United States Non Farm Payrolls

Last Release

Nov 30, 2025

Actual

Units In

Thousand

-105

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Jan 09, 2026

Time to Release

22 Days 12 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
4,846 Jun 2020	-20,679 Apr 2020	125.25 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

US job growth totaled 64K in November, compared with a 105K loss in October and market expectations of a 50K increase. Employment rose in health care and construction in November, while federal government continued to lose jobs. In November, health care added 46K jobs and construction 28K jobs. Employment in social assistance continued to trend up as well (+18K). On the other hand, employment fell in transportation and warehousing (-18K). Also, federal government lost 6K jobs in November and 162K jobs in October reflecting the departure of federal workers who accepted deferred buyouts as part of Trump’s push to shrink the size of government. The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for August was revised down by 22,000, from -4,000 to -26,000, and the change for September was revised down by 11,000, from +119,000 to +108,000.