United States Non Farm Payrolls

Last Release

Apr 30, 2025

Actual

177

Units In

Thousand

185

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Jun 06, 2025

Time to Release

1 Months 2 Days 12 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
4,846 Jun 2020	-20,679 Apr 2020	125.8 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.

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The U.S. economy added 177,000 jobs in April 2025, a slowdown from the downwardly revised 185,000 in March, but significantly surpassing market expectations of 130,000. This figure aligns closely with the average monthly gain of 152,000 over the past 12 months, despite growing uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies. Job growth was primarily seen in sectors such as health care (+51,000), transportation and warehousing (+29,000), financial activities (+14,000), and social assistance (+8,000), while federal government employment experienced a decline (-9,000).