United States Non Farm Payrolls

Last Release

Mar 31, 2025

Actual

228

Units In

Thousand

117

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

May 02, 2025

Time to Release

24 Days 18 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
4,846 Jun 2020	-20,679 Apr 2020	125.79 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 228K jobs in March 2025, well above a downwardly revised 117K in February and beating forecasts of 135K. It is the strongest figure in three months, as job gains occurred in health care (54K), social assistance (24K), and in transportation and warehousing (23K). Employment also increased in retail trade (24K), partially reflecting the return of workers from a strike. Federal government employment declined by 4K, following a loss of 11K jobs in February. Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; construction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; information; financial activities; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality; and other services. With the January and February revisions, employment is 48K lower in those two months than initially reported.