U.S. ECONOMY & MARKETS27 Oct 2026 · 00:36 UTC
IndicatorsNonfarm payroll jobs

INDICATOR DETAIL

U.S. nonfarm payroll employment

159,044thousand jobs
ValidPeriod ending 30 Sep 2026Available 03 Oct 2026 · 00:33 UTC

U.S. nonfarm payroll employment

History

33 readings.

All retained dates

Dates refer to the economic period ending and apply to all charts below. Leave a date blank for an open range.

Published metric history, thousand jobs33 observed values from 2024-01-31 to 2026-09-30. Horizontal position follows economic dates. Lines stop at explicitly missing source periods. Recent exact values follow in the table; all retained readings are available through the pinned JSON query.157k158k159k2024-01-31: 157,032 thousand jobs2024-02-29: 157,238 thousand jobs2024-03-31: 157,466 thousand jobs2024-04-30: 157,530 thousand jobs2024-05-31: 157,608 thousand jobs2024-06-30: 157,695 thousand jobs2024-07-31: 157,748 thousand jobs2024-08-31: 157,757 thousand jobs2024-09-30: 157,912 thousand jobs2024-10-31: 157,945 thousand jobs2024-11-30: 158,079 thousand jobs2024-12-31: 158,316 thousand jobs2025-01-31: 158,268 thousand jobs2025-02-28: 158,310 thousand jobs2025-03-31: 158,377 thousand jobs2025-04-30: 158,485 thousand jobs2025-05-31: 158,498 thousand jobs2025-06-30: 158,478 thousand jobs2025-07-31: 158,542 thousand jobs2025-08-31: 158,472 thousand jobs2025-09-30: 158,548 thousand jobs2025-10-31: 158,408 thousand jobs2025-11-30: 158,449 thousand jobs2025-12-31: 158,432 thousand jobs2026-01-31: 158,592 thousand jobs2026-02-28: 158,436 thousand jobs2026-03-31: 158,650 thousand jobs2026-04-30: 158,798 thousand jobs2026-05-31: 158,861 thousand jobs2026-06-30: 158,892 thousand jobs2026-07-31: 158,882 thousand jobs2026-08-31: 159,015 thousand jobs2026-09-30: 159,044 thousand jobs31 Jan 202431 May 202530 Sep 2026

Showing periods 1–33 of 33 in this date range. Each chart page contains at most 180 original periods; values are not downsampled. All retained snapshot-selected periods are available.

Uses the data available in this saved assessment; later revisions may change historical values. This reconstructed chart does not show what was known on each historical date. Missing source periods break the line; unavailable metric values are omitted. Quality is evaluated at the assessment date.

Exact values · final 12 periods in this chart window
Exact plotted metric readings
Economic periodValueUnitQuality
31 Oct 2025158,408thousand jobsValid
30 Nov 2025158,449thousand jobsValid
31 Dec 2025158,432thousand jobsValid
31 Jan 2026158,592thousand jobsValid
28 Feb 2026158,436thousand jobsValid
31 Mar 2026158,650thousand jobsValid
30 Apr 2026158,798thousand jobsValid
31 May 2026158,861thousand jobsValid
30 Jun 2026158,892thousand jobsValid
31 Jul 2026158,882thousand jobsValid
31 Aug 2026159,015thousand jobsValid
30 Sep 2026159,044thousand jobsValid
Method, sources and timing

Economic period & freshness

Calculation uses the latest completed observation available at evaluation time, with its actual economic period and original availability. An older period contributes to assessment only within the configured source-age limit. Newly observed missing or invalid evidence is not replaced with an earlier value. Source status uses economic-age thresholds, not a release calendar; no future release time is inferred.

Source timing diagnostics
InputLatest source periodObservation ageAvailable to ECO ISource status
Nonfarm payroll jobs30 Sep 202627 days03 Oct 2026 · 00:33 UTCCurrent
THE PUBLISHED TRANSFORMOutput the original published us_nonfarm_payrolls observation for the latest available completed monthly period.

Total nonfarm payroll employment counts jobs on establishment payrolls, not distinct employed persons; it excludes farm employment and other CES out-of-scope employment. Monthly estimates are revised and subject to annual benchmark and seasonal revisions. Preserve preliminary and revised source footnotes with each vintage. The primary assessment compares employment levels across three complete calendar months. Positive or negative change is descriptive evidence, not a calibrated recession probability. No missing month is interpolated. FIRST_RETRIEVAL governs availability of the current revised API window; annual observations are excluded. Payroll employment and CPS unemployment describe related labor conditions; they do not establish two independent confirmations.

