Washington Area Employment — September 2023

Total nonfarm employment for the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, metropolitan area increased by 78,000 over the year in September,the local rate of job gain, 2.4 percent, compared to the 2.1-percent national increase. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, is made up of two metropolitan divisions—separately identifiable employment centers within the greater metropolitan area. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, division, with 82 percent of the metropolitan area’s total nonfarm employment, added 70,100 jobs from September 2022 to September 2023. The Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, MD, division accounted for 18 percent of the area’s employment and had an employment level of 601,600 in September 2023. In Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, education and health services had the largest gain (+20,500) among the metropolitan area’s private-industry supersectors, with both divisions recording increases. Much of the employment gain in this supersector was concentrated in the health care and social assistance sector (+15,800).