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Jobs
The unemployment rate comes from the household survey. Payroll job changes come from the separate establishment survey; the two measures describe different populations and should not be added together.
Numbers tell a bigger story.
Reported snapshot · does not accrue with time
What makes this number move?
Reporting period: 2026-09
Changes when a new source observation is loaded.
Published seasonally adjusted household-survey rate. No interpolation.
Household and establishment surveys describe different populations; survey estimates can be revised.
Reported snapshot · does not accrue with time
What makes this number move?
Reporting period: 2026-09
Changes when a new source observation is loaded.
Published monthly net nonfarm payroll change in thousands, converted to jobs. Import the same release’s revisions together.
Net payroll change is not gross hires or a forecast. Latest observations may be preliminary.
≈ 1,616.44 jobs / day projected pace
Resets at midnight UTC · refresh does not restart it
What makes this number move?
Projection basis: 2025–2035
Annualized long-term projection × elapsed time. This is an even-pace illustration, not observed hiring or a forecast for this calendar year.
BLS projects 5900000 additional jobs over 10 years (2025–2035). Divide evenly by 10, then by the actual seconds in this calendar year. Resets at UTC midnight or New Year for the selected view.
Long-term projection averaged evenly, not observed hiring or a forecast for this calendar year. Freeze if no replacement projection is imported within two years of publication.
Unemployment rate over time
Published values in the current source vintage. The line joins observations; it does not show a historical WN forecast.
View accessible data table
| Period | Official value (percent) |
|---|---|
| 2025-09 | 4.4% |
| 2026-07 | 4.1% |
| 2026-08 | 4.1% |
| 2026-09 | 4.2% |
Payroll jobs added over time
Published values in the current source vintage. The line joins observations; it does not show a historical WN forecast.
View accessible data table
| Period | Official value (jobs) |
|---|---|
| 2025-09 | 76,000 |
| 2026-07 | -10,000 |
| 2026-08 | 133,000 |
| 2026-09 | 29,000 |
EXPLORE THE SCALE
What does this pace mean over a minute or an hour?
Illustrative projected job growth today · based on 2025–2035. This converts the annualized long-term projection into a time interval you choose.
1.12 jobs
Calculation: stated rate × selected seconds. This is a scale illustration, not observed activity during that interval, a prediction or a change to the main counter. Actual activity varies; a negative rate represents a decrease.
What changed in the reported observations?
Unemployment rate
2025-09: 4.4% → 2026-09: 4.2%.
Difference: -0.2 percentage-point comparison; subtract the two published percentage rates. This compares the first and last observations in this board’s displayed series, not necessarily consecutive periods or the same seasonal window. Check the source vintage and units before interpreting the change.
Payroll jobs added
2025-09: 76,000 → 2026-09: 29,000.
Difference: -47,000 (-61.8% relative to the first displayed observation). This compares the first and last observations in this board’s displayed series, not necessarily consecutive periods or the same seasonal window. Check the source vintage and units before interpreting the change.
READING THIS BOARD
Are these new jobs or the total number of jobs?
Read the metric label: employment levels and monthly job changes answer different questions. Payroll jobs count positions, so someone with two jobs can be counted twice.
Make a fair comparison
Compare monthly changes with previous months and revisions, not an annualized counter with one monthly release.
How this number works
Unemployment rate
Published seasonally adjusted household-survey rate. No interpolation.
Household and establishment surveys describe different populations; survey estimates can be revised.
Payroll jobs added
Published monthly net nonfarm payroll change in thousands, converted to jobs. Import the same release’s revisions together.
Net payroll change is not gross hires or a forecast. Latest observations may be preliminary.
Illustrative projected job growth today
BLS projects 5900000 additional jobs over 10 years (2025–2035). Divide evenly by 10, then by the actual seconds in this calendar year. Resets at UTC midnight or New Year for the selected view.
Long-term projection averaged evenly, not observed hiring or a forecast for this calendar year. Freeze if no replacement projection is imported within two years of publication.
Official sources
Audit trail & all metric versions
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Unemployment rate
- Period
- 2026-09
- Source release date
- 2026-10-02
- Version
- Official source import · 2026-09
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-26T15:30:31.887Z
Payroll jobs added
- Period
- 2026-09
- Source release date
- 2026-10-02
- Version
- Official source import · 2026-09
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-26T15:30:31.887Z
Illustrative projected job growth today
- Period
- 2025–2035
- Source release date
- 2026-08-27
- Version
- Official source · 2025–2035
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-26T15:30:31.529Z
- Valid through
- 2028-08-27T00:00:00.000Z