# US states by professional and business services payroll employment, September 2026

All 51 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2026-09, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `payroll_employment_professional_business_services`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Number of jobs on professional and business services payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The supersector covers professional, scientific and technical services, management of companies, and administrative, support and waste management services.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, professional and business services, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000006000000001) (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.72.ProfBusSrvc.Current)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-20
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, professional and business services, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000006000000001). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.72.ProfBusSrvc.Current. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/professional-business-services-jobs/us-states

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 2,744,800 |
| 2 | Texas | 2,192,000 |
| 3 | Florida | 1,631,400 |
| 4 | New York | 1,402,000 |
| 5 | Illinois | 907,400 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 837,400 |
| 7 | Virginia | 788,100 |
| 8 | North Carolina | 765,000 |
| 9 | Georgia | 741,000 |
| 10 | Ohio | 728,500 |
| 11 | New Jersey | 708,000 |
| 12 | Michigan | 616,700 |
| 13 | Massachusetts | 609,300 |
| 14 | Washington | 549,100 |
| 15 | Colorado | 491,500 |
| 16 | Maryland | 467,900 |
| 17 | Arizona | 466,000 |
| 18 | Tennessee | 448,300 |
| 19 | Minnesota | 373,600 |
| 20 | Missouri | 363,900 |
| 21 | Indiana | 357,800 |
| 22 | Wisconsin | 334,600 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 321,900 |
| 24 | Alabama | 269,200 |
| 25 | Utah | 262,200 |
| 26 | Oregon | 248,800 |
| 27 | Nevada | 239,000 |
| 28 | Louisiana | 228,000 |
| 29 | Kentucky | 221,700 |
| 30 | Connecticut | 218,700 |
| 31 | Oklahoma | 203,200 |
| 32 | Kansas | 175,800 |
| 33 | Arkansas | 166,700 |
| 34 | District of Columbia | 161,000 |
| 35 | Iowa | 140,500 |
| 36 | Mississippi | 121,100 |
| 37 | Nebraska | 118,300 |
| 38 | New Mexico | 118,200 |
| 39 | Idaho | 111,100 |
| 40 | New Hampshire | 101,400 |
| 41 | Maine | 77,600 |
| 42 | West Virginia | 73,000 |
| 43 | Hawaii | 72,700 |
| 44 | Rhode Island | 68,000 |
| 45 | Delaware | 66,300 |
| 46 | Montana | 53,700 |
| 47 | South Dakota | 35,900 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 34,100 |
| 49 | Vermont | 31,400 |
| 50 | Alaska | 29,700 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 22,000 |