Las Vegas-metro trade, transportation and utilities employers had 210,000 people on payroll in September 2026, up 0.1% from a year earlier. That is 17.6% of all payroll jobs in the metro, against 17.9% a year before.

The broadest supersector in the survey: wholesale and retail trade, warehousing, trucking, air and water transport, couriers and utilities.

The two charts answer different questions. The count peaked at 220,700 in November 2023 and says whether the sector is hiring. The share — from 17.8% in January 1990, with a high of 21.2% in December 2020 and a low of 16.4% in February 1997 — says whether it is growing faster or slower than the rest of the economy.

Not seasonally adjusted, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier. The share is computed at read time from two series in the same BLS release, so it stays consistent when the levels are revised.

Las Vegas-metro financial activities employers had 61,000 people on payroll in September 2026, down 2.1% from a year earlier. That is 5.1% of all payroll jobs in the metro, against 5.3% a year before.

Finance and insurance plus real estate, rental and leasing — banks, insurers, mortgage lenders, brokers and property managers. Real estate and lending also make it sensitive to interest rates in a way most sectors are not.

The two charts answer different questions. The count peaked at 62,400 in May 2025 and says whether the sector is hiring. The share — from 5.5% in January 1990, with a high of 6.4% in May 2020 and a low of 4.9% in September 2014 — says whether it is growing faster or slower than the rest of the economy.

Not seasonally adjusted, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier. The share is computed at read time from two series in the same BLS release, so it stays consistent when the levels are revised.

Las Vegas-metro professional and business services employers had 186,600 people on payroll in September 2026, up 6.3% from a year earlier. That is 15.7% of all payroll jobs in the metro, against 15.0% a year before.

This is one of the metro’s largest supersectors, and the least understood. It covers professional, scientific and technical services — law, accounting, engineering, architecture, computer systems design — plus the head offices of companies, and administrative support, which includes temp agencies and building services. A good share of what Las Vegas calls tech work is counted here rather than under ‘information’. The temp-help piece makes it one of the first sectors to cut in a downturn: agency workers are the easiest jobs to end.

The two charts answer different questions. The count peaked at 186,600 in September 2026 and says whether the sector is hiring. The share — from 9.6% in January 1990, with a high of 15.7% in May 2020 and a low of 9.3% in April 1990 — says whether it is growing faster or slower than the rest of the economy.

Not seasonally adjusted, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier. The share is computed at read time from two series in the same BLS release, so it stays consistent when the levels are revised.

Las Vegas-metro education and health employers had 143,200 people on payroll in September 2026, up 5.1% from a year earlier. That is 12.0% of all payroll jobs in the metro, against 11.6% a year before.

This is the private sector only: hospitals, clinics, nursing and residential care, social assistance, private schools and colleges. Public schools and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas are counted as government. It is the steadiest sector in the data, because demand follows the size and the age of the population rather than the business cycle — the one sharp break in its line is spring 2020, when elective care stopped.

The two charts answer different questions. The count peaked at 143,200 in September 2026 and says whether the sector is hiring. The share — from 5.4% in January 1990, with a high of 12.6% in May 2020 and a low of 5.4% in January 1990 — says whether it is growing faster or slower than the rest of the economy.

Not seasonally adjusted, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier. The share is computed at read time from two series in the same BLS release, so it stays consistent when the levels are revised.

Nevada workers filed 2,596 initial unemployment claims in the week ending Oct 17, 2026; the steadier four-week average is 2,825, up 1.9% from the same weeks a year ago.

Read the chart in two parts. The y axis is broken at 11,000. Below the break is where this series lives: almost every week since 1986 is in that band, and on its own scale the normal shape is plain — a spike every winter as construction and seasonal retail lay off, and a sustained rise through 2008-09. Above the break, on a compressed scale, is the spring of 2020, when claims reached 92,298 in the week of Mar 21, 2020. On a single axis that one episode flattens 40 years into a line along the floor.

Claims are the fastest labour-market number there is — a week old when published — and the noisiest. One week is a data point; the four-week average is the reading. Statewide, not seasonally adjusted, so compare with the same weeks a year earlier rather than the week before.

The Las Vegas metro’s information sector employed 15,900 people in September 2026, down 1.2% from a year earlier. That is 1.3% of every payroll job in the metro, against 1.4% a year before.

The two charts answer different questions. The head count says whether the sector is hiring. The share says whether it is hiring faster than everyone else — a sector can add jobs every month and still shrink as a part of the economy. The count peaked at 16,700 in December 2025; the share peaked at 2.2% in February 2001, up from 1.6% when the series opens in January 1990.

‘Information’ is not ‘tech’, and the gap is large. It is the BLS sector covering software publishers, telecoms, broadcasting and publishing. A great deal of Las Vegas technology work is booked elsewhere — the casino companies’ own technology staff are classified under leisure and hospitality, cloud infrastructure lands under several other headings, and contract engineering sits in professional services — so read this line as a floor on tech employment rather than a measure of it. What it is good for is the trend: the classification has been applied consistently since 1990, so the shape is right even where the level is low.

