From February 2016 to February 2026, employment in the United States motion‑picture and video industry fell. Production jobs declined by 49,000, a 21 % drop, while exhibition jobs fell by 25,000, a 17 % decline. The industry was flat for several years until the pandemic‑related loss of jobs in April 2020. Production recovered all 109,000 pandemic losses and peaked at 289,000 workers in October 2022, but since 2023 strikes have driven employment down to about 100,000 fewer than that high. Exhibition has not fully recovered the 123,000 jobs lost during the pandemic; employment has stayed roughly steady since July 2022. Data come from the Current Employment Statistics program and are seasonally adjusted.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
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