Current Employment Statistics

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March 2026
Minnesota
Jobs estimated by place of work

Click   for historic data			Percent Change from Previous			All Employees (AE)		Production Workers (PW)
	Industry Title	Employment	Year	Month	Industry Employment as % of Total	Hours Worked/ Week	Earnings/ Hour	Hours Worked/ Week	Earnings/ Hour
	Total Nonfarm	2,982,746	0.3%	0.0%	100.0%
	Total Private	2,541,233	0.3%	0.1%	85.2%	32.9	$39.16
	Goods-Producing	446,665	1.2%	1.2%	15.0%	39.7	$39.46
	Service-Providing	2,536,081	0.2%	-0.2%	85.0%
	Private Service Providing	2,094,568	0.1%	-0.1%	70.2%	31.4	$39.08
	Mining and Logging	6,296	1.5%	2.0%	0.2%
	Mining, Logging, and Construction	134,225	4.1%	3.0%	4.5%
	Construction	127,929	4.3%	3.0%	4.3%	37.9	$43.50
	Construction of Buildings	29,366	-2.7%	2.4%	1.0%
	Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction	15,050	17.6%	5.4%	0.5%
	Specialty Trade Contractors	83,513	4.8%	2.8%	2.8%			0.0	$.00
	Manufacturing	312,440	-0.1%	0.4%	10.5%	40.7	$37.19	38.5	$30.71
	Durable Goods Mfg	201,620	0.6%	-0.3%	6.8%			38.1	$32.69
	Wood Product Mfg	12,931	3.1%	-0.3%	0.4%
	Fabricated Metal Product Mfg	42,980	0.9%	-0.1%	1.4%
	Machine Shops; Turned Product; and Screw, Nut,                         and Bolt Mfg	13,250	1.4%	-0.2%	0.4%
	Machinery Mfg	34,866	0.1%	-0.3%	1.2%
	Computer and Electronic Products Mfg	42,487	0.8%	-0.2%	1.4%
	Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and                         Control Instruments Mfg	25,902	2.0%	-0.3%	0.9%
	Miscellaneous Mfg	27,702	3.3%	0.0%	0.9%
	Medical Equipment and Supplies Mfg	18,433	2.6%	0.0%	0.6%
	Non-Durable Goods Mfg	110,820	-1.2%	1.8%	3.7%			39.2	$27.66
	Food Mfg	47,175	0.4%	0.9%	1.6%
	Animal Slaughtering and Processing	17,292	-1.5%	0.9%	0.6%
	Trade, Transportation and Utilities	515,980	-1.5%	-0.6%	17.3%	31.1	$30.81
	Wholesale Trade	130,105	-1.7%	-0.1%	4.4%			37.6	$34.25
	Merchant Wholesalers - Durable Goods	80,961	-2.6%	0.6%	2.7%
	Merchant Wholesaler - Nondurable Goods	42,985	0.1%	-1.5%	1.4%
	Wholesale Electronic Markets and Agents and                      Brokers	6,159	-2.6%	-0.4%	0.2%
	Retail Trade	274,133	-0.4%	-0.9%	9.2%			26.9	$20.35
	Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers	34,947	-1.7%	-0.7%	1.2%
	Building Material and Garden Equipment and                      Supplies Dealers	25,099	-2.4%	0.9%	0.8%
	Food and Beverage Stores	51,320	-0.2%	-0.8%	1.7%
	General merchandise retailers	61,432	-2.8%	-0.4%	2.1%			0.0	$.00
	Department stores	17,421	-5.0%	0.3%	0.6%			0.0	$.00
	Gasoline stations and fuel dealers	28,030	0.0%	-0.9%	0.9%			0.0	$.00
	Sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book,                      and miscellaneous retailers	25,200	0.2%	-0.8%	0.8%			0.0	$.00
	Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities	111,742	-3.7%	-0.4%	3.7%
	Utilities	13,097	-0.6%	0.4%	0.4%
	Transportation and Warehousing	98,645	-4.1%	-0.5%	3.3%			0.0	$.00
	Information	39,518	-4.7%	-0.7%	1.3%			0.0	$.00
	Publishing	16,618	-6.5%	-0.7%	0.6%			0.0	$.00
