# Counties in New York by covered employment (QCEW), 2025

All 62 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/new-york-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | New York County | 2,487,650 |
| 2 | Kings County | 924,119 |
| 3 | Queens County | 751,303 |
| 4 | Suffolk County | 689,858 |
| 5 | Nassau County | 636,274 |
| 6 | Erie County | 464,902 |
| 7 | Westchester County | 433,070 |
| 8 | Monroe County | 386,911 |
| 9 | Bronx County | 354,440 |
| 10 | Onondaga County | 250,251 |
| 11 | Albany County | 235,826 |
| 12 | Orange County | 154,905 |
| 13 | Rockland County | 138,234 |
| 14 | Richmond County | 135,842 |
| 15 | Dutchess County | 116,699 |
| 16 | Oneida County | 101,447 |
| 17 | Saratoga County | 93,945 |
| 18 | Broome County | 83,845 |
| 19 | Niagara County | 68,617 |
| 20 | Ulster County | 60,554 |
| 21 | Schenectady County | 60,183 |
| 22 | Rensselaer County | 56,312 |
| 23 | Ontario County | 53,686 |
| 24 | Tompkins County | 47,711 |
| 25 | Chautauqua County | 45,974 |
| 26 | Jefferson County | 40,563 |
| 27 | Warren County | 36,915 |
| 28 | St. Lawrence County | 34,712 |
| 29 | Steuben County | 34,483 |
| 30 | Chemung County | 33,485 |
| 31 | Oswego County | 32,477 |
| 32 | Clinton County | 31,572 |
| 33 | Sullivan County | 30,789 |
| 34 | Wayne County | 28,770 |
| 35 | Cattaraugus County | 28,122 |
| 36 | Putnam County | 26,879 |
| 37 | Cayuga County | 24,534 |
| 38 | Genesee County | 23,314 |
| 39 | Otsego County | 22,645 |
| 40 | Columbia County | 20,909 |
| 41 | Madison County | 20,808 |
| 42 | Livingston County | 19,851 |
| 43 | Montgomery County | 19,548 |
| 44 | Chenango County | 17,735 |
| 45 | Franklin County | 17,535 |
| 46 | Cortland County | 17,469 |
| 47 | Fulton County | 16,163 |
| 48 | Herkimer County | 15,878 |
| 49 | Essex County | 15,228 |
| 50 | Washington County | 14,858 |
| 51 | Greene County | 14,337 |
| 52 | Delaware County | 14,185 |
| 53 | Allegany County | 13,544 |
| 54 | Tioga County | 13,068 |
| 55 | Wyoming County | 12,357 |
| 56 | Orleans County | 11,445 |
| 57 | Seneca County | 10,339 |
| 58 | Schoharie County | 8,498 |
| 59 | Yates County | 7,296 |
| 60 | Lewis County | 7,072 |
| 61 | Schuyler County | 5,185 |
| 62 | Hamilton County | 1,608 |