Number of Active Employees by Industry

Number of active employees, aggregating information from multiple data providers.
This series is based on firm-level payroll data from Paychex and Intuit, worker-level data on employment and earnings from Earnin, and firm-level timesheet data from Kronos. This data is compiled by Opportunity Insights.

Data notes from Opportunity Insights:

Data Source: Paychex, Intuit, Earnin, Kronos

Update Frequency: Weekly

Date Range: January 15th 2020 until the most recent date available. The most recent date
available for the full series depends on the combination of Paychex, Intuit and Earnin data.
We extend the national trend of aggregate employment and employment by income quartile by using Kronos timecard data and Paychex data for workers paid on a weekly paycycle to forecast beyond the end of the Paychex, Intuit and Earnin data.

Data Frequency: Daily, presented as a 7-day moving average

Indexing Period: January 4th - January 31st

Indexing Type: Change relative to the January 2020 index period, not seasonally adjusted.

More detailed documentation on Opportunity Insights data can be found here: https://github.com/OpportunityInsights/EconomicTracker/blob/main/docs/oi_tracker_data_documentation.pdf