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County Employment and Wages in the Delmarva Peninsula – Fourth Quarter 2014
Delmarva Peninsula Employment Increased Over the Year
In December 2014, 603,181 workers were employed on the Delmarva Peninsula, the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported today. Sheila Watkins, the Bureau’s regional commissioner, noted that since December
2013, employment on the peninsula increased 2.5 percent, compared to the 2.2-percent advance nationwide.
New Castle County, Del., with 287,701 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 2014. Employment
levels in the remaining Delaware counties, Sussex (70,093) and Kent (65,392), ranked second and third on the
peninsula. (See table A.)
Footnotes:
(1) Average weekly wages were calculated using unrounded data.
(2) Totals for the United States do not include data for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
(3) Data for the Delmarva Peninsula were calculated for this release using published employment and wage levels for each county on the peninsula.
Note: Data are preliminary. Covered employment and wages includes workers covered by Unemployment Insurance (UI) and Unemployment
Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) programs.
Table A. Covered employment and wages in the United States and counties on the Delmarva Peninsula, fourth
quarter 2014
Area
Employment December 2014
Average Weekly Wages Fourth Quarter
2014 (1)
Level
Rank
Level
Rank
United States (2)..................................................................
139,204,840
--
$1,035
--
Delmarva (3).....................................................................
603,181
--
964
--
Kent, Del..........................................................