453K
Aug 2026 (latest)
COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE JOBS
employees, thousands, seasonally adjusted · 1990–2026 · higher is better · BLS Current Employment Statistics, via FRED CES5051800001
483K
Nov 2022
489K
high · Aug 2023
331K
low · Jan 2019
−6%
since Nov 2022
┊ on the monthly chart the dashed line marks ChatGPT released (Nov 30, 2022); on the annual views, 1991 Gulf War recession · 2001 Dot-com bust & 9/11 · 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. All employees in Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (NAICS 518) — the industry on the supply side of the AI buildout. Monthly, seasonally adjusted, from January 1990. Annual figure is the twelve-month average.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES5051800001
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Employment-And-Jobs
Monthly data
The publisher's own cadence, every period. The annual table below is derived from these values (annual average); the annual figures are what the almanac pages and the machine-readable exports carry.
| Period | Computing Infrastructure Jobs | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 453K | −2% |
| Jul 2026 | 461K | +0% |
| Jun 2026 | 460K | −1% |
| May 2026 | 466K | +1% |
| Apr 2026 | 462K | −0% |
| Mar 2026 | 464K | +0% |
| Feb 2026 | 464K | −1% |
| Jan 2026 | 468K | −1% |
| Dec 2025 | 473K | −1% |
| Nov 2025 | 480K | −0% |
| Oct 2025 | 481K | +1% |
| Sep 2025 | 476K | −1% |
| Aug 2025 | 479K | −0% |
| Jul 2025 | 480K | −0% |
| Jun 2025 | 481K | +0% |
| May 2025 | 481K | −0% |
| Apr 2025 | 481K | −0% |
| Mar 2025 | 483K | +0% |
| Feb 2025 | 482K | +0% |
| Jan 2025 | 481K | +0% |
| Dec 2024 | 481K | +0% |
| Nov 2024 | 479K | +0% |
| Oct 2024 | 479K | −1% |
| Sep 2024 | 482K | +0% |
| Aug 2024 | 481K | +0% |
| Jul 2024 | 480K | −0% |
| Jun 2024 | 482K | +0% |
| May 2024 | 482K | −0% |
| Apr 2024 | 483K | +0% |
| Mar 2024 | 483K | +0% |
| Feb 2024 | 483K | −0% |
| Jan 2024 | 484K | −0% |
| Dec 2023 | 484K | +0% |
| Nov 2023 | 484K | −0% |
| Oct 2023 | 484K | −0% |
| Sep 2023 | 485K | −1% |
| Aug 2023 | 489K | +0% |
| Jul 2023 | 489K | +1% |
| Jun 2023 | 486K | +0% |
| May 2023 | 485K | −0% |
| Apr 2023 | 485K | +0% |
| Mar 2023 | 483K | −0% |
| Feb 2023 | 484K | −0% |
| Jan 2023 | 485K | −0% |
| Dec 2022 | 486K | +1% |
| Nov 2022 | 483K | +0% |
| Oct 2022 | 482K | +1% |
| Sep 2022 | 479K | +1% |
| Aug 2022 | 474K | +1% |
| Jul 2022 | 469K | +1% |
| Jun 2022 | 464K | +1% |
| May 2022 | 461K | +1% |
| Apr 2022 | 455K | +1% |
| Mar 2022 | 449K | +1% |
| Feb 2022 | 446K | +1% |
| Jan 2022 | 441K | +2% |
| Dec 2021 | 434K | +0% |
| Nov 2021 | 432K | +1% |
| Oct 2021 | 427K | +2% |
| Sep 2021 | 420K | +2% |
