The Employment Situation, August 2026 (the September 4 revision of July)

… hour to 34.4 hours in August. In manufacturing, the average workweek edged up by 0.1 hour to 40.5 hours, and overtime was unchanged at 3.1 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls remained at 33.8 hours. (See tables B-2 and B-7.) The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for June was revised up by 11,000, from +20,000 to +31,000, and the change for July was revised up by 44,000, from -23,000 to +21,000. With these revisions, employment in June and July combined is 55,000 higher than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors.) _____________ The Employment Situation for September 2026 is scheduled to be published on Friday, October 2, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. (ET). HOUSEHOLD DATA Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands] Category Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Change from: July 2026- Aug. 2026 Employment status Civilian noninstitutional population(1) 274,001 275,166 275,282 275,415 133 Civilian labor force 170,750 169,358 169,094 169,777 683 Participation rate 62.3 61.5 61.4 61.6 0.2 Employed 163,370 162,264 162,177 162,746 569 Employment-population ratio 59.6 59.0 58.9 59.1 0.2 Unemployed 7,380 7,094 6,916 7,031 115 Unemployment rate 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1 0.0 Not in labor force 103,251 105,808 106,189 105,638 -551 Unemployment rates Total, 16 years and over 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1 0.0 Adult men (20 years and over) 4.1 3.9 3.9 4.0 0.1 Adult women (20 years and over) 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.5 -0.2 Teenagers (16 to 19 years) 13.9 14.6 12.1 14.1 2.0 White 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.7 0.1 Black or African American 7.6 6.6 6.3 6.0 -0.3 Asian 3.6 3.9 4.0 3.2 -0.8 Hispanic or Latino ethnicity 5.3 5.2 4.6 4.8 0.2 Total, 25 years and over 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 0.0 Less than a high school diploma 6.7 5.5 5.4 4.7 -0.7 High school graduates, no college 4.3 4.2 4.0 4.4 0.4 Some college or associate degree 3.2 3.6 3.6 3.7 0.1 Bachelor's degree and higher 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 0.0 Reason for unemployment Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs 3,447 3,278 3,309 3,245 -64 Job leavers 785 776 793 914 121 Reentrants 2,302 2,237 2,123 2,137 14 New entrants 792 772 761 702 -59 Duration of unemployment Less than 5 weeks 2,475 2,182 1,960 2,000 40 5 to 14 weeks 2,058 1,936 2,049 2,077 28 15 to 26 weeks 1,051 1,052 1,157 1,147 -10 27 weeks and over 1,924 1,937 1,771 1,930 159 Employed people at work part time Part time for economic reasons 4,755 4,681 4,804 4,390 -414 Slack work or business conditions 3,069 3,010 3,019 2,815 -204 Could only find part-time work 1,332 1,409 1,428 1,263 -165 Part time for noneconomic reasons 23,270 22,618 22,770 22,752 -18 People not in the labor force Marginally attached to the labor force 1,836 1,761 1,806 1,704 -102 Discouraged workers 519 477 476 441 -35 Footnotes (1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation. NOTE: People whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. ESTABLISHMENT DATA Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted Category Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY (Over-the-month change, in thousands) Total nonfarm -70 31 21 162 Total private -20 26 71 127 Goods-producing -35 14 29 41 Mining and logging -3 -2 -3 3 Construction -22 3 18 22 Manufacturing -10 13 14 16 Durable goods(1) -15 13 24 15 Motor vehicles and parts -12.2 -0.4 10.7 -4.5 Nondurable goods 5 0 -10 1 Private service-providing 15 12 42 86 Wholesale trade -8.6 4.6 5.3 7.8 Retail trade 10.1 9.6 13.2 1.4 Transportation and warehousing -1.6 -10.3 13.8 5.0 Utilities -1.2 0.2 1.4 2.5 Information -1 -19 5 -23 Financial activities -19 2 -11 -11 Professional and business services(1) -28 36 15 10 Temporary help services -10.9 16.9 5.2 6.8 Private education and health services(1) 23 50 12 29 Health care and social assistance 22.8 38.6 13.1 28.4 Leisure and hospitality 22 -54 -21 62 Other services 19 -7 8 3 Government -50 5 -50 35 (3-month average change, in thousands) Total nonfarm -9 81 38 71 Total private 0 79 53 75 WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES(2) Total nonfarm women employees 50.0 50.1 50.1 50.1 Total private women employees 48.5 48.6 48.6 48.7 Total private production and nonsupervisory employees 81.5 81.6 81.5 81.6 HOURS AND EARNINGS ALL EMPLOYEES Total private Average weekly hours 34.2 34.3 34.3 34.4 Average hourly earnings $36.62 $37.59 $37.65 $37.75 Average weekly earnings $1,252.40 $1,289.34 $1,291.40 $1,298.60 Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)(3) 115.8 116.7 116.8 117.2 Over-the-month percent change -0.1 0.0 0.1 0.3 Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)(4) 202.8 209.8 210.2 211.6 Over-the-month percent change 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.7 DIFFUSION INDEX (Over 1-month span)(5) Total private (250 industries) 45.4 53.6 52.8 55.6 Manufacturing (72 industries) 41.7 57.6 52.1 61.1 Footnotes (1) Includes other industries, not shown separately. (2) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. (3) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding annual average aggregate hours. (4) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. (5) Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment. (p) Preliminary NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors. Frequently Asked Questions about Employment and Unemployment Estimates 1. Why are there two monthly measures of employment? The household survey and establishment survey both produce sample-based estimates of employment, and both have strengths and limitations. The establishment survey employment series has a smaller margin of error on the measurement of month-to- month change than the household survey because of its much larger sample size. An over-the-month employment change of about 122,000 is statistically significant in the establishment survey, while the threshold for a statistically significant change in the household survey is about 650,000. However, the household survey has a more expansive scope than the establishment survey because it includes self-employed workers whose businesses are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, agricultural workers, and private household workers, who are excluded by the establishment survey. The household survey also provides estimates of employment for demographic groups. For more information on the differences between the two surveys, please visit www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ces_cps_trends.htm. 2. Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys? It is likely that both surveys include at least some undocumented immigrants. However, neither the establishment nor the household survey is designed to identify the legal status of workers. Therefore, it is not possible to determine how many are counted in either survey. The establishment survey does not collect data on the legal status of workers. The household survey does include questions which identify the foreign and native born, but it does not include questions about the legal status of the foreign born. Data on the foreign and native born are published each month in table A-7 of The Employment Situation news release. 3. Why does the establishment survey have revisions? The establishment survey revises published estimates to improve its data series by incorporating additional information that was not available at the time of the initial publication of the estimates. The establishment survey revises its initial monthly estimates twice, in the immediately succeeding 2 months, to incorporate additional sample receipts from respondents in the survey and recalculated seasonal adjustment factors. For more information on the monthly revisions, please visit www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cestn.htm#Revisions-Between-Preliminary-and-Final-Data. On an annual basis, the establishment survey incorporates a benchmark revision that re-anchors estimates to nearly complete employment counts available from unemployment insurance tax records. The benchmark helps to control for sampling and modeling errors in the estimates. For more information on the annual benchmark revision, please visit www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbmart.htm. 4. Does the establishment survey sample include small firms? Yes. About 46 percent of the establishment survey sample is comprised of business establishments with fewer than 20 employees. The establishment survey sample is designed to maximize the reliability of the statewide total nonfarm employment estimate; firms from all states, size classes, and industries are appropriately sampled to achieve that goal. 5. Does the establishment survey account for employment from new businesses? Yes. Monthly establishment survey estimates include an adjustment to account for the net employment change generated by business births and deaths. The adjustment comes from an econometric model that forecasts the monthly net jobs impact of business births and deaths based on the actual past values of the net impact that can be observed with a lag from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. The establishment survey uses modeling rather than sampling for this purpose because the survey is not immediately able to bring new businesses into the sample. There is an unavoidable lag between the birth of a new firm and its appearance on the sampling frame and availability for selection. BLS adds new businesses to the survey twice a year. More information on business births and deaths in the establishment survey is available at www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbd.htm. 6. Is the count of unemployed people limited to just those receiving unemployment insurance benefits? No. The estimate of unemployment is based on a monthly sample survey of households. All people who are without jobs and are actively seeking and available to work are included among the unemployed. (People on temporary layoff are included even if they do not actively seek work.) There is no requirement or question relating to unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly survey. 7. Does the official unemployment rate exclude people who want a job but are not currently looking for work? Yes. However, there are separate estimates of people outside the labor force who want a job, including those who are not currently looking because they believe no jobs are available (discouraged workers). In addition, alternative measures of labor underutilization (some of which include discouraged workers and other groups not officially counted as unemployed) are published each month in table A-15 of The Employment Situation news release. For more information about these alternative measures, please visit www.bls.gov/cps/lfcharacteristics.htm#altmeasures. 