Monthly job gains and losses
Gain Loss Preliminary (subject to revision)
Jobs by sector
Every industry BLS publishes. Click a sector to open its subsectors; click the chart icon for its trend.
Wages vs. inflation
Average hourly earnings compared with consumer prices. “Real” wages are adjusted for inflation.
Cumulative change since
Wages by sector
Pay vs. prices, month by month
Unemployment
Seasonally adjusted rates from the monthly household survey.
By race and ethnicity
By sex
Why unions matter
The Union Advantage
Union workers earn more and get far better benefits. These figures come from the latest BLS releases and don’t change with the time slider.
What employers spend per hour worked
Share of private-sector workers with access to each benefit
Median weekly pay, union members vs. nonunion workers ()
Median weekly pay over time, all full-time workers
More benefit details ()
All states
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Show ranking table for all states
Monthly job gains and losses
Gain Loss Preliminary (subject to revision)
Jobs by sector
Seasonally adjusted state payroll data, with the U.S. rate of change for comparison.
Unemployment
State rates from Local Area Unemployment Statistics, compared with the U.S.
Wages vs. inflation
Cumulative change since
Wages by sector
Pay vs. prices, change from a year earlier
State wages aren’t seasonally adjusted, so month-to-month swings mostly reflect the time of year. Comparing each month with the same month a year earlier removes that.
Unions
Union membership from BLS’s annual Union Members report. BLS doesn’t publish union vs. nonunion pay for individual states; see the national Union Advantage section for pay and benefits.
Share of workers who are union members, 2000–
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About the data
Every number on this site comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The site checks BLS each day and refreshes a dataset as soon as BLS posts new numbers.
How changes are measured
When you pick a time period, changes are measured from the month before the start month through the end month. Picking “Jan 2025 – Aug 2026” counts every job added or lost during those 20 months, including January’s. Picking a single month shows that month’s change, which matches the headline number in the monthly jobs report.
Sources
- National jobs and wages: Current Employment Statistics (CES), the establishment survey in the monthly Employment Situation report. Seasonally adjusted. Released the first Friday of most months.
- National unemployment by group: Current Population Survey (CPS), the household survey in the same report. Seasonally adjusted.
- State jobs: State and Metro Area Employment (CES-SM), seasonally adjusted. State unemployment: Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), seasonally adjusted. Both come out in the State Employment and Unemployment release, about two weeks after the national report.
- Inflation: Consumer Price Index. National real wages follow BLS’s own Real Earnings method: all-worker wages are adjusted with CPI-U and production & nonsupervisory wages with CPI-W (both seasonally adjusted).
- State wages: Average hourly earnings of all private employees. BLS publishes these only without seasonal adjustment and does not publish a production & nonsupervisory series for most states. They are adjusted for inflation using the CPI-U for the state’s Census region (Northeast, Midwest, South, West). For the cleanest read, compare periods of whole years (for example Aug 2025 – Aug 2026).
- Union vs. nonunion: Weekly pay and state membership rates come from the annual Union Members report (Current Population Survey, released each January). Employer spending on wages and benefits per hour worked comes from Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (quarterly, private industry). Access to benefits comes from the National Compensation Survey (annual, March reference period, private industry). These are straight comparisons that don’t adjust for differences in industry, occupation or location. BLS does not publish union vs. nonunion pay for individual states.
Things to know
- The two most recent months of payroll data are preliminary and are revised in the following two reports. Each February, BLS also benchmarks the prior year’s payroll levels.
- There is no October 2025 data for the household survey or CPI, because the federal government shutdown stopped data collection. When a period starts or ends on a missing month, the nearest earlier month is used and marked.
- Detailed industries can have large sampling error. Small monthly changes in small industries are often not statistically significant.