| Aug 2021 | 413K | +2% |
| Jul 2021 | 406K | +2% |
| Jun 2021 | 400K | +3% |
| May 2021 | 388K | +0% |
| Apr 2021 | 387K | +3% |
| Mar 2021 | 375K | +1% |
| Feb 2021 | 372K | +2% |
| Jan 2021 | 367K | −0% |
| Dec 2020 | 368K | +0% |
| Nov 2020 | 366K | +0% |
| Oct 2020 | 365K | +2% |
| Sep 2020 | 358K | +1% |
| Aug 2020 | 355K | −3% |
| Jul 2020 | 366K | +0% |
| Jun 2020 | 364K | +2% |
| May 2020 | 357K | −1% |
| Apr 2020 | 360K | −1% |
| Mar 2020 | 365K | +0% |
| Feb 2020 | 364K | −0% |
| Jan 2020 | 364K | +2% |
| Dec 2019 | 356K | +1% |
| Nov 2019 | 353K | +1% |
| Oct 2019 | 351K | +1% |
| Sep 2019 | 349K | +0% |
| Aug 2019 | 348K | +1% |
| Jul 2019 | 345K | +1% |
| Jun 2019 | 340K | +1% |
| May 2019 | 338K | +0% |
| Apr 2019 | 337K | +0% |
| Mar 2019 | 336K | +1% |
| Feb 2019 | 334K | +1% |
| Jan 2019 | 331K | −0% |
| Dec 2018 | 332K | −1% |
| Nov 2018 | 333K | +0% |
| Oct 2018 | 333K | +0% |
| Sep 2018 | 332K | +1% |
| Aug 2018 | 330K | −0% |
| Jul 2018 | 332K | −1% |
| Jun 2018 | 333K | +0% |
| May 2018 | 332K | +0% |
| Apr 2018 | 331K | +0% |
| Mar 2018 | 330K | +0% |
| Feb 2018 | 328K | +1% |
| Jan 2018 | 325K | +0% |
| Dec 2017 | 324K | +0% |
| Nov 2017 | 323K | +0% |
| Oct 2017 | 322K | +0% |
| Sep 2017 | 321K | +0% |
| Aug 2017 | 321K | +0% |
| Jul 2017 | 320K | +1% |
| Jun 2017 | 317K | +0% |
| May 2017 | 316K | +1% |
| Apr 2017 | 315K | +1% |
| Mar 2017 | 313K | +0% |
| Feb 2017 | 312K | −1% |
| Jan 2017 | 315K | +1% |
| Dec 2016 | 313K | +2% |
| Nov 2016 | 306K | −1% |
| Oct 2016 | 309K | +0% |
| Sep 2016 | 308K | +1% |
| Aug 2016 | 307K | +1% |
| Jul 2016 | 304K | +0% |
| Jun 2016 | 303K | +1% |
| May 2016 | 300K | +0% |
| Apr 2016 | 300K | +1% |
| Mar 2016 | 298K | +0% |
| Feb 2016 | 297K | +1% |
| Jan 2016 | 296K | −1% |
| Dec 2015 | 299K | +0% |
| Nov 2015 | 299K | +0% |
| Oct 2015 | 298K | −0% |
| Sep 2015 | 299K | +0% |
| Aug 2015 | 298K | +0% |
| Jul 2015 | 298K | +0% |
| Jun 2015 | 297K | +0% |
| May 2015 | 296K | +1% |
| Apr 2015 | 293K | −0% |
| Mar 2015 | 293K | +0% |
| Feb 2015 | 292K | +0% |
| Jan 2015 | 291K | +1% |
| Dec 2014 | 287K | +1% |
| Nov 2014 | 285K | +0% |
| Oct 2014 | 285K | +1% |
| Sep 2014 | 282K | +1% |
| Aug 2014 | 281K | +1% |
| Jul 2014 | 279K | +1% |
| Jun 2014 | 277K | +0% |
| May 2014 | 277K | +0% |
| Apr 2014 | 276K | +0% |
| Mar 2014 | 276K | +0% |
| Feb 2014 | 275K | +0% |
| Jan 2014 | 275K | +0% |
| Dec 2013 | 275K | +0% |
| Nov 2013 | 273K | +0% |
| Oct 2013 | 272K | +0% |
| Sep 2013 | 272K | +0% |
| Aug 2013 | 272K | +0% |
| Jul 2013 | 271K | +0% |
| Jun 2013 | 270K | +1% |
| May 2013 | 269K | +1% |
| Apr 2013 | 267K | +0% |
| Mar 2013 | 266K | +0% |
| Feb 2013 | 265K | +0% |
| Jan 2013 | 264K | +1% |
