US manufacturing employment
ObservedEmployees on manufacturing payrolls in the United States, in thousands, seasonally adjusted.
Ingestedfrom Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisfreshJSON export
Current value, World
no observations ingested yet
- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- none
- Unit
- thousands of persons
- Frequency
- monthly
- Ingested
- never
1-year changeno observations ingested yet
10-year trendno observations ingested yet
Historical series
US manufacturing employment, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
All employees, manufacturing, from the BLS Current Employment Statistics survey (establishment survey), distributed through FRED as MANEMP. Counts jobs, not people; a person with two jobs is counted twice. Monthly, seasonally adjusted, thousands of persons.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-manufacturing-employment
Production
Related metrics
Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED economic data (API)
- Series ID
MANEMPlast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://fred.stlouisfed.org
- License and attribution
- License review requiredFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED. Individual series carry their own originating-source license.
- Last source update
- 2026-09-04 08:27:37-05(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 10:04 UTC
- Parser version
- fred-api/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- Monthly estimates are revised twice in the following months and again at the annual benchmark.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 100,000 thousands of persons.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet