QCEW state context release, 2026 Q1

Largest differences from the U.S. benchmark

Difference = the state occupation-weighted industry employment change minus the same measure computed on the national benchmark, in percentage points, from the published operands. A larger positive difference means the industries employing that occupation grew faster in that state than nationally over the same period. It is not a ranking of states and not a state score.

By state

Derivation and caveats

Derived by JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW and each occupation’s published industry mix. QCEW reports employment, wages and establishment counts by industry, not by occupation. These figures are occupation-weighted industry context: they are not direct occupation employment, not a count of current job openings, and not part of the national 0 to 100 Job Market Health score. No state-level score is published anywhere on this site.

Provenance

Every occupation-state record recorded green in the committed source-verification evidence was re-read once from the public read-only QCEW context endpoint, and included only when the SHA-256 hash of its canonical payload matched the audited record exactly. Figures are occupation-weighted industry context derived by JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW and published occupation industry mix; they are not occupation employment counts, job-opening counts or a state health score. Values can be restated when BLS revises QCEW.

Verification coverage

30,842 of 30,842 audited verified records re-read and hash-matched (complete)

Verification evidence id

e1254b8a19c7fd6bb1df55ec7b317eeb2005e588eddbf8453c518cf96ad73d9c

See BLS QCEW, the methodology and about the data. State readings drawn from this release are summarised on state employment momentum.