{
  "indicator": "performing-arts-employment",
  "title": "U.S. performing arts employment",
  "description": "Payroll employment at performing arts companies, NAICS 7111, from the national Current Employment Statistics survey — the highest-frequency federal read on the sector's labour base.",
  "page": "https://liveindex.io/data/national/performing-arts-employment",
  "compiler": "Live Index",
  "compiler_url": "https://liveindex.io",
  "derivation": "Levels are stored as published in thousands of jobs, seasonally adjusted. The recovery figure is the ratio of the latest published level to the February 2020 level, expressed as a percentage; both are stored observations, not estimates.",
  "limitations": [
    "NAICS 7111 covers performing arts companies broadly — theatre, dance and musical groups — and is not restricted to popular-music touring.",
    "Payroll counts say nothing about hours, pay or the stability of the engagement.",
    "Annual benchmarking revises the level of the whole series, so historical comparisons should always be drawn from the current vintage."
  ],
  "generated_at": "2026-09-29T01:58:33.287Z",
  "stored_snapshot": [
    {
      "series_key": "ces-performing-arts-employment",
      "source_series_id": "CES7071110001",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-26T23:52:48.707+00:00",
      "data_through": "2026-07-01",
      "data_through_label": "2026-07",
      "coverage": "2011-01-01/2026-07-01",
      "observations": 187,
      "unit": "Thousands of jobs, seasonally adjusted",
      "frequency": "monthly",
      "seasonal_adjustment": "seasonally-adjusted",
      "latest_preliminary": true
    }
  ],
  "revision_history": "Revision history: no prior stored snapshot available.",
  "note": "Values are stored exactly as the source agency published them. Periods the agency has not published are absent; no value is estimated, smoothed or back-filled.",
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      "key": "ces-performing-arts-employment",
      "name": "All employees, performing arts companies (NAICS 7111)",
      "agency": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics",
      "program": "Current Employment Statistics (CES), national",
      "source_series_id": "CES7071110001",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES7071110001",
      "unit": "Thousands of jobs, seasonally adjusted",
      "frequency": "monthly",
      "seasonal_adjustment": "seasonally-adjusted",
      "notes": "Payroll employment at performing arts companies. The most recent months are preliminary and are revised by BLS; preliminary months are marked as such.",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-26T23:52:48.707+00:00",
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          "preliminary": false
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        {
          "period": "2011-02-01",
          "label": "2011-02",
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          "preliminary": false
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        {
          "period": "2011-03-01",
          "label": "2011-03",
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          "preliminary": false
        },
        {
          "period": "2011-04-01",
          "label": "2011-04",
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          "preliminary": false
        },
        {
          "period": "2011-05-01",
          "label": "2011-05",
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        },
        {
          "period": "2011-06-01",
          "label": "2011-06",
          "value": 105.1,
          "preliminary": false
        },
        {
          "period": "2011-07-01",
          "label": "2011-07",
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          "preliminary": false
        },
        {
          "period": "2011-08-01",
          "label": "2011-08",
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          "preliminary": false
        },
        {
          "period": "2011-09-01",
          "label": "2011-09",
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          "preliminary": false
        },
        {
          "period": "2011-10-01",
          "label": "2011-10",
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          "preliminary": false
        },
        {
          "period": "2011-11-01",
          "label": "2011-11",
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        {
          "period": "2011-12-01",
          "label": "2011-12",
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          "preliminary": false
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          "period": "2012-01-01",
          "label": "2012-01",
          "value": 109.8,
          "preliminary": false
        },
        {
          "period": "2012-02-01",
          "label": "2012-02",
          "value": 109.6,
          "preliminary": false
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        {
          "period": "2012-03-01",
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          "label": "2012-11",
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          "period": "2012-12-01",
          "label": "2012-12",
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          "label": "2013-01",
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          "period": "2013-09-01",
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        {
          "period": "2013-12-01",
          "label": "2013-12",
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        {
          "period": "2014-01-01",
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          "preliminary": false
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        {
          "period": "2014-02-01",
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          "period": "2014-03-01",
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          "period": "2014-04-01",
          "label": "2014-04",
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        },
        {
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        {
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        },
        {
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        },
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        {
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        {
          "period": "2014-11-01",
          "label": "2014-11",
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        },
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        {
          "period": "2015-02-01",
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        {
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          "period": "2015-11-01",
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