| Area | Total | Federal | Federal Share | National Rank | County Weekly Wage | Federal Weekly Wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Churchill County, Nevada | 8,866 | 562 | 6.34% | 166 | $1,232 | $1,274 |
| Mineral County, Nevada | 1,126 | 56 | 4.97% | 240 | $1,010 | $1,499 |
| Unknown Or Undefined, Nevada | 31,711 | 1,071 | 3.38% | 375 | $2,066 | $2,290 |
| Lincoln County, Nevada | 1,340 | 41 | 3.06% | 419 | $950 | $1,270 |
| White Pine County, Nevada | 4,268 | 126 | 2.95% | 440 | $1,634 | $1,402 |
| Humboldt County, Nevada | 7,616 | 139 | 1.82% | 790 | $1,516 | $1,480 |
| Carson City, Nevada | 31,824 | 568 | 1.78% | 814 | $1,355 | $1,690 |
| Washoe County, Nevada | 236,830 | 4,083 | 1.72% | 856 | $1,382 | $2,088 |
| Lander County, Nevada | 3,636 | 62 | 1.70% | 880 | $2,290 | $1,442 |
| Elko County, Nevada | 21,829 | 318 | 1.46% | 1,069 | $1,281 | $1,750 |
| Clark County, Nevada | 1,114,624 | 15,022 | 1.35% | 1,160 | $1,322 | $1,907 |
| Esmeralda County, Nevada | 271 | 3 | 1.11% | 1,447 | $1,335 | $604 |
| Nye County, Nevada | 13,405 | 133 | 0.99% | 1,647 | $1,428 | $1,371 |
| Pershing County, Nevada | 1,996 | 16 | 0.78% | 2,115 | $1,804 | $1,196 |
| Lyon County, Nevada | 13,373 | 77 | 0.58% | 2,700 | $1,099 | $1,183 |
| Douglas County, Nevada | 20,488 | 108 | 0.53% | 2,834 | $1,482 | $1,932 |
| Eureka County, Nevada | 4,370 | 1 | 0.03% | 3,269 | $2,769 | $2,042 |
| Storey County, Nevada | 20,085 | 2 | 0.01% | 3,270 | $1,589 | $1,861 |
| Red highlighted cells where federal share of employment exceeds national average | ||||||
| Blue highlighted cells where federal share of employment exceeds national median | ||||||
Summary of Federal Employment in Nevada
This report uses data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Department of Labor to look at both overall levels of federal employment in Nevada and to look at claims for unemployment insurance from federal workers in Nevada, as well as providing resources to individuals about such claims.
The largest federal departments with workers in Nevada as of the fourth quarter of 2024 are:
Department of Veterans Affairs (6,321)
US Postal Service (4,766)
Department of Defense (2,918)
Homeland Security (2,158)
Department of the Interior (2056)
Concentration of Federal Employment by County
Data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages allows us to look at the counties in Nevada with the largest concentrations of federal workers. This does not include active duty military personnel, but does include civilian employment at military bases, so Churchill County, home of the Naval Air Station Fallon and Mineral County, home of the Hawthorne Army Depot have above-average concentrations of federal employees, each among the 250 counties in the nation with the highest concentrations of federal workers.
In all, 11 of Nevada’s 17 counties have a higher concentration of federal workers than the typical county, and 6 of these have higher concentrations than the overall national share of federal employment to all workers.
Unemployment Insurance Activity for Federal Workers
Unemployment insurance is available to federal workers as it is to other unemployed workers. These claims are handled by a parallel program, Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE). Tracking these claims can give us an idea about layoffs and unemployment for former federal workers. However, if an individual has wages from both private and federal sources, these claims would be tracked under the regular UI program, not UCFE, so UCFE claims should be considered only a subset of all potential federal claims.
Initial claims reflect an application for benefits, and are most closely tied to layoffs or job loss, while weekly claims represent the process of filing for benefits for a particular week, and are most closely tied to the number of people unemployed for a particular week. The report week is the week in which a claim is reported, usually for claims that happened in the prior week, reflecting labor market activity the week before that. So the data for report week 2/22/2025 reflects claims filed in the week from 2/9/25 to 2/15/25, which reflects unemployment or job separations in the week prior to 2/9/2025.
Data source: https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/csv/ar539.csv
| Report Week | Jan 04 | Jan 11 | Jan 18 | Jan 25 | Feb 01 | Feb 08 | Feb 15 | Feb 22 | Mar 01 | Mar 08 | Mar 15 | Mar 22 | Mar 29 | Apr 05 | Apr 12 | Apr 19 | Apr 26 | May 03 | May 10 | May 17 | May 24 | May 31 | Jun 07 | Jun 14 | Jun 21 | Jun 28 | Jul 05 | Jul 12 | Jul 19 | Jul 26 | Aug 02 | Aug 09 | Aug 16 | Aug 23 | Aug 30 | Sep 06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Weekly | 115 | 131 | 129 | 126 | 131 | 128 | 132 | 142 | 125 | 129 | 139 | 112 | 96 | 99 | 86 | 70 | 62 | 66 | 59 | 49 | 59 | 53 | 45 | 46 | 36 | 34 | 26 | 25 | 31 | 40 | 39 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 42 | 40 |
Information about Unemployment Claims for Federal Workers
For information about unemployment compensation for federal workers, please refer to the UCFE Fact Sheet provided by the U.S. Department of Labor.
For information about how various states interpret eligibility rules about eligibility for benefits based on cause of separation, please refer to the Comparison of State Unemployment Insurance Laws, published by the U.S. Department of Labor, in particular the section on Nonmonetary Elibibility, which outlines provisions surrounding involuntary separations beginning on page 5-10. This adds a general note on eligibility as follows: *Historical Note: In determining what constitutes misconduct, many states rely on the definition established in the 1941 Wisconsin Supreme Court Case, Boynton Cab Co. v. Neubeck, 237 Wis. 249, 296 N.W. 636 (1941): b