Payroll jobs, all nonfarm
479,200
Employer payrolls, all nonfarm industries. Not resident employment.
Economy
Albany economy
Retrieved October 8, 2026. Each figure keeps its own geography.
Key figures
Unemployment rate
3.8%
Resident unemployment rate. Not seasonally adjusted. Not a payroll measure.
Civilian labor force
474,390
Resident civilian labor force. Not seasonally adjusted.
Private payroll jobs
373,500
Employer payrolls, private sector. Not seasonally adjusted.
Government payroll jobs
105,000
Employer payrolls, government. Not seasonally adjusted.
Health care and social assistance jobs
69,700
Employer payrolls, health care and social assistance. Not seasonally adjusted.
Manufacturing jobs
27,600
Employer payrolls, manufacturing. Not seasonally adjusted.
Average hourly earnings, private
$36.14
Average hourly earnings of all private employees. Not seasonally adjusted. Not a cost-of-living index.
How to read
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY MSA (CBSA 10580). Metro-wide figures for the five-county Albany-Schenectady-Troy MSA. They are not county or city figures. Counties in that metro: Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schoharie.
Labor figures for the Albany-Schenectady-Troy metro, copied from the Bureau of Labor Statistics series that economy.capitaldistrict.io tracks. Each card names its series, its month and whether it is preliminary.
Payroll jobs count jobs at employers in the metro. The unemployment rate and labor force count residents. They are different surveys, so do not subtract one from the other. Preliminary months are revised.
Preliminary BLS months are revised the next month and again in the annual benchmark.
Not seasonally adjusted series move with the calendar; compare a month with the same month a year earlier.
No figure on this page was estimated for the page. More series and history are on economy.capitaldistrict.io.