U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment, unemployment, wages, prices, and industry statistics for states and counties, including the Local Area Unemployment Statistics and Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages programs.
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Current Employment Statistics, Idaho total nonfarm employment
Monthly survey of employers estimating the number of paid employees on nonfarm payrolls, by state and industry.
- Organization
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Dataset
- Current Employment Statistics, Idaho total nonfarm employment
- Geography
- Idaho
- Time coverage
- 2024-2025
- Update frequency
- Monthly
- Published
- 2026
- Retrieved
- September 8, 2026
- Original file
- https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/SMS16000000000000001
- Methodology
- https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/ces/home.htm
- License
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Our copy
- bls-ces, built by
scripts/fetch-bls-ces.py
Caveats
- This series is seasonally adjusted (BLS/FRED do not publish a not-seasonally-adjusted state total nonfarm series on the free channels this puller could reach).
- BLS's own flat-file host (download.bls.gov) returned a persistent Akamai bot-mitigation block (HTTP 403) to every attempt to fetch this series directly, so this puller uses a fallback: the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's FRED (series IDNA, a free keyless mirror of this exact BLS series, back to 1990) if reachable, else the registration-free BLS API v1 (series SMS16000000000000001), whose unregistered window is capped to roughly the trailing 3 years regardless of the date range requested.
- This specific pull found FRED also unavailable (it began refusing connections partway through this session, after working earlier for other pulls in this same session) and used the API v1 fallback, so this dataset covers only 2024 and 2025 -- the complete calendar years inside that rolling window at pull time -- not the 1990-2025 span the underlying series actually has. Re-running this puller when FRED is reachable again will backfill the full history without any code change.
- The annual figure is this puller's own computed mean of the year's 12 seasonally adjusted monthly values, the convention BLS itself uses for an annual-average nonfarm employment figure.
- The source publishes this series in thousands of persons to one decimal place; this puller multiplies by 1,000 to store a people count, so only the hundreds digit of the stored value is meaningful.
- Idaho Department of Labor (lmi.idaho.gov) republishes BLS CES nonfarm employment figures for Idaho; no disagreement with BLS's own numbers was found or is expected.
Measures
- Total nonfarm employment (people): All employees on nonfarm payrolls, seasonally adjusted, annual average.
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
Monthly and annual estimates of the labor force, employment, unemployment and the unemployment rate for the nation, states and counties, produced with the states as BLS's cooperating agencies.
- Organization
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Dataset
- Local Area Unemployment Statistics
- Geography
- Nation, states, and Idaho's 44 counties
- Time coverage
- 1976-2025 (states, US), 1990-2025 (Idaho counties), plus recent months
- Update frequency
- Monthly
- Published
- 2026
- Retrieved
- September 8, 2026
- Original file
- https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.19.Idaho
- Methodology
- https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/lau/home.htm
- License
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Our copy
- bls-laus, built by
scripts/fetch-bls-laus.py
Caveats
- Idaho (state and all 44 counties) comes directly from BLS's own flat file, la.data.19.Idaho -- its annual figures are BLS's own published annual-average row (period M13), not an average this puller computed.
- Every other state, DC and the US came from a fallback source because BLS's flat-file host (download.bls.gov) returned a persistent Akamai bot-mitigation block (HTTP 403) to every request this puller tried, for every geography but the one Idaho file. The puller tries the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's FRED (a free, keyless mirror of these exact BLS series, verified to match Idaho's own BLS values to the tenth of a point) first; if FRED is also unavailable it falls back to the registration-free BLS API v1, which never blocked this puller but caps an unregistered client to roughly the trailing 3 years of data regardless of the date range requested.
- This specific pull found FRED unavailable (fred.stlouisfed.org also began refusing connections partway through this session, after having worked earlier) and used the API v1 fallback, so the other 50 states, DC and the US carry only 2024 and 2025 (the complete calendar years inside that rolling window at pull time), not the full 1976-2025 span Idaho has. Re-running this puller when FRED is reachable again will backfill the full history for these geographies without any code change.
