United States Non Farm Payrolls

Last Release

Feb 28, 2025

Actual

151

Units In

Thousand

125

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Apr 04, 2025

Time to Release

25 Days 6 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 151K jobs in February 2025, up from a downwardly revised 125K in January and compared to forecasts of 160K. Employment trended up in health care (52K), namely ambulatory health care services (26K); financial activities (21K); transportation and warehousing (18K); and social assistance (11K). Meanwhile, federal government employment declined by 10K, already reflecting some of the impact of the DOGE layoffs although the effects of federal spending cuts and tariffs are expected to weigh more on the labor market in the coming months. Job losses also occurred in retail trade (-6K) and employment showed little change in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; construction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; information; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality; and other services.