US nonfarm payroll employment
ObservedTotal employees on nonfarm 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 nonfarm payroll employment, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
All employees, total nonfarm, from the BLS establishment survey (Current Employment Statistics), distributed through FRED as PAYEMS. Covers about 80 percent of workers contributing to GDP; excludes farm workers, private household employees, the self-employed and unpaid volunteers. Monthly, seasonally adjusted.
- Direction
- higher is better
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-nonfarm-payrolls
Economy & Capital
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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
PAYEMSlast 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 08:27:34-05(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
- Revised in the two following months and at the annual benchmark.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 1,000,000 thousands of persons.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet