Jobs Report (Payrolls and Unemployment)
The monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: jobs added, the unemployment rate, average hourly earnings and more, with 13 months of history and revisions to earlier months.
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What changed: Loaded the BLS jobs report, January 2023 to September 2026. (Oct 5, 2026)
The jobs report, September 2026
Change in total nonfarm payroll employment, September 2026 (establishment survey).
7.1 million people unemployed (household survey).
$37.81 an hour, all employees on private nonfarm payrolls.
Figures for September 2026, seasonally adjusted, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on October 2, 2026.
Next release: October 2026 data on Friday, November 6, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. ET. Later releases on BLS's schedule: November 2026 data on December 4, 2026.
Also in the September 2026 report
Last 13 months
| Month | Payroll change | Unemployment rate | Average hourly earnings | Earnings, 12 months | Participation rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | +29,000 | 4.2% | $37.81 | +3.0% | 61.8% |
| Aug 2026 | +133,000 | 4.1% | $37.76 | +3.1% | 61.6% |
| Jul 2026 | −10,000 | 4.1% | $37.64 | +3.2% | 61.4% |
| Jun 2026 | +31,000 | 4.2% | $37.59 | +3.4% | 61.5% |
| May 2026 | +63,000 | 4.3% | $37.49 | +3.3% | 61.8% |
| Apr 2026 | +148,000 | 4.3% | $37.41 | +3.6% | 61.8% |
| Mar 2026 | +214,000 | 4.3% | $37.35 | +3.4% | 61.9% |
| Feb 2026 | −156,000 | 4.4% | $37.27 | +3.7% | 62.0% |
| Jan 2026 | +160,000 | 4.3% | $37.15 | +3.7% | 62.1% |
| Dec 2025 | −17,000 | 4.4% | $37.02 | +3.7% | 62.4% |
| Nov 2025 | +41,000 | 4.5% | $37.00 | +3.9% | 62.5% |
| Oct 2025 | −140,000 | Not collected | $36.85 | +3.9% | Not collected |
| Sep 2025 | +76,000 | 4.4% | $36.70 | +3.8% | 62.5% |
The household survey (unemployment and participation rates) was not collected for October 2025, during the 2025 lapse in appropriations.
What the jobs report measures
- The Employment Situation comes from two monthly surveys. A survey of employers (the establishment survey) gives payroll employment, hourly earnings and the workweek. A survey of households gives the unemployment rate, the number of people unemployed, the participation rate and the employment-population ratio.
- Figures are seasonally adjusted. With each release BLS revises the payroll figures for the two previous months, and once a year, with January data, it revises earlier years to match a fuller count of employment (the annual benchmark).
- BLS publishes the report at 8:30 a.m. ET, usually on the first Friday of the month, for the month before.
Methodology
- Update cadence
- Monthly (BLS release schedule). Checked every 24 hours, and on every 30-minute run from 8:30 a.m. ET on release days until the new month is published.
- Last updated
- Oct 5, 2026, 7:32 AM ET
- Series
- BLS series CES0000000001 (total nonfarm employment), CES0500000003 (average hourly earnings) and CES0500000002 (average weekly hours), all private employees, from the establishment survey; LNS14000000 (unemployment rate), LNS13000000 (unemployed), LNS11300000 (participation rate) and LNS12300000 (employment-population ratio) from the household survey. All seasonally adjusted.
- How it is produced
- We read the series from the BLS Public Data API and the release dates from BLS's Employment Situation schedule. The monthly payroll change is the difference between months in total nonfarm employment, in thousands, as BLS reports it; the 12-month earnings change is calculated by us and rounded to one decimal. Before anything is published, every series must reach the same latest month and stay within plausible ranges, and no month may appear before its scheduled release. Revisions are shown from the payroll figures this page published at the previous release.
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Money Tracker Daily, "Jobs Report (Payrolls and Unemployment)", updated October 5, 2026, https://moneytrackerdaily.com/trackers/jobs-report. Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Employment Situation.
Change log
- Loaded the BLS jobs report, January 2023 to September 2026.
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