8. How can unusually severe weather affect employment and hours estimates? In the establishment survey, the reference period is the pay period that includes the 12th of the month. Unusually severe weather is more likely to have an impact on average weekly hours than on employment. Average weekly hours are estimated for paid time during the pay period, including pay for holidays, sick leave, or other time off. The impact of severe weather on hours estimates typically, but not always, results in a reduction in average weekly hours. For example, some employees may be off work for part of the pay period and not receive pay for the time missed, while some workers, such as those dealing with cleanup or repair, may work extra hours. It is not possible to precisely quantify the effect of extreme weather on payroll employment estimates. In order for severe weather conditions to reduce employment estimates, employees have to be off work without pay for the entire pay period. Employees who receive pay for any part of the pay period, even 1 hour, are counted in the payroll employment figures. For more information on how often employees are paid, please visit www.bls.gov/ces/publications/length-pay-period.htm. In the household survey, the reference period is generally the calendar week that includes the 12th of the month. People who miss the entire week's work for weather- related events are counted as employed whether or not they are paid for the time off. The household survey collects data on the number of people who had a job but were not at work due to bad weather. It also provides a measure of the number of people who usually work full time but had reduced hours due to bad weather. Current and historical data are available on the household survey's most requested statistics page, please visit data.bls.gov/toppicks?survey=ln. Technical Note This news release presents statistics from two major surveys, the Current Population Survey (CPS; household survey) and the Current Employment Statistics survey (CES; establishment survey). The household survey provides information on the labor force, employment, and unemployment that appears in the "A" tables, marked HOUSEHOLD DATA. It is a sample survey of about 60,000 eligible households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The establishment survey provides information on employment, hours, and earnings of employees on nonfarm payrolls; the data appear in the "B" tables, marked ESTABLISHMENT DATA. BLS collects these data each month from the payroll records of a sample of nonagricultural business establishments. Each month the CES program surveys about 119,000 businesses and government agencies, representing approximately 622,000 individual worksites, in order to provide detailed industry data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm payrolls. The active sample includes approximately 26 percent of all nonfarm payroll jobs. For both surveys, the data for a given month relate to a particular week or pay period. In the household survey, the reference period is generally the calendar week that contains the 12th day of the month. In the establishment survey, the reference period is the pay period including the 12th, which may or may not correspond directly to the calendar week. Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect the entire civilian noninstitutional population. Based on responses to a series of questions on work and job search activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in the labor force. People are classified as employed if they did any work at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked in their own business, profession, or on their own farm; or worked without pay at least 15 hours in a family business or farm. People are also counted as employed if they were temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal reasons. People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of the following criteria: they had no employment during the reference week; they were available for work at that time; and they made specific active efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. People laid off from a job and expecting recall need not be looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The unemployment data derived from the household survey in no way depend upon the eligibility for or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits. The civilian labor force is the sum of the employed and unemployed. Those people not classified as employed or unemployed are not in the labor force. The unemployment rate is the number unemployed as a percent of the labor force. The labor force participation rate is the labor force as a percent of the population, and the employment-population ratio is the employed as a percent of the population. Additional information about the household survey can be found at www.bls.gov/cps/documentation.htm. Establishment survey. The sample establishments are drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, offices, and stores, as well as from federal, state, and local government entities. Employees on nonfarm payrolls are those who worked or received pay for any part of the reference pay period, including people on paid leave. People are counted in each job they hold. Hours and earnings data are produced for the private sector for all employees and for production and nonsupervisory employees. Production and nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and related employees in manufacturing and mining and logging, construction workers in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in private service-providing industries. Industries are classified on the basis of an establishment's principal activity in accordance with the 2022 version of the North American Industry Classification System. Additional information about the establishment survey can be found at www.bls.gov/ces/. Differences in employment estimates. The numerous conceptual and methodological differences between the household and establishment surveys result in important distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the surveys. Among these are: --The household survey includes agricultural workers, self-employed workers whose businesses are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, and private household workers among the employed. These groups are excluded from the establishment survey. --The household survey includes people on unpaid leave among the employed. The establishment survey does not. --The household survey is limited to workers 16 years of age and older. The establishment survey is not limited by age. --The household survey has no duplication of individuals, because individuals are counted only once, even if they hold more than one job. In the establishment survey, employees working at more than one job and thus appearing on more than one payroll are counted separately for each appearance. Seasonal adjustment Over the course of a year, the size of the nation's labor force and the levels of employment and unemployment undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These events may result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, and the opening and closing of schools. The effect of such seasonal variation can be very large. Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each year, their influence on the level of a series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal variation. These adjustments make nonseasonal developments, such as declines in employment or increases in the participation of women in the labor force, easier to spot. For example, in the household survey, the large number of youth entering the labor force each June is likely to obscure any other changes that have taken place relative to May, making it difficult to determine if the level of economic activity has risen or declined. Similarly, in the establishment survey, payroll employment in education declines by about 20 percent at the end of the spring term and later rises with the start of the fall term, obscuring the underlying employment trends in the industry. Because seasonal employment changes at the end and beginning of the school year can be estimated, the statistics can be adjusted to make underlying employment patterns more discernible. The seasonally adjusted figures provide a more useful tool with which to analyze changes in month-to-month economic activity. Many seasonally adjusted series are independently adjusted in both the household and establishment surveys. However, the adjusted series for many major estimates, such as total payroll employment, employment in most major sectors, total employment, and unemployment are computed by aggregating independently adjusted component series. For example, total unemployment is derived by summing the adjusted series for four major age-sex components; this differs from the unemployment estimate that would be obtained by directly adjusting the total or by combining the duration, reasons, or more detailed age categories. Percentage distributions of unemployment by reason and duration are derived from the sum of the independently seasonally adjusted component series and will not necessarily match calculations made using the seasonally adjusted total unemployment level. Additional information about seasonal adjustment in the household survey can be found at www.bls.gov/cps/documentation.htm#sa. For both the household and establishment surveys, a concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology is used in which new seasonal factors are calculated each month using all relevant data, up to and including the data for the current month. In the household survey, new seasonal factors are used to adjust only the current month's data. In the establishment survey, however, new seasonal factors are used each month to adjust the three most recent monthly estimates. The prior 2 months are routinely revised to incorporate additional sample reports and recalculated seasonal adjustment factors. In both surveys, 5-year revisions to historical data are made once a year. Reliability of the estimates Statistics based on the household and establishment surveys are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. When a sample, rather than the entire population, is surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may differ from the true population values they represent. The component of this difference that occurs because samples differ by chance is known as sampling error, and its variability is measured by the standard error of the estimate. There is about a 90-percent chance, or level of confidence, that an estimate based on a sample will differ by no more than 1.6 standard errors from the true population value because of sampling error. BLS analyses are generally conducted at the 90-percent level of confidence. For example, the confidence interval for the monthly change in total nonfarm employment from the establishment survey is on the order of plus or minus 122,000. Suppose the estimate of nonfarm employment increases by 50,000 from one month to the next. The 90-percent confidence interval on the monthly change would range from -72,000 to +172,000 (50,000 +/- 122,000). These figures do not mean that the sample results are off by these magnitudes, but rather that there is about a 90-percent chance that the true over-the-month change lies within this interval. Since this range includes values of less than zero, we could not say with confidence that nonfarm employment had, in fact, increased that month. If, however, the reported nonfarm employment rise was 250,000, then all of the values within the 90-percent confidence interval would be greater than zero. In this case, it is likely (at least a 90-percent chance) that nonfarm employment had, in fact, risen that month. At an unemployment rate of around 6.0 percent, the 90-percent confidence interval for the monthly change in unemployment as measured by the household survey is about +/- 425,000, and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it is about +/- 0.3 percentage point. In general, estimates involving many individuals or establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the size of the estimate) than estimates which are based on a small number of observations. The precision of estimates also is improved when the data are cumulated over time, such as for quarterly and annual averages. The household and establishment surveys are also affected by nonsampling error, which can occur for many reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the population, inability to obtain information for all respondents in the sample, inability or unwillingness of respondents to provide correct information on a timely basis, mistakes made by respondents, and errors made in the collection or processing of the data. For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for the most recent 2 months are based on incomplete returns; for this reason, these estimates are labeled preliminary in the tables. It is only after two successive revisions to a monthly estimate, when nearly all sample reports have been received, that the estimate is considered final. Another major source of nonsampling error in the establishment survey is the inability to capture, on a timely