Nonfarm wage and salary jobs, hours, and earnings for sectors and in total for the state and metro areas. Monthly and annual estimates are derived from a large survey of employers. Data represents the number jobs held with employers, not the number of employed residents in an area.
Additional information on Maine's current employment situation can be found on our monthly news release.
Interactive Data Pages
- Nonfarm Payroll Job Estimates by Industry
- Which Industries are Growing in Maine?
- Net Job Change in Maine for the Last 8 Recessions
January 2025 | December 2024 | January 2024 | Net Change | Percent Change | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Over the Month | Over the Year | Over the Month | Over the Year | ||||
| Maine | 659.4 | 658.3 | 656.2 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 0.2% | 0.5% |
| U.S. | 159,067 | 158,942 | 157,049 | 125 | 2,018 | 0.1% | 1.3% |
- Learn More about Current Employment Statistics
Each month about 3,000 nonfarm employer establishments in Maine report wage and salary jobs, hours, and earnings of workers on their payrolls. The survey, which represents nearly 30 percent of nonfarm jobs in the state, provides a close to real-time indication of jobs in sectors and in total. Nonfarm jobs estimates tend to provide a reliable portrayal of the direction and magnitude of change over a sequence of multiple months; variability from one specific month to another tends to be less indicative than the general pattern over many months. Nonfarm jobs data is a time-series – it is directly comparable from one period to another.
Nonfarm jobs estimates are revised following each calendar year (published in March), after they have been benchmarked to the complete count of jobs reported by nearly all employers in tax filings (a dataset that lags by about six months). Nonfarm jobs data is published both on a seasonally- and a not seasonally-adjusted basis. Seasonally adjusted data allows users to observe the broader underlying trend; not seasonally-adjusted data allows users to observe seasonal fluctuations, which differ among industries and areas of the state. Nonfarm jobs data represents the place of each individual’s work, not their place of residence. (Most do not work in the town where they live, but within close proximity.) Extensive information on CES, including methods of collection, compilation and much more, is available at bls.gov/ces/