The local economy of New York and its counties, metro areas and cities, from official US government data, plus daily local gas prices for the state, its counties and metro areas.
Unemployment rate
4.3%
-0.2 ptsvs a year ago
Counties: lowest Yates County 2.9%, highest Bronx County 7.1%.
August 2026, seasonally adjusted, preliminary
Average weekly pay
$2,363
+6.5%vs a year ago
9,743,576 jobs at 710,513 business locations.
Q1 2026, all jobs
New homes permitted
48,587
+49.4%this year vs last year
Most in Bronx County 9,578, Kings County 9,021.
Homes in the last 12 months, to August 2026
People moving in
-164,112
-10.7 per 1,000residents
276,012 moved in and 440,124 moved out. Most newcomers came from New Jersey.
Net people, 2022 to 2023, the newest year published
New York gas price
$4.46
+$1.29vs a year ago
Counties: lowest Seneca County $4.26, highest Hamilton County $4.81. Counties and metro areas
Regular, per gallon, New York, October 10, 2026
Newest data: -. Not seasonally adjusted: compare with the same month a year earlier. Click a row for the history of that area.
The state, its counties and metro areas, updated daily. A separate series from the weekly survey prices above.
Business locations, employees and payroll by industry, 2023. Click an industry for its US report.
Business locations
541K
+0.2%vs 2022
2023, places with paid employees
Employees
8.77M
+4.0%vs 2022
Largest sector: Health Care and Social Assistance (21.2%).
2023, mid-March
Annual payroll
$751.6B
Wages and salaries paid during the year.
2023, all industries
Average pay
$85,730
Highest sector: Finance and Insurance $253,324.
Per employee per year
Share of New York's employees, 2023
| Industry | Employees | Average pay |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants and Other Eating Places | 598,860 | $30,359 |
| Employment Services | 473,168 | $116,082 |
| General Medical and Surgical Hospitals | 421,734 | $94,817 |
| Individual and Family Services | 328,981 | $35,225 |
| Home Health Care Services | 306,913 | $32,884 |
| Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | 265,885 | $73,148 |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 211,253 | $151,526 |
| Grocery Stores | 191,013 | $30,112 |
| Offices of Physicians | 154,739 | $97,095 |
| Depository Credit Intermediation | 153,244 | $170,001 |
| Building Equipment Contractors | 130,290 | $82,248 |
| Legal Services | 120,764 | $159,552 |
Most values are changed slightly to protect the privacy of single businesses; a few are withheld and shown as a range. Counties and metro areas have the same numbers in the area card above (Industries).
Offered pay in certified work-visa filings, fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025). Click a company for its jobs and salaries.
In fiscal year 2025, employers offered a median of $130,000 a year in 41,767 certified H-1B filings for jobs in New York, up 4.0% from 2024 (US: $120,000). The largest job group was Software Developers. Fiscal year 2026 so far covers filings decided through Jun 30, 2026.
Median offered pay
$130,000
+4.0%vs 2024
Middle half: $93,000 to $179,982.
H-1B, fiscal year 2025
H-1B filings
41,767
+12.5%vs 2024
76,649 positions asked for.
Certified, full-time, fiscal year 2025
Top job group
$157,000
Software Developers, 8,018 filings.
Median offered pay of the largest job group
Green card jobs
$135,000
-2.6%vs 2024
9,410 PERM filings.
PERM median, fiscal year 2025
Median and middle half of the offers in New York, next to the US median. Hover a year for the numbers.
| Job group | Filings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | 8,018 | $157,000 |
| Financial and Investment Analysts | 3,146 | $155,000 |
| Data Scientists | 2,875 | $141,170 |
| Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians | 1,867 | $121,514 |
| Financial Quantitative Analysts | 1,684 | $164,174 |
| Accountants and Auditors | 1,346 | $104,750 |
| Lawyers | 1,128 | $225,000 |
| Operations Research Analysts | 1,044 | $143,000 |
| Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | 1,002 | $85,000 |
| Management Analysts | 944 | $140,000 |
| Employer | Filings | Cities |
|---|---|---|
| Ernst & Young U.S. LLP | 1,544 | 63 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC AMZN | 1,029 | 15 |
| Google LLC GOOG | 904 | 8 |
| Meta Platforms, Inc. META | 783 | 7 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 591 | 3 |
| Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC GS | 475 | 2 |
| Bloomberg L.P. | 397 | 2 |
| Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. MS | 370 | 3 |
| Grandison Management | 301 | 79 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | 279 | 10 |
| City | Filings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 29,525 | $150,000 | $110,000 to $189,592 |
| Brooklyn | 1,667 | $102,000 | $78,645 to $151,400 |
| Buffalo | 712 | $103,678 | $80,750 to $151,520 |
| Bronx | 694 | $87,360 | $76,343 to $110,491 |
| Rochester | 680 | $88,005 | $72,000 to $103,366 |
| Albany | 644 | $93,600 | $80,290 to $110,060 |
| Long Island City | 502 | $124,378 | $91,894 to $160,000 |
| Syracuse | 259 | $79,535 | $61,301 to $109,500 |
| Ithaca | 236 | $87,849 | $68,430 to $136,112 |
| White Plains | 207 | $121,514 | $95,000 to $148,580 |
Yearly pay that employers offered in certified work-visa filings (H-1B, E-3 and PERM green card), from official public data. Pay is the lower end of the offered pay range, for full-time positions only. These are offered pay figures for positions in work-visa filings, not the pay of all employees. A filing is an offer for a position, not a hire, and one person can appear in several filings. Fiscal years run from October to September. Groups with fewer than 3 filings show counts only. Employers are ranked by filings in the cities of New York added up.
