Employment
The number of people with paid jobs (or self-employment)—the numerator behind job growth and a counterpart to unemployment and participation.
Headline employment counts track payrolls or household surveys depending on the source. Changes in employment reflect hiring, layoffs, and whether people move in or out of the labor force.
Comparing employment to population highlights demographic booms or “jobless recoveries” where output rises but hiring lags.
Regional data
The project content plan ties employment, unemployment, wages, productivity, unions, and labor force participation to a planned state_labor_metrics layer—employment is the positive side of the same labor-market coin.