basis, employment generated by new firms. To correct for this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an estimation procedure with two components is used to account for business births. The first component excludes employment losses from business deaths from sample-based estimation in order to offset the missing employment gains from business births. This is incorporated into the sample-based estimation procedure by simply not reflecting sample units going out of business, but imputing to them the same employment trend as the other firms in the sample. This procedure accounts for most of the net birth/death employment. The second component is an ARIMA time series model designed to estimate the residual net birth-death employment not accounted for by the imputation. The historical time series used in the ARIMA model is derived from the unemployment insurance universe micro-level database and reflects the actual residual net of births and deaths over the past 5 years. In addition to this time series of actual residual net of births and deaths series, the ARIMA-based component of the birth-death model includes current sample information to inform the forecasts. More information on business births and deaths in the establishment survey is available at www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbd.htm. The sample-based estimates from the establishment survey are adjusted once a year (on a lagged basis) to universe counts of payroll employment obtained from administrative records of the unemployment insurance program. The difference between the March sample-based employment estimates and the March universe counts is known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a rough proxy for total survey error. Benchmarks also incorporate changes in the classification of industries when necessary. The absolute average benchmark revision for total nonfarm employment over the prior 10 years is 0.2 percent. Over this time, revisions ranged from -0.4 percent to 0.3 percent. Other information If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age [Numbers in thousands] Employment status, sex, and age Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted(1) Aug. 2025 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Apr. 2026 May 2026 June 2026 July 2026 Aug. 2026 TOTAL Civilian noninstitutional population 274,001 275,282 275,415 274,001 274,955 275,054 275,166 275,282 275,415 Civilian labor force 171,035 170,235 170,048 170,750 169,995 170,078 169,358 169,094 169,777 Participation rate 62.4 61.8 61.7 62.3 61.8 61.8 61.5 61.4 61.6 Employed 163,288 162,800 162,667 163,370 162,622 162,771 162,264 162,177 162,746 Employment-population ratio 59.6 59.1 59.1 59.6 59.1 59.2 59.0 58.9 59.1 Unemployed 7,747 7,435 7,381 7,380 7,373 7,307 7,094 6,916 7,031 Unemployment rate 4.5 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1 Not in labor force 102,966 105,047 105,367 103,251 104,959 104,976 105,808 106,189 105,638 People who currently want a job 6,499 6,258 5,884 6,347 6,111 6,187 6,045 5,920 5,747 Men, 16 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population 133,651 132,816 132,876 133,651 132,670 132,714 132,763 132,816 132,876 Civilian labor force 91,113 89,680 89,604 90,804 88,936 89,138 88,690 88,739 89,259 Participation rate 68.2 67.5 67.4 67.9 67.0 67.2 66.8 66.8 67.2 Employed 87,194 85,897 85,734 86,834 85,007 85,172 84,854 84,978 85,337 Employment-population ratio 65.2 64.7 64.5 65.0 64.1 64.2 63.9 64.0 64.2 Unemployed 3,920 3,782 3,870 3,970 3,929 3,966 3,836 3,761 3,922 Unemployment rate 4.3 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.2 4.4 Not in labor force 42,538 43,136 43,272 42,847 43,734 43,576 44,073 44,077 43,617 Men, 20 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population 124,571 123,887 123,959 124,571 123,704 123,760 123,822 123,887 123,959 Civilian labor force 87,779 86,002 86,126 87,686 85,791 85,982 85,690 85,690 86,028 Participation rate 70.5 69.4 69.5 70.4 69.4 69.5 69.2 69.2 69.4 Employed 84,280 82,739 82,744 84,129 82,353 82,539 82,333 82,352 82,585 Employment-population ratio 67.7 66.8 66.8 67.5 66.6 66.7 66.5 66.5 66.6 Unemployed 3,498 3,263 3,381 3,557 3,438 3,443 3,356 3,338 3,444 Unemployment rate 4.0 3.8 3.9 4.1 4.0 4.0 3.9 3.9 4.0 Not in labor force 36,792 37,885 37,834 36,885 37,913 37,778 38,133 38,198 37,931 Women, 16 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population 140,350 142,467 142,540 140,350 142,284 142,340 142,403 142,467 142,540 Civilian labor force 79,921 80,555 80,444 79,946 81,059 80,940 80,668 80,354 80,518 Participation rate 56.9 56.5 56.4 57.0 57.0 56.9 56.6 56.4 56.5 Employed 76,094 76,903 76,933 76,536 77,615 77,599 77,410 77,199 77,409 Employment-population ratio 54.2 54.0 54.0 54.5 54.5 54.5 54.4 54.2 54.3 Unemployed 3,827 3,653 3,511 3,410 3,444 3,341 3,258 3,155 3,109 Unemployment rate 4.8 4.5 4.4 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.0 3.9 3.9 Not in labor force 60,429 61,911 62,096 60,404 61,225 61,400 61,735 62,112 62,021 Women, 20 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population 131,597 133,864 133,948 131,597 133,648 133,715 133,789 133,864 133,948 Civilian labor force 76,636 76,909 77,251 76,854 77,898 77,827 77,448 77,283 77,495 Participation rate 58.2 57.5 57.7 58.4 58.3 58.2 57.9 57.7 57.9 Employed 73,300 73,666 74,178 73,895 74,872 74,882 74,618 74,445 74,788 Employment-population ratio 55.7 55.0 55.4 56.2 56.0 56.0 55.8 55.6 55.8 Unemployed 3,336 3,243 3,072 2,959 3,026 2,945 2,830 2,838 2,708 Unemployment rate 4.4 4.2 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.5 Not in labor force 54,961 56,955 56,697 54,743 55,750 55,889 56,341 56,581 56,452 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian noninstitutional population 17,833 17,531 17,508 17,833 17,603 17,579 17,555 17,531 17,508 Civilian labor force 6,620 7,324 6,672 6,210 6,307 6,269 6,221 6,121 6,254 Participation rate 37.1 41.8 38.1 34.8 35.8 35.7 35.4 34.9 35.7 Employed 5,707 6,394 5,744 5,346 5,397 5,350 5,313 5,380 5,373 Employment-population ratio 32.0 36.5 32.8 30.0 30.7 30.4 30.3 30.7 30.7 Unemployed 913 929 927 864 910 919 907 740 880 Unemployment rate 13.8 12.7 13.9 13.9 14.4 14.7 14.6 12.1 14.1 Not in labor force 11,213 10,207 10,837 11,623 11,297 11,309 11,334 11,410 11,255 Footnotes (1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age [Numbers in thousands] Employment status, race, sex, and age Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted(1) Aug. 2025 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Apr. 2026 May 2026 June 2026 July 2026 Aug. 2026 WHITE Civilian noninstitutional population 207,675 202,529 202,572 207,675 202,448 202,468 202,497 202,529 202,572 Civilian labor force 128,535 123,822 123,619 128,374 123,673 123,868 122,956 123,005 123,432 Participation rate 61.9 61.1 61.0 61.8 61.1 61.2 60.7 60.7 60.9 Employed 123,515 119,055 118,773 123,565 119,071 119,133 118,472 118,574 118,826 Employment-population ratio 59.5 58.8 58.6 59.5 58.8 58.8 58.5 58.5 58.7 Unemployed 5,020 4,766 4,846 4,808 4,602 4,735 4,484 4,431 4,606 Unemployment rate 3.9 3.8 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.8 3.6 3.6 3.7 Not in labor force 79,140 78,707 78,953 79,301 78,775 78,600 79,541 79,524 79,140 Men, 20 years and over Civilian labor force 66,948 63,509 63,594 66,905 63,399 63,656 63,087 63,270 63,524 Participation rate 69.8 68.5 68.6 69.8 68.5 68.7 68.1 68.3 68.5 Employed 64,582 61,395 61,301 64,468 61,199 61,344 60,881 61,085 61,192 Employment-population ratio 67.4 66.3 66.1 67.2 66.1 66.2 65.7 65.9 66.0 Unemployed 2,366 2,114 2,293 2,438 2,200 2,312 2,206 2,185 2,333 Unemployment rate 3.5 3.3 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.7 Women, 20 years and over Civilian labor force 56,529 54,963 55,143 56,725 55,698 55,649 55,346 55,246 55,344 Participation rate 57.1 56.1 56.3 57.3 56.9 56.8 56.5 56.4 56.5 Employed 54,464 52,925 53,214 54,920 53,876 53,776 53,622 53,503 53,667 Employment-population ratio 55.0 54.0 54.3 55.5 55.1 54.9 54.8 54.6 54.8 Unemployed 2,064 2,037 1,929 1,805 1,821 1,873 1,724 1,743 1,677 Unemployment rate 3.7 3.7 3.5 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.1 3.2 3.0 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian labor force 5,059 5,350 4,882 4,743 4,577 4,563 4,523 4,489 4,564 Participation rate 39.6 44.9 41.0 37.1 38.2 38.1 37.9 37.6 38.3 Employed 4,469 4,735 4,258 4,177 3,996 4,012 3,968 3,986 3,968 Employment-population ratio 35.0 39.7 35.8 32.7 33.3 33.5 33.2 33.4 33.3 Unemployed 589 615 624 565 581 551 554 503 596 Unemployment rate 11.7 11.5 12.8 11.9 12.7 12.1 12.3 11.2 13.1 BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN Civilian noninstitutional population 35,854 35,500 35,526 35,854 35,434 35,455 35,477 35,500 35,526 Civilian labor force 22,525 21,922 21,910 22,445 22,044 21,996 21,957 21,753 21,872 Participation rate 62.8 61.8 61.7 62.6 62.2 62.0 61.9 61.3 61.6 Employed 20,714 20,427 20,513 20,749 20,442 20,543 20,514 20,391 20,550 Employment-population ratio 57.8 57.5 57.7 57.9 57.7 57.9 57.8 57.4 57.8 Unemployed 1,811 1,495 1,397 1,697 1,602 1,453 1,443 1,361 1,321 Unemployment rate 8.0 6.8 6.4 7.6 7.3 6.6 6.6 6.3 6.0 Not in labor force 13,329 13,578 13,616 13,409 13,390 13,459 13,520 13,747 13,654 Men, 20 years and over Civilian labor force 10,672 10,139 10,237 10,644 10,167 10,093 10,116 10,082 10,203 Participation rate 70.0 68.0 68.6 69.8 68.3 67.8 67.9 67.6 68.3 Employed 9,929 9,508 9,676 9,893 9,464 9,445 9,532 9,462 9,631 Employment-population ratio 65.1 63.7 64.8 64.9 63.6 63.4 63.9 63.4 64.5 Unemployed 744 631 562 751 703 648 584 620 572 Unemployment rate 7.0 6.2 5.5 7.1 6.9 6.4 5.8 6.2 5.6 Women, 20 years and over Civilian labor force 11,026 10,804 10,843 11,016 11,076 11,116 10,982 10,859 10,874 Participation rate 61.5 60.3 60.5 61.5 61.9 62.1 61.3 60.6 60.6 Employed 10,167 10,146 10,150 10,265 10,358 10,499 10,353 10,270 10,264 Employment-population ratio 56.7 56.6 56.6 57.3 57.9 58.7 57.8 57.3 57.2 Unemployed 858 658 693 750 718 617 629 589 610 Unemployment rate 7.8 6.1 6.4 6.8 6.5 5.6 5.7 5.4 5.6 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian labor force 828 979 830 786 801 786 859 812 795 Participation rate 30.9 36.8 31.2 29.3 30.0 29.5 32.3 30.5 29.9 Employed 618 773 687 590 619 598 629 660 656 Employment-population ratio 23.0 29.1 25.9 22.0 23.2 22.5 23.6 24.8 24.7 Unemployed 209 206 142 196 182 188 230 153 139 Unemployment rate 25.3 21.1 17.1 24.9 22.7 23.9 26.8 18.8 17.5 ASIAN Civilian noninstitutional population 19,408 20,627 20,710 19,408 21,088 20,939 20,811 20,627 20,710 Civilian labor force 12,688 13,507 13,510 12,624 13,806 13,698 13,729 13,407 13,457 Participation rate 65.4 65.5 65.2 65.0 65.5 65.4 66.0 65.0 65.0 Employed 12,213 12,947 13,058 12,172 13,350 13,182 13,194 12,875 13,021 Employment-population ratio 62.9 62.8 63.1 62.7 63.3 63.0 63.4 62.4 62.9 Unemployed 475 560 452 453 456 516 535 532 436 Unemployment rate 3.7 4.1 3.3 3.6 3.3 3.8 3.9 4.0 3.2 Not in labor force 6,720 7,120 7,199 6,783 7,282 7,241 7,082 7,220 7,253 Footnotes (1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals shown in table A-1 because data are not presented for all races. