# US states by leisure and hospitality 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_leisure_hospitality`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Number of jobs on leisure and hospitality payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The supersector covers arts, entertainment and recreation, and accommodation and food services.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, leisure and hospitality, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000007000000001) (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.74.LeisureAndHospitality.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, leisure and hospitality, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000007000000001). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.74.LeisureAndHospitality.Current. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/leisure-hospitality-jobs/us-states

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 2,061,300 |
| 2 | Texas | 1,561,100 |
| 3 | Florida | 1,341,700 |
| 4 | New York | 920,300 |
| 5 | Illinois | 606,900 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 584,900 |
| 7 | Ohio | 568,200 |
| 8 | North Carolina | 558,100 |
| 9 | Georgia | 516,700 |
| 10 | Michigan | 432,200 |
| 11 | Virginia | 424,200 |
| 12 | New Jersey | 402,200 |
| 13 | Tennessee | 373,900 |
| 14 | Massachusetts | 362,000 |
| 15 | Nevada | 360,900 |
| 16 | Arizona | 359,900 |
| 17 | Colorado | 358,800 |
| 18 | Washington | 348,200 |
| 19 | Missouri | 318,500 |
| 20 | Indiana | 300,200 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | 296,600 |
| 22 | South Carolina | 291,300 |
| 23 | Maryland | 277,000 |
| 24 | Minnesota | 276,700 |
| 25 | Louisiana | 225,900 |
| 26 | Alabama | 224,000 |
| 27 | Kentucky | 208,500 |
| 28 | Oregon | 203,400 |
| 29 | Oklahoma | 182,100 |
| 30 | Utah | 178,800 |
| 31 | Connecticut | 154,200 |
| 32 | Iowa | 142,000 |
| 33 | Mississippi | 137,400 |
| 34 | Kansas | 136,900 |
| 35 | Arkansas | 136,200 |
| 36 | Hawaii | 121,600 |
| 37 | Nebraska | 104,700 |
| 38 | New Mexico | 99,500 |
| 39 | Idaho | 94,600 |
| 40 | New Hampshire | 78,400 |
| 41 | District of Columbia | 76,000 |
| 42 | West Virginia | 72,000 |
| 43 | Montana | 71,700 |
| 44 | Maine | 70,700 |
| 45 | Rhode Island | 59,500 |
| 46 | South Dakota | 54,500 |
| 47 | Delaware | 51,500 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 42,000 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 39,900 |
| 50 | Alaska | 38,400 |
| 51 | Vermont | 35,600 |