| Dec 2012 | 262K | +0% |
| Nov 2012 | 261K | +1% |
| Oct 2012 | 259K | +1% |
| Sep 2012 | 256K | −0% |
| Aug 2012 | 257K | +1% |
| Jul 2012 | 255K | +0% |
| Jun 2012 | 254K | +0% |
| May 2012 | 254K | +1% |
| Apr 2012 | 252K | +0% |
| Mar 2012 | 252K | +1% |
| Feb 2012 | 250K | +1% |
| Jan 2012 | 248K | −0% |
| Dec 2011 | 248K | −1% |
| Nov 2011 | 251K | +1% |
| Oct 2011 | 248K | +0% |
| Sep 2011 | 246K | +0% |
| Aug 2011 | 246K | +0% |
| Jul 2011 | 245K | −0% |
| Jun 2011 | 246K | −0% |
| May 2011 | 246K | +1% |
| Apr 2011 | 244K | +0% |
| Mar 2011 | 244K | +0% |
| Feb 2011 | 243K | −0% |
| Jan 2011 | 243K | −0% |
| Dec 2010 | 243K | +0% |
| Nov 2010 | 243K | +0% |
| Oct 2010 | 242K | +0% |
| Sep 2010 | 242K | +0% |
| Aug 2010 | 242K | −0% |
| Jul 2010 | 243K | +0% |
| Jun 2010 | 242K | −0% |
| May 2010 | 243K | −0% |
| Apr 2010 | 244K | +0% |
| Mar 2010 | 243K | −1% |
| Feb 2010 | 245K | +0% |
| Jan 2010 | 245K | −0% |
| Dec 2009 | 246K | +0% |
| Nov 2009 | 245K | −0% |
| Oct 2009 | 246K | −1% |
| Sep 2009 | 248K | −1% |
| Aug 2009 | 250K | +1% |
| Jul 2009 | 248K | −0% |
| Jun 2009 | 248K | +0% |
| May 2009 | 248K | −1% |
| Apr 2009 | 250K | −0% |
| Mar 2009 | 250K | +0% |
| Feb 2009 | 250K | −1% |
| Jan 2009 | 252K | −0% |
| Dec 2008 | 253K | −1% |
| Nov 2008 | 255K | −1% |
| Oct 2008 | 256K | −0% |
| Sep 2008 | 257K | −0% |
| Aug 2008 | 258K | −1% |
| Jul 2008 | 259K | −1% |
| Jun 2008 | 261K | −1% |
| May 2008 | 263K | −0% |
| Apr 2008 | 263K | −0% |
| Mar 2008 | 264K | −1% |
| Feb 2008 | 266K | +0% |
| Jan 2008 | 266K | −0% |
| Dec 2007 | 267K | +0% |
| Nov 2007 | 266K | −0% |
| Oct 2007 | 268K | −0% |
| Sep 2007 | 268K | −0% |
| Aug 2007 | 269K | −1% |
| Jul 2007 | 271K | +1% |
| Jun 2007 | 268K | −0% |
| May 2007 | 270K | +0% |
| Apr 2007 | 268K | +0% |
| Mar 2007 | 267K | +1% |
| Feb 2007 | 265K | +0% |
| Jan 2007 | 264K | −0% |
| Dec 2006 | 264K | −1% |
| Nov 2006 | 266K | +1% |
| Oct 2006 | 263K | −0% |
| Sep 2006 | 263K | +0% |
| Aug 2006 | 262K | +0% |
| Jul 2006 | 262K | −1% |
| Jun 2006 | 264K | +1% |
| May 2006 | 261K | −0% |
| Apr 2006 | 262K | −1% |
| Mar 2006 | 265K | +1% |
| Feb 2006 | 263K | +0% |
| Jan 2006 | 263K | +0% |
| Dec 2005 | 262K | +0% |
| Nov 2005 | 262K | −0% |
| Oct 2005 | 262K | +1% |
| Sep 2005 | 261K | −0% |
| Aug 2005 | 261K | +0% |
| Jul 2005 | 260K | −1% |
| Jun 2005 | 262K | −0% |
| May 2005 | 263K | −0% |
| Apr 2005 | 263K | −0% |
| Mar 2005 | 264K | −0% |
| Feb 2005 | 265K | −0% |
| Jan 2005 | 265K | +0% |
| Dec 2004 | 265K | −0% |
| Nov 2004 | 266K | +0% |
| Oct 2004 | 265K | −0% |
| Sep 2004 | 266K | +0% |
| Aug 2004 | 266K | −1% |
| Jul 2004 | 268K | −1% |
| Jun 2004 | 269K | +0% |
| May 2004 | 268K | −0% |
