1 month ago - Job growth totaled a seasonally adjusted 64,000 for the month, better than the Dow Jones estimate of 45,000 and up from a sharp decline in October. The unemployment rate rose to 4.6%, more than expected and its highest level since September 2021...

1 month ago - The September jobs report, released late in November due to the federal government shutdown, stated the US added 119,000 jobs, higher than economist predictions. Unemployment rate ticked up from 4.3% to 4.4% in September, its highest level since ...

1 month ago - It is the highest unemployment rate since September 2021, when the economy was emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, employers added 64,000 jobs in November, partly reversing a decline in October, a gain driven largely by the ...

1 month ago - The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% ... 4.4% in September, reaching a fresh high since 2021. November's job creation and the unemployment rate were both higher than forecasters expected, according to a survey of U.S. economists by Dow Jones Newswires ...

2 days ago - For the full year, payroll gains averaged 49,000 a month, compared with 168,000 in 2024, according to the BLS. "The jobs report is a mixed bag, with both positive and negative aspects," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B.

1 month ago - The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% last month, highest since 2021. The November job gains were higher than the 40,000 economists had forecast. The October job losses were caused by a 162,000 drop in federal workers, many of whom resigned at the end of fiscal year 2025 on Sept. 30 under pressure from billionaire Elon Musk's purge of U.S. government payrolls. Labor Department revisions also knocked 33,000 jobs off August and September ...

The Department of Labor reported the unemployment rate decreased 0.4 percentage point to 4.8 in September. Nonfarm jobs increased by 194,000 in September, lower than expectations and below last month’s payroll gain of 366,000 jobs.

2 days ago - The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.4 percent, as layoffs remain low despite the worst year for job creation since 2020.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | Revision of Seasonally Adjusted Household Survey Data | | | | Seasonally adjusted household survey data have been revised using updated seasonal | | adjustment factors, a procedure done at the end of each calendar year. Seasonally adjusted | | estimates back to January 2021 were subject to revision.

With these revisions, employment in June and July combined is 134,000 higher than previously reported. The rise in temporary help services employment for June was revised down from 35,000 to 31,000, while the addition of 9,700 jobs for July ...

Washington gained an estimated 167,200 jobs from September 2020 – September 2021, not seasonally adjusted.

November 20, 2025 - Nonfarm payrolls increased by 119,000 in September, up from the 4,000 jobs lost in August following a downward revision, according to a long-delayed report Thursday from the BLS. The unemployment rate edged higher to 4.4%, the highest it's been ...

Today’s jobs report from the ... with room for even stronger gains in certain areas. Employment rose by 194,000 and the unemployment rate dropped from 5.2% to 4.8%. Private sector growth was even stronger than those numbers ...

August 12, 2022 - Job growth in the leisure and hospitality sector did pick up in September, but only to 74,000 jobs. Though the sector was adding over 400,000 jobs a few months ago, employment is still down 9.4% from its pre-pandemic level.

October 8, 2021 - The September jobs report shows improvement in unemployment numbers, but a lackluster number of jobs added.