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3 weeks ago - Job report release date and time: Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time · Nonfarm payroll employment is forecast to increase by 40,000 in November, versus 119,000 in September, according to FactSet.

Transmission of material in this news release is embargoed until USDL-25-1581 8:30 a.m. (ET) Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Technical information: Household data: (202) 691-6378 * [email protected] * www.bls.gov/cps Establishment data: (202) 691-6555 * [email protected] * www.bls.gov/ces Media contact: (202) 691-5902 * [email protected] THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- NOVEMBER 2025 Total nonfarm payroll employment changed little in November (+64,000) and has shown little net change since April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. In November, the unemployment rate, at 4.6 percent, was little changed from September. Employment rose in health care and construction in November, while federal government continued to lose jobs.

3 weeks ago - The November jobs report is landing at an odd time – on a Tuesday in mid-December, instead of (what’s usually) the first Friday of the month – due to the lingering impact of the historically long government shutdown.

December 3, 2025 - ADP’s reports have gained in ... The November jobs report, originally slated for release on Friday, is delayed until December 16....

November 19, 2025 - This calendar is routinely updated, generally a week in advance of any new announcements. The highly anticipated November jobs report is set for release on Friday at 8:30 AM ET, and it is expected to indicate a significant recovery in employment ...

December 3, 2025 - But other sources have not shown the same kind of sharp decline, and more authoritative data isn’t available because of the lingering effects of the shutdown. The November jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which was scheduled for release on Friday, has been delayed until Dec.

December 3, 2025 - The rate of pay also slowed, with workers staying in their jobs seeing a 4.4% year-over-year increase, down 0.1 percentage point from October. "Hiring has been choppy of late as employers weather cautious consumers and an uncertain macroeconomic environment," said ADP's chief economist, Nela Richardson. "And while November's slowdown was broad-based, it was led by a pullback among small businesses." The ADP report is the last jobs picture the Federal Reserve gets before it meets Dec.

February 29, 2024 - The September employment situation report will be released on Thursday, November 20. Economists' consensus forecast is for payrolls to expand by about 54,000, while the unemployment rate is expected to remain unchanged at 4.3%. "Hiring is in ...

3 weeks ago - “Over the past three years more than 90% of all the jobs the US have created have come in just three sectors – government, private education & healthcare and leisure & hospitality,” ING Chief International Economist James Knightley said in a note. “Government is now becoming a drag while all other private sectors continue to struggle with net job losses in five of the past seven months in aggregate.” · The September jobs report, the most recent release before November, surpassed some analysts' expectations.

3 weeks ago - "The report on December's employment data, released in early January ahead of the next meeting, will likely be a much more meaningful indicator for the Fed when it comes to deciding the near-term policy trajectory." Markets continued to put low odds on another rate cut in January. The probability was around 24.4% following the jobs report, unchanged from Monday, according to the CME Group's FedWatch.

November 19, 2025 - WATCH: With government jobs report delayed, what other data reveals about the economy · The department's "employment situation'' report usually comes out the first Friday of the month.

3 weeks ago - Economists were looking for a net ... to FactSet. November’s report, which was delayed from its original release date of December 5, offered a bit of a catch-up....

3 weeks ago - "BLS cannot provide specific guidance to data users for navigating the missing October observations," the agency said. While the November report will be published, it will "not include 1-month percent changes for November 2025 where the October ...

November 14, 2025 - Chavez added that the White House has been "urging for accurate data to come out for November." Citigroup economist Andrew Hollenhorst said in a Friday note that he is optimistic the Fed will have the September, October and November jobs reports by the time it holds its next policy meeting on Dec.

3 weeks ago - The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that full October jobs data would not be released and November’s jobs data was delayed due to the 43-day federal government shutdown. Questions have also been raised about its accuracy. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell warned last week that the data from the BLS should be treated with a “skeptical eye” while the hangover left from the shutdown works through the system. There are signs that the US’s job market is weakening. ADP reported US private sector employers shed about 32,000 jobs in November after adding 47,000 jobs in October.

3 weeks ago - Because of the government shutdown, the Labor Department did not release its jobs reports for September, October and November on time. It finally put out the September jobs report on Nov. 20, seven weeks late.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases "The Employment Situation" report monthly, typically on the first Friday following the reference month.

3 weeks ago - It will combine data that the BLS normally would have released in early November and then early December, had the government not been shut down. It will also omit October’s unemployment rate and other household-survey data, which were never collected because of the shutdown. The most recent jobs reports showed that growth slowed down significantly this summer, and is now running far below the 147,000 jobs added per month in the 12 months through April.