Current Employment Statistics (CES) is a BLS program produced as a state and federal partnership. These are monthly employment numbers at the National, State, and Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) levels.
Data Sources
| National | State/Local | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source | BLS | BLS | The only sub-state data available is for MSAs and can be downloaded with the state data. State and MSA data will be published by the BLS later than National Data. |
| ACESWeb | This is for editing and controlled access by LMI Analysts. State-level data is available for download before official BLS publication. | ||
| WID Version? | Download Here | Download Here | This comes from publicly available BLS data and will be available shortly after the official publication date/time. In 2023 some new codes were added. |
Table Format
With version 2.5, data fields were reconfigured to reflect the availability of data for All Workers (prior to the change, CES data was produced for Production Workers only)
Update Calendar
National: https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/empsit.htm
State/Metro Areas: https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/metro.htm
Related Tables
Links to the table description in the current structure document. Note: Page anchors do not work in Microsoft Edge (the default browser for some states).
