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Current Employment Statistics - CES (National)

The Current Employment Statistics (CES) program produces detailed industry estimates of nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings of workers on payrolls. CES National Estimates produces data for the nation, and CES State and Metro Area produces estimates for all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and about 450 metropolitan areas and divisions.

Each month, CES surveys approximately 122,000 businesses and government agencies, representing approximately 666,000 individual worksites.

Notices

Preliminary Benchmark Revision Release Read More »
Testing for CES Benchmark file update at 10:00 AM on March 24, 2025 Read More »
Update to the 2022 North American Industry Classification System on February 3, 2023 Read More »

Charts

Employment change by industry with confidence intervals, December 2024, seasonally adjusted, in thousands
Industry	1-month net change	3-month net change	6-month net change	12-month net change
Total nonfarm	256	511	988	2,232
Total private	223	414	772	1,792
Goods-producing	-8	-27	11	100
Service providing	264	538	977	2,132
Mining and logging	-3	-2	0	-9
Construction	8	15	83	196
Manufacturing	-13	-40	-72	-87
Wholesale trade	-3.5	7.3	22.0	32.3
Retail trade	43.4	23.0	12.2	74.4
Transportation and warehousing	9.6	2.4	19.3	109.6
Utilities	-0.3	-1.4	1.5	7.8
Information	10	12	-11	-8
Financial activities	13	29	38	53
Professional and business services	28	27	-2	96
Private education and health services	80	241	466	971
Leisure and hospitality	43	87	195	285
Other services	8	13	20	71
Government	33	97	216	440
Note: Significant changes are calculated at a 90-percent confidence level. The variance for total nonfarm is an approximation because government and rail transportation are not based on a probability sample

News Releases

//EMPSIT Auto-Suppl Test Zuni3PO 1/5/2026// Payroll employment increases by 139,000 in May

01/05/2026

//EMPSIT Auto-Suppl Test Zuni3PO 1/5/2026// Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 139,000 in May.
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//REALER Test ZUNI3 12/15/2025// Real average hourly earnings for all employees increase...

12/15/2025

//REALER Test ZUNI3 12/15/2025// Real average hourly earnings all employees increased 0.3 percent in May, seasonally.
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//PREBMK test on ZUNI3 01/22/2026// Preliminary benchmark revision for March payroll...

01/22/2026

//PREBMK test on ZUNI3 01/22/2026// The preliminary CES benchmark revision March 2025 total nonfarm employment;
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Next Release

The Employment Situation for October 2025 is scheduled to be released on October 3, 2025, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

Real Earnings for November 2025 is scheduled to be released on December 18, 2025, at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time.

Beyond the Numbers

The 2020 census and CES employment

This Beyond the Numbers article describes how census workers affect CES employment estimates. Typically, a mass movement of workers onto—and then off of—the Census Bureau payroll occurs around the turn of every decade. read more »

The Economics Daily

Real average hourly earnings increased 0.6 percent from January 2019 to January 2020

Real average hourly earnings for all employees increased 0.6 percent, seasonally adjusted, from January 2019 to January 2020. read more »

Monthly Labor Review

The relative weakness in earnings of production workers in manufacturing, 1990–2018

Although manufacturing industries had a reputation for stable, well-paying jobs throughout much of the 20th century, shifts within the industry in the last several decades have considerably altered that picture. Since 1990, average hourly earnings trends in the various manufacturing industries have been disparate, with a few industries showing strong growth but many others having growth rates that are lower than those of the total private sector. read more »

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Latest Numbers

Change in Total Nonfarm Payroll Employment: +64,000(p) in Nov 2025

Change in Total Private Average Hourly Earnings for All Employees: +$0.05(p) in Nov 2025

Change in Total Private Average Weekly Hours for All Employees: +0.1(p) in Nov 2025

Percent change in Total Private Aggregate Weekly Hours for All Employees: +0.3%(p) in Nov 2025

Change in Manufacturing Average Weekly Hours for All Employees: +0.1(p) in Nov 2025

Change in Manufacturing Average Weekly Overtime for All Employees: unchanged in Nov 2025