Employment is one of the key features of population which energies great scope for research in the field of human geography. It is an important indicator of economic composition of a region. The grade of employment and unemployment displays the advancements or backwardness of any region. Sectoral alteration and employment status are intensively connected with each other. When a region is passing through aalteration of economic transformation the status of employment of the people also change afterward. Employment rate and socio-economic expansion are intensively correlated with each other. With increasing employment opportunities in different sectors of economy level of different parameters of development also definitely influenced the overall development of the region. The present paper aims to find out the actual correlation between employment rate and socio economic development and an effort has been made to thrown some lights on the parameters of socio economic development which have close relation to employment rate. However the paper finds positive correlation between employment rate and socio-economic development in Serampur subdivision of Hugli District, West Bengal.