Declared disasters and flood insurance claims: what happened, from official public data.
New York has had 118 declared disasters and emergencies since 1954, 68 of them since 2000, most often Severe Storm. Flood insurance has paid $5.7 billion on 175,430 claims since 1978; the biggest year was 2012 ($4.2 billion).
Declared disasters
68
45 major disasters. Most often Severe Storm (31 since 1954).
Since 2000, all types; 118 since 1954
Flood claims paid
$333.2M
11,892 claims. Biggest year 2012 ($4.2B).
2016 to 2025, flood insurance
Policies in force
167,127
Average premium $1,151 a year.
2025, flood insurance policies
Most-declared county
30
Delaware County, latest Sep 24, 2024.
Declarations since 2000
Declarations for New York, 1954 to today
Claims paid in New York by the year of the flood, US dollars
Declarations since 1954
Declarations naming the county since 2000; statewide ones not counted
All years since 1978; policies are a yearly average. Top 15 of 62.
| # | County | Claims | Paid | Policies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nassau County | 51,523 | $2.3B | 45,119 |
| 2 | Suffolk County | 33,936 | $1.1B | 34,780 |
| 3 | Queens County | 14,948 | $707.5M | 16,394 |
| 4 | Kings County | 6,319 | $329.9M | 15,173 |
| 5 | Richmond County | 19,422 | $282.2M | 6,493 |
| 6 | Westchester County | 12,259 | $272.8M | 7,629 |
| 7 | Broome County | 3,103 | $138.3M | 2,264 |
| 8 | New York County | 1,498 | $120.8M | 10,693 |
| 9 | Tioga County | 1,558 | $61.3M | 895 |
| 10 | Rockland County | 3,480 | $45.4M | 1,692 |
| 11 | Delaware County | 1,291 | $39.6M | 917 |
| 12 | Schoharie County | 666 | $31.4M | 406 |
| 13 | Ulster County | 1,279 | $30.2M | 1,218 |
| 14 | Bronx County | 1,945 | $27.4M | 3,059 |
| 15 | Orange County | 2,032 | $26.8M | 1,815 |
A declaration opens federal help after a disaster; it can name counties or the whole state. Flood insurance numbers count insured losses only (most homes have no flood insurance) and are not adjusted for inflation; the current year is data so far. For the flood-zone risk of a place, open the area on the real estate map.
Environmental compliance records, workplace safety inspections and greenhouse gas reports of facilities in New York, from official public data.
Official public data lists 16,521 facilities in New York with records since 2010, 16,408 of them with environmental compliance records. In 2022 to 2026, the largest penalties were at Fcina - Delhi in Delhi ($2,984,677). 295 large facilities reported 38.1 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2023, down 5.6% from 2022.
Facilities with records
16,521
16,408 with environmental records.
Since 2010
Largest penalties
$2.98M
Fcina - Delhi, Delhi.
One facility, 2022 to 2026
Greenhouse gases
38.1M t
-5.6%vs 2022
295 reporting facilities.
Metric tons CO2e, 2023
Largest emitter
3.14M t
Astoria Energy LLC - Astoria Terminal, Astoria.
Metric tons CO2e, 2023
| Facility | Penalties | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| Fcina - Delhi Delhi | $2,984,677 | 5 |
| Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant Staten Island | $1,776,745 | 14 |
| Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant Bronx | $1,564,773 | 31 |
| Tallman Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Queens | $1,528,718 | 12 |
| Nycdep - Red Hook Wpcp Brooklyn | $1,495,469 | 10 |
| Wards Island Water Pollution Control Plant Manhattan | $1,483,750 | 20 |
| Nycdep - Bowery Bay Wrrf Astoria | $1,483,040 | 18 |
| Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant Brooklyn | $1,423,250 | 16 |
| Coney Island Water Pollution Control Plant Brooklyn | $1,412,650 | 31 |
| North River Water Pollution Control Plant New York | $1,386,224 | 28 |
| Facility | Metric tons CO2e |
|---|---|
| Astoria Energy LLC - Astoria Terminal Astoria | 3,136,190 |
| Bethlehem Energy Center (Albany) Glenmont | 2,273,112 |
| East River New York | 1,995,501 |
| Cricket Valley Energy Center Dover Plains | 1,968,352 |
| CPV Valley Energy Center Middletown | 1,589,336 |
| Independence Station Scriba | 1,580,358 |
| Northport Northport | 1,434,384 |
| Helix Generation - Ravenswood Generating Station Long Island City | 1,286,201 |
| Poletti 500 MW CC Astoria | 1,283,579 |
| Empire Generating CO, LLC. Rensselaer | 1,219,364 |
Large facilities in New York, metric tons of CO2 equivalent. Hover a year for the number.
