United States Non Farm Payrolls

Last Release

Dec 31, 2025

Actual

Units In

Thousand

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Feb 06, 2026

Time to Release

26 Days 1 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
4,846 Jun 2020	-20,679 Apr 2020	125.17 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 50K payrolls in December 2025, less than a downwardly revised 56K in November and below forecasts of 60K. Employment continued to trend up in food services and drinking places (27K), health care (21K) and social assistance (17K) while retail trade lost 25K jobs. Also, federal government employment was little changed in December and employment showed little or no change in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; construction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; transportation and warehousing; information; financial activities; professional and business services. The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for October was revised down by 68K to -173K and the change for November was revised down by 8K to +56K. With these revisions, employment in October and November combined is 76K lower than previously reported. Considering full 2025, payroll employment rose by 584K, corresponding to an average monthly gain of 49K, less than the increase of 2.0 million in 2024.