United States Non Farm Payrolls

Last Release

Sep 30, 2025

Actual

119

Units In

Thousand

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Dec 16, 2025

Time to Release

24 Days 16 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

US nonfarm payrolls rose by 119K in September 2025, rebounding from a revised 4K decline in August and beating market forecasts of 50K. It is the biggest job rise in five months, led employment gains in health care (43K), including ambulatory health care services (23K) and hospitals (16K). Job gains were also seen in food services and drinking places (37K), and social assistance (14K). On the other hand, job losses occurred in transportation and warehousing (-25K) including warehousing and storage (-11K) and couriers and messengers (-7K). Federal government employment continued to decline in September (-3K) and is down by 97K since reaching a peak in January. The manufacturing sector also shed 6K jobs. The September jobs report was originally scheduled for release on October 3rd but was delayed due to the longest federal government shutdown in US history. Meanwhile, the release of the October employment report has been cancelled.