Job Growth by State 2025
Key Findings
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Idaho leads in Nonfarm Job Growth vs 2024 (%) with 1.53 in 2025.
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Average Nonfarm Job Growth vs 2024 (%) in 2025: 0.686 · median: 0.57.
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Gap in 2025: Idaho is 4.9× larger than California.
About This Dataset
Job Growth by State 2025
What this chart shows. The 25 states with the fastest growth in payroll jobs in 2025, comparing the average number of nonfarm jobs with 2024. Idaho led with growth of 1.53 per cent, followed by Utah at 1.27 per cent and South Carolina at 1.26 per cent.
How the data is collected. Job counts come from BLS's Current Employment Statistics survey of employers, which counts jobs on payrolls rather than people; annual averages are not seasonally adjusted and, unlike the unemployment series, include October 2025.
Background. Jobs grew in 36 of the 51 and fell in 15, with the steepest fall in the District of Columbia, 2.50 per cent. Texas added the most jobs in absolute terms, about 150 thousand, and nationally payroll jobs grew 0.48 per cent.
Limits. Payroll data count jobs where people work, not where they live, and a person with two jobs is counted twice. BLS revises state payroll figures every year when it benchmarks them to unemployment insurance tax records.
How the data is collected. Job counts come from BLS's Current Employment Statistics survey of employers, which counts jobs on payrolls rather than people; annual averages are not seasonally adjusted and, unlike the unemployment series, include October 2025.
Background. Jobs grew in 36 of the 51 and fell in 15, with the steepest fall in the District of Columbia, 2.50 per cent. Texas added the most jobs in absolute terms, about 150 thousand, and nationally payroll jobs grew 0.48 per cent.
Limits. Payroll data count jobs where people work, not where they live, and a person with two jobs is counted twice. BLS revises state payroll figures every year when it benchmarks them to unemployment insurance tax records.
Analysis
New York, eighth with 0.74 per cent, grew faster than Florida, where jobs rose 0.57 per cent.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics (LAUS and CES annual averages)
- Coverage
- 25 entities · 2025 · 25 observations
- Measure
- Nonfarm Job Growth vs 2024 (%)
- Last updated
- 29 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.
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