| Apr 2004 | 268K | +0% |
| Mar 2004 | 268K | +0% |
| Feb 2004 | 268K | −1% |
| Jan 2004 | 270K | −1% |
| Dec 2003 | 271K | −0% |
| Nov 2003 | 272K | −1% |
| Oct 2003 | 274K | −0% |
| Sep 2003 | 275K | −1% |
| Aug 2003 | 278K | −1% |
| Jul 2003 | 280K | −0% |
| Jun 2003 | 280K | −1% |
| May 2003 | 283K | −1% |
| Apr 2003 | 284K | −1% |
| Mar 2003 | 286K | −1% |
| Feb 2003 | 288K | −1% |
| Jan 2003 | 290K | −1% |
| Dec 2002 | 294K | −1% |
| Nov 2002 | 297K | −1% |
| Oct 2002 | 301K | −0% |
| Sep 2002 | 301K | −0% |
| Aug 2002 | 303K | −0% |
| Jul 2002 | 303K | −0% |
| Jun 2002 | 304K | −1% |
| May 2002 | 306K | −1% |
| Apr 2002 | 308K | −0% |
| Mar 2002 | 309K | −1% |
| Feb 2002 | 310K | −0% |
| Jan 2002 | 311K | −0% |
| Dec 2001 | 312K | +0% |
| Nov 2001 | 312K | −1% |
| Oct 2001 | 315K | −1% |
| Sep 2001 | 316K | +0% |
| Aug 2001 | 316K | −0% |
| Jul 2001 | 318K | +0% |
| Jun 2001 | 318K | −0% |
| May 2001 | 319K | +0% |
| Apr 2001 | 318K | −1% |
| Mar 2001 | 322K | +1% |
| Feb 2001 | 319K | +0% |
| Jan 2001 | 319K | +0% |
| Dec 2000 | 318K | −0% |
| Nov 2000 | 320K | +1% |
| Oct 2000 | 316K | +0% |
| Sep 2000 | 315K | −0% |
| Aug 2000 | 316K | +0% |
| Jul 2000 | 316K | −0% |
| Jun 2000 | 317K | +1% |
| May 2000 | 315K | −1% |
| Apr 2000 | 317K | +1% |
| Mar 2000 | 314K | +0% |
| Feb 2000 | 313K | +0% |
| Jan 2000 | 313K | +1% |
| Dec 1999 | 311K | +0% |
| Nov 1999 | 311K | +0% |
| Oct 1999 | 311K | −0% |
| Sep 1999 | 311K | +0% |
| Aug 1999 | 310K | +0% |
| Jul 1999 | 309K | +0% |
| Jun 1999 | 308K | +0% |
| May 1999 | 306K | +0% |
| Apr 1999 | 305K | +1% |
| Mar 1999 | 303K | +0% |
| Feb 1999 | 302K | +1% |
| Jan 1999 | 298K | +1% |
| Dec 1998 | 297K | +1% |
| Nov 1998 | 294K | +1% |
| Oct 1998 | 291K | +1% |
| Sep 1998 | 288K | +1% |
| Aug 1998 | 285K | +1% |
| Jul 1998 | 284K | +0% |
| Jun 1998 | 283K | +1% |
| May 1998 | 279K | +1% |
| Apr 1998 | 275K | +1% |
| Mar 1998 | 274K | +0% |
| Feb 1998 | 273K | +0% |
| Jan 1998 | 272K | −0% |
| Dec 1997 | 273K | +1% |
| Nov 1997 | 271K | +0% |
| Oct 1997 | 271K | +0% |
| Sep 1997 | 271K | +0% |
| Aug 1997 | 270K | −0% |
| Jul 1997 | 270K | −0% |
| Jun 1997 | 271K | +1% |
| May 1997 | 269K | +1% |
| Apr 1997 | 266K | +0% |
| Mar 1997 | 265K | +1% |
| Feb 1997 | 263K | +0% |
| Jan 1997 | 262K | +1% |
| Dec 1996 | 259K | +1% |
| Nov 1996 | 258K | +1% |
| Oct 1996 | 255K | +1% |
| Sep 1996 | 253K | +0% |
| Aug 1996 | 253K | +1% |
| Jul 1996 | 250K | +0% |
| Jun 1996 | 250K | +0% |
| May 1996 | 250K | −0% |
| Apr 1996 | 250K | +0% |
| Mar 1996 | 250K | +0% |
| Feb 1996 | 250K | +1% |
| Jan 1996 | 246K | −1% |
| Dec 1995 | 249K | +0% |
| Nov 1995 | 248K | +0% |
| Oct 1995 | 247K | +0% |
| Sep 1995 | 246K | +0% |
| Aug 1995 | 245K | +1% |
