Wage and salary jobs (OEWS)
Number of wage and salary jobs in nonfarm establishments, all occupations, in May of each year, from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Full-time and part-time jobs count the same.
Counts jobs, not people: someone with two jobs counts twice. Excludes the self-employed, owners and partners of unincorporated firms, farm workers, private household workers and unpaid family workers. It is the base of the OEWS wage estimates, not a monthly payroll count.
Key facts
- Wage and salary jobs (OEWS) in the United States was 155,495,730 jobs in 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- California had the highest wage and salary jobs (OEWS) of 51 states in 2025, at 18,213,700 jobs, and Wyoming the lowest, at 280,740 jobs. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 2003 to 2025.
Rankings
US states by wage and salary jobs (OEWS), 2025
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Arkansas
- Arizona
Use this data in your AI agent
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Which places have the highest wage and salary jobs (OEWS)? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"oews_employment","level":"region","within":"United States"}
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