# US states by mining and logging payroll employment, August 2026

All 47 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2026-08, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `payroll_employment_mining_logging`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Number of jobs on mining and logging payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The supersector covers oil and gas extraction, mining, quarrying, support activities for mining, and logging.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, mining and logging, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000001000000001) (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.60.MiningAndLogging.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, mining and logging, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000001000000001). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.60.MiningAndLogging.Current. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/mining-logging-jobs/us-states

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Texas | 212,400 |
| 2 | Oklahoma | 28,400 |
| 3 | Louisiana | 27,400 |
| 4 | New Mexico | 26,500 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 21,700 |
| 6 | Colorado | 20,000 |
| 7 | West Virginia | 19,400 |
| 8 | California | 18,100 |
| 9 | Arizona | 17,100 |
| 9 | North Dakota | 17,100 |
| 11 | Wyoming | 15,400 |
| 12 | Nevada | 15,100 |
| 13 | Alaska | 13,900 |
| 14 | Utah | 10,900 |
| 15 | Alabama | 9,500 |
| 16 | Georgia | 9,400 |
| 17 | Ohio | 9,200 |
| 18 | Illinois | 7,300 |
| 18 | Michigan | 7,300 |
| 20 | Kentucky | 6,900 |
| 21 | Minnesota | 6,600 |
| 22 | Virginia | 6,500 |
| 23 | North Carolina | 6,100 |
| 24 | Kansas | 6,000 |
| 25 | Mississippi | 5,800 |
| 25 | Oregon | 5,800 |
| 27 | Montana | 5,700 |
| 28 | New York | 5,500 |
| 29 | Indiana | 5,300 |
| 30 | Washington | 5,100 |
| 31 | Arkansas | 4,800 |
| 31 | South Carolina | 4,800 |
| 33 | Idaho | 4,500 |
| 33 | Missouri | 4,500 |
| 35 | Tennessee | 4,300 |
| 36 | Wisconsin | 4,100 |
| 37 | Iowa | 2,200 |
| 38 | Maine | 1,800 |
| 39 | Maryland | 1,500 |
| 39 | New Jersey | 1,500 |
| 41 | South Dakota | 1,200 |
| 42 | Massachusetts | 1,100 |
| 43 | Nebraska | 1,000 |
| 44 | New Hampshire | 900 |
| 44 | Vermont | 900 |
| 46 | Connecticut | 500 |
| 47 | Rhode Island | 200 |