Employment in U.S. publishing industries 2023

As of May 2023, a total of 920.26 thousand people were estimated to be working in publishing companies, up from the 806.8 thousand people recorded in January of the previous year. The figure includes software publishers as well as those working in newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishing.

Total employment in U.S. publishing industries from 2001 to 2023 (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Employment in 1,000s
2023	920.26
2022	806.8
2021	778.9
2020	780.5
2019	749.9
2018	730.7
2017	730.6
2016	729.5
2015	725.6
2014	727.5
2013	735.7
2012	741.1
2011	751.1
2010	768.6
2009	837.8
2008	897.4
2007	902.8
2006	901.2
2005	901.5
2004	913.8
2003	942.2
2002	986.6
2001	1,045.7

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Release date

September 2023

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2001 to 2023

Special properties

includes newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers and software publishers / excludes internet publishers

Supplementary notes

Figures are seasonally adjusted. Figure for 2023 calculated internally. Figures from 2001 to 2022 as of January in each year, figure for 2023 as of May that year.

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