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age [Numbers in thousands] Employment status, sex, and age Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted(1) Aug. 2025 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Apr. 2026 May 2026 June 2026 July 2026 Aug. 2026 HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY Civilian noninstitutional population 51,629 52,923 52,991 51,629 52,740 52,799 52,861 52,923 52,991 Civilian labor force 34,568 35,278 35,688 34,594 35,407 35,475 34,911 35,165 35,704 Participation rate 67.0 66.7 67.3 67.0 67.1 67.2 66.0 66.4 67.4 Employed 32,685 33,619 33,906 32,777 33,633 33,697 33,085 33,548 33,987 Employment-population ratio 63.3 63.5 64.0 63.5 63.8 63.8 62.6 63.4 64.1 Unemployed 1,882 1,659 1,782 1,817 1,774 1,778 1,825 1,617 1,717 Unemployment rate 5.4 4.7 5.0 5.3 5.0 5.0 5.2 4.6 4.8 Not in labor force 17,061 17,645 17,303 17,034 17,333 17,324 17,950 17,758 17,287 Men, 20 years and over Civilian labor force 18,544 18,436 18,542 18,521 18,311 18,407 18,191 18,425 18,501 Participation rate 79.2 78.4 78.7 79.1 78.2 78.5 77.5 78.3 78.5 Employed 17,649 17,705 17,771 17,639 17,542 17,688 17,444 17,635 17,743 Employment-population ratio 75.4 75.3 75.4 75.3 74.9 75.4 74.3 75.0 75.3 Unemployed 895 731 771 882 769 720 747 790 758 Unemployment rate 4.8 4.0 4.2 4.8 4.2 3.9 4.1 4.3 4.1 Women, 20 years and over Civilian labor force 14,440 15,245 15,609 14,525 15,512 15,514 15,159 15,318 15,696 Participation rate 61.6 61.9 63.3 62.0 63.3 63.2 61.6 62.2 63.6 Employed 13,697 14,531 14,903 13,814 14,774 14,721 14,395 14,630 15,017 Employment-population ratio 58.5 59.0 60.4 58.9 60.3 60.0 58.5 59.4 60.9 Unemployed 742 714 707 711 738 793 764 688 679 Unemployment rate 5.1 4.7 4.5 4.9 4.8 5.1 5.0 4.5 4.3 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian labor force 1,585 1,597 1,537 1,549 1,584 1,554 1,560 1,423 1,507 Participation rate 33.2 33.4 32.2 32.4 33.0 32.4 32.6 29.8 31.6 Employed 1,339 1,383 1,233 1,324 1,317 1,288 1,247 1,284 1,227 Employment-population ratio 28.0 29.0 25.8 27.7 27.4 26.9 26.1 26.9 25.7 Unemployed 246 214 304 225 267 265 314 139 280 Unemployment rate 15.5 13.4 19.8 14.5 16.9 17.1 20.1 9.8 18.6 Footnotes (1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. NOTE: People whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment [Numbers in thousands] Educational attainment Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Aug. 2025 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Apr. 2026 May 2026 June 2026 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Less than a high school diploma Civilian labor force 8,627 7,922 7,841 8,659 8,395 8,267 8,314 8,126 7,885 Participation rate 47.3 44.4 44.5 47.5 45.0 44.0 43.1 45.5 44.7 Employed 8,092 7,518 7,522 8,078 7,860 7,768 7,856 7,688 7,513 Employment-population ratio 44.4 42.1 42.7 44.3 42.1 41.3 40.7 43.1 42.6 Unemployed 535 404 319 581 534 499 458 439 371 Unemployment rate 6.2 5.1 4.1 6.7 6.4 6.0 5.5 5.4 4.7 High school graduates, no college(1) Civilian labor force 37,070 36,697 36,358 36,814 36,804 36,786 36,935 36,862 36,176 Participation rate 57.3 56.4 56.4 56.9 56.8 56.8 56.7 56.6 56.1 Employed 35,489 35,202 34,770 35,221 35,075 35,150 35,390 35,377 34,573 Employment-population ratio 54.8 54.1 53.9 54.4 54.1 54.3 54.4 54.3 53.6 Unemployed 1,582 1,495 1,588 1,594 1,730 1,637 1,546 1,484 1,603 Unemployment rate 4.3 4.1 4.4 4.3 4.7 4.4 4.2 4.0 4.4 Some college or associate degree Civilian labor force 35,797 35,801 35,703 36,228 35,395 35,893 35,425 35,934 36,059 Participation rate 62.9 61.2 61.2 63.6 61.2 62.0 61.4 61.4 61.8 Employed 34,570 34,438 34,320 35,056 34,276 34,593 34,160 34,632 34,740 Employment-population ratio 60.7 58.9 58.9 61.6 59.3 59.7 59.2 59.2 59.6 Unemployed 1,227 1,363 1,383 1,172 1,119 1,299 1,266 1,302 1,319 Unemployment rate 3.4 3.8 3.9 3.2 3.2 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.7 Bachelor's degree and higher(2) Civilian labor force 67,373 66,364 67,663 67,557 67,390 67,291 66,926 66,602 67,805 Participation rate 71.4 70.5 71.0 71.6 71.8 71.7 71.7 70.7 71.1 Employed 65,343 64,323 65,653 65,738 65,509 65,479 65,144 64,779 65,997 Employment-population ratio 69.3 68.3 68.8 69.7 69.8 69.7 69.8 68.8 69.2 Unemployed 2,030 2,042 2,010 1,818 1,881 1,813 1,782 1,823 1,807 Unemployment rate 3.0 3.1 3.0 2.7 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 Footnotes (1) Includes people with a high school diploma or equivalent. (2) Includes people with bachelor's, master's, professional, and doctoral degrees. NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals for those 25 years and over because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands] Employment status, veteran status, and period of service Total Men Women Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 VETERANS, 18 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population 17,211 16,884 15,132 14,795 2,079 2,089 Civilian labor force 8,276 8,247 7,039 7,064 1,237 1,182 Participation rate 48.1 48.8 46.5 47.7 59.5 56.6 Employed 8,020 7,964 6,837 6,809 1,182 1,154 Employment-population ratio 46.6 47.2 45.2 46.0 56.9 55.3 Unemployed 256 283 202 255 54 28 Unemployment rate 3.1 3.4 2.9 3.6 4.4 2.4 Not in labor force 8,935 8,637 8,093 7,731 842 907 Gulf War-era II veterans Civilian noninstitutional population 5,624 5,661 4,633 4,688 991 974 Civilian labor force 4,384 4,395 3,640 3,729 744 666 Participation rate 77.9 77.6 78.6 79.5 75.0 68.4 Employed 4,254 4,240 3,533 3,589 721 651 Employment-population ratio 75.6 74.9 76.3 76.6 72.7 66.8 Unemployed 130 155 107 140 23 15 Unemployment rate 3.0 3.5 2.9 3.8 3.1 2.3 Not in labor force 1,241 1,267 993 959 248 308 Gulf War-era I veterans Civilian noninstitutional population 3,266 3,351 2,750 2,789 516 561 Civilian labor force 2,058 2,188 1,751 1,849 307 339 Participation rate 63.0 65.3 63.7 66.3 59.5 60.5 Employed 2,007 2,099 1,725 1,762 282 338 Employment-population ratio 61.5 62.7 62.7 63.2 54.7 60.1 Unemployed 50 89 26 87 25 2 Unemployment rate 2.4 4.0 1.5 4.7 8.0 0.5 Not in labor force 1,208 1,163 999 941 209 222 Vietnam-era and earlier wartime veterans Civilian noninstitutional population 4,831 4,520 4,646 4,346 185 174 Civilian labor force 561 502 539 473 22 28 Participation rate 11.6 11.1 11.6 10.9 12.0 16.4 Employed 518 489 496 466 22 23 Employment-population ratio 10.7 10.8 10.7 10.7 12.0 13.3 Unemployed 43 13 43 7 0 5 Unemployment rate 7.7 2.5 8.0 1.5 - - Not in labor force 4,270 4,018 4,107 3,873 163 146 Veterans of other service periods Civilian noninstitutional population 3,490 3,352 3,103 2,972 387 380 Civilian labor force 1,273 1,162 1,109 1,013 164 148 Participation rate 36.5 34.7 35.7 34.1 42.4 39.1 Employed 1,240 1,135 1,083 992 157 143 Employment-population ratio 35.5 33.9 34.9 33.4 40.7 37.6 Unemployed 33 27 26 21 7 6 Unemployment rate 2.6 2.3 2.4 2.1 4.0 3.8 Not in labor force 2,217 2,190 1,994 1,959 223 232 NONVETERANS, 18 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population 247,438 249,555 113,862 113,555 133,576 136,000 Civilian labor force 160,272 159,403 82,934 81,387 77,338 78,016 Participation rate 64.8 63.9 72.8 71.7 57.9 57.4 Employed 153,144 152,641 79,400 77,939 73,744 74,702 Employment-population ratio 61.9 61.2 69.7 68.6 55.2 54.9 Unemployed 7,129 6,762 3,535 3,447 3,594 3,314 Unemployment rate 4.4 4.2 4.3 4.2 4.6 4.2 Not in labor force 87,166 90,152 30,927 32,168 56,238 57,984 NOTE: Veterans served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces and were not on active duty at the time of the survey. Nonveterans never served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. Veterans could have served anywhere in the world during these periods of service: Gulf War era II (September 2001-present), Gulf War era I (August 1990-August 2001), Vietnam era (August 1964-April 1975), Korean War (July 1950-January 1955), World War II (December 1941-December 1946), and other service periods (all other time periods). Veterans who served in more than one wartime period are classified only in the most recent one. Veterans who served during one of the selected wartime periods and another period are classified only in the wartime period. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not shown where base is less than 75,000). HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands] Employment status, sex, and age People with a disability People with no disability Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 TOTAL, 16 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population 35,129 36,526 238,872 238,889 Civilian labor force 8,809 8,975 162,226 161,073 Participation rate 25.1 24.6 67.9 67.4 Employed 8,052 8,279 155,236 154,388 Employment-population ratio 22.9 22.7 65.0 64.6 Unemployed 757 696 6,990 6,685 Unemployment rate 8.6 7.8 4.3 4.2 Not in labor force 26,321 27,551 76,646 77,816 Men, 16 to 64 years Civilian labor force 3,837 3,587 80,506 79,432 Participation rate 44.3 43.2 83.2 83.5 Employed 3,496 3,274 77,204 76,087 Employment-population ratio 40.4 39.5 79.8 80.0 Unemployed 341 313 3,302 3,345 Unemployment rate 8.9 8.7 4.1 4.2 Not in labor force 4,816 4,710 16,206 15,687 Women, 16 to 64 years Civilian labor force 3,461 3,812 71,224 71,080 Participation rate 40.1 43.6 72.6 72.5 Employed 3,157 3,514 67,922 68,038 Employment-population ratio 36.6 40.2 69.3 69.4 Unemployed 303 298 3,303 3,042 Unemployment rate 8.8 7.8 4.6 4.3 Not in labor force 5,162 4,936 26,817 26,927 Both sexes, 65 years and over Civilian labor force 1,511 1,575 10,496 10,561 Participation rate 8.5 8.1 23.8 23.1 Employed 1,398 1,491 10,111 10,262 Employment-population ratio 7.8 7.7 22.9 22.4 Unemployed 113 85 386 299 Unemployment rate 7.4 5.4 3.7 2.8 Not in labor force 16,343 17,904 33,622 35,202 NOTE: A person with a disability has at least one of the following conditions: is deaf or has serious difficulty hearing; is blind or has serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses; has serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition; has serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs; has difficulty dressing or bathing; or has difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor's office or shopping because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands] Employment status and nativity Total Men Women Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Foreign born, 16 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population 48,543 48,504 23,536 23,066 25,007 25,438 Civilian labor force 32,239 31,860 18,362 17,622 13,876 14,238 Participation rate 66.4 65.7 78.0 76.4 55.5 56.0 Employed 30,814 30,780 17,602 17,100 13,212 13,680 Employment-population ratio 63.5 63.5 74.8 74.1 52.8 53.8 Unemployed 1,424 1,081 760 522 664 558 Unemployment rate 4.4 3.4 4.1 3.0 4.8 3.9 Not in labor force 16,305 16,644 5,174 5,444 11,131 11,200 Native born, 16 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population 225,458 226,911 110,115 109,809 115,343 117,101 Civilian labor force 138,796 138,188 72,751 71,982 66,045 66,206 Participation rate 61.6 60.9 66.1 65.6 57.3 56.5 Employed 132,474 131,887 69,592 68,634 62,882 63,253 Employment-population ratio 58.8 58.1 63.2 62.5 54.5 54.0 Unemployed 6,322 6,301 3,159 3,347 3,163 2,953 Unemployment rate 4.6 4.6 4.3 4.7 4.8 4.5 Not in labor force 86,662 88,723 37,364 37,828 49,298 50,896 NOTE: The foreign born are those residing in the United States who were not U.S. citizens at birth. That is, they were born outside the United States or one of its outlying areas such as Puerto Rico or Guam, to parents neither of whom was a U.S. citizen. The native born are people who were born in the United States or one of its outlying areas such as Puerto Rico or Guam or who were born abroad of at least one parent who was a U.S. citizen. