United States Non Farm Payrolls

Last Release

May 31, 2025

Actual

139

Units In

Thousand

147

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Jul 03, 2025

Time to Release

25 Days 6 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
4,846 Jun 2020	-20,679 Apr 2020	125.78 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

US nonfarm payrolls increased by 139K in May 2025, a small slowdown from April’s downwardly revised 147K, but slightly above forecasts of 130K. Employment continued to trend up in health care (62K), mostly hospitals (30K), ambulatory health care services (29K); leisure and hospitality (48K), mostly food services and drinking places (30K); and social assistance (16K). On the other hand, federal government continued to lose jobs in May (-22K) and and is down by 59K since January. Employment in manufacturing decreased by 8K. Meanwhile, payrolls figures for March and April were revised lower. With these revisions, employment in the two months combined is 95K lower than previously reported. The data remains consistent with a slowing, yet still robust, labour market; however, recent policy changes from the Trump administration could put downward pressure on employment in the coming months.