United States Non Farm Payrolls

Last Release

Nov 30, 2024

Actual

227

Units In

Thousand

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Jan 10, 2025

Time to Release

1 Months 2 Days 19 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
4,846 Jun 2020	-20,679 Apr 2020	125.54 Thousand	1939-2024	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 227K jobs in November 2024, marking a strong recovery from the upwardly revised 36K gain in October, which was heavily influenced by Boeing strikes and the disruptions caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Figures came better than forecasts of 200K, as employment trended up in health care (54K), leisure and hospitality (53K), government (33K), and social assistance (19K). Also, employment increased in transportation equipment manufacturing (32K), reflecting the return of workers who were on strike. On the other hand, retail trade lost 28K jobs and employment showed little change in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; construction; wholesale trade; transportation and warehousing; information; financial; professional and business services. Figures for September were also revised up and with these revisions, employment in September and October combined is 56K higher than previously reported. In 2024, payroll employment increase by an average of 186K.