LinkedIn Workforce Report | United States | June 2025
With over 225 million LinkedIn members in the United States, we have unique insight into the real-time dynamics of Americans starting new jobs and moving to new cities. This month’s LinkedIn Workforce Report looks at our latest national data on hiring and migration trends through May 2025.
For more insight into localized employment trends in 20 of the largest U.S. metro areas, check out this month’s reports for: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland-Akron, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.
Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Whether you’re a worker, an employer, a new grad, or a policymaker, we hope you’ll use these insights to better understand and navigate the dynamics of today’s economy.
Key Insights:
Hiring rebounds amidst uncertainty: Nationally, hiring across all industries rose 5.2% from April to May, though it remains 4.8% below May 2024 levels. With this rebound, hiring has returned to its pace from earlier this year. Despite heightened uncertainty around economic policy, the labor market has held steady so far in 2025. Still, hiring remains slow overall—down 17% compared to pre-pandemic times (May 2019).
Most industries see hiring gains: Hiring accelerated in 16 out 20 industries from April to May. The industries where hiring accelerated month-over-month were Utilities (+11.5%), Farming, Ranching, Forestry (+10.8%), and Construction (+9.8%). Hiring slowed the most in industries with meaningful exposure to impact from new trade barriers: Retail (-2.5%), Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage (-2.9%), and Wholesale (-7%). Hiring accelerated in May 2025 compared to May 2024 in Financial Services (+2.9%) and Technology, Information and Media (+1.0%), indicating an end to the hiring slowdown in these industries. Government Administration continues to see hiring slow significantly compared to last year with hiring down -15.5% year-over-year, second worst only to Wholesale (-17.6%).
- Hiring rebounds across all major metros: All of the 20 metros we track saw hiring accelerate from April to May, led by Cleveland (+12.5%), Philadelphia (+9.2%), and Washington, DC (+8.1%). Year-over-year, hiring rose in Miami–Fort Lauderdale (+6.0%), Dallas-Ft. Worth (+4.9%), the San Francisco Bay Area (+1.7%), and Cleveland (+1.1%). The Sunbelt continues to see robust hiring near pre-pandemic (2019) levels in Dallas, Nashville, and Phoenix.
Hiring
The LinkedIn hiring rate is a measure of hires divided by LinkedIn membership. Nationally, across all industries, hiring in the U.S. was 5.2% higher in May 2025 compared to last month April 2025. National hiring was 4.8% lower in May 2025 compared to last year May 2024.
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED HIRING
The industries with the most notable hiring shifts month-to-month in May 2025 were Utilities (11.5% higher); Farming, Ranching, Forestry (10.8% higher); and Construction (9.8% higher).
Table 1: Hiring on LinkedIn, by Industry, through May 2025
Industry | May-24 | ··· | Feb-25 | Mar-25 | Apr-25 | May-25 | MoM% Change | YoY% Change |
Accommodation and Food Services | 0.95 | ··· | 0.97 | 0.87 | 0.87 | 0.92 | +6.2 | -2.7 |
Administrative and Support Services | 0.83 | ··· | 0.85 | 0.81 | 0.79 | 0.80 | +1.1 | -3.9 |
Construction | 1.27 | ··· | 1.19 | 1.13 | 1.11 | 1.22 | +9.8 | -4.3 |
Consumer Services | 1.16 | ··· | 1.15 | 1.12 | 1.10 | 1.09 | -0.3 | -5.4 |
Education | 1.20 | ··· | 1.16 | 1.07 | 1.12 | 1.14 | +1.4 | -4.9 |
Entertainment Providers | 0.93 | ··· | 0.88 | 0.87 | 0.87 | 0.90 | +3.4 | -3.4 |
Farming, Ranching, Forestry | 1.18 | ··· | 1.02 | 0.90 | 0.97 | 1.07 | +10.8 | -9.3 |
Financial Services | 1.01 | ··· | 1.02 | 1.00 | 0.97 | 1.04 | +7.1 | +2.9 |
Government Administration | 1.16 | ··· | 1.00 | 0.93 | 0.93 | 0.98 | +5.8 | -15.5 |
Holding Companies | 0.85 | ··· | 0.66 | 0.69 | 0.72 | 0.77 | +6.2 | -10 |
Hospitals and Health Care | 1.15 | ··· | 1.09 | 1.05 | 1.05 | 1.09 | +3.9 | -5 |
Manufacturing | 0.94 | ··· | 0.84 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 0.84 | +5 | -10.8 |
Oil, Gas, and Mining | 0.95 | ··· | 0.85 | 0.84 | 0.78 | 0.81 | +3.1 | -15.4 |
Professional Services | 0.92 | ··· | 0.88 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.87 | +4.5 | -5.7 |
Real Estate and Equipment Rental Services | 0.89 | ··· | 0.90 | 0.87 | 0.86 | 0.89 | +2.9 | -0.2 |
Retail | 0.82 | ··· | 0.84 | 0.77 | 0.77 | 0.75 | -2.5 | -8.3 |
Technology, Information and Media | 0.87 | ··· | 0.88 | 0.84 | 0.85 | 0.88 | +4 | +1 |
Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage | 0.99 | ··· | 1.03 | 0.97 | 0.99 | 0.96 | -2.9 | -2.4 |
Utilities | 1.24 | ··· | 1.09 | 1.09 | 1.05 | 1.17 | +11.5 | -5.8 |
Wholesale | 0.83 | ··· | 0.84 | 0.77 | 0.73 | 0.68 | -7 | -17.6 |
Methodology: “Hiring Rate” is the count of hires (LinkedIn members in each industry who added a new employer to their profile in the same month the new job began), divided by the total number of LinkedIn members in the U.S. By only analyzing the timeliest data, we can make accurate month-to-month comparisons and account for any potential lags in members updating their profiles. This number is indexed to the average month in 2016 for each industry; for example, an index of 1.05 indicates a hiring rate that is 5% higher than the average month in 2016.
Check out our reports for Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland-Akron, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. to see which jobs are open.
