Record ยท the original document behind a story
Payroll estimates as first published, 2026 vintages
Published by BLS via ALFRED, St. Louis Fed on August 31, 2026.
The payroll numbers as they were first published each month, before revisions, from the Federal Reserve's ALFRED archive. This is what lets us compare first estimates against today's figures.
Where we use it
- The job market goes into reverse: payrolls fall by 23,000 · cited for the revisions table
A passage we checked, word for word, against our saved copy
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