Not seasonally adjusted, which is why both lines have an annual wobble on top of the trend; compare a month with the same month a year earlier. The share is computed at read time from two series in the same BLS release, so it stays consistent when the levels are revised.

The Las Vegas metro’s construction and mining employers had 83,100 jobs on payroll in September 2026, up 2.6% from a year earlier. That is 7.0% of all payroll jobs in the metro, against 6.9% a year before.

Construction is the most cyclical sector the site tracks and the one that turns first. The share chart shows it without the flattery of a growing economy — it peaked at 12.2% in August 2006 and bottomed at 4.3% in March 2012, a measure of how much of the region’s labour is pointed at building anything.

It has a real summer season in the raw data, so — as everywhere in these NSA series — the year-over-year change is the number that means something and a fall from August to January is just weather. It sits alongside building permits as this site’s two reads on whether Las Vegas is building: permits lead; payrolls are what actually happened. The share is computed at read time from the same BLS release as the count.

Las Vegas-metro restaurants, bars, hotels and venues employed 302,800 people in September 2026, up 0.2% from a year earlier — 25.4% of all payroll jobs in the metro.

No other series on this site records 2020 as plainly. Employment in this sector fell from 292,300 in February 2020 to 125,200 in May 2020 — a drop of 57%, inside three months, in an industry that cannot be done from home — and its share of the region’s jobs fell to 16.2%. Everything to the right of that notch is the recovery.

The share chart is the longer story: from 34.0% when the series opens in January 1990 to a peak of 35.5% in August 1994.

Not seasonally adjusted, and summer is genuinely the busy season here, so compare with the same month a year earlier. The share is computed at read time from the same BLS release as the count.

Las Vegas–Henderson–North Las Vegas employers reported 1,190,500 nonfarm jobs in September 2026 (not seasonally adjusted), up 20,200 — +1.7% — from a year earlier. Set against everyone who lives in the metro, that is 49.5 payroll jobs for every 100 residents, against 48.6 a year before.

The second chart is there because a count of jobs always grows in a growing region. Jobs per resident does not have to: it peaked at 52.2 in May 2006, fell to 34.0 in May 2020, and says whether the job machine is keeping up with the people arriving to use it.

It is not the employment rate, and the difference matters. The official rate counts people with work, by where they live, as a share of adults. This counts jobs at employers in the metro — a second job counts twice, and someone commuting in from outside the metro counts here — divided by every resident, children and retirees included. So an ageing population pulls it down with no change in the job market. Read the direction, not the level.

The population is the Census Bureau’s July 1 estimate for the same one-county metro, interpolated between years; the chart starts in 2000 because that is where the annual estimates on FRED begin. Because payrolls aren’t seasonally adjusted, the year-over-year change is the one to watch.

Las Vegas-metro manufacturers employed 31,100 people in September 2026, up 1.0% from a year earlier — 2.6% of all payroll jobs in the metro. The sector peaked at 31,300 jobs in August 2026 and has shed roughly 1% of that since.

The second chart is the share: it went from 2.7% in January 1990 to 2.6% now.

Numerator and denominator of the share come from the same BLS release for the same metro, so it stays consistent when the levels are revised; it is computed at read time, never stored.

Homes in the Las Vegas metro sold for 98.0% of their list price on average in August 2026, against 98.2% a year earlier, and 17% of them sold above it. The most competitive month in this record was April 2022, at 101.7% of list.

At September 2026’s pace of sales, the homes for sale would last 6.0 months — months of supply, for-sale inventory over a month’s sales. Under about four months is a market where sellers set the terms; six or more is one where buyers do. 2,248 homes sold in September 2026, against 2,316 a year earlier.

Every one of these has a season — spring is the bidding season — so compare a month with the same month a year earlier. These are Zillow’s figures for the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas metro, all homes, not seasonally adjusted; the newest month of sales is Zillow’s nowcast and firms up later. There is no median price here, on purpose: a median moves with which homes happen to sell, so a month heavy in condos reads as a fall in prices that did not happen.

The typical asking rent in the Las Vegas metro was $1,732 a month in September 2026, up 0.5% from a year earlier.

The second chart takes inflation out. The price index runs through September 2026, and in that month’s dollars the typical asking rent was $1,732, down 3.2% in real terms on the year and 14% below its real peak of $2,012 in November 2021. When the nominal line climbs and the real one does not, rents are rising more slowly than prices in general — which is not the same thing as rent getting affordable, since that depends on what renters earn.

ZORI tracks new leases, not the average rent paid across all tenants, so it turns roughly a year before the rent component of the local CPI does — which makes it the leading indicator of the two. The real series is deflated by the national CPI-U (all items, NSA) and stated in dollars of the latest month the CPI covers, so it can end a month before the nominal line. Rent is itself part of the CPI, so the real line is rent measured in purchasing power, not rent net of rent inflation.

The typical Las Vegas-area home was worth $422,654 in September 2026, and the typical asking rent was $1,732 a month. Divide the first by a year of the second and you get the price-to-rent ratio: 20.3. A Las Vegas house costs about 20 years of the rent on it.

