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Professional services jobs per 1,000: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Professional services jobs per 1,000 residents (derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Professional, scientific and technical services jobs by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated
2026-11-10
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Census Bureau (County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 54 and 00 (all sectors)) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator)) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 30.9 (United States).

Washington: 30.9Idaho: 22.7Montana: 20.4North Dakota: 19.5Minnesota: 33.9Michigan: 32Ohio: 23.7Pennsylvania: 29.1New York: 35.2Vermont: 20.9New Hampshire: 28.2Maine: 25.5Arizona: 25.4California: 36.5New Mexico: 30.3Texas: 28.4Louisiana: 22Mississippi: 11.4Alabama: 23.6Florida: 26.8Georgia: 29.5South Carolina: 21.3North Carolina: 29.1Virginia: 61.4District of Columbia: 173.3Maryland: 48.6Delaware: 38.3New Jersey: 36.5Connecticut: 29.2Rhode Island: 24.8Massachusetts: 52.3Oregon: 25.4Utah: 33Wyoming: 22.8Nevada: 22.1Colorado: 41.2South Dakota: 15.5Nebraska: 23.2Kansas: 25.1Oklahoma: 20.4Iowa: 20.3Missouri: 30Wisconsin: 21Illinois: 37Kentucky: 16.8Arkansas: 13.1Tennessee: 19.8West Virginia: 13.8Indiana: 22.1Alaska: 26.7Hawaii: 16.9

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 11.4 to 20.4
  • Group 2: 20.4 to 23.6
  • Group 3: 23.6 to 28.4
  • Group 4: 28.4 to 33.9
  • Highest: 33.9 to 173.3
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: County Business Patterns counts employer establishments only; states' values for small subsectors may be withheld (blank) to avoid disclosing individual businesses.

1District of Columbia173.3
2Virginia61.4
3Massachusetts52.3
4Maryland48.6
5Colorado41.2
6Delaware38.3
7Illinois37
8California36.5
8New Jersey36.5
10New York35.2
11Minnesota33.9
12Utah33
13Michigan32
14Washington30.9
15New Mexico30.3
16Missouri30
17Georgia29.5
18Connecticut29.2
19North Carolina29.1
19Pennsylvania29.1
21Texas28.4
22New Hampshire28.2
23Florida26.8
24Alaska26.7
25Maine25.5
26Arizona25.4
26Oregon25.4
28Kansas25.1
29Rhode Island24.8
30Ohio23.7
31Alabama23.6
32Nebraska23.2
33Wyoming22.8
34Idaho22.7
35Indiana22.1
35Nevada22.1
37Louisiana22
38South Carolina21.3
39Wisconsin21
40Vermont20.9
41Montana20.4
41Oklahoma20.4
43Iowa20.3
44Tennessee19.8
45North Dakota19.5
46Hawaii16.9
47Kentucky16.8
48South Dakota15.5
49West Virginia13.8
50Arkansas13.1
51Mississippi11.4

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 54 and 00 (all sectors)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by professional services jobs per 1,000 residents (derived) (2023). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 sector 54 (professional, scientific, and technical services); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-10. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-professional-services-jobs-per-1000-residents/

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