Detroit Area Employment — March 2024

Total nonfarm employment for the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, metropolitan area stood at 2,018,000 in March 2024 compared to 2,017,800 a year ago, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1 and table 1.) Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that the employment change over the year was not statistically significant. Nationally, employment rose 1.9 percent over the year. (All data in this release are not seasonally adjusted; accordingly, over-the-year analysis is used throughout.)

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, is made up of two metropolitan divisions-separately identifiable employment centers within the greater metropolitan area. Employment in Warren-Troy-Farmington, MI, was 1,255,600 and accounted for 62 percent of the metropolitan area's total payroll, and Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI, employed 762,400, accounting for 38 percent of the area's employment in March 2024.

Industry employment

In Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, mining, logging, and construction employment rose by 8,200 since March 2023. (See chart 2.) The Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI, division added 5,000 jobs in this supersector.

Professional and business services lost 16,600 jobs in the metropolitan area over the year. The Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI division lost 10,800 jobs, or nearly two-thirds of the metropolitan area's loss in the supersector. The 4.2-percent decline in the metropolitan area's professional and business services supersector compared to the 0.7-percent gain at the national level.

The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment release for April 2024 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. (ET).

Technical Note

This release presents nonfarm payroll employment estimates from the CES program. The CES survey is a Federal-State cooperative endeavor between State employment security agencies and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. More information about the CES data is available in the State Employment and Unemployment Summary and the Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary.

Definitions. Employment data refer to persons on establishment payrolls who receive pay for any part of the pay period which includes the 12th of the month. Persons are counted at their place of work rather than at their place of residence; those appearing on more than one payroll are counted on each payroll. Industries are classified on the basis of their principal activity in accordance with the 2022 version of the North American Industry Classification System.

Method of estimation. CES State and Area employment data are produced using several estimation procedures. Where possible these data are produced using a "weighted link relative" estimation technique in which a ratio of current-month weighted employment to that of the previous-month weighted employment is computed from a sample of establishments reporting for both months. The estimates of employment for the current month are then obtained by multiplying these ratios by the previous month's employment estimates. The weighted link relative technique is utilized for data series where the sample size meets certain statistical criteria. For some employment series, the estimates are produced with a model that uses direct sample estimates (described above) combined with other regressors to compensate for smaller sample sizes.

Annual revisions. Employment estimates are adjusted annually to a complete count of jobs, called benchmarks, derived principally from tax reports which are submitted by employers who are covered under state unemployment insurance (UI) laws. The benchmark information is used to adjust the monthly estimates between the new benchmark and the preceding one and also to establish the level of employment for the new benchmark month. Thus, the benchmarking process establishes the level of employment, and the sample is used to measure the month-to-month changes in the level for the subsequent months. Information on recent benchmark revisions is available in the CES State and Area benchmark article.

Reliability of the estimates. The estimates presented in this release are based on sample surveys, administrative data, and modeling and, thus, are subject to sampling and other types of errors. Sampling error is a measure of sampling variability-that is, variation that occurs by chance because a sample rather than the entire population is surveyed. Survey data also are subject to nonsampling errors, such as those which can be introduced into the data collection and processing operations. Estimates not directly derived from sample surveys are subject to additional errors resulting from the specific estimation processes used. The sums of individual items may not always equal totals shown in the same tables due to rounding.

Employment estimates. Changes in metropolitan area nonfarm payroll employment are cited in the analysis of this release only if they have been determined to be statistically significant at the 90-percent confidence level. Reliability of state and area estimates for the total nonfarm employment series are available for metropolitan areas and metropolitan divisions.

Area definitions. The substate area data published in this news release reflect the delineations issued by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget on April 10, 2018.

The Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, St. Clair, and Wayne Counties in Michigan.

• The Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI Metropolitan Division includes Wayne County in Michigan.

• The Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Metropolitan Division includes Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, and St. Clair Counties in Michigan.

Additional information

State and area employment data from the CES program are available on the BLS website.