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status [In thousands] Category Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Aug. 2025 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Apr. 2026 May 2026 June 2026 July 2026 Aug. 2026 CLASS OF WORKER Agriculture and related industries 2,314 2,356 2,551 2,242 2,288 2,261 2,291 2,216 2,444 Wage and salary workers(1) 1,598 1,667 1,735 1,527 1,562 1,648 1,595 1,508 1,630 Self-employed workers, unincorporated 689 676 795 675 678 582 638 670 770 Unpaid family workers 27 13 21 - - - - - - Nonagricultural industries 160,973 160,444 160,116 161,219 160,256 160,589 160,100 160,093 160,325 Wage and salary workers(1) 151,608 151,209 151,171 151,912 151,331 151,624 151,206 150,852 151,467 Government 21,874 20,909 21,744 22,427 21,393 21,270 21,812 21,881 22,198 Private industries 129,734 130,300 129,427 129,450 129,950 130,318 129,330 128,906 129,200 Private households 505 515 536 - - - - - - Other industries 129,229 129,786 128,891 128,978 129,341 129,721 128,657 128,382 128,651 Self-employed workers, unincorporated 9,345 9,168 8,867 9,246 8,904 8,943 8,792 9,066 8,778 Unpaid family workers 20 67 78 - - - - - - PEOPLE AT WORK PART TIME(2) All industries Part time for economic reasons(3) 4,684 4,954 4,316 4,755 4,942 4,805 4,681 4,804 4,390 Slack work or business conditions 2,945 3,006 2,686 3,069 3,289 3,263 3,010 3,019 2,815 Could only find part-time work 1,298 1,553 1,227 1,332 1,267 1,208 1,409 1,428 1,263 Part time for noneconomic reasons(4) 21,905 21,297 21,380 23,270 22,706 22,853 22,618 22,770 22,752 Nonagricultural industries Part time for economic reasons(3) 4,632 4,906 4,275 4,696 4,873 4,750 4,615 4,743 4,341 Slack work or business conditions 2,907 2,969 2,660 3,020 3,274 3,235 2,964 2,968 2,776 Could only find part-time work 1,291 1,548 1,221 1,331 1,258 1,205 1,398 1,426 1,262 Part time for noneconomic reasons(4) 21,473 20,859 20,917 22,827 22,322 22,445 22,213 22,345 22,291 Footnotes (1) Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated. (2) Refers to those who worked 1 to 34 hours during the survey reference week and excludes employed people who were absent from their jobs for the entire week. (3) Refers to those who worked 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for an economic reason such as slack work or unfavorable business conditions, inability to find full-time work, or seasonal declines in demand. (4) Refers to people who usually work part time for noneconomic reasons such as childcare problems, family or personal obligations, school or training, retirement or Social Security limits on earnings, and other reasons. This excludes people who usually work full time but worked only 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for reasons such as vacations, holidays, illness, and bad weather. - Data not available. NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-9. Selected employment indicators [Numbers in thousands] Characteristic Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Aug. 2025 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Apr. 2026 May 2026 June 2026 July 2026 Aug. 2026 AGE AND SEX Total, 16 years and over 163,288 162,800 162,667 163,370 162,622 162,771 162,264 162,177 162,746 16 to 19 years 5,707 6,394 5,744 5,346 5,397 5,350 5,313 5,380 5,373 16 to 17 years 2,124 2,154 2,062 1,917 1,929 1,850 1,856 1,771 1,856 18 to 19 years 3,583 4,241 3,682 3,404 3,496 3,510 3,464 3,594 3,499 20 years and over 157,581 156,406 156,922 158,024 157,225 157,421 156,951 156,797 157,373 20 to 24 years 14,087 14,926 14,657 13,992 14,429 14,463 14,507 14,433 14,573 25 years and over 143,494 141,480 142,265 143,959 142,743 142,936 142,421 142,405 142,752 25 to 54 years 105,525 104,039 104,304 105,868 104,932 105,089 104,401 104,674 104,668 25 to 34 years 36,076 36,002 36,267 36,243 36,427 36,549 35,906 36,189 36,428 35 to 44 years 37,157 36,600 36,722 37,242 36,646 36,737 36,755 36,826 36,810 45 to 54 years 32,292 31,437 31,315 32,383 31,859 31,802 31,740 31,659 31,429 55 years and over 37,969 37,441 37,961 38,091 37,810 37,847 38,019 37,731 38,085 Men, 16 years and over 87,194 85,897 85,734 86,834 85,007 85,172 84,854 84,978 85,337 16 to 19 years 2,913 3,158 2,990 2,705 2,654 2,633 2,521 2,626 2,752 16 to 17 years 957 1,013 985 861 842 875 841 821 880 18 to 19 years 1,957 2,145 2,004 1,823 1,829 1,768 1,691 1,800 1,859 20 years and over 84,280 82,739 82,744 84,129 82,353 82,539 82,333 82,352 82,585 20 to 24 years 7,292 8,032 7,820 7,171 7,382 7,522 7,678 7,667 7,698 25 years and over 76,989 74,707 74,924 76,908 74,972 74,984 74,606 74,662 74,852 25 to 54 years 56,450 54,896 54,914 56,374 55,253 55,326 54,781 54,827 54,856 25 to 34 years 19,324 19,146 19,176 19,335 19,431 19,423 19,115 19,104 19,190 35 to 44 years 20,042 19,342 19,383 19,998 19,304 19,333 19,250 19,312 19,339 45 to 54 years 17,084 16,408 16,355 17,041 16,517 16,569 16,416 16,411 16,327 55 years and over 20,539 19,811 20,010 20,534 19,719 19,657 19,825 19,835 19,995 Women, 16 years and over 76,094 76,903 76,933 76,536 77,615 77,599 77,410 77,199 77,409 16 to 19 years 2,794 3,236 2,754 2,641 2,743 2,717 2,792 2,754 2,621 16 to 17 years 1,168 1,140 1,076 1,056 1,088 975 1,015 950 976 18 to 19 years 1,626 2,096 1,678 1,581 1,667 1,742 1,774 1,794 1,640 20 years and over 73,300 73,666 74,178 73,895 74,872 74,882 74,618 74,445 74,788 20 to 24 years 6,795 6,894 6,837 6,821 7,047 6,941 6,829 6,766 6,874 25 years and over 66,505 66,773 67,341 67,051 67,771 67,952 67,815 67,743 67,901 25 to 54 years 49,074 49,142 49,390 49,494 49,680 49,762 49,621 49,847 49,811 25 to 34 years 16,752 16,856 17,091 16,908 16,996 17,126 16,792 17,085 17,239 35 to 44 years 17,115 17,257 17,339 17,244 17,342 17,404 17,505 17,514 17,471 45 to 54 years 15,208 15,029 14,960 15,342 15,342 15,233 15,324 15,248 15,102 55 years and over 17,431 17,630 17,951 17,557 18,091 18,190 18,194 17,896 18,089 MARITAL STATUS Married men, spouse present(1) 46,843 44,616 45,098 46,836 45,078 45,034 44,947 44,764 45,086 Married women, spouse present(1) 37,698 37,097 37,011 37,912 37,901 37,779 37,920 37,626 37,322 Women who maintain families(2) 9,649 9,634 10,183 - - - - - - FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS Full-time workers(3) 135,475 134,828 135,355 134,468 134,252 134,173 133,659 133,553 134,288 Part-time workers(4) 27,812 27,972 27,311 29,043 28,413 28,679 28,626 28,764 28,541 MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS Total multiple jobholders 8,479 8,585 8,505 8,796 8,434 8,428 8,554 8,693 8,805 Percent of total employed 5.2 5.3 5.2 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.4 SELF-EMPLOYMENT Self-employed workers, incorporated 6,979 6,645 6,856 - - - - - - Self-employed workers, unincorporated 10,035 9,844 9,662 9,921 9,582 9,525 9,431 9,735 9,548 Footnotes (1) Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to people in both opposite-sex and same-sex married couples. Prior to January 2020, referred to people in opposite-sex married couples only. (2) Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not a spouse of either sex. Prior to January 2020, referred to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not an opposite-sex spouse. (3) Employed full-time workers are people who usually work 35 hours or more per week. (4) Employed part-time workers are people who usually work less than 35 hours per week. - Data not available. NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted Characteristic Number of unemployed people (in thousands) Unemployment rates Aug. 2025 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Apr. 2026 May 2026 June 2026 July 2026 Aug. 2026 AGE AND SEX Total, 16 years and over 7,380 6,916 7,031 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1 16 to 19 years 864 740 880 13.9 14.4 14.7 14.6 12.1 14.1 16 to 17 years 350 278 326 15.4 16.6 17.4 17.1 13.6 14.9 18 to 19 years 514 456 554 13.1 13.4 13.3 13.0 11.3 13.7 20 years and over 6,516 6,176 6,151 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.8 20 to 24 years 1,417 1,101 1,115 9.2 7.6 7.2 7.1 7.1 7.1 25 years and over 5,129 5,063 5,063 3.4 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.4 25 to 54 years 3,972 3,875 3,910 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.7 3.6 3.6 25 to 34 years 1,677 1,762 1,653 4.4 4.8 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.3 35 to 44 years 1,330 1,109 1,190 3.4 3.1 3.5 3.3 2.9 3.1 45 to 54 years 966 1,004 1,067 2.9 3.3 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.3 55 years and over 1,157 1,196 1,169 2.9 3.0 3.0 2.8 3.1 3.0 Men, 16 years and over 3,970 3,761 3,922 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.2 4.4 16 to 19 years 413 423 478 13.2 15.6 16.6 16.0 13.9 14.8 16 to 17 years 182 162 167 17.5 20.3 18.5 17.0 16.5 16.0 18 to 19 years 232 248 313 11.3 13.0 15.3 15.1 12.1 14.4 20 years and over 3,557 3,338 3,444 4.1 4.0 4.0 3.9 3.9 4.0 20 to 24 years 786 545 598 9.9 8.2 8.2 6.7 6.6 7.2 25 years and over 2,798 2,781 2,872 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.7 25 to 54 years 2,157 2,198 2,200 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.9 3.9 3.9 25 to 34 years 920 1,038 1,033 4.5 4.8 4.6 4.8 5.2 5.1 35 to 44 years 714 624 614 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.1 3.1 45 to 54 years 523 536 554 3.0 2.8 2.8 3.1 3.2 3.3 55 years and over 641 584 672 3.0 3.2 3.3 2.8 2.9 3.3 Women, 16 years and over 3,410 3,155 3,109 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.0 3.9 3.9 16 to 19 years 451 317 402 14.6 13.2 12.7 13.3 10.3 13.3 16 to 17 years 168 116 158 13.7 13.5 16.5 17.2 10.8 14.0 18 to 19 years 282 208 241 15.1 13.8 11.2 10.9 10.4 12.8 20 years and over 2,959 2,838 2,708 3.9 3.9 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.5 20 to 24 years 631 556 517 8.5 6.9 6.2 7.6 7.6 7.0 25 years and over 2,331 2,282 2,190 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.3 3.3 3.1 25 to 54 years 1,815 1,678 1,710 3.5 3.8 3.9 3.5 3.3 3.3 25 to 34 years 757 725 620 4.3 4.8 4.8 4.3 4.1 3.5 35 to 44 years 615 485 575 3.4 2.8 3.5 2.9 2.7 3.2 45 to 54 years 443 468 514 2.8 3.8 3.4 3.1 3.0 3.3 55 years and over 523 607 499 2.9 2.8 2.5 2.7 3.3 2.7 MARITAL STATUS Married men, spouse present(1) 1,152 949 979 2.4 2.0 2.3 2.2 2.1 2.1 Married women, spouse present(1) 969 906 975 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.4 2.5 Women who maintain families(2) 646 592 560 6.3 4.2 4.7 4.6 5.8 5.2 FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS Full-time workers(3) 5,985 5,682 5,749 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.1 Part-time workers(4) 1,449 1,255 1,304 4.8 4.6 4.7 4.5 4.2 4.4 Footnotes (1) Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to people in both opposite-sex and same-sex married couples. Prior to January 2020, referred to people in opposite-sex married couples only. (2) Data are not seasonally adjusted. Beginning with data for January 2020, refers to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not a spouse of either sex. Prior to January 2020, referred to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not an opposite-sex spouse. (3) Full-time workers are unemployed people who have expressed a desire to work full time (35 hours or more per week) or are on layoff from full-time jobs. (4) Part-time workers are unemployed people who have expressed a desire to work part time (less than 35 hours per week) or are on layoff from part-time jobs. NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment [Numbers in thousands] Reason Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Aug. 2025 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Apr. 2026 May 2026 June 2026 July 2026 Aug. 2026 NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs 3,556 3,450 3,349 3,447 3,511 3,385 3,278 3,309 3,245 On temporary layoff 943 1,123 891 890 917 778 768 921 839 Not on temporary layoff 2,613 2,326 2,458 2,558 2,595 2,606 2,511 2,388 2,406 Permanent job losers 1,987 1,687 1,832 1,931 1,909 1,927 1,769 1,715 1,777 People who completed temporary jobs 626 639 626 627 686 680 741 673 629 Job leavers 855 825 997 785 844 916 776 793 914 Reentrants 2,412 2,249 2,231 2,302 2,282 2,209 2,237 2,123 2,137 New entrants 924 911 805 792 805 818 772 761 702 PERCENT DISTRIBUTION Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs 45.9 46.4 45.4 47.1 47.2 46.2 46.4 47.4 46.4 On temporary layoff 12.2 15.1 12.1 12.1 12.3 10.6 10.9 13.2 12.0 Not on temporary layoff 33.7 31.3 33.3 34.9 34.9 35.6 35.5 34.2 34.4 Job leavers 11.0 11.1 13.5 10.7 11.3 12.5 11.0 11.3 13.1 Reentrants 31.1 30.2 30.2 31.4 30.7 30.2 31.7 30.4 30.5 New entrants 11.9 12.3 10.9 10.8 10.8 11.2 10.9 10.9 10.0 UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs 2.1 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.0 1.9 2.0 1.9 Job leavers 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 Reentrants 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 New entrants 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to total unemployed in table A-1 because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment [Numbers in thousands] Duration Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Aug. 2025 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Apr. 2026 May 2026 June 2026 July 2026 Aug. 2026 NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED Less than 5 weeks 2,477 2,217 1,978 2,475 2,496 2,210 2,182 1,960 2,000 5 to 14 weeks 2,409 2,397 2,440 2,058 1,859 1,946 1,936 2,049 2,077 15 weeks and over 2,861 2,821 2,964 2,975 2,890 3,065 2,989 2,929 3,077 15 to 26 weeks 923 