- For the other states/DC, the annual figure is this puller's own computed mean of the year's 12 (or, for 2025, 11) not-seasonally-adjusted monthly rates, the same method BLS itself uses; for the US it is BLS's own published annual-average (period M13) from series LNU04000000, used directly.
- 2025 is an 11-month average (October excluded) for every geography: the household survey underlying LAUS and the national CPS unemployment rate was not conducted in October 2025 because of that month's federal government shutdown (lapse in appropriations). BLS's own Idaho data carries this as footnote code G on the 2025 annual row; the same gap appears in every other state's and the US's monthly series.
- LAUS annual estimates are subject to revision the following spring when BLS re-benchmarks the state and area estimates against updated Current Population Survey and QCEW inputs; 2025 in particular is not yet through that cycle.
- Idaho Department of Labor (lmi.idaho.gov) republishes these same BLS LAUS figures for Idaho -- it is BLS's cooperating state agency for this program, not an independent survey -- so no disagreement with BLS's own numbers was found or is expected.
Measures
- Unemployment rate (percent): Unemployed as a share of the civilian labor force. Annual figures are not seasonally adjusted; the recent-months series for Idaho and the US is seasonally adjusted.
- Labor force (people): Civilian labor force: employed plus unemployed people 16 and older. Annual, not seasonally adjusted.
- Employment (people): Number of people employed, by place of residence. Annual, not seasonally adjusted.
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages
Employment and wages covered by state unemployment insurance laws, compiled from employer reports and covering roughly 95 percent of US jobs. Annual averages, total covered (all ownership sectors combined) and by NAICS supersector.
- Organization
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Dataset
- Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages
- Geography
- Nation, states, and Idaho's 44 counties
- Time coverage
- 2001-2025 (avg_annual_wage, covered_employment); 2004, 2014, 2025 (industry breakdown)
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Published
- 2026
- Retrieved
- September 8, 2026
- Original file
- https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/files/2025/csv/2025_annual_by_area.zip
- Methodology
- https://www.bls.gov/cew/overview.htm
- License
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Our copy
- bls-qcew, built by
scripts/fetch-bls-qcew.py
Caveats
- avg_annual_wage and covered_employment are "Total Covered" (own_code 0): federal, state and local government plus private employment combined, all industries, at BLS aggregation level 10 (national), 50 (state) or 70 (county).
- employment_by_industry and avg_annual_wage_by_industry use the 12-category NAICS supersector breakdown (aggregation level 13 nationally, 53 for Idaho), not the coarser 2-category domain level or the finer 21-category NAICS sector level, and cover Idaho and the US only, for 2004, 2014 and 2025.
- QCEW does not publish a combined-ownership (own_code 0) row at the industry-breakdown level, only at the total-all-industries level. employment_by_industry sums annual_avg_emplvl across the four ownership sectors (federal, state, local, private); avg_annual_wage_by_industry divides the ownership-summed total_annual_wages by that same summed employment. Both are BLS's own published figures recombined by this puller's arithmetic, not independently estimated.
- avg_annual_pay in the source is already rounded to the nearest dollar; avg_annual_wage_by_industry (a puller computation, see above) is rounded to the nearest dollar to match.
- A row QCEW suppresses for confidentiality (a non-blank disclosure_code) is omitted rather than estimated; Idaho's 2004, 2014 and 2025 supersector breakdowns can therefore have fewer than 12 industries in a given year.
- Idaho Department of Labor (lmi.idaho.gov) republishes QCEW figures for Idaho industries and wages; no disagreement with BLS's own numbers was found or is expected, since Idaho LMI is not an independent survey of this data.
Measures
- Average annual wage (usd): Total covered wages divided by total covered average annual employment, all ownership sectors and industries combined.
- Covered employment (people): Average annual employment covered by state unemployment insurance laws, all ownership sectors and industries combined.
- Employment by industry (people): Average annual covered employment by NAICS supersector, all ownership sectors combined.
- Average annual wage by industry (usd): Average annual wage by NAICS supersector, all ownership sectors combined.