Labor Force Participation (Annual)

Annual Labor Force Participation Rate, Ages 25-54 Years

What does this mean?

The labor force participation rate is the percentage of the civilian noninstitutional population that is working or actively looking for work.

Why does this matter?

The labor force participation rate is an important labor market measure because it represents the relative amount of labor resources available for the production of goods and services.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

Labor Force Participation (Annual)

State	2015-01	2016-01	2017-01	2018-01	2019-01	2020-01
Alabama	77.10	76.30	76.10	76.60	78.10	78.10
Alaska	80.00	80.90	82.10	80.40	79.50	79.60
Arizona	77.80	79.40	80.30	80.30	82.10	81.50
Arkansas	77.40	78.40	79.30	77.50	78.50	78.00
California	79.00	79.30	79.90	80.50	80.70	78.80
Colorado	83.20	84.10	85.90	86.00	86.70	85.50
Connecticut	84.50	83.90	84.50	85.60	86.00	84.20
Delaware	83.90	85.20	84.10	84.50	85.70	84.90
District of Columbia	85.60	86.00	86.40	86.60	88.10	86.70
Florida	80.10	80.30	80.80	81.10	81.60	80.00
Georgia	78.90	80.10	80.80	81.70	80.70	79.10
Hawaii	82.00	81.50	81.50	81.20	81.40	79.80
Idaho	82.20	83.30	83.70	83.00	82.80	82.20
Illinois	82.50	83.70	82.60	82.70	83.60	82.70
Indiana	82.30	83.30	83.00	83.90	82.80	82.80
Iowa	89.70	88.10	87.90	88.30	89.00	86.50
Kansas	85.80	85.20	84.50	84.60	85.90	86.10
Kentucky	74.50	77.10	78.50	79.40	79.50	77.80
Louisiana	77.70	78.70	78.50	78.90	78.70	78.50
Maine	80.90	82.10	82.70	84.50	84.70	82.90
Maryland	84.60	84.60	84.90	85.60	86.80	83.50
Massachusetts	83.50	83.20	84.40	85.30	84.40	83.80
Michigan	79.80	79.90	80.70	81.90	82.30	80.50
Minnesota	88.10	87.60	89.20	87.70	88.10	87.90
Mississippi	76.40	76.10	77.10	78.20	76.30	76.20
Missouri	84.80	84.30	83.70	84.40	84.20	83.70
Montana	84.70	84.20	82.70	83.30	85.10	84.70
Nebraska	85.40	87.90	87.50	88.00	88.80	87.50
Nevada	81.50	80.60	80.50	82.40	83.80	80.00
New Hampshire	85.30	85.80	87.50	87.70	87.80	86.80
New Jersey	81.60	81.70	83.50	83.50	85.10	83.30
New Mexico	76.70	76.50	76.60	77.60	77.60	77.30
New York	79.50	79.60	80.30	80.90	80.60	79.90
North Carolina	79.80	80.90	80.30	81.10	82.00	80.50
North Dakota	86.20	87.30	87.90	86.80	87.60	87.70
Ohio	81.90	82.00	82.10	82.10	83.40	82.70
Oklahoma	79.00	78.10	78.90	78.80	80.20	78.60
Oregon	80.30	82.20	83.00	82.80	82.90	82.00
Pennsylvania	82.50	83.50	82.80	84.00	83.80	83.40
Rhode Island	83.10	81.40	83.20	84.20	84.70	82.40
South Carolina	80.40	79.60	78.30	79.60	80.80	81.00
South Dakota	87.50	85.20	86.50	87.80	88.20	86.70
Tennessee	77.30	78.30	80.40	79.50	81.60	80.90
Texas	79.90	80.70	81.00	81.20	81.20	80.80
Utah	80.30	81.90	82.60	81.70	82.70	82.20
Vermont	83.90	85.10	86.30	86.40	86.00	84.70
Virginia	82.90	83.30	84.10	83.20	84.20	83.90
Washington	81.20	81.80	81.50	82.30	83.60	82.90
West Virginia	73.00	74.10	74.70	75.10	78.30	78.80
Wisconsin	87.40	89.10	88.40	87.80	87.70	86.30
Wyoming	84.20	85.20	84.00	84.70	85.80	85.50
U.S. Average	81.72	82.13	82.50	82.80	83.37	82.39