Las Vegas-metro finance jobs, September 2026
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.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, State & Area Employment, financial activities and total nonfarm payrolls, Las Vegas–Henderson–North Las Vegas MSA, not seasonally adjusted, via FRED (LASV832FIREN, LASV832NAN). The share is derived at read time. Auto-generated each build.