Mining and logging payroll employment
Number of jobs on mining and logging payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The supersector covers oil and gas extraction, mining, quarrying, support activities for mining, and logging.
One of the eleven CES supersectors that make up nonfarm_payroll_employment. BLS publishes no separate statewide figure for Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida and Hawaii. Counts jobs on nonfarm payrolls, not people: someone with two jobs counts twice. It covers full-time and part-time employees paid for any part of the pay period that includes the 12th of the month, and excludes the self-employed, farm workers, private household workers and unpaid family workers.
Key facts
- Mining and logging payroll employment in the United States was 607,000 jobs in September 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Texas had the highest mining and logging payroll employment of 47 states in August 2026, at 212,400 jobs, and Rhode Island the lowest, at 200 jobs. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Published for 48 places, with figures from January 1939 to September 2026.
Rankings
US states by mining and logging payroll employment, August 2026
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- New Jersey
- Connecticut
- Colorado
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- Arizona
Use this data in your AI agent
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Which places have the highest mining and logging payroll employment? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"payroll_employment_mining_logging","level":"region","within":"United States"}
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