BLS itself tracks indicators down to far smaller granularity than "the entire labor force." Here are all monthly releases for employment: https://www.bls.gov/ne

BLS itself tracks indicators down to far smaller granularity than "the entire labor force." Here are all monthly releases for employment: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm There isn't anything that drills down to sector-level, but the employment situation by occupation is probably the closest: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm It doesn't get as far down as software or computing-related occupations, but these would fall under the broader "professional and related occupations." This seemingly encompasses most white collar work and it has the third-lowest unemployment rate, behind only maintenance and repair operations and management and finance. Obviously, a lot of what you feel is happening will be colored by the particular people you know. It's probably wrong to even think of that as "tech employment." My wife and I both work for software companies. I don't personally know anyone who has been laid off in the past year. But I live in Texas and we both work in defense software. San Francisco adjacent web tech is not the entirety of "tech."