Nonfarm Payrolls Chart
Track current nonfarm payroll employment, the prior month, the monthly jobs change, and recent BLS history with source references.
Short answer
Total nonfarm payrolls is the Bureau of Labor Statistics count of paid U.S. employees outside farming, private households, and a few other categories, published monthly from the Current Employment Statistics survey. This page shows the seasonally adjusted employment level in thousands of persons, the change from the prior month, and the change from a year earlier, each traced back to the BLS series and the warehouse tables it was loaded through.
Last 12 months
Latest twelve BLS observations from the page-pack pull, in thousands of persons.
| Period | Payroll employment (thousands) | Note |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | 158,858 | Final |
| June 2026 | 158,881 | Final |
| May 2026 | 159,001 | Final |
| April 2026 | 158,829 | Final |
| March 2026 | 158,637 | Final |
| February 2026 | 158,466 | Final |
Understanding Nonfarm Payrolls
What this page shows
This page tracks total nonfarm payroll employment from the BLS Current Employment Statistics survey. The headline value is the seasonally adjusted all-employees series for total private and government payroll employment.Why nonfarm payrolls matter
Office-backed CMBS, rates, credit, and operating-company analysis all depend on labor demand. Payroll employment is one of the clearest monthly signals for hiring momentum, tenant demand, and macro-cycle pressure.How to use it
Use the headline value for the latest employment level, the change cards for monthly and yearly movement, the history table for recent observations, and the lineage section to inspect source, channel, and warehouse binding.Frequently asked questions
Which nonfarm payroll series is this?
This page uses BLS series CES0000000001: all employees, total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted. BLS publishes the values in thousands of persons and this page keeps that unit throughout.What is the latest period shown?
The hero value is the most recent monthly observation available in the CMD+RVL warehouse pull from the BLS public API. BLS marks the two most recent months as preliminary until later revisions.How is the monthly jobs change calculated?
The monthly change is the difference between the latest and prior BLS observations in the same series, shown in thousands of jobs. The year-over-year change compares the latest observation with the same month one year earlier.Are the values job gains or the employment level?
The chart and history table show the employment level. The change cards are computed from the same underlying monthly series.What you’re looking at
This page is a working outcome.
Everything above, including the live figure, lineage trail, and automatic refresh, is a working example of an Operated Monitor, one of the outcomes CMD+RVL runs for clients. We stand up the same against the numbers your decisions depend on:
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Refreshed on a schedule and monitored, so the figure you cite is the figure that is true today, not last quarter’s spreadsheet.
Defensible
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