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County Employment and Wages in the Delmarva Peninsula – Fourth Quarter 2013
Delmarva Peninsula Employment Increased; Wages Declined Over the Year
In December 2013, 588,363 workers were employed on the Delmarva Peninsula1, the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported today. Sheila Watkins, the Bureau’s regional commissioner, noted that since December
2012, employment on the peninsula increased 1.4 percent, compared to the 1.8-percent advance nationwide.
New Castle County, Del., with 277,387 workers, had the highest employment level among the area’s 14
counties and accounted for nearly half of the jobs on the Delmarva Peninsula in December 2013. Employment
levels in the remaining Delaware counties, Sussex (67,224) and Kent (65,078), ranked second and third on the
peninsula. (See table A.)
Footnotes:
(1) Includes workers covered by Unemployment Insurance (UI) and Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) programs.
(2) Data are preliminary.
(3) Average weekly wages were calculated using unrounded data.
(4) Totals for the United States do not include data for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
(5) Data for the Delmarva Peninsula were calculated for this release using published employment and wage levels for each county on the peninsula.
Table A. Covered(1) employment and wages in the United States and counties on the Delmarva Peninsula,
fourth quarter 2013(2)
Area
Employment December 2013
Average Weekly Wages(3) Fourth Quarter
2013
Level
Rank
Level
Rank
United States(4)...................................................................
136,129,407
--
$1,000
--
Delmarva(5)......................................................................
588,363
--
940
--
Kent, Del...............................................................