# US states by private education and health services payroll employment, August 2026

All 51 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2026-08, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `payroll_employment_education_health_services`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Number of jobs on private education and health services payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The supersector covers private educational services, health care and social assistance; public schools and hospitals count in government.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, private education and health services, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000006500000001) (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.73.EduHealthSrvc.Current)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, private education and health services, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000006500000001). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.73.EduHealthSrvc.Current. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/education-health-services-jobs/us-states

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 3,635,100 |
| 2 | New York | 2,427,100 |
| 3 | Texas | 2,009,100 |
| 4 | Florida | 1,635,900 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 1,422,600 |
| 6 | Illinois | 1,036,700 |
| 7 | Ohio | 997,200 |
| 8 | Massachusetts | 862,800 |
| 9 | New Jersey | 824,300 |
| 10 | Georgia | 750,700 |
| 11 | Michigan | 743,700 |
| 12 | North Carolina | 742,000 |
| 13 | Minnesota | 630,700 |
| 14 | Virginia | 628,000 |
| 15 | Washington | 574,200 |
| 16 | Arizona | 567,400 |
| 17 | Missouri | 548,200 |
| 18 | Indiana | 529,200 |
| 19 | Tennessee | 516,700 |
| 20 | Maryland | 511,300 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | 505,500 |
| 22 | Colorado | 413,200 |
| 23 | Connecticut | 385,300 |
| 24 | Oregon | 359,700 |
| 25 | Louisiana | 359,500 |
| 26 | South Carolina | 324,100 |
| 27 | Kentucky | 324,000 |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 289,100 |
| 29 | Alabama | 270,800 |
| 30 | Utah | 258,600 |
| 31 | Iowa | 250,100 |
| 32 | Kansas | 221,800 |
| 33 | Arkansas | 211,500 |
| 34 | Nevada | 190,400 |
| 35 | Nebraska | 177,600 |
| 36 | Mississippi | 160,700 |
| 37 | New Mexico | 157,800 |
| 38 | West Virginia | 148,100 |
| 39 | Idaho | 146,400 |
| 40 | Maine | 138,700 |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 131,700 |
| 42 | District of Columbia | 125,500 |
| 43 | Rhode Island | 116,600 |
| 44 | Delaware | 94,600 |
| 45 | Hawaii | 93,300 |
| 46 | Montana | 88,700 |
| 47 | South Dakota | 82,100 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 73,200 |
| 49 | Vermont | 65,500 |
| 50 | Alaska | 54,300 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 29,800 |