Information in this release will be made available to individuals with sensory impairments upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Telecommunications Relay Service: 7-1-1.

Table 1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry supersector, the United States and the Detroit metropolitan area and its components, not seasonally adjusted (numbers in thousands)

Area and Industry	Mar 2023	Jan 2024	Feb 2024	Mar 2024(p)	Mar 2023 to Mar 2024(p)
Net change	Percent change
United States
Total nonfarm	154,253	155,432	156,559	157,218	2,965	1.9
Mining and logging	628	628	632	639	11	1.8
Construction	7,701	7,804	7,860	7,976	275	3.6
Manufacturing	12,889	12,881	12,909	12,912	23	0.2
Trade, transportation, and utilities	28,553	28,795	28,687	28,703	150	0.5
Information	3,036	2,976	2,997	2,997	-39	-1.3
Financial activities	9,094	9,177	9,169	9,166	72	0.8
Professional and business services	22,552	22,549	22,693	22,718	166	0.7
Education and health services	25,133	25,748	26,119	26,205	1,072	4.3
Leisure and hospitality	16,031	16,076	16,225	16,473	442	2.8
Other services	5,750	5,796	5,821	5,858	108	1.9
Government	22,886	23,002	23,447	23,571	685	3.0
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area
Total nonfarm	2,017.8	1,999.4	2,010.3	2,018.0	0.2	0.0
Mining, logging, and construction	76.6	80.0	81.4	84.8	8.2	10.7
Manufacturing	253.4	249.5	249.4	251.3	-2.1	-0.8
Trade, transportation, and utilities	379.6	387.5	385.1	384.2	4.6	1.2
Information	30.9	29.9	29.7	29.5	-1.4	-4.5
Financial activities	124.2	123.1	123.3	122.5	-1.7	-1.4
Professional and business services	394.5	376.8	377.2	377.9	-16.6	-4.2
Education and health services	313.5	313.7	320.3	320.8	7.3	2.3
Leisure and hospitality	181.8	177.1	177.9	179.4	-2.4	-1.3
Other services	75.2	74.5	74.6	75.5	0.3	0.4
Government	188.1	187.3	191.4	192.1	4.0	2.1
Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI Metropolitan Division
Total nonfarm	763.1	757.4	760.8	762.4	-0.7	-0.1
Mining, logging, and construction	22.6	25.9	26.3	27.6	5.0	22.1
Manufacturing	93.9	91.7	91.8	93.8	-0.1	-0.1
Trade, transportation, and utilities	153.4	159.0	158.0	156.9	3.5	2.3
Information	8.4	8.1	8.1	8.0	-0.4	-4.8
Financial activities	40.2	39.2	38.9	38.7	-1.5	-3.7
Professional and business services	132.3	123.4	122.4	121.5	-10.8	-8.2
Education and health services	126.1	127.0	129.0	128.7	2.6	2.1
Leisure and hospitality	70.1	68.4	69.3	69.6	-0.5	-0.7
Other services	29.0	28.5	28.7	29.1	0.1	0.3
Government	87.1	86.2	88.3	88.5	1.4	1.6
Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Metropolitan Division
Total nonfarm	1,254.7	1,242.0	1,249.5	1,255.6	0.9	0.1
Mining, logging, and construction	54.0	54.1	55.1	57.2	3.2	5.9
Manufacturing	159.5	157.8	157.6	157.5	-2.0	-1.3
Trade, transportation, and utilities	226.2	228.5	227.1	227.3	1.1	0.5
Information	22.5	21.8	21.6	21.5	-1.0	-4.4
Financial activities	84.0	83.9	84.4	83.8	-0.2	-0.2
Professional and business services	262.2	253.4	254.8	256.4	-5.8	-2.2
Education and health services	187.4	186.7	191.3	192.1	4.7	2.5
Leisure and hospitality	111.7	108.7	108.6	109.8	-1.9	-1.7
Other services	46.2	46.0	45.9	46.4	0.2	0.4
Government	101.0	101.1	103.1	103.6	2.6	2.6
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