Economics & Demographics Program

Maine Employment and Unemployment data

There are 2 basic measures of employment; Resident Employment, developed from a survey of households, and Non-farm Wage & Salary Employment (also called Payroll Employment), which is developed from a survey of employers. The Wage & Salary Employment data includes only those people on payrolls and excludes the self-employed and agricultural workers. Also, it is really a count of jobs, as one person may be on two or more payrolls and be counted each time.

All data shown below is from the Maine Department of Labor; Labor Information Services.

Wage & Salary Employment (pdf file 12k)

Resident Employment (pdf file 7k)

For more detailed or more current employment/unemployment data, visit the Maine Department of Labor; Labor Market Information Services at http://www.state.me.us/labor/lmis/