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Labor area summaries provide labor market information for metropolitan areas and counties in
Washington state. We refresh these data once a month, following a federal Bureau of Labor Statistics
schedule. View the schedule on the Monthly Employment Report page.
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Labor area summaries
Select area: Kitsap County (Bremerton MSA)
Unemployment rates | Nonfarm industry employment | Employment and unemployment | Total
nonfarm employment | Glossary
Unemployment rates
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2012 8.1% 8.4% 8.2% 7.4% 7.6% 7.5% 7.5% 7.5% 6.8% 6.5% 6.6% 7.0%
2013 7.8% 7.9% 7.5% 6.8% 7.0% 7.1% 6.7% 6.4% 6.2% 6.3% 6.0% 6.0%
2014 6.2% 7.0% 6.6% 5.5%
Source: Washington State Employment Security Department, Labor Market and Performance Analysis
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Nonfarm industry employment
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2012 82,400 82,300 82,700 83,100 84,200 84,400 84,000 83,900 83,500 84,200 84,200 83,900
2013 82,400 82,500 82,500 83,000 83,500 84,300 83,900 83,600 83,400 84,100 84,500 84,400
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2014 82,900 82,900 83,100 83,500
Source: Washington State Employment Security Department, Labor Market and Performance Analysis
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Employment and unemployment
Employment and unemployment, not seasonally adjusted, in
Kitsap County (Bremerton MSA)
Change
Labor force classification
(place of residence)
Preliminary
Apr-14
Revised
Mar-14
Revised
Apr-13
Mar-14
Apr-14
Apr-13
Apr-14
Apr-13
Apr-14 %
Civilian Labor Force 115,110 116,320 116,370 -1,210 -1,260 -1.1%
Employment 108,770 108,690 108,500 80 270 0.2%
Unemployment 6,340 7,630 7,870 -1,290 -1,530 -19.4%
Unemployment Rate % 5.5% 6.6% 6.8% -1.1% -1.3% -19.1%
Source: Washington State Employment Security Department, Labor Market and Performance Analysis
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Total nonfarm employment
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Total nonfarm employment, not seasonally adjusted, in
Kitsap County (Bremerton MSA)
Change
NAICS industry title
(place of work)
Preliminary
Apr-14
Revised
Mar-14
Revised
Apr-13
Mar-14
Apr-14
Apr-13
Apr-14
Apr-13
Apr-14 %
Total Nonfarm 83,500 83,100 83,000 400 500 0.6%
Total Private 54,600 54,300 53,700 300 900 1.7%
Goods Producing 6,000 5,900 5,400 100 600 11.1%
Mining, Logging, and Construction 3,900 3,800 3,500 100 400 11.4%
Manufacturing 2,100 2,100 1,900 0 200 10.5%
Service-Providing 77,500 77,200 77,600 300 -100 -0.1%
Private Service Providing 48,600 48,400 48,300 200 300 0.6%
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities 12,200 12,100 12,100 100 100 0.8%
Retail Trade 9,900 9,800 9,900 100 0
Professional and Business Services 6,600 6,600 7,100 0 -500 -7.0%
Leisure and Hospitality 8,000 7,900 7,800 100 200 2.6%
Government 28,900 28,800 29,300 100 -400 -1.4%
Federal 16,200 16,200 16,500 0 -300 -1.8%
State government 2,000 2,000 2,000 0 0
Local government 10,700 10,600 10,800 100 -100 -0.9%
Workers in Labor Management Disputes 0 0 0 0 0
Source: Washington State Employment Security Department, Labor Market and Performance Analysis Branch
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MD = Metropolitan Division
MSA = Metropolitan or Micropolitan Statistical Area
* = County not available separately from MSA
Glossary
Employment (Current Population Survey)
Persons 16 years and over in the civilian noninstitutional population who, during the reference week, (a) did any work at all (at least 1 hour)
as paid employees; worked in their own business, profession, or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an
enterprise operated by a member of the family; and (b) all those who were not working but who had jobs or businesses from which they
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were temporarily absent because of vacation, illness, bad weather, childcare problems, maternity or paternity leave, labor-management
dispute, job training, or other family or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time off or were seeking other jobs. Each
employed person is counted only once, even if he or she holds more than one job. Excluded are persons whose only activity consisted of
work around their own house (painting, repairing, or own home housework) or volunteer work for religious, charitable, and other
organizations.
Labor force (Current Population Survey)
The labor force includes all persons classified as employed or unemployed in accordance with the definitions contained in this glossary.
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
The successor to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system; this system of classifying business establishments is being adopted by
the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Not seasonally adjusted
This term is used to describe data series that have not been subjected to the seasonal adjustment process. In other words, the effects of
regular or seasonal patterns have not been removed from these series.
Total nonfarm employment (Current Employment Statistics)
Employment is the total number of persons on establishment payrolls employed full or part time who received pay for any part of the pay
period which includes the 12th day of the month. Temporary and intermittent employees are included, as are any workers who are on paid
sick leave, on paid holiday, or who work during only part of the specified pay period. A striking worker who only works a small portion of
the survey period, and is paid, would be included as employed under the CES definitions. Persons on the payroll of more than one
establishment are counted in each establishment. Data exclude proprietors, self-employed, unpaid family or volunteer workers, farm
workers, and domestic workers. Persons on layoff the entire pay period, on leave without pay, on strike for the entire period or who have
not yet reported for work are not counted as employed. Government employment covers only civilian workers. With the release of
NAICS-based estimates in June 2003, the scope and definition of Federal Government employment estimates changed due to a change in
source data and estimation methods. The previous series was an end-of-month federal employee count produced by the Office of Personnel
Management, and it excluded some workers, mostly employees who work in Department of Defense-owned establishments such as military
base commissaries. Beginning in June 2003, the CES national series began to include these workers. Also, Federal Government employment
is now estimated from a sample of Federal establishments, is benchmarked annually to counts from unemployment insurance tax records,
and reflects employee counts as of the pay period including the 12th of the month, consistent with other CES industry series. The historical
time series for Federal Government employment was revised to reflect these changes.
Unemployment (Current Population Survey)
Persons aged 16 years and older who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness,
and had made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons who were
waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.
Unemployment rate
The unemployment rate represents the number unemployed as a percent of the labor force.
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