Year-over-year, Health Care led growth, with payrolls expanding by 105,300 or 3.4%. Other sectors posting strong gains over the last year include Leisure and Hospitality (28,700 or 1.4%), Education (20,300 or 4.7%), Retail Trade (15,300 or 1.0%), Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities (9,400 or 1.1%), Government (9,300 or 0.3%), Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (7,600 or 0.5%), Other Services (4,400 or 0.7%), Real Estate (2,300 or 0.8%), and Wholesale Trade (500 or 0.1%).

Information led declines over the last year, with payrolls falling by 24,200, a -4.6% decrease. The losses were driven by losses in Software Publishers; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; and Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Other sectors with notable declines over the last year include Finance and Insurance (-18,900 or -3.9%), Manufacturing (-10,700 or -0.9%), Admin Support (-10,000 or -0.9%), Management (-5,000 or -1.7%), and Construction (-4,800 or -0.5%).

Month-over-month, growth was mixed. Education led payroll gains in September, with payrolls expanding by 4,500, an increase of 1.0% on a month-over-month basis. Other sectors posting strong gains during the month include Health Care (3,500 or 0.1%), Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (2,100 or 0.2%), Admin Support (2,000 or 0.2%), Wholesale Trade (1,600 or 0.2%), Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities (1,400, or 0.2%), and Other Services (900 or 0.2%).

Leisure and Hospitality saw the largest decline during the month, with payrolls falling by -9,600, a contraction of -0.5% on a month-over-month basis. Other sectors posting significant losses during the month include Manufacturing (-4,000 or -0.3%), Information (-3,200 or -0.6%), Finance and Insurance (-3,000 or -0.6%), Retail Trade (-2,700 or -0.2%), Construction (-1,900 or -0.2%), and Real Estate (-800 or -0.3%).