March 2020 (January 2020 data)
EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY
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The Workforce Indicators Newsletter is published monthly by the Mid-America Regional Council. MARC is the nonprofit association of local governments and metropolitan planning organization for the bistate Kansas City region.
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Data sources: Kansas Department of Labor, Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC), The Conference Board and EMSI. Regional data includes Franklin, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas and Bates, Caldwell, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte and Ray counties in Missouri.
| LATEST DATA | EMPLOYMENT | JOB POSTINGS | UNEMPLOYMENT | EMP GROWTH |
| JANUARY 2020 | 1,102,500 | 80,143 | 3.6% | 0.6% |
| DECEMBER 2019 | 1,103,700 | 73,217 | 3.1% | 1.5% |
| Month-to-Month Change | -1,200 | +9.5% | +0.5 | -0.9 |
January data released but all eyes on impact of COVID-19
Through this newsletter, we seek to provide the latest regional workforce data to help you and your organizations. In times like this, it becomes clear this information (which lags by three months) can be inadequate when things are changing by the hour.
In the near-term, all attention is rightly focused on the COVID-19 virus and its immediate health concerns but the immediate and profound impact on workforce cannot be overstated.
The charts below highlight the latest data release with information through January. We will continue to track this information but it will not begin reflect the impacts of COVID-19 until the March data is released in June. In the meantime, this Brookings report makes an early attempt to identify metros that will be the hardest hit in term of job loss. This is based on the share of jobs in the most vulnerable sectors (hospitality-tourism, transportation, employment services and mining). Kansas City is in the middle of the pack in this regard with 163,054 jobs, 15.6% of total jobs, in these highly vulnerable sectors.
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED EMPLOYMENT
[The current number of jobs in the Kansas City metro as determined by the monthly Current Employment Statistics survey.]
Metro employment in January dropped to 1,102,500.
HIRING TRENDS
Management — past 90 days
Top 10 Employers Advertising Openings
(By total number of ads)
| Company | Ads |
| GPAC | 113 |
| Oracle | 98 |
| University of Kansas | 68 |
| HCA | 65 |
| Commerce Bank | 64 |
| Humana | 64 |
| Kansas University Medical Center | 57 |
| Anthem, Inc | 56 |
| Burns & McDonnell | 56 |
| Sprint | 55 |
Top 10 Occupations Sought
(By total number of ads)
| Occupation | Ads |
| Medical and Health Services Managers | 1,458 |
| Sales Managers | 889 |
| Financial Managers, Branch or Department | 851 |
| Food Service Managers | 634 |
| Marketing Managers | 594 |
| Managers, All Other | 576 |
| Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers | 479 |
| General and Operations Managers | 475 |
| Architectural and Engineering Managers | 385 |
| Construction Managers | 254 |
UNEMPLOYMENT
[The number of unemployed as a percent of the total labor force, not seasonally adjusted.]
Kansas City's unemployment rate is 3.6%.
PEER METRO RANK — EMPLOYMENT GROWTH RATE
[Percent change in employment year-over-year among 14 metropolitan areas.]
Kansas City saw employment grow 0.6%.
