Title:               Employed Persons in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI (MSA)
Series ID:           LAUMT171698000000005A
Source:              U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release:             Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment
Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency:           Annual
Units:               Persons
Date Range:          1990-01-01 to 2022-01-01
Last Updated:        2023-05-03 10:36 AM CDT
Notes:               These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), also known
                     as the household survey.
                     
                     Employed persons are all persons who, during the reference week (the
                     week including the 12th day of the month), (a) did any work as paid
                     employees, worked in their own business or profession or on their own
                     farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise
                     operated by a member of their family, or (b) were not working but who
                     had jobs from which they 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.
                     
                     For more details, see the release's frequently asked questions
                     (https://www.bls.gov/lau/laufaq.htm).

DATE          VALUE
1990-01-01  3995359
1991-01-01  3945872
1992-01-01  3992370
1993-01-01  4056722
1994-01-01  4175355
1995-01-01  4261785
1996-01-01  4317117
1997-01-01  4369671
1998-01-01  4409060
1999-01-01  4515013
2000-01-01  4569727
2001-01-01  4506365
2002-01-01  4358186
2003-01-01  4345404
2004-01-01  4388408
2005-01-01  4420571
2006-01-01  4554283
2007-01-01  4621873
2008-01-01  4591093
2009-01-01  4374772
2010-01-01  4348556
2011-01-01  4356254
2012-01-01  4447374
2013-01-01  4466499
2014-01-01  4540603
2015-01-01  4597498
2016-01-01  4648894
2017-01-01  4730600
2018-01-01  4752024
2019-01-01  4769053
2020-01-01  4355645
2021-01-01  4547430
2022-01-01  4734602