1,019 1,018 1,051 1,057 1,077 1,052 1,157 1,147 27 weeks and over 1,938 1,802 1,946 1,924 1,833 1,988 1,937 1,771 1,930 Average (mean) duration, in weeks 24.3 23.7 26.1 24.5 24.4 26.0 25.5 24.9 26.3 Median duration, in weeks 9.8 9.5 11.3 9.9 11.0 11.6 11.0 10.5 11.4 PERCENT DISTRIBUTION Less than 5 weeks 32.0 29.8 26.8 33.0 34.4 30.6 30.7 28.2 28.0 5 to 14 weeks 31.1 32.2 33.1 27.4 25.7 27.0 27.2 29.5 29.0 15 weeks and over 36.9 37.9 40.2 39.6 39.9 42.4 42.1 42.2 43.0 15 to 26 weeks 11.9 13.7 13.8 14.0 14.6 14.9 14.8 16.7 16.0 27 weeks and over 25.0 24.2 26.4 25.6 25.3 27.5 27.3 25.5 27.0 NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to total unemployed in table A-1 because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands] Occupation Employed Unemployed Unemployment rates Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Total, 16 years and over(1) 163,288 162,667 7,747 7,381 4.5 4.3 Management, professional, and related occupations 70,866 71,768 1,975 2,181 2.7 2.9 Management, business, and financial operations occupations 31,085 31,485 688 763 2.2 2.4 Professional and related occupations 39,781 40,283 1,287 1,417 3.1 3.4 Service occupations 27,672 26,733 1,673 1,561 5.7 5.5 Sales and office occupations 30,562 30,393 1,435 1,169 4.5 3.7 Sales and related occupations 14,146 14,239 713 613 4.8 4.1 Office and administrative support occupations 16,415 16,154 722 556 4.2 3.3 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations 15,059 14,046 619 598 4.0 4.1 Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 1,161 1,124 79 73 6.4 6.1 Construction and extraction occupations 8,714 8,075 358 370 3.9 4.4 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 5,185 4,847 183 155 3.4 3.1 Production, transportation, and material moving occupations 19,129 19,727 1,103 1,031 5.5 5.0 Production occupations 7,482 7,716 300 306 3.9 3.8 Transportation and material moving occupations 11,647 12,011 803 725 6.5 5.7 Footnotes (1) People with no previous work experience and people whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total. NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted Industry and class of worker Number of unemployed people (in thousands) Unemployment rates Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Total, 16 years and over(1) 7,747 7,381 4.5 4.3 Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers 5,610 5,497 4.1 4.1 Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction 20 15 4.0 3.0 Construction 347 309 3.2 3.1 Manufacturing 555 497 3.8 3.3 Durable goods 287 286 3.0 2.9 Nondurable goods 268 211 5.0 4.3 Wholesale and retail trade 891 865 4.7 4.4 Transportation and utilities 451 365 5.5 4.3 Information 118 176 4.5 5.7 Financial activities 174 294 1.6 2.8 Professional and business services 885 760 4.2 3.8 Education and health services 981 1,038 3.7 3.8 Leisure and hospitality 890 907 6.4 6.6 Other services 298 271 4.5 3.9 Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers 98 77 6.0 4.4 Government workers 754 717 3.3 3.2 Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers 361 286 3.5 2.8 Footnotes (1) People with no previous work experience and people whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total. NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Effective with January 2025 data, industries reflect the introduction of the 2022 Census industry classification system, derived from the 2022 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Data for 2025 are not strictly comparable with earlier years. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization [Percent] Measure Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Aug. 2025 July 2026 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Apr. 2026 May 2026 June 2026 July 2026 Aug. 2026 U-1 People unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.8 1.7 1.8 U-2 Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force 2.1 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.0 1.9 2.0 1.9 U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate) 4.5 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1 U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers 4.8 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.4 U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other people marginally attached to the labor force, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all people marginally attached to the labor force 5.5 5.4 5.3 5.3 5.3 5.3 5.2 5.1 5.1 U-6 Total unemployed, plus all people marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all people marginally attached to the labor force 8.2 8.3 7.8 8.1 8.2 8.1 7.9 7.9 7.7 NOTE: People marginally attached to the labor force are those who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. People employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands] Category Total Men Women Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 Aug. 2025 Aug. 2026 NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE Total not in the labor force 102,966 105,367 42,538 43,272 60,429 62,096 People who currently want a job 6,499 5,884 2,963 2,670 3,536 3,214 Marginally attached to the labor force(1) 1,791 1,655 844 818 947 837 Discouraged workers(2) 492 411 251 226 241 185 Other people marginally attached to the labor force(3) 1,299 1,244 593 592 706 652 MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS Total multiple jobholders(4) 8,479 8,505 4,169 3,910 4,311 4,595 Percent of total employed 5.2 5.2 4.8 4.6 5.7 6.0 Primary job full time, secondary job part time 5,048 4,755 2,693 2,329 2,355 2,426 Primary and secondary jobs both part time 2,000 2,107 669 770 1,331 1,337 Primary and secondary jobs both full time 398 452 246 245 152 207 Hours vary on primary or secondary job 969 1,095 522 531 447 564 Footnotes (1) Data refer to people who want a job, have searched for work during the prior 12 months, and were available to take a job during the reference week, but had not looked for work in the past 4 weeks. (2) Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for reasons such as thinks no work available, could not find work, lacks schooling or training, employer thinks too young or old, and other types of discrimination. (3) Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for such reasons as school or family responsibilities, ill health, and transportation problems, as well as a number for whom reason for nonparticipation was not determined. (4) Includes a small number of people who work part time on their primary job and full time on their secondary job(s), not shown separately. NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail [In thousands] Industry Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Change from: July2026 - Aug.2026(p) Total nonfarm 158,424 159,734 158,726 158,880 158,472 158,892 158,913 159,075 162 Total private 135,740 136,546 136,598 136,425 134,937 135,554 135,625 135,752 127 Goods-producing 21,740 21,785 21,846 21,879 21,461 21,536 21,565 21,606 41 Mining and logging 616 615 612 615 607 609 606 609 3 Logging 40.7 38.5 40.1 40.7 39.6 38.6 39.0 39.3 0.3 Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction 575.7 576.3 572.2 574.6 567.8 570.5 566.9 569.9 3.0 Oil and gas extraction 116.9 115.8 115.7 115.5 115.9 115.1 114.7 114.9 0.2 Mining (except oil and gas) 191.5 193.8 193.8 193.4 188.1 190.4 189.5 190.3 0.8 Coal mining 39.7 38.7 38.3 38.2 39.5 38.6 38.0 38.1 0.1 Metal ore mining 45.0 46.7 46.7 46.6 44.5 46.3 46.5 46.5 0.0 Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying 106.8 108.4 108.8 108.6 104.0 105.5 105.1 105.7 0.6 Support activities for mining 267.3 266.7 262.7 265.7 263.8 265.0 262.7 264.7 2.0 Construction 8,452 8,491 8,531 8,557 8,239 8,319 8,337 8,359 22 Construction of buildings 1,879.7 1,893.9 1,902.9 1,900.6 1,844.1 1,862.0 1,865.5 1,871.0 5.5 Residential building construction 938.6 927.8 932.1 936.9 922.8 916.1 916.4 923.7 7.3 Nonresidential building construction 941.1 966.1 970.8 963.7 921.3 945.9 949.1 947.3 -1.8 Heavy and civil engineering construction 1,236.3 1,244.6 1,248.5 1,260.7 1,183.6 1,204.3 1,206.4 1,210.8 4.4 Specialty trade contractors 5,335.5 5,352.5 5,379.4 5,396.0 5,211.4 5,253.1 5,265.5 5,276.7 11.2 Residential specialty trade contractors 2,426.9 2,398.8 2,395.2 2,399.3 2,369.7 2,347.3 2,345.6 2,349.0 3.4 Nonresidential specialty trade contractors 2,908.6 2,953.7 2,984.2 2,996.7 2,841.7 2,905.8 2,919.9 2,927.7 7.8 Manufacturing 12,672 12,679 12,703 12,707 12,615 12,608 12,622 12,638 16 Durable goods 7,843 7,899 7,918 7,926 7,819 7,852 7,876 7,891 15 Wood product manufacturing 405.3 396.0 396.0 394.7 403.5 392.5 392.5 391.3 -1.2 Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing 420.5 427.9 427.3 426.7 417.1 422.2 422.6 422.3 -0.3 Primary metal manufacturing 364.8 369.5 371.5 371.7 363.3 367.5 368.6 369.9 1.3 Fabricated metal product manufacturing 1,437.6 1,456.7 1,461.9 1,461.3 1,435.8 1,449.6 1,455.1 1,460.8 5.7 Machinery manufacturing 1,082.7 1,094.3 1,099.4 1,101.4 1,083.3 1,088.7 1,091.2 1,097.3 6.1 Computer and electronic product manufacturing 1,000.3 1,001.1 1,004.1 1,005.1 995.0 994.8 997.2 998.5 1.3 Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing 100.8 100.1 100.3 100.0 100.0 99.8 99.8 99.2 -0.6 Communications equipment manufacturing 79.7 83.5 83.7 84.1 79.6 82.8 83.5 83.9 0.4 Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing 378.5 371.9 373.4 373.7 375.6 368.3 369.6 370.4 0.8 Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing 411.8 418.6 420.1 421.1 410.9 417.2 418.3 419.2 0.9 Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media and audio and video equipment manufacturing 29.5 27.0 26.6 26.2 28.9 26.7 26.0 25.8 -0.2 Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing 428.4 440.2 443.5 443.2 428.5 439.5 441.3 443.4 2.1 Transportation equipment manufacturing(1) 1,747.1 1,760.6 1,766.6 1,775.1 1,740.0 1,752.5 1,765.6 1,764.6 -1.0 Motor vehicles and parts(2) 967.1 961.5 960.2 968.9 963.2 956.6 967.3 962.8 -4.5 Furniture and related product manufacturing 341.2 333.9 332.1 333.1 339.0 330.5 328.9 330.6 1.7 Miscellaneous manufacturing 615.0 618.4 615.2 613.8 613.0 614.3 612.7 611.8 -0.9 Nondurable goods 4,829 4,780 4,785 4,781 4,796 4,756 4,746 4,747 1 Food manufacturing 1,800.2 1,773.0 1,783.5 1,781.6 1,785.0 1,770.7 1,766.8 1,764.6 -2.2 Textile mills 81.5 78.4 77.4 78.3 81.3 78.2 77.1 78.3 1.2 Textile product mills 92.3 93.8 92.8 93.7 91.8 93.7 93.1 93.7 0.6 Apparel manufacturing 78.7 73.2 72.5 72.6 78.7 72.6 72.2 72.0 -0.2 Paper manufacturing 355.7 357.5 357.1 355.0 356.0 357.7 356.2 355.7 -0.5 Printing and related support activities 342.3 340.9 339.8 338.2 342.0 339.7 339.6 338.5 -1.1 Petroleum and coal products manufacturing 111.4 111.4 112.0 110.3 109.2 109.1 109.2 108.7 -0.5 Chemical manufacturing 904.3 904.9 903.3 904.7 901.5 901.4 898.5 901.5 3.0 Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 705.5 691.4 693.4 692.6 703.9 688.0 689.2 689.1 -0.1 Beverage, tobacco, and leather and allied product manufacturing 356.7 355.1 353.3 354.0 346.6 344.8 344.2 344.6 0.4 Private service-providing 114,000 114,761 114,752 114,546 113,476 114,018 114,060 114,146 86 Trade, transportation, and utilities 28,620 28,711 28,730 28,679 28,743 28,728 28,762 28,778 16 Wholesale trade 6,056.7 6,083.3 6,094.8 6,079.7 6,043.0 6,059.0 6,064.3 6,072.1 7.8 Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 3,401.1 3,417.6 3,432.0 3,420.9 3,394.4 3,407.4 3,414.4 3,418.6 4.2 Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods 2,210.5 2,220.3 2,216.3 2,213.0 2,204.9 2,205.7 2,204.7 2,209.9 5.2 Wholesale trade agents and brokers 445.1 445.4 446.5 445.8 443.7 445.9 445.2 443.6 -1.6 Retail trade 15,406.9 15,492.3 15,517.8 15,470.2 15,440.3 15,473.6 15,486.8 15,488.2 1.4 Motor vehicle and parts dealers 2,054.7 2,059.8 2,064.7 2,059.0 2,046.9 2,049.0 2,052.5 2,051.6 -0.9 Automobile dealers 1,293.4 1,287.4 1,289.2 1,283.5 1,292.5 1,284.3 1,286.3 1,282.7 -3.6 Other motor vehicle dealers 163.2 166.4 167.0 165.4 157.9 159.4 159.8 159.7 -0.1 Automotive parts, accessories, and tire retailers 598.1 606.0 608.5 610.1 596.5 605.2 606.5 609.3 2.8 Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers 1,372.4 