Equal Opportunity Employer
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Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages
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The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program, also known as QCEW, produces a comprehensive tabulation of employment and wage information for workers covered by state of Idaho unemployment insurance laws and federal workers covered by the Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees program. QCEW covers approximately 98 percent of total employment in the United States and over 90 percent of employment in Idaho.
Data from the QCEW series include number of firms, monthly employment, average monthly employment per quarter, total quarterly wages, average weekly wage by industry using the North American Industry Classification System up to 6 digits, ownership as private, federal government, state government or local government, and location by county, region and state.
QCEW data provides the most comprehensive count of monthly employment and quarterly wage data, particularly at the local level. Detailed industry and geographical data is published both quarterly and annually. QCEW summaries are not necessarily comparable from one year to another because the data are technically not a time series between the years. Most corrections to industry and county codes are made during the first quarter of each year. This timing leads to shifts in data every January. Nevertheless, the microdata from the QCEW program are the source of the Business Employment Dynamics data. But unlike QCEW, Business Employment Dynamics data are a time series.
Being the most comprehensive data set available, QCEW is widely used as a sample framework and benchmark for other established Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys. QCEW data are used in calculating Gross Domestic Product statistics and are a primary source for detailed county data by industry. Detailed geo-coded maps of employment and industry most commonly used to locate businesses in federal disaster areas rely on QCEW data.
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Despite metropolitan Boise’s status as Idaho’s commercial, financial and government center, one of every six jobs is in agriculture or tied to it.
Wage records of Idaho employers for 2008 show 17 percent of jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the five-county metro area were in what the U.S. Department of Agriculture defines as the agriculture sector. But those jobs accounted for just 9.4 percent of the wages paid last year, and the average wage in the sector was barely half the average for all industries. Read more... 05/28/2009
Idaho Employment, Wage Activity - 2nd Quarter 2008
Employment increased to 661,900 from the first to the second quarter in 2008. But at just 21,800 jobs, or 3.4 percent, it was the smallest increase since 2003 when the Idaho economy was hit by mass closings and layoffs in the manufacturing sector. Compared to the second quarter in 2007, job growth was off 4,400, nearly 0.7 percent. The last time year-over-year second quarter job growth was lower was in 2002 when new jobs fell 0.25 percent below the year-earlier mark. The seasonal decline in the first quarter from the fourth quarter 2007 was also the sharpest since 2003, showing 24,400 jobs lost. During the first half of 2008 Idaho’s economy performed worse than in early 2000s recessionary period. Read more... Updated 03/20/2009
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Current Data
(updated 3/15/2009)
Archived Data
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Current Publications
(updated 3/20/2009)
Archived Publications
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