# US states by manufacturing 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_manufacturing`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Number of jobs on manufacturing payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The supersector covers durable and nondurable goods manufacturing.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, manufacturing, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000003000000001) (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.63.Manufacturing.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, manufacturing, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000003000000001). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.63.Manufacturing.Current. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/manufacturing-jobs/us-states

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 1,203,800 |
| 2 | Texas | 982,800 |
| 3 | Ohio | 688,300 |
| 4 | Michigan | 583,300 |
| 5 | Illinois | 571,400 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 557,300 |
| 7 | Indiana | 516,900 |
| 8 | Wisconsin | 458,400 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 450,000 |
| 10 | Florida | 429,100 |
| 11 | Georgia | 425,500 |
| 12 | New York | 396,300 |
| 13 | Tennessee | 354,400 |
| 14 | Minnesota | 324,700 |
| 15 | Alabama | 281,900 |
| 16 | Missouri | 278,900 |
| 17 | Washington | 276,000 |
| 18 | South Carolina | 266,000 |
| 19 | Kentucky | 249,800 |
| 20 | New Jersey | 248,600 |
| 21 | Virginia | 231,300 |
| 22 | Massachusetts | 229,700 |
| 23 | Iowa | 214,200 |
| 24 | Arizona | 192,200 |
| 25 | Kansas | 173,500 |
| 25 | Oregon | 173,500 |
| 27 | Arkansas | 158,800 |
| 28 | Connecticut | 156,600 |
| 29 | Utah | 155,500 |
| 30 | Colorado | 145,000 |
| 31 | Louisiana | 143,900 |
| 32 | Oklahoma | 139,000 |
| 33 | Mississippi | 137,700 |
| 34 | Maryland | 110,600 |
| 35 | Nebraska | 97,300 |
| 36 | Idaho | 77,700 |
| 37 | Nevada | 68,600 |
| 38 | New Hampshire | 67,800 |
| 39 | Maine | 51,100 |
| 40 | West Virginia | 44,800 |
| 41 | South Dakota | 44,100 |
| 42 | Rhode Island | 40,400 |
| 43 | New Mexico | 28,200 |
| 44 | North Dakota | 27,900 |
| 45 | Vermont | 27,800 |
| 46 | Delaware | 25,700 |
| 47 | Montana | 20,500 |
| 48 | Alaska | 13,200 |
| 49 | Hawaii | 12,700 |
| 50 | Wyoming | 10,400 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 1,000 |