{ "datasetId": "bls-ces-nj-freight-jobs", "title": "New Jersey transportation, trucking and warehousing jobs, 2017 to 2026", "description": "Monthly BLS Current Employment Statistics for New Jersey: all employees in transportation, warehousing and utilities, in truck transportation, and in warehousing and storage, January 2017 to August 2026, not seasonally adjusted.", "sourceOrganization": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics", "sourceUrl": "https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/SMU34000004349300001", "sourceType": "PRIMARY_OFFICIAL", "period": { "start": "2017-01", "end": "2026-08" }, "frequency": "monthly", "metric": "All employees", "unit": "jobs-thousands", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-30", "publishedAt": "2026-09-18", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-30", "nextExpectedUpdate": "2026-10-20", "methodology": [ "State and Area Employment series SMU34000004300000001 (transportation, warehousing and utilities), SMU34000004348400001 (truck transportation) and SMU34000004349300001 (warehousing and storage), all employees in thousands, not seasonally adjusted, from the BLS Public Data API.", "BLS labels the first series \"Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities\"; it includes utilities, so it is not a pure freight count. Year-over-year changes are RapidShips analysis." ], "limitations": [ "The latest month is preliminary (marked p) and BLS benchmarks state estimates every year, so recent values can change.", "Counts jobs located in New Jersey by the industry of the establishment. The warehousing and storage industry (NAICS 493) covers establishments that \"provide facilities to store goods\" and \"do not sell the goods they handle\", so a distribution center run by a company that sells the goods may be counted in another industry.", "Not seasonally adjusted: warehousing jobs rise every autumn with peak season, so compare the same month across years.", "Different from County Business Patterns, which counts mid-March employees from administrative records; the two programs do not give the same number." ], "license": { "id": "us-public-domain", "label": "U.S. federal government work in the public domain. BLS asks that it be cited as the source.", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/opub/copyright-information.htm", "download": true, "embed": true }, "geography": "New Jersey", "citation": "RapidShips. \"New Jersey transportation, trucking and warehousing jobs, 2017 to 2026.\" Data period January 2017 to August 2026. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics (State and Area) (https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/SMU34000004349300001). RapidShips Freight Data: https://rapidships.com/freight-data/new-jersey-freight-employment/#ds-bls-ces-nj-freight-jobs. 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