According to TUİK records in 2014, total workforce of TRC1 Region is 744.000 in which 684.000 are employed and 60.000 are unemployed. Therefore, labor force participation rate is 43.2%; the rate of employment is 39.7% and the unemployment rate is 8% in TRC1 Region for the year 2014.
Sectoral distribution of the employment: 47,95% in the services sector; 33.48% in the industrial sector; 18.71% in the agriculture sector.
According to the Social Security Institution records, in the year 2014, there are 493.912 registered workers in 38.576 registered workplaces in TRC1 Region.