Total employment (jobs, BEA)
Average annual number of full-time and part-time jobs located in a place, wage and salary jobs plus proprietors (self-employed and partners), farm and nonfarm. United States: Bureau of Economic Analysis regional accounts, table SAINC4 line 7010, nation and states.
Counts jobs, not people: someone with two jobs counts twice, and jobs are counted where they are, not where the worker lives. Broader than oews_employment, which leaves out the self-employed and farm workers. BEA stopped publishing county employment after 2022, so there is no county level.
Key facts
- Total employment (jobs, BEA) in the United States was 218,324,700 jobs in 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
- California had the highest total employment (jobs, BEA) of 51 states in 2025, at 25,407,891 jobs, and Vermont the lowest, at 439,349 jobs. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 1969 to 2025.
Rankings
US states by total employment (jobs, BEA), 2025
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Alaska
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Connecticut
Use this data in your AI agent
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Which places have the highest total employment (jobs, BEA)? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"total_employment_jobs","level":"region","within":"United States"}
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