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Nevada Jobs by Sector

Nevada had 1,614,100 total nonfarm jobs inJune 2026. Here's how that breaks down across the 11 industry supersectors the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks for the state, and which ones are actually growing.

Employment by supersector

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Current Employment Statistics (CES) (as of 2026-06-01)

The 11 supersectors above sum to 1,614.1 thousand jobs, matching BLS's independently published total nonfarm figure of 1,614.1thousand for June 2026. Each sector is its own BLS Current Employment Statistics (CES) series — click a sector name in the table to see its source data directly.

Reading Nevada's job mix

A sector table is a snapshot; the interesting story is usually in the comparison. Nevada's top five supersectors — Leisure & Hospitality, Trade/Transportation/Utilities, Professional & Business Services, Education & Health Services, and Government — together account for79% of all nonfarm jobs in the state. The remaining six sectors — Construction, Financial Activities, Manufacturing, Other Services, Information, and Mining and Logging — split the rest. That concentration at the top is normal for a service-driven economy, but which sector sits at the very top, and how large it is relative to the others, is what makes Nevada's labor market distinctive.

Leisure & Hospitality is the anchor, not the whole economy

At 22.4% of total nonfarm employment, Leisure & Hospitality is Nevada's largest supersector by a wide margin — a direct reflection of the state's tourism and gaming base. But it's a minority of jobs overall: the other ten sectors combined employ roughly 78% of Nevada's workforce. Trade, Transportation & Utilities is the second-largest sector, which makes sense in a state that is also a major logistics and distribution hub for the western U.S. — warehousing and freight benefit from Nevada's low taxes and highway access to California, Arizona, and Utah markets, the same structural advantage discussed on the economy dashboard.

Government is a bigger employer than most people assume

Government — federal, state, and local combined — is Nevada's third-largest supersector at11.6% of jobs. That includes everything from Clark County School District staff to state agencies to federal employees; BLS's CES data doesn't break out the federal/state/local split at the level published here, so this page reports the combined figure BLS provides. It's also one of the more stable sectors, growing more slowly but far less exposed to the swings that hit Leisure & Hospitality.

Professional/Business Services and Education/Health are the growth stories

Professional & Business Services grew 5.9% year-over-year as ofJune 2026, and Education & Health Services grew 5.5% — both well ahead of Leisure & Hospitality's 1.2% growth over the same period. Neither sector is large enough yet to change the overall shape of Nevada's economy, but they're evidence of the diversification push that's been a stated goal of state economic development policy for more than a decade: fewer jobs tied directly to hotel occupancy and gaming tables, more tied to healthcare, back-office, and business services that don't rise and fall with visitor volume.

Smaller sectors, real signals

Mining and Logging is Nevada's smallest supersector by headcount, but it's an outsized contributor to output per worker — Nevada produced about 70% of all U.S. gold in 2024 (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025) — so its small share of total jobs understates its economic weight. Manufacturing and Information remain small in absolute terms but are the sectors most often cited in state economic-development pitches aimed at diversifying away from tourism dependence. For the state-output side of this story, see Nevada GDP; for how jobs feed into the state's unemployment rate and revenue forecast, see theeconomy dashboard and theforecast tracker.

How Nevada's mix compares to the nation

Nationally, Leisure & Hospitality employment was 16,951,000 out of 158,984,000 total nonfarm jobs in June 2026 — about 10.7% of all U.S. jobs (BLS via FRED, seriesUSLAH andPAYEMS, both seasonally adjusted, as of the June 2026 release). Nevada's 22.4% share is roughly double that. (Caveat: the national figures are seasonally adjusted and the Nevada figures on this page are not, so this comparison is directional, not exact to the decimal.) That gap is the clearest single number for how differently Nevada's labor market is built compared with the rest of the country — and why the state's employment, tax revenue, and unemployment rate all move more with tourism cycles than the national economy does.

What this means for the state budget

Every job counted here eventually shows up on the revenue side of the state ledger, whether through sales tax on what workers and visitors spend, gaming taxes tied to Leisure & Hospitality's core business, or the Modified Business Tax levied on payroll itself. A labor market this concentrated in one cyclical sector makes Nevada's tax base more sensitive to the same swings shown in the jobs and unemployment data above — which is exactly the exposure the state's biennial Economic Forum panel has to account for when it sets the binding revenue forecast the Legislature budgets against. See the forecast tracker for how those projections have held up against what actually came in.