# Counties in Pennsylvania 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/pennsylvania-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Philadelphia County | 725,357 |
| 2 | Allegheny County | 670,169 |
| 3 | Montgomery County | 504,216 |
| 4 | Bucks County | 276,735 |
| 5 | Lancaster County | 254,207 |
| 6 | Chester County | 253,659 |
| 7 | Delaware County | 219,222 |
| 8 | Lehigh County | 203,946 |
| 9 | Dauphin County | 190,394 |
| 10 | York County | 182,806 |
| 11 | Berks County | 175,054 |
| 12 | Luzerne County | 145,109 |
| 13 | Cumberland County | 137,858 |
| 14 | Westmoreland County | 128,972 |
| 15 | Northampton County | 122,795 |
| 16 | Erie County | 119,834 |
| 17 | Lackawanna County | 98,798 |
| 18 | Washington County | 89,399 |
| 19 | Butler County | 89,077 |
| 20 | Centre County | 69,346 |
| 21 | Franklin County | 61,619 |
| 22 | Blair County | 58,360 |
| 23 | Monroe County | 57,138 |
| 24 | Lebanon County | 53,616 |
| 25 | Schuylkill County | 50,502 |
| 26 | Lycoming County | 49,573 |
| 27 | Beaver County | 48,541 |
| 28 | Cambria County | 46,956 |
| 29 | Mercer County | 42,729 |
| 30 | Fayette County | 37,808 |
| 31 | Adams County | 33,249 |
| 32 | Clearfield County | 29,242 |
| 33 | Crawford County | 28,783 |
| 34 | Indiana County | 28,044 |
| 35 | Lawrence County | 27,269 |
| 36 | Northumberland County | 26,997 |
| 37 | Columbia County | 24,066 |
| 38 | Somerset County | 23,200 |
| 39 | Bradford County | 22,257 |
| 40 | Union County | 17,328 |
| 41 | Montour County | 17,238 |
| 42 | Mifflin County | 17,229 |
| 43 | Bedford County | 16,405 |
| 44 | Carbon County | 16,376 |
| 45 | Venango County | 15,993 |
| 46 | Wayne County | 15,764 |
| 47 | Snyder County | 15,506 |
| 48 | Armstrong County | 15,483 |
| 49 | Jefferson County | 14,194 |
| 50 | McKean County | 13,771 |
| 51 | Elk County | 13,101 |
| 52 | Warren County | 12,941 |
| 53 | Huntingdon County | 12,771 |
| 54 | Clinton County | 12,741 |
| 55 | Pike County | 12,365 |
| 56 | Clarion County | 12,338 |
| 57 | Tioga County | 12,196 |
| 58 | Greene County | 11,659 |
| 59 | Wyoming County | 9,502 |
| 60 | Susquehanna County | 8,584 |
| 61 | Perry County | 8,152 |
| 62 | Juniata County | 6,183 |
| 63 | Fulton County | 5,388 |
| 64 | Potter County | 4,750 |
| 65 | Forest County | 1,895 |
| 66 | Sullivan County | 1,475 |
| 67 | Cameron County | 1,436 |