	Financial Activities	182,839	-1.9%	-0.4%	6.1%	37.6	$56.63
	Finance and Insurance	148,291	-2.3%	-0.3%	5.0%			0.0	$.00
	Credit Intermediation and Related Activities	54,654	-2.0%	0.2%	1.8%			0.0	$.00
	Depository Credit Intermediation	45,834	-2.0%	-0.2%	1.5%
	Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other                      Financial Investments and Related Activities	21,068	-0.8%	-0.5%	0.7%
	Insurance Carriers and Related Activities	72,569	-3.0%	-0.6%	2.4%
	Insurance Carriers	40,686	-3.9%	-0.7%	1.4%
	Agencies, Brokerages and Other Insurance                         Related Activities	31,883	-1.8%	-0.5%	1.1%
	Real Estate and Rental and Leasing	34,548	0.1%	-0.7%	1.2%
	Real Estate	27,773	-1.7%	-0.6%	0.9%
	Professional and Business Services	361,798	0.0%	0.4%	12.1%	37.7	$47.97
	Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services	165,256	0.2%	-0.4%	5.5%
	Management of Companies and Enterprises	83,320	-1.3%	-0.5%	2.8%
	Administrative and Support and Waste Management and             Remediation Services	113,222	0.6%	2.4%	3.8%
	Employment Services	41,834	-5.0%	0.5%	1.4%
	Services to Buildings and Dwellings	33,170	8.8%	3.5%	1.1%
	Education and Health Services	624,998	3.2%	-0.2%	21.0%	31.2	$38.71
	Educational Services	77,964	0.1%	-2.1%	2.6%
	Elementary and Secondary Schools	28,962	1.7%	-1.9%	1.0%
	Colleges, Universities and Professional Schools	29,157	-0.6%	-2.3%	1.0%
	Health Care and Social Assistance	547,034	3.6%	0.1%	18.3%
	Ambulatory Health Care Services	171,401	1.9%	-0.5%	5.7%			0.0	$.00
	Offices of Physicians	80,904	2.3%	-0.1%	2.7%
	Hospitals	120,844	1.2%	0.1%	4.1%
	Nursing and Residential Care Facilities	122,841	6.1%	0.4%	4.1%			0.0	$.00
	Nursing Care Facilities	41,177	3.0%	0.1%	1.4%
	Social Assistance	131,948	6.0%	0.7%	4.4%
	Leisure and Hospitality	251,787	-1.8%	0.3%	8.4%	21.6	$24.32
	Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation	41,430	-7.6%	0.6%	1.4%
	Accommodation and Food Services	210,357	-0.6%	0.3%	7.1%
	Accommodation	23,657	1.5%	-0.5%	0.8%
	Food Services and Drinking Places	186,700	-0.9%	0.4%	6.3%			0.0	$.00
	Restaurants and Other Eating Places	163,079	-0.9%	0.7%	5.5%
	Full-Service Restaurants	83,211	-1.3%	1.5%	2.8%			0.0	$.00
	Limited-Service Restaurants	79,868	-0.4%	-0.1%	2.7%			0.0	$.00
	Other Services	117,648	1.3%	-0.1%	3.9%	29.9	$34.31
	Repair and Maintenance	23,849	1.0%	-0.2%	0.8%
	Personal and Laundry Services	27,440	2.5%	0.4%	0.9%
	Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and                      Similar Organizations	66,359	0.8%	-0.2%	2.2%
	Government	441,513	0.3%	-0.2%	14.8%
	Federal Government	31,219	-6.4%	-0.8%	1.0%
	US Postal Service	11,596	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%
	State Government	111,208	0.7%	0.3%	3.7%
	State Government Education	64,878	0.7%	0.4%	2.2%
	State Government excluding Education	46,330	0.7%	0.2%	1.6%
	Local Government	299,086	0.9%	-0.4%	10.0%
	Local Government Education	152,256	0.7%	-0.2%	5.1%
	Local Government excluding Education	146,830	1.1%	-0.5%	4.9%