: 5,735 jobs2002: 4,982 jobs2003: 4,558 jobs2004: 4,451 jobs2005: 4,140 jobs2006: 4,488 jobs2007: 8,405 jobs2008: 8,293 jobs2009: 8,348 jobs2010: 8,687 jobs2011: 8,505 jobs2012: 7,768 jobs2013: 7,209 jobs2014: 7,120 jobs2015: 7,393 jobs2016: 7,637 jobs2017: 7,809 jobs2018: 7,981 jobs2019: 8,348 jobs2020: 8,825 jobs2021: 8,949 jobs2022: 9,164 jobs2023: 9,879 jobs2024: 10,216 jobs2025: 10,275 jobs4,0006,0008,00010K12K2001201020252001: 5,735 jobs2002: 4,982 jobs2003: 4,558 jobs2004: 4,451 jobs2005: 4,140 jobs2006: 4,488 jobs2007: 8,405 jobs2008: 8,293 jobs2009: 8,348 jobs2010: 8,687 jobs2011: 8,505 jobs2012: 7,768 jobs2013: 7,209 jobs2014: 7,120 jobs2015: 7,393 jobs2016: 7,637 jobs2017: 7,809 jobs2018: 7,981 jobs2019: 8,348 jobs2020: 8,825 jobs2021: 8,949 jobs2022: 9,164 jobs2023: 9,879 jobs2024: 10,216 jobs2025: 10,275 jobs
jobs. Source: BLS, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2026-08-21.
All 25 values
Periodjobs
202510,275
202410,216
20239,879
20229,164
20218,949
20208,825
20198,348
20187,981
20177,809
20167,637
20157,393
20147,120
20137,209
20127,768
20118,505
20108,687
20098,348
20088,293
20078,405
20064,488
20054,140
20044,451
20034,558
20024,982
20015,735

Compared with Idaho and United States

Place2025
Butte County10,275
Idaho874,283
United States155,732,363

Butte County compared with nearby places

Ada County: 295,234 jobsAdams County: 1,007 jobsBannock County: 38,273 jobsBear Lake County: 2,013 jobsBenewah County: 3,454 jobsBingham County: 16,585 jobsBlaine County: 14,438 jobsBoise County: 1,831 jobsBonner County: 16,176 jobsBonneville County: 63,586 jobsBoundary County: 4,167 jobsButte County: 10,275 jobsCamas County: 352 jobsCanyon County: 90,221 jobsCaribou County: 3,544 jobsCassia County: 12,609 jobsClark County: 296 jobsClearwater County: 2,758 jobsCuster County: 1,601 jobsElmore County: 7,522 jobsFranklin County: 4,167 jobsFremont County: 3,797 jobsGem County: 4,595 jobsGooding County: 6,664 jobsIdaho County: 4,573 jobsJefferson County: 8,326 jobsJerome County: 12,328 jobsKootenai County: 71,925 jobsLatah County: 15,026 jobsLemhi County: 2,789 jobsLewis County: 1,554 jobsLincoln County: 1,729 jobsMadison County: 17,803 jobsMinidoka County: 9,227 jobsNez Perce County: 21,772 jobsOneida County: 1,638 jobsOwyhee County: 3,425 jobsPayette County: 7,196 jobsPower County: 3,919 jobsShoshone County: 4,923 jobsTeton County: 4,906 jobsTwin Falls County: 42,703 jobsValley County: 5,740 jobsWashington County: 2,928 jobs
  • Under 2,000
  • 2,000 to 4,000
  • 4,000 to 5,000
  • 5,000 to 10K
  • 10K to 18K
  • 18K and over
Covered employment (QCEW), 2025, jobs. Butte County is outlined. Same source and period for every area shown. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

Rankings

Definition

Average number of jobs covered by unemployment insurance during the year, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Counted where the job is located, from the reports employers file each quarter; monthly employment counts the jobs in the pay period that includes the 12th.

Counts jobs, not people: someone with two jobs counts twice. Covers about 95 percent of US wage and salary jobs. Excludes the self-employed, most agricultural workers on small farms, the armed forces, elected officials in most states, most railroad employees, some domestic workers and most student workers at schools. A count of employer reports, not a survey estimate like oews_employment.

Report a problem with this figure

How to cite

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Citation styles

The publisher is the author. Invokely is named only as the place the figures were read, where a style asks for it.

APA 7

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2026). Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (Covered employment (QCEW), Butte County, 2001 to 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv

MLA 9

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties, Covered employment (QCEW), Butte County, 2001 to 2025. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 21 Aug. 2026, https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/covered-employment/butte-county-idaho. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2026. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. Covered employment (QCEW), Butte County, 2001 to 2025. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/covered-employment/butte-county-idaho.

Harvard

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2026) Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties, Covered employment (QCEW), Butte County, 2001 to 2025 [Dataset]. Available at: https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/covered-employment/butte-county-idaho (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{bureau_covered_employment_qcew_butte_2025,
  author = {{U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics}},
  title = {{Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties: Covered employment (QCEW), Butte County, 2001 to 2025}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/covered-employment/butte-county-idaho. Publisher attribution: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}
RIS
TY  - DATA
AU  - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
TI  - Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties: Covered employment (QCEW), Butte County, 2001 to 2025
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/08/21
PB  - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
DB  - Invokely
UR  - https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv
L2  - https://invokely.ai/en/covered-employment/butte-county-idaho
Y2  - 2026/10/12
N1  - Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/covered-employment/butte-county-idaho.
N1  - Publisher attribution: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
ER  -
Embed this chart

Paste this code into a web page or a blog post. The chart shows the latest figures as they are published, with the source and a link back to this page.

Sites that read oEmbed links, such as WordPress, can show the chart when you paste the link to this page.

Use this data in your AI agent

Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:

What is the latest covered employment (QCEW) in Butte County? Cite the source.
get_value {"indicator":"covered_employment","place":"us-county-16023"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/value?indicator=covered_employment&place=us-county-16023

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor in one step. The trial answers 25 calls a day without an account.

Questions

What is the covered employment (QCEW) in Butte County?

Covered employment (QCEW) in Butte County was 10,275 jobs in 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is up 0.6% from 2024. That is the 15th highest of 44 counties in 2025.

Where does this figure come from?

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-12.

What was the highest covered employment (QCEW) in Butte County?

10,275 jobs in 2025, the highest value since 2001 in this series.

Related statistics for Butte County

All statistics for Butte County | Butte County in figures