# US states by financial activities 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_financial_activities`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Number of jobs on financial activities payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The supersector covers finance and insurance, and real estate and rental and leasing.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, financial activities, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000005500000001) (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.71.FinancialActivities.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, financial activities, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000005500000001). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.71.FinancialActivities.Current. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/financial-activities-jobs/us-states

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Texas | 940,900 |
| 2 | California | 780,000 |
| 3 | New York | 759,100 |
| 4 | Florida | 676,000 |
| 5 | Illinois | 377,000 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 344,400 |
| 7 | North Carolina | 311,700 |
| 8 | Ohio | 309,500 |
| 9 | Georgia | 281,500 |
| 10 | New Jersey | 266,700 |
| 11 | Michigan | 241,000 |
| 12 | Arizona | 237,900 |
| 13 | Virginia | 220,500 |
| 14 | Massachusetts | 220,100 |
| 15 | Tennessee | 188,100 |
| 16 | Missouri | 182,000 |
| 17 | Minnesota | 181,800 |
| 18 | Colorado | 176,000 |
| 19 | Washington | 158,200 |
| 20 | Wisconsin | 156,400 |
| 21 | Indiana | 149,900 |
| 22 | Maryland | 138,500 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 123,700 |
| 24 | Connecticut | 115,100 |
| 25 | Iowa | 105,200 |
| 26 | Utah | 102,400 |
| 27 | Alabama | 101,800 |
| 28 | Oregon | 99,700 |
| 29 | Kentucky | 95,400 |
| 30 | Louisiana | 91,900 |
| 31 | Oklahoma | 84,900 |
| 32 | Nevada | 79,200 |
| 33 | Kansas | 78,600 |
| 34 | Nebraska | 69,000 |
| 35 | Arkansas | 58,900 |
| 36 | Delaware | 49,000 |
| 37 | Mississippi | 45,800 |
| 38 | Idaho | 42,800 |
| 39 | New Mexico | 35,400 |
| 40 | Rhode Island | 33,700 |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 33,600 |
| 42 | Maine | 33,400 |
| 43 | South Dakota | 27,200 |
| 44 | Montana | 27,100 |
| 45 | Hawaii | 26,500 |
| 46 | West Virginia | 25,900 |
| 47 | District of Columbia | 24,800 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 24,400 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 11,500 |
| 50 | Vermont | 11,100 |
| 51 | Alaska | 10,700 |