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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Idaho Employment, Wage Activity - 4th Quarter 2008
For the first time in over a decade, Idaho saw jobs decline from the third to the fourth quarter of 2008 as the national recession repressed holiday spending and left merchants with little need for addition staff. Covered employment reported through the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages totaled 643,854 in the October-December quarter, down from 667,875 in the third quarter. The fourth quarter total was also 21,434 below the fourth quarter of 2007. The dramatic decline brought job levels back to where they were in first quarter of 2008. All but a handful of industries felt the declines, and the others saw typically modest gains. The largest was nearly 5,500 in public schools, reflecting the resumption of schools in the fall. Read more... Updated 10/23/2009
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
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Current Data
(updated 8/18/2009)
Archived Data
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Current Publications
(updated 7/21/2009)
Archived Publications
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