Labor & Employment
Official labour-market releases with every revision preserved; hiring-momentum and job-posting datasets are being built.
Coverage today
Live: U.S. payrolls, unemployment, earnings and participation (BLS) with first-release values preserved, and World Bank / ILO modelled unemployment estimates by country.
- Live series
- 4
- Observations
- 462
- Last collected
- 28 h ago
Scope of the sector
- Job postings
- Hiring trends
- Layoffs
- Occupational demand
- Salary ranges
- Global labour markets
The scope EveryIntel is building toward. Only the datasets below are collected today.
U.S. labour market
All macro series| Series | Latest period | Value | Change | Year over year | 24 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unemployment rate Percent · SA | Aug 2026 | 4.1 | 0.0 pp | −0.2 pp | |
| Total nonfarm payroll employment Thousands of jobs · SA | Aug 2026 | 159,075 | +162k | +603k | |
| Average hourly earnings, total private USD per hour · SA | Aug 2026 | 37.75 | +0.3% | +3.1% | |
| Labor force participation rate Percent · SA | Aug 2026 | 61.6 | +0.2 pp | −0.7 pp |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.
Labor & Employment
Research
- Macro releaselaborTotal nonfarm payroll employment: +162k in August 2026
Total nonfarm payroll employment (SA), August 2026: 159,075 (Thousands of jobs). Change from prior month +162 thousand (from 158,913k to 159,075k).
- Macro releaselaborUnemployment rate unchanged at 4.1% in August 2026
Unemployment rate (SA), August 2026: 4.1 (Percent). Change from prior month 0.0 percentage points.
Datasets and collectors
- No datasets assigned yet.
World Bank World Development Indicators (countries)
Weekly · Last successful run: 26 h ago
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