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

All 58 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/california-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Los Angeles County | 4,525,460 |
| 2 | Orange County | 1,663,220 |
| 3 | San Diego County | 1,535,067 |
| 4 | Santa Clara County | 1,119,582 |
| 5 | San Bernardino County | 848,961 |
| 6 | Riverside County | 846,070 |
| 7 | Alameda County | 783,094 |
| 8 | Sacramento County | 733,061 |
| 9 | San Francisco County | 696,891 |
| 10 | Fresno County | 428,665 |
| 11 | San Mateo County | 411,346 |
| 12 | Contra Costa County | 374,448 |
| 13 | Kern County | 347,044 |
| 14 | Ventura County | 335,864 |
| 15 | San Joaquin County | 290,380 |
| 16 | Santa Barbara County | 214,947 |
| 17 | Sonoma County | 206,393 |
| 18 | Stanislaus County | 199,343 |
| 19 | Monterey County | 198,525 |
| 20 | Placer County | 188,212 |
| 21 | Tulare County | 174,610 |
| 22 | Solano County | 144,004 |
| 23 | San Luis Obispo County | 121,634 |
| 24 | Marin County | 110,071 |
| 25 | Yolo County | 109,634 |
| 26 | Santa Cruz County | 104,438 |
| 27 | Merced County | 85,663 |
| 28 | Napa County | 79,072 |
| 29 | Butte County | 78,544 |
| 30 | Shasta County | 71,664 |
| 31 | Imperial County | 67,955 |
| 32 | El Dorado County | 59,203 |
| 33 | Madera County | 58,077 |
| 34 | Humboldt County | 52,251 |
| 35 | Kings County | 52,040 |
| 36 | Nevada County | 34,626 |
| 37 | Sutter County | 33,016 |
| 38 | Mendocino County | 31,998 |
| 39 | Yuba County | 20,975 |
| 40 | Tehama County | 19,664 |
| 41 | San Benito County | 18,690 |
| 42 | Tuolumne County | 18,392 |
| 43 | Lake County | 17,762 |
| 44 | Siskiyou County | 13,862 |
| 45 | Amador County | 12,197 |
| 46 | Calaveras County | 10,140 |
| 47 | Glenn County | 9,713 |
| 48 | Colusa County | 9,472 |
| 49 | Lassen County | 8,945 |
| 50 | Del Norte County | 8,382 |
| 51 | Mono County | 8,196 |
| 52 | Inyo County | 7,687 |
| 53 | Plumas County | 6,610 |
| 54 | Mariposa County | 6,106 |
| 55 | Trinity County | 2,894 |
| 56 | Modoc County | 2,696 |
| 57 | Alpine County | 1,009 |
| 58 | Sierra County | 614 |