Definition 8.0.0 · us_nonfarm_payrolls
VALIDATION MATURITY

Research informed

Total nonfarm payroll employment counts jobs on establishment payrolls, not distinct employed persons; it excludes farm employment and other CES out-of-scope employment.

Published source interpretation and explicitly declared primary assessment policy; no legacy ordinal severity calibration.

Canonical observations JSON ↗
Canonical source observations
Period endingSource valueUnitQualityAvailable to ECO I
28 Feb 2026158,436thousand jobsValid05 Sep 2026 · 23:12 UTC
31 Mar 2026158,650thousand jobsValid05 Sep 2026 · 23:12 UTC
30 Apr 2026158,798thousand jobsValid05 Sep 2026 · 23:12 UTC
31 May 2026158,861thousand jobsValid05 Sep 2026 · 23:12 UTC
30 Jun 2026158,892thousand jobsValid05 Sep 2026 · 23:12 UTC
31 Jul 2026158,882thousand jobsValid03 Oct 2026 · 00:33 UTC
31 Aug 2026159,015thousand jobsValid03 Oct 2026 · 00:33 UTC
30 Sep 2026159,044thousand jobsValid03 Oct 2026 · 00:33 UTC
BLS source notes
Retained BLS source notes
Period endingPublished footnote
31 Aug 2026[P] preliminary
30 Sep 2026[P] preliminary

Original BLS payrolls JSON · b74155828535… ↗

Original BLS payrolls JSON · 7f569522ee65… ↗

Showing 2 of 2 retained source files. All retained source file hashes (JSON) ↗

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Chart source observations · 33 periods in this windowCanonical source observations, thousand jobs33 observed values from 2024-01-31 to 2026-09-30. Horizontal position follows economic dates. Lines stop at explicitly missing source periods. Recent exact values follow in the table; all retained readings are available through the pinned JSON query.157k158k159k2024-01-31: 157,032 thousand jobs2024-02-29: 157,238 thousand jobs2024-03-31: 157,466 thousand jobs2024-04-30: 157,530 thousand jobs2024-05-31: 157,608 thousand jobs2024-06-30: 157,695 thousand jobs2024-07-31: 157,748 thousand jobs2024-08-31: 157,757 thousand jobs2024-09-30: 157,912 thousand jobs2024-10-31: 157,945 thousand jobs2024-11-30: 158,079 thousand jobs2024-12-31: 158,316 thousand jobs2025-01-31: 158,268 thousand jobs2025-02-28: 158,310 thousand jobs2025-03-31: 158,377 thousand jobs2025-04-30: 158,485 thousand jobs2025-05-31: 158,498 thousand jobs2025-06-30: 158,478 thousand jobs2025-07-31: 158,542 thousand jobs2025-08-31: 158,472 thousand jobs2025-09-30: 158,548 thousand jobs2025-10-31: 158,408 thousand jobs2025-11-30: 158,449 thousand jobs2025-12-31: 158,432 thousand jobs2026-01-31: 158,592 thousand jobs2026-02-28: 158,436 thousand jobs2026-03-31: 158,650 thousand jobs2026-04-30: 158,798 thousand jobs2026-05-31: 158,861 thousand jobs2026-06-30: 158,892 thousand jobs2026-07-31: 158,882 thousand jobs2026-08-31: 159,015 thousand jobs2026-09-30: 159,044 thousand jobs31 Jan 202431 May 202530 Sep 2026

Showing periods 1–33 of 33 in this date range. Each chart page contains at most 180 original periods; values are not downsampled. All retained snapshot-selected periods are available.

Uses snapshot-selected vintages. The final eight exact values in this window are tabulated above. The pinned JSON query provides all matching observations and provenance; follow its cursor for further pages.

Snapshot identity
Snapshot
ero_us_macro_financial_20261027T003609Z_3476e48f61e8
Profile version
11.0.0
Generated
27 Oct 2026 · 00:38 UTC
Analytical content SHA-256
3476e48f61e89a392bf424594d533e4786040223a0d6bad7c1aa54e7ac1c3ce3

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov. Data access dates are supplied as retrieved_at in canonical observations. Latest retained BLS access: 03 Oct 2026 · 00:33 UTC. BLS source terms

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