United States Non Farm Payrolls

Last Release

Jan 31, 2025

Actual

143

Units In

Thousand

307

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Mar 07, 2025

Time to Release

25 Days 5 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
4,846 Jun 2020	-20,679 Apr 2020	125.72 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 143K jobs in January 2025, well below an upwardly revised 307K gain in December and forecasts of 170K. Job gains occurred in health care (44K), retail trade (34K), and social assistance (22K) and government employment continued to trend up (32K). The BLS said that wildfires in LA and severe winter weather in other parts of the country, had “no discernible effect” on employment in the month. Meanwhile, the BLS published the annual benchmark revisions for 2024. The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for November was revised up by 49K to 261K and the change for December was revised up by 51K to 307K. With these revisions, employment in November and December combined is 100K higher than previously reported. Considering full 2024 however, payroll employment increased by 1.99 million, averaging 166K jobs per month, lower than 2.2 million or an average monthly gain of 186K initially reported.