Nevada reports 100,800 jobs added since December 2022, with employment at 1.61 million

Nevada’s seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment reached 1,614,100 jobs, an increase of 100,800 jobs from December 2022, according to figures released July 16 by Gov. Joe Lombardo’s office.

The governor’s office described the total as the highest employment level in Nevada history. It also said the state had attracted more than $6 billion in private investment during the administration.

The announcement presents the employment increase and investment total as markers of Nevada’s economic expansion since Lombardo took office. The materials provided do not establish that any one administration policy caused the reported job or investment growth.

What the employment figure measures

The 1,614,100 figure is for seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment. That is the measure identified in the governor’s announcement, and it should not be read as a count of net new private-sector jobs.

The reported 100,800-job increase is measured against December 2022. That baseline matters because the announcement is comparing the current employment level with the period when the administration began, rather than describing a single month’s hiring.

Nevada’s Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation provides the statewide labor-market reporting framework underlying employment reporting. Its May 2026 statewide release, published June 18, reported month-over-month employment changes by sector, including gains in professional and business services and manufacturing.

Those sector references indicate that the state’s labor-market reporting tracks changes across industries. But the approved materials do not provide a sector-by-sector accounting of the full 100,800-job increase from December 2022, nor do they assign portions of that increase to particular employers, projects or state policies.

Investment claim is broader than a project list

The more-than-$6-billion figure is described by the governor’s office as private investment attracted during the administration. The materials do not identify the individual investments, their locations, the industries involved, the timing of each commitment, or how much of the stated total has already been spent.

As a result, the figure should be understood as an administration-reported aggregate, not as a completed-project inventory. The supplied sources also do not detail public subsidies, tax incentives or other public costs associated with the investments, so the available record does not support a calculation of public cost per job or public cost per investment dollar.

Businesses and workers may benefit differently depending on the sectors, locations and terms of individual investments, but those details are not included in the announcement. The materials likewise do not provide wage, hours or job-quality information for the reported employment increase.

Small-business and diversification context

The governor’s announcement also cited research from UNLV saying Nevada led the nation in post-pandemic small-business growth. The supplied packet does not include the underlying UNLV methodology, the period used for the comparison, or the specific measure used to rank states.

That distinction is important when interpreting the claim alongside the employment total. A small-business-growth ranking and a seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment count are different measures, and the available materials do not show how much the reported employment gain came from small businesses versus larger employers.

The release nevertheless puts the employment milestone within Nevada’s broader effort to diversify its economy. The evidence in the packet supports that the state reported growth in professional and business services and manufacturing in the May monthly labor-market release, but it does not support a conclusion about the full industry composition of job growth since December 2022.

What remains to be measured

The July 16 announcement supplies a statewide employment total, a comparison with December 2022 and an aggregate private-investment figure. It does not provide an independently sourced analysis of what drove the gains, a full national comparison methodology for job growth, or a project-level account of investment outcomes.

Future labor-market releases from the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation can provide additional monthly sector information. No specific next reporting deadline or additional investment accounting was identified in the supplied materials.

Sources

• Nevada Surpasses 100,000 New Jobs Under Governor Joe Lombardo, Office of the Governor of Nevada
• May 2026 Statewide Press Release and Report, Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation