US states by financial activities payroll employment
Texas had the highest financial activities payroll employment of 51 states in January 2026, at 940,900 jobs. Alaska had the lowest, at 10,900 jobs. The median was 103,600 jobs and the figure for the United States was 9,147,000 jobs. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
All states, January 2026
Full ranking
| Rank | States | January 2026 | Change on January 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | 940,900 | +0.4% |
| 2 | California | 788,900 | -0.7% |
| 3 | New York | 760,000 | +0.3% |
| 4 | Florida | 680,500 | -1.5% |
| 5 | Illinois | 390,800 | -0.6% |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 342,600 | +0.5% |
| 7 | North Carolina | 312,700 | +1.1% |
| 8 | Ohio | 309,500 | -0.9% |
| 9 | Georgia | 283,100 | -0.1% |
| 10 | New Jersey | 270,200 | 0% |
| 11 | Arizona | 242,100 | -0.4% |
| 12 | Michigan | 241,200 | +0.4% |
| 13 | Virginia | 222,400 | +0.1% |
| 14 | Massachusetts | 222,200 | -1.2% |
| 15 | Tennessee | 191,800 | -0.5% |
| 16 | Minnesota | 184,900 | -1.8% |
| 17 | Missouri | 183,400 | +1% |
| 18 | Colorado | 176,800 | -2.4% |
| 19 | Washington | 160,800 | -0.9% |
| 20 | Wisconsin | 158,200 | -0.8% |
| 21 | Indiana | 150,200 | -0.5% |
| 22 | Maryland | 139,900 | -1.1% |
| 23 | South Carolina | 123,800 | +1.2% |
| 24 | Connecticut | 116,900 | 0% |
| 25 | Iowa | 104,300 | -1.3% |
| 26 | Alabama | 103,600 | -1% |
| 27 | Utah | 102,100 | +2.1% |
| 28 | Oregon | 99,000 | -2% |
| 29 | Kentucky | 96,200 | +0.9% |
| 30 | Louisiana | 93,800 | +1.1% |
| 31 | Oklahoma | 85,800 | +0.4% |
| 32 | Kansas | 79,400 | +0.1% |
| 33 | Nevada | 78,800 | -2.4% |
| 34 | Nebraska | 70,100 | -0.7% |
| 35 | Arkansas | 59,700 | -0.2% |
| 36 | Delaware | 49,000 | -1.4% |
| 37 | Mississippi | 46,000 | +0.9% |
| 38 | Idaho | 42,000 | +1% |
| 39 | New Mexico | 35,400 | -0.3% |
| 40 | Rhode Island | 34,800 | -0.9% |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 33,700 | +0.3% |
| 42 | Maine | 33,300 | +0.6% |
| 43 | Montana | 27,800 | +0.7% |
| 44 | South Dakota | 27,000 | -1.8% |
| 45 | Hawaii | 26,600 | -2.2% |
| 46 | West Virginia | 26,100 | +0.8% |
| 47 | District of Columbia | 24,700 | -3.9% |
| 48 | North Dakota | 24,100 | -2.8% |
| 49 | Vermont | 11,500 | -0.9% |
| 49 | Wyoming | 11,500 | +2.7% |
| 51 | Alaska | 10,900 | +2.8% |
Other periods
About this ranking
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.
One of the eleven CES supersectors that make up nonfarm_payroll_employment. Counts jobs on nonfarm payrolls, not people: someone with two jobs counts twice. It covers full-time and part-time employees paid for any part of the pay period that includes the 12th of the month, and excludes the self-employed, farm workers, private household workers and unpaid family workers.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.
How to cite
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.Citation styles
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2026). Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, financial activities, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000005500000001) (US states by financial activities payroll employment, 2026-01) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.71.FinancialActivities.Current
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Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, financial activities, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000005500000001), US states by financial activities payroll employment, 2026-01. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 18 Sept. 2026, https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.71.FinancialActivities.Current. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/financial-activities-jobs/us-states?period=2026-01. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.
Chicago (author-date)
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2026. Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, financial activities, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000005500000001). US states by financial activities payroll employment, 2026-01. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.71.FinancialActivities.Current. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/financial-activities-jobs/us-states?period=2026-01.
Harvard
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2026) Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, financial activities, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000005500000001), US states by financial activities payroll employment, 2026-01 [Dataset]. Available at: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.71.FinancialActivities.Current, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/financial-activities-jobs/us-states?period=2026-01 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).
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Which state has the highest financial activities payroll employment?
Texas, with 940,900 jobs in January 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Which state has the lowest financial activities payroll employment?
Alaska, with 10,900 jobs in January 2026.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, financial activities, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000005500000001). Retrieved 2026-10-12.