Their facilities in New York, 2022 to 2026. Click a company for its Risk & Compliance tab.
| Company | Facilities | Penalties | CO2e (t) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ArcBest Corporation ARCB | 6 | $3.21M | - |
| O-I Glass, Inc. OI | 1 | $75K | 73K |
| Waste Management, Inc. WM | 12 | $58K | 258K |
| Xpo, Inc. XPO | 1 | $53K | - |
| United Parcel Service, Inc. UPS | 46 | $20K | - |
| FedEx Corporation FDX | 30 | $17K | - |
| Sysco Corporation SYY | 3 | $7,510 | - |
| Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN | 33 | $1,950 | - |
Official public data on environmental compliance records, workplace safety inspections and greenhouse gas reports, summarized by facility and year since 2010. A record does not mean a site is unsafe today; penalties and violations vary a lot by industry and size. Penalties are the amounts assessed (after settlements), not amounts paid. Recent years can still change.
Cost, students and graduate earnings of the colleges in the state, from official public data.
The newest unemployment rate, pay, new home permits, moves and gas price for New York, updated as new official numbers come out.
Unemployment for New York is seasonally adjusted; for its counties, metro areas and cities it is not, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier. Pay covers all jobs that pay into unemployment insurance. Building permits count homes approved to be built, not homes sold. Moves count households by where they filed their tax returns in two years in a row. Daily gas prices are average pump prices for New York, its counties and metro areas on the day shown. The weekly gas prices in the explorer come from a separate weekly survey that publishes a price for only some states, so a state without one shows the price of its region there; the two series are never combined.
The unemployment rate in New York was 4.3% in August 2026 (seasonally adjusted, preliminary), compared with 4.5% a year earlier. 9,596,956 people were employed out of a labor force of 10,029,913. Among its counties, Yates County had the lowest rate (2.9%) and Bronx County the highest (7.1%, not seasonally adjusted).
Average weekly pay in New York was $2,363 in Q1 2026, up 6.5% from a year earlier, across 9,743,576 jobs at 710,513 business locations.
Building permits were issued for 3,680 new homes in New York in August 2026 (854 single-family and 2,683 in buildings with 5 or more units). From January to August the total was 31,217, up 49.4% from the same months last year, and 48,587 in the last 12 months. The most homes were permitted in Bronx County (9,578), Kings County (9,021), Queens County (6,729) over the last 12 months.
No, more people moved out than in. From 2022 to 2023, 276,012 people moved to New York and 440,124 moved away, a net loss of 164,112 (-10.7 per 1,000 residents). Most newcomers came from New Jersey, Florida, California, and most people who left went to New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania.
Regular gasoline in New York averaged $4.46 per gallon on October 10, 2026, up $1.29 from a year earlier. Diesel averaged $6.51. Among its counties, Seneca County had the lowest regular price ($4.26) and Hamilton County the highest ($4.81). In the weekly survey, New York averaged $4.38 in the week of October 5, 2026.
Health Care and Social Assistance (1,861,291 employees), Retail Trade (862,844 employees), Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services (839,713 employees) were the largest sectors in New York in 2023. In all, 541,313 business locations employed 8,767,091 people at an average pay of $85,730 a year.
$130,000 a year was the median pay offered in 41,767 certified H-1B filings for jobs in New York in fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), up 4.0% from 2024. The middle half of the offers ranged from $93,000 to $179,982. The US median was $120,000. These are offered pay figures in work-visa filings, not the pay of all workers.
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP (1,544), Amazon.com Services LLC (1,029), Google LLC (904), Meta Platforms, Inc. (783), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (591) had the most certified H-1B filings for jobs in New York in fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025).
Software Developers (8,018 filings, median $157,000), Financial and Investment Analysts (3,146 filings, median $155,000), Data Scientists (2,875 filings, median $141,170) were the largest job groups in certified H-1B filings in New York in fiscal year 2025.
$150,000 was the median offered pay in New York, the highest among the New York cities with the most H-1B filings in fiscal year 2025 (29,525 filings).
$135,000 a year was the median pay offered in 9,410 certified PERM green card filings for jobs in New York in fiscal year 2025.
118 disasters and emergencies have been declared for New York since 1954, 68 of them since 2000 (45 major disasters). The most common type is Severe Storm (31 declarations).
Delaware County, with 30 declarations since 2000, followed by Chenango County (27) and Sullivan County (27). Statewide declarations are not counted for single counties.
$5.7 billion on 175,430 flood insurance claims since 1978. The biggest year was 2012, with $4.2 billion paid on 57,991 claims. Nassau County received the most ($2.3 billion).
$1,151 a year in 2025, across 167,127 flood insurance policies in New York. Most homes have no flood insurance; the premium depends on the home's flood risk and coverage.