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Jobs in professional and business services: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Professional, scientific, management, administrative and waste services. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Employment by industry by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-03

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National value: 12.8 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 27.2 %
RI 12.8 %
DE 12.4 %
CT 11.9 %
NJ 14.9 %
MD 16.1 %
MA 15.9 %
VT 11.6 %
NH 12.6 %

Lowest: 6.9 to 9.4 %
Group 2: 9.4 to 11 %
Group 3: 11 to 12.1 %
Group 4: 12.1 to 13.8 %
Highest: 13.8 to 27.2 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	District of Columbia	27.2
2	Virginia	16.4
3	Maryland	16.1
4	Massachusetts	15.9
5	Colorado	15.4
6	New Jersey	14.9
7	California	14.5
7	Florida	14.5
9	Washington	14.4
10	New York	14.2
11	Georgia	13.8
12	New Mexico	13.5
13	Texas	13.2
14	Utah	13.1
15	North Carolina	12.9
16	Rhode Island	12.8
17	Illinois	12.7
18	New Hampshire	12.6
19	Delaware	12.4
20	Arizona	12.1
20	Nevada	12.1
20	Pennsylvania	12.1
23	Connecticut	11.9
23	South Carolina	11.9
25	Hawaii	11.8
26	Vermont	11.6
27	Maine	11.3
27	Oregon	11.3
29	Idaho	11.2
30	Minnesota	11
30	Tennessee	11
32	Louisiana	10.5
32	Michigan	10.5
34	Alabama	10.4
34	Missouri	10.4
36	Montana	10.2
36	Ohio	10.2
38	Kansas	9.9
39	Wisconsin	9.7
40	Oklahoma	9.5
41	Wyoming	9.4
42	Arkansas	9.3
43	Nebraska	9.2
44	West Virginia	9.1
45	Kentucky	9
46	Indiana	8.9
47	Mississippi	8.5
48	Alaska	8.2
49	Iowa	7.9
50	South Dakota	7.8
51	North Dakota	6.9

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by professional, scientific, management, administrative and waste services (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP03; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-professional-scientific-management-administrative-and-waste-services/

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