# US states by nonfarm 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: `nonfarm_payroll_employment`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Number of jobs on nonfarm payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of businesses and government agencies run by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, total nonfarm, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000000000000001) (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.55.TotalNonFarmStateWide.All)
- 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, total nonfarm, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000000000000001). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.55.TotalNonFarmStateWide.All. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/nonfarm-payroll-employment/us-states

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 18,177,200 |
| 2 | Texas | 14,469,300 |
| 3 | Florida | 10,051,600 |
| 4 | New York | 9,946,000 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 6,206,700 |
| 6 | Illinois | 6,175,600 |
| 7 | Ohio | 5,688,700 |
| 8 | North Carolina | 5,128,400 |
| 9 | Georgia | 4,985,700 |
| 10 | Michigan | 4,496,100 |
| 11 | New Jersey | 4,359,600 |
| 12 | Virginia | 4,240,300 |
| 13 | Massachusetts | 3,706,000 |
| 14 | Washington | 3,647,000 |
| 15 | Tennessee | 3,384,300 |
| 16 | Arizona | 3,279,500 |
| 17 | Indiana | 3,266,500 |
| 18 | Minnesota | 3,068,600 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | 3,057,300 |
| 20 | Missouri | 3,015,700 |
| 21 | Colorado | 2,970,300 |
| 22 | Maryland | 2,806,200 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 2,426,300 |
| 24 | Alabama | 2,221,000 |
| 25 | Kentucky | 2,034,200 |
| 26 | Louisiana | 2,022,000 |
| 27 | Oregon | 1,964,700 |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 1,799,600 |
| 29 | Utah | 1,791,500 |
| 30 | Connecticut | 1,730,500 |
| 31 | Nevada | 1,619,400 |
| 32 | Iowa | 1,585,800 |
| 33 | Kansas | 1,472,300 |
| 34 | Arkansas | 1,348,500 |
| 35 | Mississippi | 1,199,800 |
| 36 | Nebraska | 1,062,700 |
| 37 | New Mexico | 907,400 |
| 38 | Idaho | 890,700 |
| 39 | District of Columbia | 719,900 |
| 40 | West Virginia | 717,100 |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 703,300 |
| 42 | Maine | 660,200 |
| 43 | Hawaii | 643,000 |
| 44 | Montana | 522,100 |
| 45 | Rhode Island | 515,100 |
| 46 | Delaware | 496,400 |
| 47 | South Dakota | 470,200 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 448,300 |
| 49 | Alaska | 341,800 |
| 50 | Vermont | 310,600 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 295,700 |