Table Data - Employed Persons in Tennessee

Title Employed Persons in Tennessee
Series ID LAUST470000000000005A
Source U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release Unemployment in States and Local Areas (all other areas) (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1976-01-01 to 2025-01-01
Last Updated 2026-04-16 1:08 PM CDT
Notes These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), also known as the household survey.

Civilian Labor Force includes all persons in the civilian noninstitutional population ages 16 and older classified as either employed or unemployed.

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.

Unemployed persons are all persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment some time 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.

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DATE VALUE
1976-01-01 1745655
1977-01-01 1816156
1978-01-01 1861117
1979-01-01 1916951
1980-01-01 1919912
1981-01-01 1923396
1982-01-01 1879496
1983-01-01 1923659
1984-01-01 2023130
1985-01-01 2063862
1986-01-01 2099293
1987-01-01 2159553
1988-01-01 2179833
1989-01-01 2225504
1990-01-01 2268518
1991-01-01 2259563
1992-01-01 2310842
1993-01-01 2386937
1994-01-01 2527786
1995-01-01 2579772
1996-01-01 2615161
1997-01-01 2630276
1998-01-01 2683018
1999-01-01 2723647
2000-01-01 2735994
2001-01-01 2726557
2002-01-01 2748563
2003-01-01 2746039
2004-01-01 2745192
2005-01-01 2740356
2006-01-01 2858723
2007-01-01 2906077
2008-01-01 2869477
2009-01-01 2733219
2010-01-01 2791618
2011-01-01 2837073
2012-01-01 2856495
2013-01-01 2849509
2014-01-01 2852672
2015-01-01 2907967
2016-01-01 2987176
2017-01-01 3068306
2018-01-01 3136967
2019-01-01 3218077
2020-01-01 3049480
2021-01-01 3184710
2022-01-01 3266847
2023-01-01 3294385
2024-01-01 3341996
2025-01-01 3404626

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