| Jul 1995 | 243K | +0% |
| Jun 1995 | 242K | −0% |
| May 1995 | 243K | +1% |
| Apr 1995 | 241K | +1% |
| Mar 1995 | 240K | +1% |
| Feb 1995 | 237K | +1% |
| Jan 1995 | 233K | +0% |
| Dec 1994 | 233K | +1% |
| Nov 1994 | 232K | +0% |
| Oct 1994 | 232K | +1% |
| Sep 1994 | 230K | +1% |
| Aug 1994 | 228K | +0% |
| Jul 1994 | 227K | +0% |
| Jun 1994 | 226K | +1% |
| May 1994 | 225K | +0% |
| Apr 1994 | 224K | +1% |
| Mar 1994 | 222K | −0% |
| Feb 1994 | 222K | −0% |
| Jan 1994 | 223K | −0% |
| Dec 1993 | 223K | +0% |
| Nov 1993 | 223K | +1% |
| Oct 1993 | 221K | −1% |
| Sep 1993 | 223K | −0% |
| Aug 1993 | 223K | −0% |
| Jul 1993 | 224K | −0% |
| Jun 1993 | 224K | +0% |
| May 1993 | 224K | +0% |
| Apr 1993 | 223K | −0% |
| Mar 1993 | 224K | −1% |
| Feb 1993 | 225K | +0% |
| Jan 1993 | 225K | +0% |
| Dec 1992 | 224K | +0% |
| Nov 1992 | 224K | +1% |
| Oct 1992 | 223K | +1% |
| Sep 1992 | 221K | +1% |
| Aug 1992 | 220K | +1% |
| Jul 1992 | 218K | +0% |
| Jun 1992 | 218K | +0% |
| May 1992 | 217K | −1% |
| Apr 1992 | 218K | −0% |
| Mar 1992 | 219K | +1% |
| Feb 1992 | 217K | +1% |
| Jan 1992 | 216K | +0% |
| Dec 1991 | 215K | +0% |
| Nov 1991 | 214K | −0% |
| Oct 1991 | 214K | +0% |
| Sep 1991 | 214K | −0% |
| Aug 1991 | 215K | +0% |
| Jul 1991 | 214K | +1% |
| Jun 1991 | 213K | +1% |
| May 1991 | 212K | +0% |
| Apr 1991 | 211K | +0% |
| Mar 1991 | 210K | −0% |
| Feb 1991 | 211K | −0% |
| Jan 1991 | 211K | +1% |
| Dec 1990 | 209K | +0% |
| Nov 1990 | 209K | −0% |
| Oct 1990 | 210K | −0% |
| Sep 1990 | 210K | +0% |
| Aug 1990 | 210K | −1% |
| Jul 1990 | 212K | −0% |
| Jun 1990 | 213K | +0% |
| May 1990 | 212K | −0% |
| Apr 1990 | 212K | −1% |
| Mar 1990 | 214K | +0% |
| Feb 1990 | 213K | −0% |
| Jan 1990 | 214K | — |
Annual data
| Year | Computing Infrastructure Jobs | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 462K | −4% |
| 2025 | 480K | −0% |
| 2024 | 481K | −1% |
| 2023 | 485K | +4% |
| 2022 | 466K | +16% |
| 2021 | 402K | +11% |
| 2020 | 363K | +6% |
| 2019 | 343K | +4% |
| 2018 | 331K | +4% |
| 2017 | 318K | +5% |
| 2016 | 303K | +2% |
| 2015 | 296K | +6% |
| 2014 | 280K | +4% |
| 2013 | 270K | +6% |
| 2012 | 255K | +4% |
| 2011 | 246K | +1% |
| 2010 | 243K | −2% |
| 2009 | 248K | −5% |
| 2008 | 260K | −3% |
| 2007 | 268K | +2% |
| 2006 | 263K | +0% |
| 2005 | 263K | −2% |
| 2004 | 267K | −5% |
| 2003 | 280K | −8% |
| 2002 | 304K | −4% |
| 2001 | 317K | +0% |
| 2000 | 316K | +3% |
| 1999 | 307K | +9% |
| 1998 | 283K | +5% |
| 1997 | 268K | +7% |
| 1996 | 252K | +4% |
| 1995 | 243K | +7% |
| 1994 | 227K | +2% |
| 1993 | 223K | +2% |
| 1992 | 220K | +3% |
| 1991 | 213K | +1% |
| 1990 | 211K | — |
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