Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Employed Persons in Massachusetts

Title Employed Persons in Massachusetts
Series ID LAUST250000000000005A
Source U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release Unemployment in States and Local Areas (all other areas) (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1976-01-01 to 2024-01-01
Last Updated 2025-03-05 2:44 PM CST
Notes These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), also known as the household survey.

Civilian Labor Force includes all persons in the civilian noninstitutional population ages 16 and older classified as either employed or unemployed.

Employed persons are all persons who, during the reference week (the week including the 12th day of the month), (a) did any work as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of their family, or (b) were not working but who had jobs from which they were temporarily absent because of vacation, illness, bad weather, childcare problems, maternity or paternity leave, labor-management dispute, job training, or other family or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time off or were seeking other jobs. Each employed person is counted only once, even if he or she holds more than one job.

Unemployed persons are all persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment some time during the 4 week-period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.

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DATE VALUE
1976-01-01 2460609
1977-01-01 2536924
1978-01-01 2642147
1979-01-01 2703084
1980-01-01 2708306
1981-01-01 2763875
1982-01-01 2758667
1983-01-01 2787418
1984-01-01 2920059
1985-01-01 2954889
1986-01-01 2977529
1987-01-01 3036202
1988-01-01 3092844
1989-01-01 3096924
1990-01-01 3033046
1991-01-01 2900001
1992-01-01 2902499
1993-01-01 2954602
1994-01-01 2994935
1995-01-01 3025933
1996-01-01 3083897
1997-01-01 3171495
1998-01-01 3217472
1999-01-01 3246036
2000-01-01 3241815
2001-01-01 3252970
2002-01-01 3252509
2003-01-01 3213745
2004-01-01 3214624
2005-01-01 3206455
2006-01-01 3233866
2007-01-01 3259639
2008-01-01 3261415
2009-01-01 3167783
2010-01-01 3187963
2011-01-01 3234776
2012-01-01 3279919
2013-01-01 3294952
2014-01-01 3387002
2015-01-01 3445762
2016-01-01 3507611
2017-01-01 3585664
2018-01-01 3690050
2019-01-01 3730081
2020-01-01 3395793
2021-01-01 3534385
2022-01-01 3626468
2023-01-01 3672255
2024-01-01 3744201

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