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Las Vegas-metro manufacturing jobs, September 2026

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October 21, 2026

Manufacturing payroll employment in the Las Vegas metro, thousands of jobs, NSA, 1990 to September 2026: from 10k to a peak of 31k in August 2026, now 31k.

Manufacturing as a percent of all Las Vegas-metro payroll jobs, NSA, 1990 to September 2026: from 2.7% to 2.6%, with a high of 3.2% in June 1996.

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.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, State & Area Employment, manufacturing and total nonfarm payrolls, Las Vegas–Henderson–North Las Vegas MSA, not seasonally adjusted, via FRED. The share is derived at read time. Auto-generated each build.