BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
Quarterly employment counts and wage data at county level by 6-digit NAICS, derived from unemployment insurance records. Covers ~97% of all US jobs going back to 1975. The most granular publicly available employment dataset — updated quarterly with a 5-month lag.
Latest snapshot
Rows in latest snapshot
220
Last refreshed
May 21, 2026
Cadence
quarterly
Coverage
1975–Q3 2025; national, state, MSA, county
Total records
~50M annual rows at county×NAICS×quarter
Key fields
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area_fips -
own_code -
industry_code -
agglvl_code -
year -
qtr -
month1_emplvl -
month2_emplvl -
month3_emplvl -
total_qtrly_wages -
taxable_qtrly_wages -
avg_wkly_wage -
lq_disclosure_code -
oty_avg_wkly_wage_chg
Use cases
- Employment trend by industry at county level
- Average weekly wage benchmarks by NAICS
- Location quotient (LQ) for industry concentration
- Year-over-year wage growth by sector
- Identifying labor market tightness by geography
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