United States Non Farm Payrolls

Last Release

Aug 31, 2025

Actual

Units In

Thousand

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Oct 03, 2025

Time to Release

23 Days 13 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
4,846 Jun 2020	-20,679 Apr 2020	125.53 Thousand	1939-2025	U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Nonfarm payrolls is an employment report released monthly, usually on the first Friday of every month, and heavily affects the US dollar, the bond market and the stock market. Current Employment Statistics (CES) program from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, surveys about 141,000 businesses and government agencies, representing approximately 486,000 individual work sites, in order to provide detailed industry data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm payrolls.

Latest Updates

The US economy added 911K fewer jobs in the 12 months through March 2025 than initially reported - the largest downward revision since at least 2000 - according to the BLS’s preliminary benchmark revision. This represents a -0.6% adjustment, compared with an absolute average change of 0.2% in total nonfarm employment over the past decade. Nearly all sectors added fewer jobs than initially estimated, with the steepest downward revisions in leisure and hospitality (-176K), professional and business services (-158K), retail trade (-126.2K), and wholesale trade (-110.3K). In contrast, payrolls were revised higher in transportation and warehousing (+6.6K) and utilities (+3.7K). The revision captures the gap between two independently compiled employment measures, each subject to distinct sources of error. A year earlier, the preliminary data showed a downward revision of 818K jobs, later adjusted to -598K. The latest figures suggest the labor market has weakened more than previously thought.