It is the cleanest single number for whether housing is expensive relative to itself. Prices and rents are both driven by local incomes and local supply, so when they rise together the ratio holds flat and the market is simply pricier; when prices pull away from rents, buyers are paying for something other than the shelter — expected appreciation, or cheap credit. Nationally a ratio in the high teens is typical. Las Vegas’s has run from 10.6 (May 2012) to 29.3 (July 2006), and it is 20.3 now, down 3.0% on the year.

Two things it is not. It is not a buy-versus-rent recommendation: that depends on mortgage rates, the tax treatment of the interest, and how long you stay, none of which is in here. And the two legs measure slightly different housing — ZHVI values the whole owner-occupied stock, ZORI tracks asking rents on units coming to market, which skew smaller and newer. The level is therefore approximate; the direction is the signal.

Nevada workers filed 2,596 initial unemployment claims in the week ending Oct 17, 2026; the steadier four-week average is 2,825, up 1.9% from the same weeks a year ago.

Read the chart in two parts. The y axis is broken at 11,000. Below the break is where this series lives: almost every week since 1986 is in that band, and on its own scale the normal shape is plain — a spike every winter as construction and seasonal retail lay off, and a sustained rise through 2008-09. Above the break, on a compressed scale, is the spring of 2020, when claims reached 92,298 in the week of Mar 21, 2020. On a single axis that one episode flattens 40 years into a line along the floor.

Claims are the fastest labour-market number there is — a week old when published — and the noisiest. One week is a data point; the four-week average is the reading. Statewide, not seasonally adjusted, so compare with the same weeks a year earlier rather than the week before.

The typical Las Vegas-metro home was worth $422,654 in September 2026, down 2.6% from a year earlier. Against the series high of $446,193 in August 2022, that leaves the market 5.3% below its high-water mark in the dollars on the price tag.

The second chart takes inflation out. The price index runs through September 2026, and in that month’s dollars the typical home was worth $422,654, down 6.1% in real terms on the year. The real peak was $563,294 in October 2006, and today sits 25% below it. A flat price in a year of inflation is a fall in what a house is worth measured in everything else a household buys.

ZHVI measures the value of the typical home rather than the price of the homes that happened to sell, so it does not lurch when an expensive neighbourhood has a busy month — which is what makes it readable month to month, and a better trend line than asking prices.

The real series is deflated by the national CPI-U (all items, not seasonally adjusted) and stated in dollars of the latest month the CPI covers, so it can end a month before the nominal line. National rather than Las Vegas CPI because the Las Vegas index is published only every other month. Shelter is about a third of CPI-U, so read the real line as a house measured in purchasing power, not as house prices net of housing inflation. Metro-wide; Zillow revises the back series when its model is updated, so older points can move slightly between builds.

2.10 million passengers boarded flights out of Harry Reid in July 2026, down 8.5% from a year earlier. 124,120 of them were on international flights, down 5.0%. Over the last twelve months departures averaged 2.13 million a month, against 2.38 million at the record, in the year to September 2024.

These are departures only, from the airlines’ own monthly reports to the federal government. The Clark County Department of Aviation’s headline passenger count adds arrivals, so it runs about twice these figures. A traveller connecting through Harry Reid counts on the flight they leave on. Summer is the peak and winter the low every year, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier. The figures arrive about three months after the month they count.

Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip won $684 million from gamblers in August 2026, up 0.7% on a year earlier. The 12-month average is $749 million a month. Across Clark County the win was $1,062 million, up 2.8%.

Win is what the casinos keep after paying out winning bets: the stake that walks in minus what walks out. It is not what visitors spend in a city, which is rooms, food and shows as well, and it is not profit. It also moves with luck. A few high-limit baccarat players can swing a month by tens of millions in either direction, so one month’s change says little; the 12-month average is the line to read. The figures are in nominal dollars, rounded to the thousand by the bureau.

The record starts where the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s monthly workbooks do. The deep notch in spring 2020 is the casinos’ closure by state order, not a slow month.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority counts 3.03 million visitors in August 2026, down 4.3% on a year earlier. Hotels filled 74.1% of their rooms, against 77.5% a year before; on the Strip, 77.0%, at an average of $153 a night.

The visitor figure is an estimate, not a count at a gate: the bureau builds it from room nights occupied and survey answers about party size and nights stayed, so it moves with hotel stays and misses day-trippers. Occupancy comes from a survey of most of the market’s rooms. A month with a big convention or a fight weekend lifts both; compare a month with the same month a year earlier.

The record starts where the bureau’s monthly workbooks do. Spring 2020 is the closure of the resorts by state order.

The Las Vegas–Henderson–North Las Vegas labor force — everyone employed or actively looking for work — was 1,229,087 in August 2026, down 0.4% from a year earlier. It’s the head-count denominator under the unemployment rate: a labor force that grows with population and participation. Not seasonally adjusted.

Nevadans filed 5,719 new business applications in September 2026, up 6.0% from a year earlier. These are EIN filings, so the series measures intent to start a business rather than businesses that actually open — but it lands about 11 days after the month ends, which makes it one of the fastest real-activity readings available for the state. Note the step-change after 2020: application rates never returned to their pre-pandemic level.