1,417.0 1,388.7 1,358.6 1,370.5 1,355.9 1,355.2 1,353.2 -2.0 Food and beverage retailers 3,258.5 3,263.8 3,261.8 3,253.4 3,257.6 3,256.1 3,254.3 3,249.9 -4.4 Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance retailers 758.7 741.6 744.2 744.2 770.7 756.9 755.6 754.0 -1.6 Furniture and home furnishings retailers 386.9 381.6 382.3 384.0 394.1 388.2 388.3 389.9 1.6 Electronics and appliance retailers 371.8 360.0 361.9 360.2 376.6 368.7 367.2 364.1 -3.1 General merchandise retailers 3,218.5 3,209.0 3,224.6 3,245.3 3,246.4 3,249.0 3,258.0 3,271.1 13.1 Department stores 905.5 917.9 920.3 935.9 927.9 943.9 946.4 950.4 4.0 Warehouse clubs, supercenters, and other general merchandise retailers 2,313.0 2,291.1 2,304.3 2,309.4 2,318.5 2,305.1 2,311.6 2,320.7 9.1 Health and personal care retailers 1,041.5 1,046.2 1,050.0 1,038.8 1,058.3 1,052.7 1,053.8 1,052.3 -1.5 Gasoline stations and fuel dealers 1,054.9 1,074.8 1,072.4 1,068.0 1,046.1 1,064.9 1,059.6 1,057.2 -2.4 Clothing, clothing accessories, shoe, and jewelry retailers 1,146.1 1,143.2 1,157.6 1,155.0 1,146.8 1,152.8 1,151.9 1,152.0 0.1 Sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book, and miscellaneous retailers 1,501.6 1,536.9 1,553.8 1,547.9 1,497.0 1,536.3 1,545.9 1,546.9 1.0 Transportation and warehousing 6,553.8 6,525.1 6,503.3 6,516.3 6,657.8 6,587.5 6,601.3 6,606.3 5.0 Air transportation 573.9 571.8 570.9 568.9 571.0 568.1 567.7 566.1 -1.6 Rail transportation 154.0 150.0 149.6 149.6 154.1 150.1 149.5 150.4 0.9 Water transportation 75.1 73.0 74.4 73.7 71.5 69.8 70.3 70.6 0.3 Truck transportation 1,501.9 1,475.2 1,480.0 1,488.7 1,480.2 1,465.1 1,465.5 1,470.3 4.8 Transit and ground passenger transportation 427.3 480.1 428.1 433.7 490.3 490.3 493.2 496.9 3.7 Pipeline transportation 57.0 56.5 57.1 57.2 56.9 56.3 57.1 56.9 -0.2 Scenic and sightseeing transportation 47.1 40.7 43.3 41.9 36.4 32.4 32.4 32.0 -0.4 Support activities for transportation 830.4 824.9 826.6 833.1 831.4 826.9 826.6 829.7 3.1 Couriers and messengers 1,026.0 1,025.8 1,042.7 1,037.9 1,096.6 1,082.7 1,099.0 1,096.0 -3.0 Warehousing and storage 1,861.1 1,827.1 1,830.6 1,831.6 1,869.4 1,845.8 1,840.0 1,837.4 -2.6 Utilities 602.1 610.5 613.8 613.0 601.4 607.8 609.2 611.7 2.5 Information 2,879 2,783 2,787 2,759 2,860 2,763 2,768 2,745 -23 Motion picture and sound recording industries 361.1 333.7 338.1 342.5 349.0 322.3 330.6 329.8 -0.8 Publishing industries 913.8 901.7 897.1 887.8 910.9 893.4 889.9 883.2 -6.7 Broadcasting and content providers 340.7 337.6 334.4 325.1 341.7 336.4 333.4 328.4 -5.0 Telecommunications 595.7 569.7 571.8 565.2 594.5 570.3 569.7 567.6 -2.1 Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services 481.0 460.4 460.3 453.5 479.4 460.0 461.0 453.3 -7.7 Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information services 186.3 179.9 185.4 184.6 184.2 180.4 183.2 182.8 -0.4 Financial activities 9,238 9,142 9,160 9,135 9,185 9,108 9,097 9,086 -11 Finance and insurance 6,752.7 6,681.2 6,679.7 6,670.5 6,733.4 6,671.5 6,658.5 6,651.1 -7.4 Monetary authorities-central bank 19.7 18.5 18.5 18.4 19.6 18.4 18.3 18.4 0.1 Credit intermediation and related activities 2,566.8 2,545.2 2,539.5 2,535.7 2,564.5 2,539.1 2,531.7 2,528.3 -3.4 Depository credit intermediation(1) 1,787.5 1,776.4 1,775.0 1,773.1 1,784.5 1,771.6 1,769.5 1,767.8 -1.7 Commercial banking 1,374.5 1,356.1 1,354.4 1,352.8 1,371.7 1,352.8 1,350.5 1,348.3 -2.2 Nondepository credit intermediation 499.6 494.4 491.5 489.3 499.1 492.7 490.4 488.8 -1.6 Activities related to credit intermediation 279.7 274.4 273.0 273.3 280.9 274.8 271.8 271.7 -0.1 Securities, commodity contracts, funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles, investments, and related activities 1,154.6 1,177.0 1,183.3 1,183.7 1,143.9 1,171.5 1,172.2 1,174.4 2.2 Insurance carriers and related activities 3,011.6 2,940.5 2,938.4 2,932.7 3,005.4 2,942.5 2,936.3 2,930.0 -6.3 Real estate and rental and leasing 2,484.8 2,460.3 2,480.6 2,464.4 2,451.5 2,436.8 2,438.6 2,435.1 -3.5 Real estate 1,869.5 1,852.3 1,867.4 1,855.2 1,853.6 1,845.4 1,846.9 1,843.7 -3.2 Rental and leasing services 593.5 586.6 592.0 588.1 576.2 570.2 570.7 570.4 -0.3 Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works) 21.8 21.4 21.2 21.1 21.7 21.2 21.0 21.0 0.0 Professional and business services 22,492 22,636 22,643 22,635 22,375 22,502 22,517 22,527 10 Professional, scientific, and technical services 10,772.3 10,846.7 10,883.4 10,842.1 10,765.7 10,833.6 10,837.3 10,842.3 5.0 Legal services 1,219.3 1,256.9 1,256.4 1,241.9 1,224.7 1,244.4 1,245.3 1,245.9 0.6 Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services 1,089.1 1,098.3 1,095.5 1,081.5 1,127.1 1,124.8 1,126.4 1,124.6 -1.8 Architectural, engineering, and related services 1,756.2 1,789.2 1,796.4 1,790.1 1,731.4 1,765.1 1,768.5 1,770.7 2.2 Specialized design services 149.2 150.1 151.2 152.1 148.7 150.7 150.9 151.4 0.5 Computer systems design and related services 2,405.7 2,360.2 2,377.9 2,375.3 2,394.0 2,368.3 2,363.6 2,362.7 -0.9 Management, scientific, and technical consulting services 1,858.3 1,887.9 1,894.4 1,895.1 1,858.3 1,887.9 1,891.8 1,896.6 4.8 Scientific research and development services 922.6 923.0 928.0 923.0 916.2 914.3 915.2 914.2 -1.0 Advertising, public relations, and related services 484.1 480.0 479.0 477.7 482.9 477.8 476.8 476.0 -0.8 Other professional, scientific, and technical services 887.8 901.1 904.6 905.4 882.5 900.3 898.9 900.2 1.3 Management of companies and enterprises 2,636.1 2,629.4 2,640.4 2,634.3 2,625.8 2,616.8 2,621.3 2,621.9 0.6 Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services 9,083.6 9,159.7 9,119.4 9,158.6 8,983.3 9,051.5 9,058.3 9,062.7 4.4 Administrative and support services 8,557.1 8,628.3 8,587.4 8,629.0 8,462.0 8,525.5 8,532.3 8,537.9 5.6 Office administrative services 622.2 639.2 642.8 641.3 619.1 637.7 636.8 639.1 2.3 Facilities support services 182.1 177.9 179.2 180.8 179.8 178.1 178.6 179.6 1.0 Employment services(1) 3,148.6 3,188.4 3,147.0 3,210.9 3,169.4 3,210.4 3,217.2 3,226.4 9.2 Temporary help services 2,460.2 2,488.3 2,448.6 2,505.7 2,483.3 2,507.5 2,512.7 2,519.5 6.8 Business support services 637.0 622.5 619.1 618.8 643.5 627.3 626.1 623.6 -2.5 Travel arrangement and reservation services 188.3 188.3 189.6 189.1 186.7 186.5 186.8 187.4 0.6 Investigation and security services 1,047.3 1,045.6 1,045.2 1,043.9 1,045.8 1,045.6 1,046.7 1,043.1 -3.6 Services to buildings and dwellings 2,404.0 2,427.4 2,430.2 2,412.3 2,290.3 2,306.8 2,306.4 2,307.1 0.7 Other support services 327.6 339.0 334.3 331.9 327.3 333.1 333.6 331.7 -1.9 Waste management and remediation services 526.5 531.4 532.0 529.6 521.3 526.0 526.0 524.8 -1.2 Private education and health services 27,186 27,748 27,657 27,684 27,435 27,933 27,945 27,974 29 Private educational services 3,793.5 3,863.3 3,760.1 3,779.1 4,052.2 4,045.9 4,044.3 4,045.4 1.1 Health care and social assistance 23,392.6 23,884.5 23,896.7 23,904.7 23,382.9 23,887.2 23,900.3 23,928.7 28.4 Health care(3) 18,162.1 18,472.5 18,524.7 18,517.7 18,142.2 18,494.6 18,507.8 18,520.7 12.9 Ambulatory health care services 9,032.6 9,201.5 9,235.0 9,230.6 9,030.0 9,227.3 9,241.4 9,248.5 7.1 Offices of physicians 3,013.3 3,044.9 3,054.5 3,054.2 3,017.0 3,054.4 3,059.5 3,061.5 2.0 Offices of dentists 1,055.5 1,061.9 1,060.0 1,056.1 1,050.6 1,061.5 1,058.6 1,054.0 -4.6 Offices of other health practitioners 1,308.5 1,342.3 1,354.1 1,351.5 1,305.1 1,347.8 1,352.3 1,355.2 2.9 Outpatient care centers 1,173.6 1,189.1 1,193.5 1,191.8 1,174.7 1,192.0 1,194.0 1,194.1 0.1 Medical and diagnostic laboratories 310.7 310.4 311.9 310.2 311.3 311.5 311.8 310.2 -1.6 Home health care services 1,806.3 1,873.2 1,879.5 1,889.4 1,806.3 1,881.2 1,885.1 1,896.4 11.3 Other ambulatory health care services 364.7 379.7 381.5 377.4 364.9 378.8 380.0 377.2 -2.8 Hospitals 5,678.3 5,767.6 5,778.0 5,784.0 5,675.9 5,771.3 5,768.9 5,776.5 7.6 Nursing and residential care facilities 3,451.2 3,503.4 3,511.7 3,503.1 3,436.3 3,496.0 3,497.5 3,495.7 -1.8 Skilled nursing care facilities 1,566.8 1,591.0 1,596.9 1,594.6 1,557.4 1,588.6 1,590.1 1,590.2 0.1 Residential intellectual and developmental disability, mental health, and substance abuse facilities 696.3 710.2 709.3 705.9 694.3 707.7 706.9 705.7 -1.2 Continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly 1,015.8 1,028.9 1,033.4 1,029.4 1,012.9 1,027.0 1,028.3 1,026.9 -1.4 Other residential care facilities 172.3 173.3 172.1 173.2 171.8 172.7 172.3 173.0 0.7 Social assistance 5,230.5 5,412.0 5,372.0 5,387.0 5,240.7 5,392.6 5,392.5 5,408.0 15.5 Individual and family services 3,632.7 3,787.7 3,794.4 3,798.8 3,628.5 3,778.7 3,785.3 3,798.1 12.8 Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services 232.8 236.5 237.6 237.3 234.0 235.8 236.5 238.3 1.8 Vocational rehabilitation services 283.5 286.3 282.8 286.1 282.2 281.4 280.2 283.3 3.1 Child care services 1,081.5 1,101.5 1,057.2 1,064.8 1,096.0 1,096.8 1,090.5 1,088.2 -2.3 Leisure and hospitality 17,526 17,643 17,667 17,576 16,870 16,960 16,939 17,001 62 Arts, entertainment, and recreation 2,966.8 2,972.2 2,985.7 2,917.0 2,701.2 2,665.7 2,653.7 2,647.4 -6.3 Performing arts, spectator sports, and related industries 630.4 621.1 604.9 610.7 607.8 590.1 587.4 584.7 -2.7 Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions 188.9 195.5 198.1 193.8 179.2 183.7 184.0 184.8 0.8 Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries 2,147.5 2,155.6 2,182.7 2,112.5 1,914.2 1,891.9 1,882.3 1,877.9 -4.4 Accommodation and food services 14,559.3 14,670.6 14,681.2 14,658.9 14,168.3 14,294.1 14,285.6 14,353.4 67.8 Accommodation 2,060.1 2,026.2 2,064.7 2,043.1 1,923.3 1,916.1 1,918.0 1,926.6 8.6 Food services and drinking places 12,499.2 12,644.4 12,616.5 12,615.8 12,245.0 12,378.0 12,367.6 12,426.8 59.2 Other services 6,059 6,098 6,108 6,078 6,008 6,024 6,032 6,035 3 Repair and maintenance 1,483.5 1,483.5 1,487.1 1,482.4 1,477.5 1,468.9 1,481.8 1,478.3 -3.5 Personal and laundry services 1,614.3 1,631.3 1,630.8 1,630.1 1,604.7 1,619.1 1,613.7 1,623.2 9.5 Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations 2,960.7 2,983.5 2,990.5 2,965.2 2,925.9 2,935.8 2,936.2 2,933.5 -2.7 Government 22,684 23,188 22,128 22,455 23,535 23,338 23,288 23,323 35 Federal 2,912 2,684 2,679 2,674 2,916 2,685 2,679 2,674 -5 Federal, except U.S. Postal Service 2,323.5 2,084.5 2,077.5 2,078.8 2,323.5 2,082.3 2,076.1 2,072.8 -3.3 U.S. Postal Service 588.0 599.9 601.4 594.9 592.5 602.8 602.6 601.1 -1.5 State government 5,221 5,205 5,136 5,200 5,487 5,462 5,480 5,470 -10 State government education 2,330.2 2,325.7 2,255.0 2,323.0 2,614.0 2,599.4 2,618.5 2,609.8 -8.7 State government, excluding education 2,890.4 2,878.8 2,880.5 2,876.8 2,872.5 2,862.8 2,861.5 2,860.6 -0.9 Local government 14,551 15,299 14,313 14,581 15,132 15,191 15,129 15,179 50 Local government education 7,478.4 8,126.9 7,100.0 7,427.3 8,227.0 8,209.4 8,151.9 8,193.8 41.9 Local government, excluding education 7,072.6 7,172.0 7,212.9 7,154.1 6,905.3 6,981.9 6,976.8 6,985.0 8.2 Footnotes (1) Includes other industries, not shown separately. (2) Includes motor vehicle manufacturing, motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing, and motor vehicle parts manufacturing. (3) Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities. (p) Preliminary NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors. ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted Industry Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS Total private 34.2 34.3 34.3 34.4 Goods-producing 39.7 40.1 40.2 40.3 Mining and logging 45.4 45.6 46.1 45.7 Construction 38.9 39.3 39.4 39.5 Manufacturing 40.0 40.4 40.4 40.5 Durable goods 40.4 40.9 40.8 41.0 Nondurable goods 39.3 39.6 39.7 39.7 Private service-providing 33.2 33.2 33.2 33.3 Trade, transportation, and utilities 34.1 34.1 34.1 34.1 Wholesale trade 39.1 39.4 39.4 39.4 Retail trade 30.0 30.0 30.0 30.0 Transportation and warehousing 38.3 37.9 37.9 37.9 Utilities 42.2 42.7 42.6 43.0 Information 37.3 37.3 37.1 37.2 Financial activities 37.5 37.4 37.5 37.7 Professional and business services 36.5 36.7 36.7 36.8 Private education and health services 32.7 32.7 32.7 32.7 Leisure and hospitality 25.5 25.5 25.4 25.4 Other services 31.9 32.1 32.2 32.3 AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS Manufacturing 2.9 3.2 3.1 3.1 Durable goods 2.8 3.2 3.1 3.1 Nondurable goods 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.2 Footnotes (p) Preliminary NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors. ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted Industry Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Total private $36.62 $37.59 $37.65 $37.75 $1,252.40 $1,289.34 $1,291.40 $1,298.60 Goods-producing 37.39 38.66 38.79 38.88 1,484.38 1,550.27 1,559.36 1,566.86 Mining and logging 40.44 41.97 42.02 41.93 1,835.98 1,913.83 1,937.12 1,916.20 Construction 39.98 41.36 41.50 41.66 1,555.22 1,625.45 1,635.10 1,645.57 Manufacturing 35.58 36.75 36.86 36.92 1,423.20 1,484.70 1,489.14 1,495.26 Durable goods 37.81 38.93 39.09 39.11 1,527.52 1,592.24 1,594.87 1,603.51 Nondurable goods 31.85 33.04 33.06 33.17 1,251.71 1,308.38 1,312.48 1,316.85 Private service-providing 36.45 37.35 37.39 37.49 1,210.14 1,240.02 1,241.35 1,248.42 Trade, transportation, and utilities 31.10 31.96 32.01 32.11 1,060.51 1,089.84 1,091.54 1,094.95 Wholesale trade 38.97 39.75 39.83 39.95 1,523.73 1,566.15 1,569.30 1,574.03 Retail trade 25.59 26.30 26.30 26.38 767.70 789.00 789.00 791.40 Transportation and warehousing 31.65 32.54 32.61 32.73 1,212.20 1,233.27 1,235.92 1,240.47 Utilities 52.69 55.91 56.31 56.28 2,223.52 2,387.36 2,398.81 2,420.04 Information 52.77 55.37 55.70 55.53 1,968.32 2,065.30 2,066.47 2,065.72 Financial activities 47.75 49.52 49.44 49.82 1,790.63 1,852.05 1,854.00 1,878.21 Professional and business services 44.62 45.63 45.64 45.70 1,628.63 1,674.62 1,674.99 1,681.76 Private education and health services 35.75 36.25 36.31 36.39 1,169.03 1,185.38 1,187.34 1,189.95 Leisure and hospitality 22.92 23.66 23.65 23.74 584.46 603.33 600.71 603.00 Other services 33.24 34.06 34.10 34.19 1,060.36 1,093.33 1,098.02 1,104.34 Footnotes (p) Preliminary NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors. ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted [2007=100] Industry Index of aggregate weekly hours(1) Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(2) Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Percent change from: July 2026 - Aug. 2026(p) Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Percent change from: July 2026 - Aug. 2026(p) Total private 115.8 116.7 116.8 117.2 0.3 202.8 209.8 210.2 211.6 0.7 Goods-producing 97.1 98.4 98.8 99.2 0.4 164.1 172.0 173.2 174.4 0.7 Mining and logging 86.6 87.3 87.8 87.5 -0.3 140.6 147.0 148.1 147.2 -0.6 Construction 110.5 112.7 113.2 113.8 0.5 191.9 202.5 204.2 206.0 0.9 Manufacturing 90.8 91.7 91.8 92.1 0.3 150.3 156.7 157.3 158.2 0.6 Durable goods 89.0 90.4 90.5 91.1 0.7 149.4 156.4 157.2 158.3 0.7 Nondurable goods 94.1 94.0 94.0 94.1 0.1 152.0 157.6 157.8 158.3 0.3 Private service-providing 121.3 121.9 121.9 122.4 0.4 214.9 221.2 221.5 223.0 0.7 Trade, transportation, and utilities 107.1 107.0 107.2 107.2 0.0 179.6 184.5 185.0 185.7 0.4 Wholesale trade 104.2 105.3 105.4 105.5 0.1 169.9 175.1 175.6 176.4 0.5 Retail trade 94.3 94.5 94.6 94.6 0.0 159.5 164.3 164.4 165.0 0.4 Transportation and warehousing 146.5 143.5 143.8 143.9 0.1 235.9 237.5 238.5 239.5 0.4 Utilities 109.8 112.3 112.3 113.8 1.3 191.2 207.5 209.0 211.7 1.3 Information 97.4 94.1 93.8 93.3 -0.5 183.1 185.6 186.0 184.4 -0.9 Financial activities 112.8 111.6 111.8 112.2 0.4 210.2 215.5 215.5 218.1 1.2 Professional and business services 127.7 129.2 129.2 129.6 0.3 230.8 238.7 238.9 240.0 0.5 Private education and health services 146.5 149.2 149.2 149.4 0.1 252.0 260.2 260.7 261.6 0.3 Leisure and hospitality 122.7 123.4 122.8 123.2 0.3 227.0 235.5 234.2 236.0 0.8 Other services 110.5 111.5 112.0 112.4 0.4 201.3 208.1 209.3 210.6 0.6 Footnotes (1) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2007 annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment. (2) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding 2007 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly hours, and employment. (p) Preliminary NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors. ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted Industry Women employees (in thousands) Percent of all employees Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Total nonfarm 79,254 79,586 79,591 79,749 50.0 50.1 50.1 50.1 Total private 65,476 65,927 65,954 66,076 48.5 48.6 48.6 48.7 Goods-producing 4,887 4,894 4,896 4,909 22.8 22.7 22.7 22.7 Mining and logging 84 84 84 86 13.8 13.8 13.9 14.1 Construction 1,188 1,193 1,194 1,196 14.4 14.3 14.3 14.3 Manufacturing 3,615 3,617 3,618 3,627 28.7 28.7 28.7 28.7 Durable goods 1,903 1,901 1,905 1,913 24.3 24.2 24.2 24.2 Nondurable goods 1,712 1,716 1,713 1,714 35.7 36.1 36.1 36.1 Private service-providing 60,589 61,033 61,058 61,167 53.4 53.5 53.5 53.6 Trade, transportation, and utilities 11,164 11,156 11,195 11,179 38.8 38.8 38.9 38.8 Wholesale trade 1,843.8 1,837.9 1,844.3 1,842.8 30.5 30.3 30.4 30.3 Retail trade 7,408.8 7,440.7 7,465.2 7,443.8 48.0 48.1 48.2 48.1 Transportation and warehousing 1,755.9 1,722.2 1,729.4 1,735.6 26.4 26.1 26.2 26.3 Utilities 155.6 155.4 155.6 156.4 25.9 25.6 25.5 25.6 Information 1,138 1,131 1,132 1,125 39.8 40.9 40.9 41.0 Financial activities 5,040 4,950 4,944 4,940 54.9 54.3 54.3 54.4 Professional and business services 10,129 10,237 10,272 10,301 45.3 45.5 45.6 45.7 Private education and health services 21,031 21,381 21,396 21,430 76.7 76.5 76.6 76.6 Leisure and hospitality 8,848 8,927 8,869 8,937 52.4 52.6 52.4 52.6 Other services 3,239 3,251 3,250 3,255 53.9 54.0 53.9 53.9 Government 13,778 13,659 13,637 13,673 58.5 58.5 58.6 58.6 Footnotes (p) Preliminary NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors. ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1) [In thousands] Industry Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Total private 109,965 110,622 110,597 110,747 Goods-producing 15,213 15,265 15,265 15,273 Mining and logging 451 457 456 457 Construction 5,981 6,052 6,053 6,067 Manufacturing 8,781 8,756 8,756 8,749 Durable goods 5,289 5,311 5,320 5,318 Nondurable goods 3,492 3,445 3,436 3,431 Private service-providing 94,752 95,357 95,332 95,474 Trade, transportation, and utilities 24,388 24,413 24,452 24,429 Wholesale trade 4,782.0 4,793.8 4,796.4 4,795.9 Retail trade 13,288.6 13,361.9 13,393.2 13,370.3 Transportation and warehousing 5,841.1 5,775.0 5,779.0 5,777.7 Utilities 476.2 482.3 483.1 485.1 Information 2,268 2,206 2,204 2,187 Financial activities 6,964 6,899 6,893 6,886 Professional and business services 17,559 17,723 17,724 17,741 Private education and health services 24,049 24,488 24,518 24,551 Leisure and hospitality 14,642 14,732 14,653 14,782 Other services 4,882 4,896 4,888 4,898 Footnotes (1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls. (p) Preliminary NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors. ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1) Industry Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS Total private 33.7 33.8 33.8 33.8 Goods-producing 40.7 41.2 41.2 41.3 Mining and logging 45.3 46.7 47.7 47.1 Construction 39.8 40.0 40.1 40.2 Manufacturing 41.0 41.7 41.7 41.7 Durable goods 41.2 42.2 42.2 42.2 Nondurable goods 40.8 41.0 40.9 41.0 Private service-providing 32.5 32.6 32.6 32.6 Trade, transportation, and utilities 34.3 34.2 34.2 34.2 Wholesale trade 39.3 39.5 39.5 39.6 Retail trade 30.5 30.5 30.5 30.5 Transportation and warehousing 38.1 37.7 37.5 37.6 Utilities 42.4 43.0 42.8 43.5 Information 36.1 35.7 35.8 35.7 Financial activities 37.3 37.3 37.4 37.4 Professional and business services 36.4 36.5 36.6 36.6 Private education and health services 31.6 31.8 31.8 31.8 Leisure and hospitality 24.2 24.2 24.1 24.1 Other services 31.2 31.1 31.2 31.3 AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS Manufacturing 3.7 4.1 4.0 4.0 Durable goods 3.7 4.1 4.1 4.0 Nondurable goods 3.8 4.0 3.9 3.9 Footnotes (1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls. (p) Preliminary NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors. ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1) Industry Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Total private $31.49 $32.38 $32.42 $32.53 $1,061.21 $1,094.44 $1,095.80 $1,099.51 Goods-producing 32.61 33.97 34.06 34.13 1,327.23 1,399.56 1,403.27 1,409.57 Mining and logging 37.38 38.73 38.77 38.74 1,693.31 1,808.69 1,849.33 1,824.65 Construction 37.50 39.09 39.25 39.36 1,492.50 1,563.60 1,573.93 1,582.27 Manufacturing 29.10 30.31 30.33 30.37 1,193.10 1,263.93 1,264.76 1,266.43 Durable goods 30.83 32.24 32.26 32.29 1,270.20 1,360.53 1,361.37 1,362.64 Nondurable goods 26.45 27.24 27.24 27.31 1,079.16 1,116.84 1,114.12 1,119.71 Private service-providing 31.27 32.06 32.09 32.20 1,016.28 1,045.16 1,046.13 1,049.72 Trade, transportation, and utilities 26.98 27.72 27.80 27.93 925.41 948.02 950.76 955.21 Wholesale trade 32.53 33.20 33.27 33.30 1,278.43 1,311.40 1,314.17 1,318.68 Retail trade 21.71 22.26 22.33 22.41 662.16 678.93 681.07 683.51 Transportation and warehousing 30.13 31.14 31.30 31.46 1,147.95 1,173.98 1,173.75 1,182.90 Utilities 46.33 48.91 49.17 49.94 1,964.39 2,103.13 2,104.48 2,172.39 Information 43.51 45.76 45.55 45.46 1,570.71 1,633.63 1,630.69 1,622.92 Financial activities 37.67 38.88 38.91 39.02 1,405.09 1,450.22 1,455.23 1,459.35 Professional and business services 37.37 38.52 38.50 38.66 1,360.27 1,405.98 1,409.10 1,414.96 Private education and health services 32.95 33.20 33.20 33.31 1,041.22 1,055.76 1,055.76 1,059.26 Leisure and hospitality 20.27 21.07 21.10 21.22 490.53 509.89 508.51 511.40 Other services 28.94 29.64 29.57 29.79 902.93 921.80 922.58 932.43 Footnotes (1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls. (p) Preliminary NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors. ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1) [2002=100] Industry Index of aggregate weekly hours(2) Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(3) Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Percent change from: July 2026 - Aug. 2026(p) Aug. 2025 June 2026 July 2026(p) Aug. 2026(p) Percent change from: July 2026 - Aug. 2026(p) Total private 123.5 124.6 124.6 124.7 0.1 259.9 269.6 269.9 271.2 0.5 Goods-producing 94.6 96.1 96.1 96.4 0.3 188.9 199.9 200.4 201.4 0.5 Mining and logging 108.6 113.4 115.6 114.4 -1.0 236.0 255.5 260.6 257.7 -1.1 Construction 119.2 121.2 121.5 122.1 0.5 241.3 255.8 257.6 259.5 0.7 Manufacturing 82.6 83.8 83.8 83.8 0.0 157.3 166.1 166.3 166.3 0.0 Durable goods 81.9 84.2 84.3 84.3 0.0 157.6 169.5 169.9 170.0 0.1 Nondurable goods 83.9 83.2 82.8 82.9 0.1 156.9 160.2 159.4 159.9 0.3 Private service-providing 131.2 132.4 132.4 132.6 0.2 281.4 291.3 291.5 292.9 0.5 Trade, transportation, and utilities 117.1 116.9 117.1 117.0 -0.1 225.8 231.5 232.6 233.4 0.3 Wholesale trade 111.5 112.4 112.4 112.7 0.3 214.1 220.2 220.8 221.5 0.3 Retail trade 102.8 103.3 103.6 103.4 -0.2 191.3 197.2 198.3 198.7 0.2 Transportation and warehousing 168.4 164.8 164.0 164.4 0.2 323.0 326.6 326.8 329.2 0.7 Utilities 103.2 106.0 105.7 107.9 2.1 199.6 216.5 217.0 224.9 3.6 Information 93.5 89.9 90.1 89.1 -1.1 201.3 203.6 203.1 200.6 -1.2 Financial activities 122.3 121.1 121.3 121.2 -0.1 283.3 289.7 290.5 291.0 0.2 Professional and business services 142.7 144.4 144.8 144.9 0.1 317.1 330.9 331.6 333.3 0.5 Private education and health services 162.0 166.0 166.2 166.5 0.2 352.4 363.8 364.3 366.0 0.5 Leisure and hospitality 129.8 130.6 129.4 130.5 0.9 298.8 312.5 310.0 314.5 1.5 Other services 106.8 106.8 107.0 107.5 0.5 225.3 230.6 230.4 233.4 1.3 Footnotes (1) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls. (2) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002 annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment. (3) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding 2002 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly hours, and employment. (p) Preliminary NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2025 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors. 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