# US states by information 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_information`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Number of jobs on information payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The supersector covers publishing, motion pictures and sound recording, broadcasting, telecommunications, and data processing and hosting.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, information, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000005000000001) (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.70.Information.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, information, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000005000000001). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.70.Information.Current. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/information-sector-jobs/us-states

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 510,700 |
| 2 | New York | 269,400 |
| 3 | Texas | 211,500 |
| 4 | Washington | 164,100 |
| 5 | Florida | 148,300 |
| 6 | Georgia | 113,200 |
| 7 | Massachusetts | 87,900 |
| 8 | Illinois | 87,100 |
| 8 | Pennsylvania | 87,100 |
| 10 | North Carolina | 82,400 |
| 11 | New Jersey | 73,500 |
| 12 | Virginia | 64,900 |
| 13 | Colorado | 64,400 |
| 14 | Ohio | 63,800 |
| 15 | Michigan | 52,900 |
| 16 | Tennessee | 52,500 |
| 17 | Arizona | 49,400 |
| 18 | Missouri | 45,900 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | 45,500 |
| 20 | Utah | 40,400 |
| 21 | Minnesota | 38,900 |
| 22 | Maryland | 33,500 |
| 23 | Oregon | 32,400 |
| 24 | Connecticut | 30,100 |
| 25 | South Carolina | 25,100 |
| 26 | Indiana | 24,600 |
| 27 | Alabama | 21,700 |
| 27 | Nevada | 21,700 |
| 29 | Kentucky | 20,100 |
| 30 | District of Columbia | 17,500 |
| 30 | Iowa | 17,500 |
| 30 | Nebraska | 17,500 |
| 33 | Kansas | 17,300 |
| 34 | Oklahoma | 16,900 |
| 35 | Louisiana | 16,500 |
| 36 | Arkansas | 12,100 |
| 37 | New Hampshire | 10,500 |
| 38 | Mississippi | 9,100 |
| 39 | New Mexico | 8,900 |
| 40 | Idaho | 8,700 |
| 41 | Maine | 7,700 |
| 42 | West Virginia | 7,600 |
| 43 | Hawaii | 7,100 |
| 44 | Montana | 5,600 |
| 45 | Rhode Island | 5,400 |
| 46 | North Dakota | 5,000 |
| 47 | South Dakota | 4,900 |
| 48 | Alaska | 4,200 |
| 48 | Vermont | 4,200 |
| 50 | Delaware | 3,300 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 2,900 |