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

All 105 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/kansas-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Johnson County | 372,167 |
| 2 | Sedgwick County | 265,869 |
| 3 | Shawnee County | 102,421 |
| 4 | Wyandotte County | 93,648 |
| 5 | Douglas County | 50,796 |
| 6 | Riley County | 30,406 |
| 7 | Saline County | 30,369 |
| 8 | Reno County | 26,738 |
| 9 | Leavenworth County | 21,756 |
| 10 | Finney County | 20,620 |
| 11 | Butler County | 19,973 |
| 12 | Ford County | 18,345 |
| 13 | Crawford County | 17,084 |
| 14 | McPherson County | 16,416 |
| 15 | Ellis County | 15,211 |
| 16 | Lyon County | 14,666 |
| 17 | Montgomery County | 14,217 |
| 18 | Harvey County | 14,096 |
| 19 | Cowley County | 13,138 |
| 20 | Geary County | 12,435 |
| 21 | Barton County | 11,375 |
| 22 | Seward County | 11,033 |
| 23 | Franklin County | 10,062 |
| 24 | Pottawatomie County | 9,996 |
| 25 | Miami County | 9,287 |
| 26 | Labette County | 8,501 |
| 27 | Dickinson County | 6,601 |
| 28 | Neosho County | 6,461 |
| 29 | Sumner County | 6,354 |
| 30 | Cherokee County | 5,968 |
| 31 | Nemaha County | 5,766 |
| 32 | Atchison County | 5,677 |
| 33 | Allen County | 5,650 |
| 34 | Bourbon County | 5,520 |
| 35 | Pratt County | 4,637 |
| 36 | Jackson County | 4,454 |
| 37 | Brown County | 4,325 |
| 38 | Marshall County | 4,323 |
| 39 | Thomas County | 4,102 |
| 40 | Rice County | 3,829 |
| 41 | Jefferson County | 3,824 |
| 42 | Marion County | 3,639 |
| 43 | Coffey County | 3,448 |
| 44 | Cloud County | 3,190 |
| 45 | Mitchell County | 3,065 |
| 46 | Gray County | 3,041 |
| 47 | Osage County | 2,913 |
| 48 | Wilson County | 2,896 |
| 49 | Clay County | 2,859 |
| 50 | Doniphan County | 2,817 |
| 51 | Grant County | 2,669 |
| 52 | Kingman County | 2,606 |
| 53 | Pawnee County | 2,590 |
| 54 | Russell County | 2,508 |
| 55 | Harper County | 2,464 |
| 56 | Anderson County | 2,447 |
| 57 | Sherman County | 2,334 |
| 58 | Norton County | 2,328 |
| 59 | Ellsworth County | 2,291 |
| 60 | Phillips County | 2,194 |
| 61 | Scott County | 2,158 |
| 62 | Linn County | 2,137 |
| 62 | Stevens County | 2,137 |
| 64 | Washington County | 2,024 |
| 65 | Republic County | 1,895 |
| 66 | Haskell County | 1,804 |
| 67 | Rooks County | 1,766 |
| 68 | Kearny County | 1,631 |
| 69 | Meade County | 1,624 |
| 70 | Morris County | 1,588 |
| 71 | Barber County | 1,538 |
| 72 | Greenwood County | 1,495 |
| 73 | Hamilton County | 1,492 |
| 74 | Wabaunsee County | 1,399 |
| 75 | Smith County | 1,336 |
| 76 | Ottawa County | 1,274 |
| 77 | Osborne County | 1,254 |
| 78 | Logan County | 1,251 |
| 79 | Stafford County | 1,213 |
| 80 | Gove County | 1,152 |
| 81 | Edwards County | 1,079 |
| 81 | Kiowa County | 1,079 |
| 83 | Ness County | 1,076 |
| 84 | Rush County | 1,029 |
| 85 | Trego County | 1,027 |
| 86 | Sheridan County | 999 |
| 87 | Rawlins County | 992 |
| 88 | Cheyenne County | 867 |
| 89 | Lincoln County | 865 |
| 90 | Clark County | 845 |
| 91 | Decatur County | 843 |
| 92 | Wichita County | 803 |
| 93 | Graham County | 786 |
| 94 | Chase County | 776 |
| 95 | Chautauqua County | 748 |
| 96 | Morton County | 746 |
| 97 | Jewell County | 701 |
| 98 | Stanton County | 680 |
| 99 | Woodson County | 663 |
| 100 | Comanche County | 656 |
| 101 | Greeley County | 637 |
| 102 | Elk County | 628 |
| 103 | Hodgeman County | 615 |
| 104 | Lane County | 585 |
| 105 | Wallace County | 514 |