# Counties in Alabama by covered employment (QCEW), 2025

All 67 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `covered_employment`
- Unit: jobs
- 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.
- Source: 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)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/covered-employment/alabama-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Jefferson County | 368,875 |
| 2 | Madison County | 235,169 |
| 3 | Mobile County | 175,010 |
| 4 | Montgomery County | 132,159 |
| 5 | Tuscaloosa County | 98,620 |
| 6 | Baldwin County | 87,943 |
| 7 | Shelby County | 84,778 |
| 8 | Lee County | 68,299 |
| 9 | Morgan County | 54,551 |
| 10 | Houston County | 51,288 |
| 11 | Calhoun County | 43,473 |
| 12 | Marshall County | 41,043 |
| 13 | Limestone County | 34,737 |
| 14 | Etowah County | 33,095 |
| 15 | Talladega County | 31,617 |
| 16 | Cullman County | 31,028 |
| 17 | Lauderdale County | 30,996 |
| 18 | Colbert County | 24,754 |
| 19 | DeKalb County | 23,861 |
| 20 | St. Clair County | 22,380 |
| 21 | Elmore County | 22,162 |
| 22 | Walker County | 18,858 |
| 23 | Dale County | 18,014 |
| 24 | Coffee County | 17,705 |
| 25 | Pike County | 15,481 |
| 26 | Jackson County | 15,108 |
| 27 | Russell County | 13,969 |
| 28 | Autauga County | 12,976 |
| 29 | Escambia County | 12,951 |
| 30 | Tallapoosa County | 12,920 |
| 31 | Covington County | 12,461 |
| 32 | Dallas County | 11,478 |
| 33 | Franklin County | 10,994 |
| 34 | Marion County | 10,057 |
| 35 | Chilton County | 9,431 |
| 36 | Chambers County | 9,358 |
| 37 | Blount County | 9,229 |
| 38 | Winston County | 8,154 |
| 39 | Clarke County | 7,704 |
| 40 | Barbour County | 7,689 |
| 41 | Marengo County | 7,243 |
| 42 | Butler County | 6,796 |
| 43 | Monroe County | 5,990 |
| 44 | Geneva County | 5,591 |
| 45 | Lawrence County | 5,551 |
| 46 | Cherokee County | 5,446 |
| 47 | Washington County | 5,356 |
| 48 | Macon County | 4,948 |
| 49 | Bibb County | 4,917 |
| 50 | Randolph County | 4,887 |
| 51 | Clay County | 4,238 |
| 52 | Fayette County | 3,946 |
| 53 | Henry County | 3,747 |
| 54 | Pickens County | 3,681 |
| 55 | Crenshaw County | 3,441 |
| 56 | Conecuh County | 3,383 |
| 57 | Choctaw County | 3,364 |
| 58 | Lamar County | 3,345 |
| 59 | Sumter County | 2,908 |
| 60 | Cleburne County | 2,830 |
| 61 | Wilcox County | 2,696 |
| 62 | Hale County | 2,665 |
| 63 | Bullock County | 2,613 |
| 64 | Lowndes County | 2,405 |
| 65 | Perry County | 1,785 |
| 66 | Greene County | 1,748 |
| 67 | Coosa County | 1,456 |